Category: Contemporary

Review: Dating and Dragons by Kristy Boyce

Dating and Dragons by Kristy Boyce My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Quinn Norton is starting over at a new high school and hopes that joining a D&D game will be the trick to making friends. The plan sounds even better when she’s invited into a group that includes Logan Weber, the cute and charming guy she met on her first day of class. But this isn’t your average D&D campaign— this group livestreams their games and enforces strict rules: no phones allowed, and no dating other group members. Quinn […]

Posted March 5, 2025 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 3 Comments

Review: Gone For You by Sophia Quinn

Gone For You (King’s Inn #2) by Sophia Quinn My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: One night and he’s a goner… It might’ve been ten years since Brandon last saw his high school friend Giselle, but when they reunite at a holiday party, there’s an instant connection. Caught up in a wave of overwhelming emotions, their whirlwind romance goes further than either of them intended. But Brandon’s sure this is the start of something beautiful… Until he wakes up and finds Giselle has left in the middle of the night. No […]

Posted December 30, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 6 Comments

Review: The Coharie Beach Café 2 by Casey Dawes

Coharie Beach Café 2 (Carolina Sunrise #2) by Casey Dawes My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Women’s Fiction Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: She’s lost everything, including her house and her husband. When a stranger leaves her a beach café in North Carolina, she grasps the chance for a new beginning. With nothing to else to lose, Caitlin Walsh convinces her best friend to go on a road trip to inspect her mysterious inheritance. Once there, she confronts the reality of a owning a café when she doesn’t like to cook. Worse yet, she quickly suspects not everyone […]

Posted December 6, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 0 Comments

Review: The Coharie Beach Café 1 by Casey Dawes

The Coharie Beach Café 1 (Carolina Sunrise #1) by Casey Dawes My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Women’s Fiction/ Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: She’s lost everything, including her house and her husband. When a stranger leaves her a beach café in North Carolina, she grasps the chance for a new beginning. With nothing to else to lose, Caitlin Walsh convinces her best friend to go on a road trip to inspect her mysterious inheritance. Once there, she confronts the reality of a owning a café when she doesn’t like to cook. Worse yet, she quickly […]

Posted November 11, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Love Across the Tabletop by Kait Disney-Leugers

Love Across the Tabletop by Kait Disney-Leugers My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Will love be a critical success or an untimely end to the campaign? Mika Levenberg is over relationships. After her ex-girlfriend cheats on her, all Mika wants to do is make good food and play the tabletop role-playing game Bargains & Battles with her friends every week. Ash Aguila is new to Washington DC. After escaping an abusive relationship, he’s looking to start over in the Capitol and try to rebuild himself. When his cousin invites him to […]

Posted November 6, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 0 Comments

Review: Back to Belfast by Emma L McGeown

Back to Belfast by Emma L McGeown My Rating: 2 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: f/f Blurb: When the opportunity of a lifetime comes knocking, Claire Brennan is ready for a break from responsibility and the stuck feeling that won’t go away. Move across the world to Vancouver for six months? Absolutely. Stacie Farran is a career-obsessed eternal optimist, so when the opportunity to trade jobs with a colleague in Belfast comes up, she jumps at the chance. That it gives her a bit of space from her girlfriend doesn’t hurt either. Living in each […]

Posted November 1, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Her Texas Cowboy by Casey Dawes

Her Texas Cowboy (RV Park Romance #3) by Casey Dawes My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: After 40 years in a dead marriage, she yearns to be alone. Fate has other plans. Widow Kathleen O’Sullivan hungers for a life where no one makes demands, and she has the bathroom to herself. For forty years she shared the sink, toilet, and shower with a man who left the seat up and hairs in the sink. Once this year-long road trip with her sisters is done, she’s going to live the good life […]

Posted October 28, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 4 Comments