Category: Contemporary

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

Review: Love Sugar Magic A Sprinkle of Spirits by Anna Meriano

Love Sugar Magic: A Sprinkle of Spirits (Love Sugar Magic #2) by Anna Meriano narrated by Kyla Garcia My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Age Category: Middle Grade Blurb: The second book in this breakout series that’s been called “charming and delectably sweet.” (Zoraida Córdova, award-winning author of the Brooklyn Brujas series) Leonora Logroño has finally been introduced to her family’s bakery bruja magic—but that doesn’t mean everything is all sugar and spice. Her special power hasn’t shown up yet, her family still won’t let her perform her own spells, and they now act rude every time Caroline comes […]

Posted October 23, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Fantasy, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Heartwaves by Anita Kelly

Heartwaves (A Greyfin Bay #1) by Anita Kelly My Rating: 5 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f or nb/nb Mae uses She/ They pronouns and Dell uses He/ They pronouns. They don’t really specify if they identify as non-binary or not. Blurb: Mae Kellerman is content. After forty years of ups and downs, she has a meaningful job at a queer community center in Portland, Oregon. She has an apartment full of plants, a ride-or-die group of friends. Until the day her best friend actually does up and die. Leaving Mae with a hole in […]

Posted October 21, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Something More by Jackie Khalilieh

Something More by Jackie Khalilieh My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism diagnosis while navigating her first year of high school, for fans of Jenny Han and Samira Ahmed. Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make a fresh start and keep her diagnosis a secret, Jessie creates a list of goals that range from acquiring two distinct eyebrows to getting a magical […]

Posted September 20, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: Turns Out My Online Friend is My Real-Life Boss! by Nmura

Turns Out My Online Friend is My Real-Life Boss! (Online Game #1) by Nmura My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance/ Manga Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/m Blurb: Hashimoto is your average office worker — young, and prone to being pushed around by his demon boss, Shirase. His only escape is his favorite online game, and the friends he’s made within. But when he plans an offline meetup for his party, he gets the surprise of his life…! My Review I received a free copy from the publisher through Netgalley. After reading some good graphic novels/ mangas earlier […]

Posted September 9, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley

Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley illustrated by Cassio Ribeiro My Rating: 5 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: f/f Blurb: A charming POC-led WLW romance where two new friends hit the road in search of the missing volumes of their favorite manga. Neesha Sparks is a disabled, vocal community activist with a passion for costume design. Gabby Graciana is an optimistic surfer – and, like Neesha, a new kid at school. When the two girls discover that they like the same manga series, Navigator Nozomi, they become more than just fellow new kids. But […]

Posted August 14, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 6 Comments

Review: Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce

Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn’t hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dating hijinks! Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school’s spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom’s car without permission, she’s grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad’s game shop. Riley can’t waste her time […]

Posted July 26, 2024 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 4 Comments