Posts Categorized: Contemporary

Review: Building Forever by Kelly Jensen

Building Forever (This Time Forever #1) by Kelly Jensen Rating: 5 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance/ MM romance Blurb: Charlie King is doing fine. Sure, he’s a widower raising a teenage daughter who just got her first boyfriend, his book series isn’t writing itself, and he has a crush on his new neighbor — the guy next door. But everything’s just fine. Simon Lynley is doing better. He moved to Bethlehem to fall out of love and rebuild his career. An affair with his neighbor isn’t part of the plan, but the attraction between them is too hard to ignore. But… Read more »

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Review: Gemini Keeps Capricorn by Anyta Sunday

Gemini Keeps Capricorn (Signs of Love #3) by Anyta Sunday Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemproary Romance/ MM Romance Blurb: Sometimes, one stubborn Capricorn is all it takes… to drive Wesley Hidaka to crazy, flirtatious lengths. Wesley loves annoying his RA, Lloyd Reynolds. He just can’t help it. Lloyd is focused, decisive, grounded. He has this amusing ability to follow rules. Of course Wesley wants Lloyd to break one… or three hundred. Sometimes, one smirking Gemini is all it takes… to have Lloyd laying down the law and marching Wesley straight back to his dorm room. It doesn’t stop Wesley teasing… Read more »

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Review: The Little Library by Kim Fielding

The Little Library by Kim Fielding Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Blurb: Elliott Thompson was once a historian with a promising academic future, but his involvement in a scandal meant a lost job, public shame, and a ruined love life. He took shelter in his rural California hometown, where he teaches online classes, hoards books, and despairs of his future. Simon Odisho has lost a job as well—to a bullet that sidelined his career in law enforcement. While his shattered knee recovers, he rethinks his job prospects and searches for the courage to come out to his close-knit but… Read more »

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Review: Scorpio Hates Virgo by Anyta Sunday

Scorpio Hates Virgo (Signs of Love #2) by Anyta Sunday Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemproary Romance/ MM Romance Blurb: This year is all about healing the heart, Scorpio. It’s time to leave negative attitudes and stoic facades at the door and let others see the real, more vulnerable you. Percy Freedman is not grieving. Absolutely not, take that back at once. No, he’s entirely sure that selling his dead aunt’s home and leaving the neighbors he’s known for years is the sane thing to do. Who in their right mind would keep the house that smells like all the hugs… Read more »

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Review: The Right Move by Amy Sparling

The Right Move (Mable Falls #1) by Amy Sparling Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Blurb: A lost woman. A man hiding from his past. Finding each other will save them both. Four years ago, Olivia Westland dropped out of college to take care of her grandmother in the tiny town of Mable Falls. Now that Grandma has passed, she finds herself friendless, jobless, and with nowhere to go. An unlikely friend at her favorite bakery sets her up with a place to sleep for the night. Only it’s not just a bedroom in some random person’s house—it’s a room… Read more »

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Review: Good Luck Charm by Kellie McAllen

Good Luck Charm (Holiday High Series #2) by Kellie McAllen Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Blurb: Connor is Kerri’s good luck charm, but is he lucky enough to win her heart? Basketball star Kerri “Killer O’Connor” knows she’s bad luck, and she’s tried everything to keep it from ruining her life — a rabbit’s foot, a horseshoe, her dad’s lucky shirt — she’s never without one. When her dad gets hurt in a freak accident on Friday the 13th, Kerri is sure she’s to blame, but then a boy shows up wearing her father’s old sweatshirt, and Kerri’s luck… Read more »

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Review: Unknown by L.A. Kirk

Unknown (The Secret Life of Cassie Martin #1) by L.A. Kirk Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance/ Reverse Harem Blurb: Cassie Martin is used to being shuffled around in the foster system, so when her newest guardians want to send her away to a camp for “exceptional youths” she sees it as their way to deal with a troubled teen. She never could have guessed they were telling the truth! Soon Cassie finds herself surrounded by other kids her own age who display unusual aptitudes for learning. Faced with a camp bully, and hot guys who seem determined to get… Read more »