Hate Notes by Vi Keeland and Penelope WardContemporary RomanceReleased: November 6, 2018Montlake After walking in on her fiance getting a blow job from his secretary, Charlotte cancels her wedding and quits her job. Needing money, she decides to sell her wedding dress and head to a consignment shop. While there she comes across a beautiful wedding dress and can’t stop herself from trying it on. A custom made dress, it was exactly just the right amount of over the top with the Continue Reading
Review: Cowboy Christmas Jubilee
Cowboy Christmas Jubiless by Dylann Crush (Holiday, Texas #2)Released: October 30, 2018Sourcebooks Reviewed by Mandi This is an easy holiday read - not too angsty, not too crazy - just two people who seem like opposites from the outside, falling in love. Jinx is a bartender who flees her drug-dealing ex, and takes money from him that he owes her. She escapes without him knowing, jumps on her motorcycle and plans to start over in New Orleans. She makes it to Holiday, Texas when her Continue Reading
Review: Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane
Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane by JoAnn Ross (Honeymoon Harbor #2)Contemporary RomanceReleased: November 1, 2018HQN When I first got back into reading romance, I read a lot of JoAnn Ross. I love her voice, and her stories were ones that I could count on. Not to say they were cookie cutter, but I trusted that no matter what, it would be a story full of love and even with whatever conflict that occurred, in the end we’d have that HEA. Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane is a second chance romance. Continue Reading
Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts
Over the weekend I spent time doing two things. Neither of them was reading, sadly. I bedazzled a bra with fake rhinestones for my daughter’s mermaid costume. You guys...college and sorority halloween parties will be my death. My neck and shoulders are killing me still. But...the bra turned out spectacular even if I do say so myself. The second thing I did, that I couldn’t stop myself from doing once I began, was glomming The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix. That Continue Reading
Tori’s Tuesday Tinys
Fall by Kristen Callihan VIP#3 Contemporary Romance October 23, 2018 Plane Jane Books Fans have waited breathlessly for this installment in Callihan's steamy and emotionally deep VIP series. Rich in sensory detail and boldly unapologetic, in Fall, Callihan tackles the serious issues of mental health, self-harm, depression, and abuse with compassion and a heavy dose of common sense while building a romance that brims with laughter and heart. Jax aka John Blackwell, lead singer for the band Kill Continue Reading
Review: Fall by Kristen Callihan
This book was a reading week filled with books with heavier topics and I ended up writing omg reviews about both books I read Fall by Kristen Callihan This book is third in her VIP Series. The last one was published almost two years ago and while I read both previous books, I don’t remember a lot of the details. But I recall enjoying them and remembering Jax as the broody band member who had also previously attempted suicide. This book touches on Jax’s attempted suicide, although not in Continue Reading
Secrets of a (Sometimes) Sunny Girl by Karen Booth
I am a fan of Booth’s after having read her second-chance rock & roll book, Bring Me Back several years ago. I also belong to a Facebook group that she co-started called Seasoned Romance, focused on romances with older (40+) characters. All this to say I am a Booth fan and I was pretty excited to get this ARC. Second chance romance is one of my favorite tropes. I read this book knowing it is labeled Romance & Women’s Fiction and both are true. I love when authors, publishers, etc help Continue Reading
Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts
My slump has officially ended-for the time being anyway. I don’t think my review for Winter Cottage does the book justice--but I always struggle with reviewing books that I’ve really enjoyed. It’s so difficult NOT to say too much and give it all away. So I censor myself and feel like I’m not giving the story it’s true props! I think this story would make a fantastic movie for Hallmark or Lifetime. And, interesting piece of information--Mary Ellen Taylor is Mary Burton, which I didn’t learn Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
This was a moderate reading week for me that had some meh reads. Steeped in Love by Julie Evelyn Joyce. This blurb makes it seem like this book will be a cutesy story as the heroine is back in the dating world. She read the tea leaves of potential mates and uses the findings as a reason to not date them. The hero is the writer in residence at the local coffee shop. They meet. Have great banter. He eavesdrops on her dates, then over time gets jealous and then finally asks her Continue Reading
Review: How She Likes it by Carla de Guzman
How She Likes it by Carla de Guzman Romance Contemporary 2018 Midnight Books Reviewed by Kini I picked this book up after seeing it teased on Twitter. Guzman is part of #romanceclass on Twitter and this was my first read by her. The heroine is an heiress and the hero is her assistant. I love when an author uses this trope and I was curious to see how the power dynamic would be portrayed. It was no squicky at all and worked well for me. Isabel is the CEO of a make-up company and in Continue Reading