Love at First Sighting by Mallory MarloweContemporary RomanceAugust 12, 2025 by Berkley About the Book: A chance at love might not be out of this world in the next romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Mallory Marlowe. Los Angeles social media influencer El Martin seems to live the perfect aesthetic life. But what El wants more than anything is to find something real to make her heart race in a way it hasn’t in years. She doesn’t expect that feeling to come from Continue Reading
Release Blitz- A Wreck, You Make Me by Saffron A. Kent
Title: A Wreck, You Make Me Author: Saffron A. Kent Genre: Dark Forbidden RomanceTropes: Bully Romance, Blackmail, Forced ProximityMorally Grey Hero, Praise/Degradation Kink, Soccer Release Date: August 8, 2025 BLURB I have been in love with Shepard Thorne since I was twelve.He’s my best friend’s hot older brother, and I am the weird redhead who low-key follows him everywhere. He’s soccer’s bad boy, and I am stuck in a dead end job, serving drinks at the local strip club.Our paths aren’t Continue Reading
Review: August Lane by Regina Black
August Lane by Regina BlackContemporary RomanceJuly 29, 2025, by Grand Central Publishing Review by Melanie I became an immediate fan of this author after reading her debut novel, The Art of Scandal and awaited her second novel with great anticipation. August Lane does not disappoint in that regard. If anything, it takes the drama found in her first novel and increases it by a hundred times. This book is all caps DRAMA. The titular heroine in August Lane is the daughter of a Continue Reading
Spotlight- Love is a War Song by Danica Nava
Love is a War Song by Danica NavaContemporary RomanceJuly 22, 2025 by Berkley About the Book: A Muscogee pop star and a cowboy who couldn’t be more different come together to strike a deal in this new romantic comedy by Danica Nava, author of The Truth According to Ember. Pop singer Avery Fox has become a national joke after posing scantily clad on the cover of Rolling Stone in a feather warbonnet. What was meant to be a statement of her success as a Native American Continue Reading
Retro Review: Moonshot by Alessandra Torre
Review originally posted by Mandi on 7/8/2016. Moonshot by Alessandra TorreReleased: July 5, 2016Contemporary/Light SuspenseSelf Published I read Hollywood Dirt last year and was really taken by this author’s writing style. Moonshot is different from Hollywood Dirt, for those familiar with her work. I really enjoyed Moonshot but I must warn that this book is not for everyone. Let me tell you why it may not be for you: 1. The hero is a professional baseball player. A Continue Reading
New Release Spotlight- Relationship Goals by Brittany Kelley
Relationship Goals by Brittany KelleyContemporary RomanceJuly 8, 2025 by Berkley About the Book: Ted Lasso meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days in this steamy sports romance about an infamous star soccer player who is forced to fake date a Hollywood starlet, only to develop real feelings for her—just as she learns he was pretending and vows to get even.Abigail Hunt’s Hollywood dreams could best be described as slow burn…but she’s about to graduate from TV sidekick to dramatic actor. When Continue Reading
Retro Review: Into the Blue by Chanel Cleeton
Review originally posted by Mandi on 7/7/2016. Into the Blue by Chanel Cleeton (Wild Aces #2)Released: July 5, 2016Contemporary RomanceBerkley This second chance romance is so sweet and sexy, I think I smiled through the whole book. Eric and Becca were sweethearts growing up, and both fell deeply in love. But Eric felt the pull of the Air Force and left Becca behind to pursue his dreams. It wasn’t that he wanted out of the relationship, it was that he wanted to experience Continue Reading
Retro Review: My Roommate’s Girl by Julianna Keyes
Review originally posted by Kini on 6/13/2017. My Roommate’s GirlPublication Date: June 12, 2017Contemporary/New Adult RomanceSelf Published The day a judge gave me the choice between going to prison or going to college was the day I vowed to stop stealing. Never again would I see something beautiful and beyond my means and take it, just because I wanted it. Just because I could. When I moved in with Jerry, it was with good intentions. I needed a place to live while I got my Continue Reading
Review: When Javi Dumped Mari by Mia Sosa
When Javi Dumped Mari by Mia SosaContemporary RomanceJune 24, 2025, by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Review by Melanie A slow burn friends to lovers told through dual POVs and dual timelines, the story of Javi and Mari vaguely echoes the same beats as When Harry Met Sally, a movie I don’t particularly like but I did enjoy this book. Javi and Mari meet in college and though they seem polar opposites in a lot of ways, a friendship blossoms. Sure, there's an underlying layer of simmering sexual Continue Reading
Review: Never Been Shipped by Alicia Thompson
Never Been Shipped by Alicia ThompsonContemporary RomanceJune 10, 2025, by Berkley Review by Angela Everyone knows friends to lovers is one of my favorite tropes, add in the "getting the band back together vibe" and a lovely cover and I'm all yours. Never Been Shipped is a friends to lovers, has been rockstar romance. It started out slow, which is probably why it took a little longer for me to make it all the way through to the end. ElectricOh! is a band that broke up years before Continue Reading