Category: Review

Review: Tarts & Tiaras by Laura Greenwood

Tarts & Tiaras (Falhaven Castle #3) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: With her birthday approaching, Evie has to deal with the inevitable: her parents are going to expect her to dance. While she’d much rather be in the kitchens with Nate. Worse than that, her mother expects her to court suitors, leading to conflicting feelings surrounding what she should tell Nate, and how to deal with the increasing pressures of being a royal. But after five and a half years apart, Nate isn’t about to give […]

Posted August 21, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 5 Comments

Review: The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop by Annabel French

The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop (The Floating Shop #1) by Annabel French My Rating:4 stars Genre: Women’s Fiction/ Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: One fresh start. One unexpected encounter. Can love bridge the gap? When Rosie leaves behind her ordinary life in England to open a flower shop on Amsterdam’s water, she expects nothing less than a fairytale. Max, her handsome but brooding new neighbour, prefers to keep the world at arm’s length – and living on the houseboat next door, he’s not too thrilled about the new company. As Rosie’s business blossoms, so do […]

Posted August 19, 2026 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Tides Wait for No Witch by Natalie Summers

Tides Wait for No Witch (Spelltide Bay Magic Mysteries #1) by Natalie Summers My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: A magical island. A mysterious relative. A family she didn’t know existed. Inheriting a house from a dead great-aunt she’s never met should’ve been Sara Rivers’ first clue that things were about to get weird. The talking sea otter? That was clue number two. Sara’s plan was simple: stay the six months to get her inheritance, sell the house, and figure out what comes next. What she didn’t plan on was […]

Posted August 17, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review / 5 Comments

Review: Love and Lab Extractions by Mary Stephenson Su

Love and Lab Extractions (The “Love and” Duology #1) by Mary Su My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Lab Partners, Love, and Visions of the Future Strailer is a young elf who loves friends and fun. When the lab instructor pairs him off with Lilliana “The Ice Queen,” he hopes his charms can melt her icy exterior. Lilliana is a young elf who likes things just so-her hair, her stuff, and her assignments. She realizes Strailer is as handsome as he is funny, but she knows he’s not the […]

Posted August 14, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: Spoon to be Dead by Dana Mentink

Spoon to be Dead (Shake Shop #3) written by Dana Mentink narrated by Stephanie Németh-Parker My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: A murder for the holidays is about to shake things up! Trinidad Jones is starting the festive season with sugary confections and a heaping scoop of worry as her shake shop enters its first Oregon winter. With snow abound and tourists trickling through, she’ll do anything to keep her milkshake dreams afloat, even if it means catering a holiday steamboat party for some new arrivals in town. But when her […]

Posted August 10, 2026 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: A Demon Chef’s Recipe For Tasty Tapas by Ariana Jade

A Demon Chef’s Recipe For Tasty Tapas (The Forked Tail Restaurant #2) by Ariana Jade My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: f/f Blurb: And we’re going live in 3… 2… 1! Welcome to the first round of the DemonChef competition where multiple teams of excellent demon chefs battle it out to be crowned the winner. For our first challenge, we’ll be asking for dishes that highlight the most versatile of sins, envy! Can our teams figure out how to make this sour flavour shine? There’s only one way to find out and […]

Posted August 7, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 6 Comments

Review: The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst

The Enchanted Greenhouse (Spellshop #2) by Sarah Beth Durst My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst invites you to her new standalone novel set in the world of The Spellshop! Follow her to The Enchanted Greenhouse, a cozy fantasy nestled on a far-away island brimming with singing flowers, honey cakes, and honeyed love. Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and […]

Posted August 5, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 4 Comments