by Olive | Jun 11, 2025 | Book Reviews
How to Get Away with Marriage by Fenna Edgewood (2022) Historical romance. Regency-era England. Book 1 of the Must Love Scandal series. Fake engagement for inheritance plot. We’ve met the amiable Hugh Cavendish in a previous book, but now he’s up for a fake engagement...
by Olive | Jun 10, 2025 | Book Reviews
Coming in Hot by Josie Juniper (2025) Contemporary romance. Book 2 of the Frontrunners series. Starts off steamy with a one-night stand between strangers who meet at a hotel bar. But it all turns bad when Natalia realizes she just slept with Klaus, her best friend’s...
by Olive | Jun 3, 2025 | Book Reviews
The Lady Makes Her Mark by Susanna Craig (2025) Historical romance. Regency-era England. Book 3 of the Goode’s Guide to Misconduct series. Constantia is the anonymous satirical cartoonist at a ladies’ magazine and is always fearful of being followed. When all...
by Olive | Jun 3, 2025 | Book Reviews
Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood (2025) Contemporary romance. Standalone romance. Follow-up to Not in Love. I loved this book so much. Yet another humorous and steamy book from Ali Hazelwood. We’ve got a destination wedding in Italy and the groom’s younger...
by Olive | May 29, 2025 | Book Reviews
Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake (2025) Contemporary romance. Book 1 of the Clover Lake series. Small-town charm with a dash of celebrity here. Ramona is a small-town diner waitress with long-buried dreams of being a costume designer, but shelved...
by Olive | May 27, 2025 | Book Reviews
Love in Focus by Lyla Lee (2025) Contemporary romance. Standalone novel. I absolutely loved this second chance romance between a recently-dumped magazine writer and her ex-roommate girlfriend photographer who totally disappeared on her eight years ago. The tension...