The Paradise Problem by Christina LaurenContemporary RomanceMay 14, 2024- Gallery BooksARC Review by Angela I have an up and down relationship with Christina Lauren books. When I love them I really, really love them (Beautiful Player and The True Love Experiment), but when I don't, I'm left scratching my head at why (Something Wilder). This book falls somewhere in the middle. I will admit that I read this straight through in one evening. It's compulsively readable. The banter Continue Reading
Blog Tour- Collide by Bal Khabra
Collide by Bal KhabraOff the Ice #1Contemporary RomanceMay 14, 2024Berkley About the Book: An ultimatum from her professor thrusts Summer Preston into an unexpected collision with hockey captain Aiden Crawford. She’s caught in a delicate balance between fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming a sport psychologist and veering far away from this god-awful sport. For Aiden Crawford, being the captain of the college hockey team has its perks, except when a reckless mistake by his team Continue Reading
Spotlight- This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
This Summer Will Be Different by Carley FortuneContemporary RomanceMay 7, 2024Berkley About the Book: This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer will be different. Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother. Lucy and Felix’s chemistry is unreal, but the list of reasons why they Continue Reading
Release Blitz- HEA: Happily Ever After by Lucy Lennox & Molly Maddox
Title: HEA: Happily Ever AfterSeries: After Oscar #5 Authors: Lucy Lennox & Molly Maddox Genre: MM RomanceTropes: One Night Stand/Lovers to Friends to LoversAlways the Groomsman, Never the GroomBillionaire, Fake DatingRelease Date: May 2, 2024 BLURB Have you heard the expression “twelve times a groomsman, never a groom”? Neither had I… until it suddenly became clear that every man I dated found their One True Love in the person they dated after me. Now I’m writing Best Man speeches for Continue Reading
Review: Truly, Madly, Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur
Truly, Madly, Deeply by Alexandria BellefleurContemporary RomanceApril 30, 2024 by Avon Review by Melanie It is no secret that when a romance novel touts itself as a romantic comedy these days, I immediately give it massive side eye. Having been burned way too many times by rom coms that were neither romantic nor comedic, that particular pairing of words automatically makes me back away. However, Alexandria Bellefleur’s Truly, Madly, Deeply is one banger of a rom com, both Continue Reading
Review: Funny Story by Emily Henry
Funny Story by Emily HenryContemporary RomanceApril 23, 2024- Berkley Review by Angela It's no secret that Emily Henry has fast become one of my favorite romance authors of contemporary romance. There is just something about her writing that clicks with me. Funny Story is a roommates to lovers, forced proximity romance and is just as delightful as you would think. Daphne is shocked when she finds out her perfect love story isn't so perfect--and her fiancé has left her for his best Continue Reading
Review: When I Think of You by Myah Ariel
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