When I Think of You by Myah Ariel Contemporary RomanceApril 16, 2024 by Berkley Review by Melanie I haven’t been having a lot of luck with contemporary romances lately, but I have to say, Myah Ariel’s debut, When I Think of You, just blew me away. It may not be the steamiest romance I’ve ever read but it had an abundance of longing and tension, making me wait with bated breath to see if Kaliya and Daniel, one-time film school classmates turned lovers, would be able to mend their Continue Reading
Release Blitz- Until It Was Love by Pippa Grant
Title: Until It Was LoveA Complicated Situationship RomCom Author: Pippa Grant Genre: Romantic ComedyTropes: Teammate's Sister, Enemies to LoversAccidentally Dating, Grumpy/Sunshine Release Date: April 11, 2024 BLURB There are a million reasons why I shouldn’t agree to a date with Fletcher Huxley.He’s a growly-faced, stubborn-streaked, international rugby legend trying to revive his flailing career in the US after being canned by his team overseas.While he might have the good kind of Continue Reading
Review: Lips Like Sugar by Jess K Hardy
Lips Like Sugar by Jess K HardyBluebird Basin #2Contemporary RomanceMarch 28, 2024- Self-PublishedARC Review by Angela Y'all, this book has everything I could ask for. Over 50 main characters? Check. Deliciously swoon- worthy, beta rock and roll hero? Check. Sexy, sexy times galore? Check. Lips Like Sugar is the second book in the Bluebird Basin series and focuses on Cole Sanderson, best friend and former bandmate to Madigan, and Mira Harlow, single mother, parental caretaker, and Continue Reading
Retro Review: The Love Experiment by Ainslie Paton
Review originally posted in October 2017 on Fiction Vixen by Angela. The first thing you should know before I get into this review is that I’ve never read this author before, so it was the blurb for The Love Experiment that caught my eye and had me hitting my request to review button. Blurb: Can you fall in love in thirty-six questions?The closest rookie lifestyle writer Derelie Honeywell gets to megastar reporter Jackson Haley is an accidental shoulder brush in The Courier’s Continue Reading
Review: Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey
Fangirl Down by Tessa BaileyBig Shots #1Contemporary RomanceFebruary 13, 2024- AvonARC Review by Angela Look- I love me some Tessa Bailey dirty talking heroes, AND I'm always up for a sports romance, but even I side eyed the premise that this book featured the bad boy of golf. If I'm being honest, golf and bad boys aren't something that usually go together in my mind. Regardless, I hit that request button as soon as it became available for review. Fangirl Down introduces Wells Continue Reading
Review: When Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte Stein
When Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte SteinContemporary RomanceFebruary 6, 2024- St. Martin'sARC Review by Angela It's been a while since I've read a Charlotte Stein book, so I was super excited for this release. This is a forced proximity, fake dating, opposites attract romance featuring a grumpy footballer and the ghost writer he has hired to write his life story. It's funny, and kept me smiling, often laughing out loud at the dialogue between this couple. Mabel Willicker, Continue Reading
Review: Ready or Not by Cara Bastone
Ready or Not by Cara BastoneContemporary Romance (Romantic Fiction)February 13, 2024 by Dial Press Review by Melanie I read this book in the span of two days which is shockingly fast for me these days when I read with my eyes. I simply could not put it down. If you are reading this review, you will undoubtedly be rather shocked when you get to the end of this review and see that I’ve given this book a letter grade of C-. Yes, that minus is important because this book is verging on a Continue Reading
Review: Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert
Midnight Ruin by Katee RobertDark Olympus #6Contemporary RetellingJanuary 16, 2023- SourcebooksARC Review by Angela This series has been hit or miss for me, but I keep powering through because I really want to know how the series plot arc concludes. This is a triad romance featuring Eurydice Dimitriou, Charon Ariti, and Orpheus Makos. If you are all caught up on the series, then you already know the history between the three--but most especially between Eurydice and Orpheus. Charon Continue Reading
Review: The Bride’s Runaway Billionaire by Pippa Grant
The Bride's Runaway Billionaire by Pippa GrantThree BFFs and a Wedding #3Contemporary RomanceJanuary 18, 2024- Self PublishedARC This has been a fun series. Centering around three best friends, a wedding gone bad, and a small-town protective of their residents. This is Emma's story, and readers will finally get answers to the identity of the mysterious billionaire who she met and had a fling with on her solitary honeymoon. If you've read the previous two books in the series, then you Continue Reading
Review: Say You’ll Be Mine by Naina Kumar
Say You’ll Be Mine by Naina KumarContemporary Romance January 16, 2024 by Dell Review by Melanie I always find it increasingly difficult to review books that aren’t 5 stars or 1 star but just sort of fall into that middle category that I like to label as forgettably meh or as my friend Melinda would term, “aggressively fine.” The real problem with this book actually lies with me because it’s time I finally admit that I just don’t care about the fake relationship trope in contemporary Continue Reading