As seen in OprahMag, Bustle, Parade, PopSugar, New York Post, Essence, Travel & Leisure, Ms. Magazine, TheSkimm, Betches, Shondaland, and Buzzfeed! Named one of the Best Romances of 2020 by Apple, Kirkus, PW, Washington Post, NPR, BookPage, OprahMag, and Amazon. USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap- Up
Review: When a Rogue Meets His Match by Elizabeth Hoyt New Releases: Week of December 7-11, 2020 Review: Wrapped Up in You by Talia Hibbert Books with Ted Lasso Vibes Review: How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams Review: Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin Smexy Deals! Top Ten 12/11/2020 Angela: I'm ALMOST done with the 3rd book in the Horde Kings of Dakkar series, Madness of the Horde King, and so far I am really enjoying. For those of you not familiar, this is a sci/fi Continue Reading
Top Ten 12/11/2020
We made it another Friday friends! Yay! Here are a few things I found on the interwebz recently! 10. Have you heard about the Romancelandia Holiday Fairies Gift Drive organized by Andrea from Shelf Love Podcast? Angela mentioned it in last week's top ten, but we wanted to mention it again. It's a way to connect people in the romance community who need help with gifts this year with other community members who can buy a gift or two and make their holidays a little more special. We are Continue Reading
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Here's some freebies to make your Friday even better! 1001 Dark Nights Press is excited to present the winners of the 2020 short story challenge... When we started 1001 Dark Nights back in 2014, it was with the goal of discovery—creating a way for readers to find new-to-them bestselling authors and fall in love with their stories and their worlds. This year, we held a contest where romance authors could submit a short story to be included in a 1001 Dark Nights anthology, and we were Continue Reading
Review: Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin
Sea of Ruin by Pam GodwinHistorical RomanceApril 28, 2020Heartbound Media Reviewed by Jen I’m such an avid reader, yet I never joined a book club until this summer. The first book assigned was Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin. I was busy and had so many other books on my TBR list, so I never got around to this one. Part of my reluctance was because it’s a pirate romance. I just didn’t see myself as a pirate girl. I picked the book up again last week and I’m here to tell you, ladies…I AM a pirate Continue Reading
Review: How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams
How to Fail at Flirting by Denise WilliamsContemporary RomanceDecember 1, 2020, by BerkleyARCReviewed by Angela Content Warnings: Memories of domestic abuse, attempted rape This was SUCH a great read, the perfect mix between sexy, fun, getting to know you romance, and emotional healing from past trauma. I kind of fell into this story and didn't want to come out. The heroine of How to Fail at Flirting is Naya Turner, a professor at a local university whose life is kind of stuck in a Continue Reading
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Beauty and the Beast meets Taming of the Shrew in this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt Regency romance. Lord Nathaniel Harte, the disagreeable Duke of Beswick, spends his days smashing porcelain, antagonizing his servants, and snarling at anyone who gets too close. With a ruined face like his, it's hard to like much about the world. Especially smart-mouthed harpies—with lips better suited to kissing than speaking—who brave his castle with indecent proposals. But Lady Continue Reading
Books with Ted Lasso Vibes
If you're one of the many people on my Twitter timeline who have discovered Ted Lasso over the past few months, you know that it is the perfect pandemic TV. It's an excellent combo of positivity, humor, and wholesomeness and the minute I finished watching the season, I started it at the beginning again. All of that is to say, I started to wonder where I could get similar feelings elsewhere, and of course where did I turn but romance novels? Below is a collection of romance novels (plus a 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
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Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling author, continues her spellbinding series set in the Hidden Legacy world where magic controls everything…except the hearts of those who wield it. As Prime magic users, Catalina Baylor and her sisters have extraordinary powers—powers their ruthless grandmother would love to control. Catalina can earn her family some protection working as deputy to the Warden of Texas, overseeing breaches of magic law in the state, but that has risks Continue Reading