Category: Review

Review: All Spooked Up by E.J. Copperman

All Spooked Up (Haunted Paint Store Mysteries #1) by E.J. Copperman My Rating: 2 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Paint store owner Laura Meehan makes the discovery of a lifetime in her shop when she stumbles upon a body and . . . her dead father’s ghost! This brand-new Haunted Paint Store Mystery has Copperman’s signature wit, humor, and zaniness aplenty! Dealing with her father’s recent death, Laura Meehan decides to move back to her New Jersey hometown and take over the paint and wallpaper store he opened after quitting his straining job […]

Posted February 9, 2026 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Playing the Game by M.Q. Barber

Playing the Game (Neighborly Affection #1) by M.Q. Barber My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Erotica/ Erotic Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/m/f Blurb: She expects dinner with neighbors—but gets sex with a side of safewords. Fantasies about her neighbors spice up Alice’s nights, even a year after she’s moved in. She can’t decide whether the men are roommates or partners, but either way, they spark a wanton desire in this mechanical engineer that has her imagination—and vibrator—working overtime. Henry, director of everything around him, studies human nature and applies philosophies to his paintings as well as his relationships. […]

Posted February 7, 2026 by Lola in Contemporary, Erotica, Review, Romance / 0 Comments

Review: Midnight & Mince Pies by Laura Greenwood

Midnight & Mince Pies (Falhaven Castle #0.1) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: When the clock strikes midnight, Evie has to return to the ball… Princess Evie would love nothing more than to bake the Yuletide away, making sweet treats with her best friend Nate in the castle’s kitchens. Unfortunately for her, royal duties call, no matter how much she wants to avoid them. When her sister helps her escape from the masquerade ball, she heads straight to the kitchen, but she needs to be back before […]

Posted February 6, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 6 Comments

Review: Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea #1) written by Rebecca Thorne narrated by Jessica Threet My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: f/f Blurb: In the tradition of Legends & Lattes, comes a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen’s private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live happily ever after…if only the world would let them. All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, firelight drifting between the […]

Posted February 4, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Stories From the Deep by Claudie Arseneault

Stories From the Deep (The Chronicles of Nerezia #4) by Claudie Arseneault My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: no romance Blurb: Fate and friendship brought Horace, Rumi, Keza, and Aliyah together in Rumi’s sentient self-propelling wagon. They seek the forest haunting Aliyah’s dream, hoping for answers about the elf’s past and unique abilities—but first, they need to traverse a world haunted by Fragments, dangerous shards that can possess travellers and react to Aliyah’s presence. They finally leave the coast to undertake a long ocean crossing filled with the sailors’ brand-new games and fearsome […]

Posted February 2, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Scythe Grove Academy by Laura Greenwood

Scythe Grove Academy (Scythe Grove Academy #1-3) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy/ Academy/ Paranormal Romance Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Syxe has seen ghosts her entire life, but it’s only when she learns she’s a reaper that it all starts to make sense. Most students at Scythe Grove Academy are worrying about their studies, not the cults they grew up in, but for Syxe, that’s her reality. With her past a mystery and her powers as a reaper completely undeveloped, there’s lots for Syxe still to learn. If you like heroines […]

Posted January 30, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: Claws for Concern by Miranda James

Claws for Concern (Cat in the Stacks #9) written by Miranda James narrated by Erin Bennett My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Charlie Harris is busy enjoying his new grandson when a mysterious man with a connection to Charlie’s family starts visiting the library, bringing with him troubling questions about an unsolved murder…. Charlie may be a proud new grandfather, but he and Diesel still have work to do at Athena College and the small Mississippi town’s public library. He’s too busy to deal with true-crime writer Jack Pemberton, who wants […]

Posted January 28, 2026 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments