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Review: By the Book by G.B. Gordon

June 16, 2022 by Kate H. Leave a Comment

By the Book by G.B. Gordon Contemporary Romance/Thriller/LGBTQ+Published June 14th by Carina Press Reviewed by Kate H. I love books that cross genres, but when genre expectations conflict, not all readers will be happy and I’m afraid that may be the case with this novel.  By the Book is a m/m romance and a thriller – the tale of a novice accountant, Ben Coyne, and Nick Marshall, a playboy FBI agent coming up against his 40th birthday.  Ben has discovered a Continue Reading

Review: Eight Weeks in Paris by S.R. Lane

June 2, 2022 by Kate H. 1 Comment

Eight Weeks in Paris by S.R. LaneLGBTQ/Contemporary RomanceJune 7, 2022 by Carina Adores Press Reviewed by Kate H. Eight Weeks in Paris will be on my best books of 2022 list, I already know it. This book takes place during the filming of a movie set in Paris during the early years of the 20th century. S.R. Lane’s debut novel is a romance between Nicholas Madden, an esteemed and serious movie actor and his costar Chris Lavalle, a French man whose experience lies in modeling, not Continue Reading

Review: Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky

May 18, 2022 by Kate H. 2 Comments

Two young men standing near cars

Never Been Kissed by Timothy JanovskyLGBTQIA Contemporary RomanceMay 3, 2022 by Sourcebooks Casablanca Review by Kate H. Wren Roland is about to graduate college.  A passionate film buff, with two great best friends, Wren came out in the year before the book Never Been Kissed begins. His friends seem eager to help him socially, but Wren isn’t sure why his romantic and sexual experiences seem to be on a different timeline than everyone else.  He’s 22 and he’s Continue Reading

Review: Book Boyfriend by Kris Ripper

April 27, 2022 by Kate H. Leave a Comment

Book Boyfriend by Kris RipperLGBTQIA Contemporary RomanceCarina Adores PressApril 26, 2022 by Kate H. I had to adjust my expectations a lot as I read Book Boyfriend, and I expect most readers may not have the patience.  Written as an inner monologue with all the verbal habits, like “like” and “you know” intact, it tells the story of PK or Preston Kinglsey Harrington III.  Like many “the thirds” he has the benefit of generational wealth, and he lives in a New York apartment with a Continue Reading

Review: Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

April 13, 2022 by Kate H. 1 Comment

Funny You Should Ask by Elissa SussmanContemporary RomanceApril 12, 2022 by Random House - Ballantine, DellARC Review by Kate H. Chana Horowitz is a busy writer in LA, in her thirties and newly divorced.  Her successful career as an essayist and interviewer was launched by an interview with Hollywood movie star, Gabe Parker.  A decade ago she was given unprecedented access to the actor, and she spends much of a weekend learning about the heart-throb who has been controversially cast as Continue Reading

Review: Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma

March 15, 2022 by Kate H. 1 Comment

Woman sits in chair, man stands looking at her

Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha SharmaIf Shakespeare was an Auntie #1Romantic Comedy/Contemporary RomanceMarch 15, 2022, by Avon and Harper Voyager Review by Kate H. For me, one of the best things about Dating Dr. Dil was that as a romantic comedy, the humor was in the situation and the snark, and not in the characters. Both main characters are fully drawn and easy to identify with, even when I didn’t agree with them. Kareena Mann is a thirty-year old who provides legal counsel to women Continue Reading

Review: Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter

March 3, 2022 by Kate H. Leave a Comment

Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn PainterContemporary RomanceMarch 1st, 2022 by Berkley BooksReviewed by Kate H. If you go into Mr. Wrong Number looking for tropey fun, I think you’ll enjoy it: Texting relationship between strangers; enemies to lovers; the old crush on the brother’s best friend.  For one moment in the middle of the book, I thought the book was going to go Cyrano de Bergerac on me, but Lynn Painter reigned it.  And of course, there is the trope of the rock bottom Continue Reading

Review: The Good Girls Guide to Rakes by Eva Leigh

February 24, 2022 by Kate H. Leave a Comment

The Good Girls Guide to Rakes by Eva LeighLast Chance Scoundrels #1Historical RomanceFebruary 22, 2022, by Avon Reviewed by Kate H. This book felt like it took a lot of time to get going.  It starts with a bride being jilted at the altar and the groom, Dom, being aided in his departure by the two groomsmen, Kieran and Finn Ransome.  As a result, all three men, or rather rakes, are saddled with getting married or being cut off by the Ransome patriarch.  Dom's Continue Reading

Review: A Perfect Equation by Elizabeth Everett

February 16, 2022 by Kate H. Leave a Comment

A Perfect Equation by Elizabeth EverettThe Secret Scientists of London #2Historical RomanceFebruary 15, 2022, by Berkley Reviewed by Kate H. The Perfect Equation is a well-paced Regency-era romance that features a bluestocking heroine, a mathematician no less, as well as a bottled-up hero ready to be uncorked.  The opening of the book begins with a street protest by the Guardians of Domesticity, part of the noisy and disturbing backlash against women working and Continue Reading

Review: Season’s Change by Cait Nary

February 2, 2022 by Kate H. 5 Comments

Muscled, shirtless hockey player looking to the side

Season's Change by Cait NaryContemporary Romance, LGBTQ+February 1, 2022 by Carina PressARC Review by Kate H. I am not a hockey fan, but I am a fan of hockey romances.  I can’t explain it.  I’ve never even seen a game.  Maybe it’s the way the sheer physicality of hockey juxtaposes with the more intimate aspects of the romance that makes it such a great setting for romance.  Season’s Change, by Cait Nary, is my new favorite in this Continue Reading

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