The Plight Before Christmas by Kate StewartHoliday FictionDecember 17, 2021, by KLS Press, LLC Review by Jen Many of us are still packing away our Christmas decorations and wondering if those red throw pillows can stick around through Valentine’s Day. I have one last bit of Christmas joy you must read!! The Plight Before Christmas by Kate Stewart is a holiday romance, but I swear it’s perfect year round. Kate Stewart is one of my fave authors and she does it again with this Continue Reading
Blog Tour Excerpt: Christmas in Rose Bend by Naima Simone
CHRISTMAS IN ROSE BEND Author: Naima Simone Publication Date: October 26, 2021 Publisher: HQN Books Book Summary: The holidays have never been her thing. But Christmas in Rose Bend has more than one surprise in store… Grieving ER nurse Nessa Hunt is on a road trip with her sullen teen half sister, Ivy, and still reeling from her mother’s deathbed confession: Nessa’s dad wasn’t really her dad. Seeking answers, they arrive in Rose Bend to find a small town teeming with the kind Continue Reading
Blog Tour Excerpt: Meet Me in London by Georgia Toffolo
MEET ME IN LONDON by Georgia Toffolo Publication Date: September 28, 2021 Publisher: HQN Books Book Summary: What do you do when your fake engagement starts to feel too real? Aspiring clothes designer Victoria Scott spends her days working in a bar in Chelsea and her evenings designing vintage clothes, dreaming of one day opening her own boutique. But these aspirations are under threat from the new department store opening at the end of her road. She needs a Christmas Continue Reading
Blog Tour Excerpt: The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
THE MATZAH BALL by Jean Meltzer Holiday Romance Publication Date: September 28, 2021 Publisher: MIRA Books Book Summary: Oy! to the world Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves Christmas. For a decade she’s hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her a bestseller even as her chronic illness has always kept the kind of love she writes about out of reach. But when her Continue Reading
Review: Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday
Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday Contemporary Romance November 16, 2021 by Avon Reviewed by Kate Duke, Actually is an adorable follow-up to A Princess for Christmas. I will open with my main complaints, which are that I don’t love this cover (A Princess for Christmas is so much cuter) and I feel a better title would have been “Baron, Actually” but I do understand how that would not have been as enticing. And now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, we can start on my many Continue Reading
Blog Tour Excerpt: Celebration at Christmas Cove by Carrie Jansen
Celebration at Christmas Cove (A Sea Spray Island Romance Book 1) by Carrie JansenContemporary Holiday RomanceOctober 26, 2021, by Berkley Blurb: In this humorous and heartwarming romance, sparks fly between a woman who can't wait to leave a wintry New England island, and a widower who would do anything to stay.Travel magazine writer Celeste Bell is in a terrible mood. Not only was her flight to the Caribbean diverted to a Massachusetts island, now it looks like she'll have to spend Continue Reading
Review: Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey
Window Shopping by Tessa BaileyHoliday Contemporary RomanceOctober 19, 2021 Self Published Review by Angela First, let me say that I'm not usually a holiday romance reader. I have read them, they just aren't something I read a lot of. But when Tessa Bailey, the queen of the dirty talking hero, says she has a Ted Lasso-inspired, grumpy/sunshine, opposites attract holiday romance... I just can't help myself. I really can't. I don't have the willpower y'all. And I'm really glad I gave in Continue Reading
Review: Wrapped Up in You by Talia Hibbert
Wrapped Up in You by Talia HibbertContemporaryNovember 16, 2020Kobo Originals Reviewed by Kate Favorite quote: "Oh, sex? You think we're having sex? We've never had sex. Although I should be clear, I am hoping we will eventually have sex." He paused. "If she's into that." He paused again. "But that's, like, stage six of the plan. We're still in pre-season, Jase. Stay with me." As much as I have absolutely loved some of the Talia Hibbert that I have read, her books tend to be hit Continue Reading
Audio Review: A Princess for Christmas by Jenny Holiday
A Princess for Christmas by Jenny HolidayContemporary Holiday RomanceOctober 13, 2020, by AvonARC Review by Melinda This book was the definition of aggressively fine for me and part of it has to do with my own issues I bring with me but part of it was definitely the book. My issue is around that once again breast cancer is in the background for these characters. Admittedly, it plays a small part but it looms large over the entire book as it’s what killed one of the protagonist’s mothers. Continue Reading
Angela’s Minis- Reviews for books by Lorraine Heath, Christina Lauren, and Rosie Danan
Beauty Tempts the Beast by Lorraine HeathSins for All Seasons #6Historical RomanceSeptember 29, 2020, by AvonARC This is the last book in the Sins for All Seasons series and features the last Trewlove sibling, Benedict aka Beast. If you've read the previous five installments then you know that the Trewloves were all (except for Fancy) taken in as infants by Mama Trewlove and given a good and loving, but poor home. Beast doesn't know who his parents are or why he was given up as a baby. Continue Reading