Love at First by Kate ClaybornContemporary Romance02/23/2021 by Kensington Joint review by Melinda and Melanie Melinda: Kate Clayborn has become one of the top contemporary authors for me that I look to for emotion and character development. I’ve come to appreciate the love and care that comes through with her writing so much. However, Love at First strikes an uneven tone for me and had flashes of that brilliance that I expect from her, but it didn’t feel like it was carried all Continue Reading
Guest Post: Second Chances Romances by Amanda Weaver
Amanda Weaver's new novel, Love Around the Corner, is out now, Amanda is here to talk about one of my favorite tropes- Second Chance. I think people love reading second chance romances because most of us have someone in our past we still wonder about, some relationship that didn’t end the way we wanted it to. Don’t we all secretly google that one who got away to see how their life has worked out? Gemma, the heroine in Love Around the Corner has definitely googled her ex, although she’d die Continue Reading
Guest Post: Tropes at Work in ONE LAST CHANCE by Therese Beharrie
I’ve published fourteen books in my career so far. Of those fourteen, six have been second chance romances. ONE LAST CHANCE, the third book in my ONE DAY TO FOREVER series, will be the seventh. I’m clearly a fan of the trope, partly because there are so many ways of exploring it, and partly because I only need the chance of a romance the first time around not to work out to define it as a second chance romance. But the one thing all of my second chance romances have in common is that Continue Reading
Guest Post: Romance Take Two by Sabrina Sol
Second Chance romance is one of my absolute favorite tropes. When I saw that Sabrina is part of an anthology, Do It Again, featuring 5 novellas about second chance, I asked her to write a post about the trope and the anthology. Take it away Sabrina- Is love sweeter the second time around? According to the popular trope known as Second Chance Romance, the answer is a resounding “Yes!” I love a Second Chance Romance because I think the stakes are higher and the main characters have Continue Reading
Once Upon a Wedding- Guest Post by Barbara Samuel
Author Barbara Samuel stopped by to give us some info on her contribution to the Once Upon a Wedding anthology, out June 11th. I LOVE second chance romance and can't wait to read this. I love reunion romances. I mean, really. Who doesn’t wonder what if about some old sweetheart? Awhile back, I read a statistic that said that if a pair of former boyfriend/girlfriends meet many years later and both are single, they have a very high probability of getting Continue Reading
Mandi’s Mini Reviews
Surprise Baby, Second Chance by Therese Beharrie Released: July 26, 2018 Contemporary Romance Mills & Boon Reviewed by Mandi I love to read marriage in trouble tropes. To explore a couple already committed to one another, yet having emotional issues always sucks me in. But this one was a little too slow for me. Rosa left her husband four months before the book starts, without a single explanation. She has her reason (I don't want to spoil it since it doesn't mention specifics in the Continue Reading
Review: Making Up by Lucy Parker
Making Up by Lucy Parker (London Celebrities #3) Released: May 28, 2018 Contemporary Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi I highly recommend this author if you have yet to try her. This is the third book I've read by her and they have all been adorable and sweet and sexy. In Making Up, we return to the theater, but in a burlesque/acrobatic show. The Festival of Masks is a little bit of everything - lewd humor, amazing aerial skills, singing, dancing and it's a very popular show. When Continue Reading
Review: From Exes to Expecting by Laurel Greer
From Exes to Expecting by Laurel Greer Released: February 20, 2018 Contemporary Romance Harlequin Reviewed by Mandi Tavish and Lauren have had butterfly feelings each other since they were fifteen. As adults, they started a secret, fast relationship and got married on the down low. But the marriage doesn't last. Lauren is a doctor and works in a clinic in Montana. She is following in her mother's footsteps, and has been offered a partnership. This is something Lauren thought she wanted Continue Reading
Review: Second Chance Cowboy by A.J. Pine
Second Chance Cowboy by A.J. Pine (Crossroads Ranch #1) Contemporary Romance Released: February 27, 2018 Forever Reviewed by Mandi After Jack's mother died when he was a teenager, his father took a dark, deep turn into alcohol. This resulted in him also being physically abusive to his three sons. All Jack wanted to do was leave his town and start life over somewhere far away. While in high school he fell in love with a girl named Ava. She was sweet and kind and everything he wanted - Continue Reading
Review: Mister McHottie by Pippa Grant
Mister McHottie by Pippa Grant Released: October 30, 2017 Contemporary Romance/Comedy Self Published Reviewed by Mandi I love a well done romantic comedy once in a while. This one is ridiculously fun, cute and sexy. Pippa Grant is a "new to me" author - I have no idea if it's a pen name for another author or what, but I am here for allllll of her books. As my blog partner, Kini, pointed out - she is like Alice Clayton, but a little more sexy, and less crude than Helena Hunting. So we Continue Reading