Category: Contemporary

Review: Sundays with Oliver by Kelly Jensen

Sundays with Oliver (Hearts & Crafts #1) by Kelly Jensen My Rating: 5 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MM Blurb: Two empty-nesters. Two bruised hearts. One chance to make things right. Oliver expected to miss his daughter when she left for college, but he’s surprised by the size of the hole she leaves. Or maybe he hadn’t expected to spend his days watching grass grow and making sad cookies. Or to lose his job. Meeting Nick—the uncle of his daughter’s roommate—is a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy forecast. Nick is focused, talented, and as […]

Posted September 12, 2022 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 0 Comments

Review: Maverick Loves Londyn by Jordan Ford

Maverick Loves Londyn (Misfits Remix #1) by Jordan Ford My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: At Haven Academy, if you’re not a rich kid, you’re a charity case. The two don’t mix. And they certainly don’t fall in love… Troublemaker, Maverick, knows he doesn’t belong in the wealthy hallways of the elitist boarding school, but he’s still managed to make some friends along the way. Outcasts just like him—the Haven Misfits, a newly formed dance crew trying to prove everybody wrong about them. There’s only one unspoken rule in his […]

Posted August 16, 2022 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: California Sunshine by Chris Mor

California Sunshine (Trail Magic #1) by Chris Mor My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: Reverse Harem Blurb: Two thousand six hundred and sixty four miles. The Pacific Crest Trail is a big endeavor. But after the way my year started, it might be just what I need. So I’ll take five months alone on a trail. Five months to clear my head and figure out my life. It’ll be good for me. At least, that’s what I keep telling myself. That is, until I meet Nova on the morning I start my […]

Posted August 8, 2022 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: The Phoenix Nest by Arizona Tape

The Phoenix Nest (The Griffin Sanctuary #2) by Arizona Tape My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Age Category: New Adult/ Adult Type of romance: FF Blurb: Now Charlotte is apprenticed with the Griffin Sanctuary’s vet, she discovers more about the other mythical creatures living at there and the dangers they pose to the public, the keepers, and each other. With the Sanctuary’s phoenix eggs about to hatch, the staff’s main goal is to stop the hatchlings from burning down their own enclosure. – The Phoenix Nest is book two in the modern fantasy Griffin Sanctuary series. It is packed […]

Posted July 25, 2022 by Lola in Contemporary, Fantasy, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Just a Little White Lie by Melody Sweet

Just a Little White Lie (Haven Hallways) by Melody Sweet My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary/ Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: A little white lie to solve one problem is about to snowball out of control… When party girl Lauren finds herself in bucket loads of debt and having to return home to live with her controlling brother, she thinks life can’t get any worse. She’s wrong. Her brother is living with the world’s biggest irritation—his best friend, Jack—the tower of muscle who loves to tease her. Humiliated and desperate for a job, she spruces […]

Posted July 7, 2022 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: One Simple Wish by Kay Correll

One Simple Wish: Return to Lighthouse Point (Charming Inn #1) by Kay Correll My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance/ Women’s Fiction Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Sometimes not everything is exactly as it seems… When her aunt is injured, Sara hurries back to Belle Island to help out at Charming Inn. She’s sure she can run the inn and work remotely for her job back in Boston. If only she can juggle all of it… But what are the chances she’d run into Noah McNeil after all these years and what is he doing on her […]

Posted June 30, 2022 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 3 Comments

Review: Whispers Under a Southern Sky by Joanne Rock

Whispers Under a Southern Sky (Heartache, TN #4) by Joanne Rock My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Her past…or her future? It’s taken Amy Finley ten years, but she’s finally ready to return to her hometown of Heartache, Tennessee, and face the past. She just never expected that would include reuniting with her high school sweetheart and now town sheriff, Sam Reyes. Or that Sam’s latest case would lead right back to the darkest chapter in her life. The attraction between Amy and Sam is definitely still there, not to mention […]

Posted June 23, 2022 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 4 Comments