Category: Romance

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: 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: Rite of Blood and Bonds by Laura Greenwood

Rite of Blood and Bonds (House of Blood and Roses #2) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Learning how to be a vampire is only half of Beatrice’s problems. Adjusting to life as a vampire noble is harder than Beatrice thought it would be, even if she has a handsome and charming vampire to teach her history and help her understand the complexities of court life. As Beatrice and Linc grow closer, the tension between them begins to build and even though they know it’ll lead to heartbreak, […]

Posted October 16, 2024 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: A Dangerous Connection by S.J. Pajonas

A Dangerous Connection (The Amagi Series #4.5) by S.J. Pajonas My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: Reverse Harem Blurb: A rebellious outcast. An enigmatic designer. An alien creature that will change everything. In the neon-lit streets of Teresa Terceiro, where high fashion meets high stakes, Sora Monteiro is living on borrowed time. A runaway with a mysterious past, she’s determined to forge her own path — until fate intervenes in the form of an injured alien with extraordinary empathic abilities. Enter Tiago Nunes, a talented textile designer with secrets of his own […]

Posted October 7, 2024 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 4 Comments

Review: Summer Fling With A Sea God by Laura Greenwood

Summer Fling with a Sea God (Jinx Paranormal Dating Agency #6) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Romance/ Mythology Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Bo doesn’t have time for romance, but that doesn’t mean a summer fling is out of the question. When Bo accidentally flirts with a sea god, the last thing she expects is for it to turn into something more than just a summer romance, but the more time she spends with Neptune, the more she finds herself drawn to him. Neptune is happy living his life, but the moment he […]

Posted September 27, 2024 by Lola in Fantasy, Mythology, Review, Romance / 6 Comments

Review: The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: f/f Blurb: Part space odyssey, part Sapphic romcom and all spaceship-stealing fun, Emily Hamilton’s breathtaking debut is a wild tale of galaxy-spanning friendship, improbable love, and wonder as vast as the universe itself. So, here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn’t mean to steal this spaceship. They just wanted to know why, twenty years ago, the entire Providence crew vanished without a trace. But then the stupid dark matter engine started all on its own, and […]

Posted September 25, 2024 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 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