Big Wild Love Adventure by Julianna KeyesContemporary RomanceOriginally published June 20, 2022- Reissued May 31, 2024Self-Published Review by Angela So, this was fun. Not even going to lie- I was lured in by the promise of reality show adventure and romance. While I'm not one to watch reality shows on television, I do love me some reality show shenanigans in my romance. Emmy Shaw is a food truck baker who has fallen on hard times, and that is before she wrecks her food truck, Continue Reading
Review: Duke for the Summer by Emily Spady
Duke for the Summer by Emily SpadyLGBTQ RomanceMay 19, 2024-Self-published Review by Kate H. This book took me by surprise, in the best way. Based on the description, I had thought it was going to be a ring-around-the-tropes m/m romcom with characters that were somewhat complex but had problems that were easily resolvable. But I am a sucker for novels where an MC pulls a geographic, so I plowed ahead. Imagine my surprise to find two flawed, human characters - not archetypes, not Continue Reading
Review: Fair Market Value by Hailey Edwards
Fair Market Value by Hailey EdwardsThe Body Shop #1Urban Fantasy04/18/2024- Self-PublishedARC Review by Angela Hailey Edwards is an auto-buy for me in the Urban Fantasy genre. This world she's created that started with the Beginner's Guide to Necromancy series is top-notch. The Body Shop is the newest series in this interconnected world and introduces Mary Frances Talbot, Frankie to her friends, who is a Necromancer, living with her siblings and running a garage. She also leases out Continue Reading
Retro Review: Land of the Beautiful Dead by R Lee Smith
Review originally posted in October of 2015 on Fiction Vixen by Angela Land of the Beautiful Dead by R. Lee SmithDark Fantasy RomanceOctober 29, 2015- Self Published I’ve been checking this author’s website regularly for any, and I do mean ANY, new updates on a possible release date for Land of the Beautiful Dead. I was like a stalker there for awhile, which means I spent most of my year steeped in disappointment, waiting… Then on Oct. 30th, out of nowhere it suddenly appeared Continue Reading
Review: The Lovely Dark Anthology
The Lovely Dark: A Monster Romance AnthologyParanormal Romance/Fantasy RomanceApril 23, 2024- Self PublishedPurchased- Available in Kindle Unlimited Review by Angela Wave Song by Emma Hamm I've circled around this author on Amazon when looking up fantasy or paranormal romance. I figured this would be the perfect time to see if her writing appealed to me. This is a merman/human fantasy romance, set in a dystopian type of world. The FMC, Alys, meets the MMC while traveling under Continue Reading
Review: The Witch Queen of Halloween by Kresley Cole
The Witch Queen of Halloween by Kresley ColeImmortals After Dark #18.5Paranormal RomanceMarch 26, 2024- Self Published Review by Angela A new Immortals After Dark book! YAY! This novella is a quick fun adventure featuring Rok, a smoke demon, and a new to the series witch, Poppy. Poppy and Rok have a history. A date which started out promising goes bad when Rok, who can be summoned by anyone he has been intimate with, suddenly disappears. Poppy waits for an hour and when he 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
Review: The Dance of Desire by Delphine Ross
The Dance of Desire by Delphine RossMuses of Scandal #2Historical RomanceFebruary 22, 2024- Self-PublishedARC Review by Angela After reading the first book in the Muses of Scandal series, which I enjoyed, I was pumped to read book two, which features Angela and her childhood best friend, Sunny, the Earl of Sunderland. Readers were introduced to Angela Bartham in The Poetics of Passion, she is the sister of Musa and determined to make a good match to help support her family. For Continue Reading
Review: Only Hard Problems by Jennifer Estep
Only Hard Problems by Jennifer EstepGalactic Bonds #3Science Fiction RomanceFebruary 20, 2024- Self-PublishedARC Review by Angela I was so excited when Jennifer Estep announced plans to release a novella from Zane Zimmer's POV. After the events in book two, I suspected she might and even called it in my review. Zane Zimmer, of House Zimmer, is still reeling from the news that Vesper Quill is his sister. With the escape of Vesper and Kyrion Caldaren, he's now the leader of the Continue Reading
Review: The Bride’s Runaway Billionaire by Pippa Grant
The Bride's Runaway Billionaire by Pippa GrantThree BFFs and a Wedding #3Contemporary RomanceJanuary 18, 2024- Self PublishedARC This has been a fun series. Centering around three best friends, a wedding gone bad, and a small-town protective of their residents. This is Emma's story, and readers will finally get answers to the identity of the mysterious billionaire who she met and had a fling with on her solitary honeymoon. If you've read the previous two books in the series, then you Continue Reading