Category: Contemporary

Review: Sigh of Relief by Layla Reyne

Sigh of Relief (A Table for Two #6) by Layla Reyne My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/m Blurb: A vintage love worth savoring… Ingredients: One openly bisexual winemaker with a gruff exterior, a generous heart, and a quiet ache for forever love. One closeted FBI director who buried pieces of himself to climb the ladder, only to realize success is fleeting when the world’s on fire. A growing season overflowing with buried desires, second chances, and chemistry too intoxicating to resist. Directions: Blend together stolen days in the vineyard and a slow-burning […]

Posted October 28, 2026 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 0 Comments

Review: The Pilgrimage of Primrose Honeychurch by Laura Jensen Walker

The Pilgrimage of Primrose Honeychurch by Laura Jensen Walker My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Women’s Fiction Age Category: Adult Type of romance: no romance Blurb: From the author of Death of a Flying Nightingale comes the moving story of a solitary seventy-year-old curmudgeon embracing the connection of family and daring to follow her dreams. Primrose Honeychurch doesn’t really “get” people. Books, though, make perfect sense. At seventy, the sharp-tongued recluse prefers to keep company with her own routines. But when a life-altering diagnosis leaves her worried she’ll never be missed, she decides it’s finally time to do something to leave […]

Posted October 21, 2026 by Lola in Contemporary, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Evie Walters Takes the Wheel by Kathleen Fox

Evie Walters Takes the Wheel by Kathleen Fox My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Women’s Fiction Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: In this warmhearted and witty debut, a mysterious gift spurs a widow to take a cross-country journey to find its sender—and along the way, she rediscovers herself. Evie Walters has lived most of her seventy-one years according to others’ expectations. But on the day of her husband’s funeral, she receives an anonymous delivery: an egret orchid. The same flower a Montana ranch hand once gave her decades ago—Novel Daniels, the boy who thought she could do anything. […]

Posted October 9, 2026 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Yes, Chef by Grace Reilly

Yes, Chef by Grace Reilly My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: A tempting new romance from USA Today bestselling author Grace Reilly, in which a down-on-his-luck chef and a determined social media maven strike a reluctant deal to bring a beloved restaurant back to life. If you can’t take the heat…get out of the kitchen. After a public meltdown in the dining room of one of Manhattan’s most elite restaurants, Chef Jack Hartman is back in his South Florida hometown. Angry, grieving, and saddled with the unwanted storefront his late mentor […]

Posted October 5, 2026 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: Spikes, Dice and Other Variables by Harper Kinsley

Spikes, Dice and Other Variables by Harper Kinsley My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Life is over for Riley McMahon. Well, it isn’t really, but when you’re the star setter of the volleyball team and on the brink of academic ineligibility, the actual End of Everything™ feels closer than you think. Terrified of failing math and losing her spot on the team, she’s desperate to do anything to save her grades. So when she finds out about the gaming club run by Simon, the smart kid in her math class, […]

Posted September 16, 2026 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: The Dog Park Murders by Angela Barker

The Dog Park Murders (The Dog Park Murders #1) by Angela Barker My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: A cozy, seasonal romance-mystery in which a grumpy café owner teams up with a sunshiny pet groomer to solve a murder that’s shocked the small town of Labrador Falls. First book in the Dog Park Murders miniseries that’s a perfect blend of Only Murders in the Building and The Pumpkin Spice Café. A killer has been unleashed in their small town… Juliette Macintyre has never met a dog she didn’t love. For […]

Posted August 28, 2026 by Lola in Contemporary, Mystery, Review, Romance / 8 Comments

Review: The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop by Annabel French

The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop (The Floating Shop #1) by Annabel French My Rating:4 stars Genre: Women’s Fiction/ Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: One fresh start. One unexpected encounter. Can love bridge the gap? When Rosie leaves behind her ordinary life in England to open a flower shop on Amsterdam’s water, she expects nothing less than a fairytale. Max, her handsome but brooding new neighbour, prefers to keep the world at arm’s length – and living on the houseboat next door, he’s not too thrilled about the new company. As Rosie’s business blossoms, so do […]

Posted August 19, 2026 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 2 Comments