Category: Romance

Review: Flipping Hearts and Homes by Chris Zett

Flipping Hearts and Homes by Chris Zett My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: f/f Blurb: A heartwarming, low-angst lesbian romance about finding a home and family in unexpected places. Handywoman Rowan is rooted in her small-town community, accepting every odd job to keep her family’s hardware store afloat. When she inherits an old house, it’s the perfect opportunity to flip it to pay off her mom’s debt. She never intends to get tangled up with beautiful, adorably nerdy Maia, a visiting big-city radiologist, staying at her aunts’ place to mend a broken heart. […]

Posted May 8, 2026 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 3 Comments

Review: Shifter’s Thunder by Carol Van Natta

Shifter’s Thunder (Ice Age Shifters #6) by Carol Van Natta My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Is the dragon shifter bait for a deadly trap, or is she the fated mate this fiercely protective thunderbird sheriff always needed? Thunderbird shifter Tanner Stands In River owes his life to the magical Wyoming sanctuary town he now protects as sheriff. But after a century of duty, the ex-warrior secretly longs to spread his wings. When an injured dragon shifter crashes into his life, he must balance duty and instinct in the face of […]

Posted May 6, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: An Introvert’s Guide to Life and Love by Lauren Appelbaum

An Introvert’s Guide to Life and Love by Lauren Appelbaum My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Women’s Fiction/ Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Inheriting a seaside cottage comes with strings attached in this touching romance where an introverted remote worker must leave her city apartment and learn to connect with others—and find love—in real life. Mallory Rosen loves working from home—minimum contact with others suits her just fine. Nothing could make her leave her comfortable Seattle apartment. Until she inherits her late grandmother’s seaside cottage . . . with strings attached: Take care of your grandfather. […]

Posted April 27, 2026 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: The Truth About Justice by Laura Greenwood

The Truth About Justice (Scales of Justice #5) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Alternate History Urban Fantasy/ Mythology Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Rera knows it’s only a matter of time before her secrets can no longer be hidden… With more people learning the truth about her Ma’at Blessing, Rera has to decide whether to tell the one person she thinks will never understand, or to keep hiding it from him. But with no way of knowing how Zet might respond, she worries about the consequences. At least matters of the heart seem […]

Posted April 24, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Mythology, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Sailor’s Jewel by Celia Lake

Sailor’s Jewel (Charms of Albion #2) by Celia Lake My Rating: 5 stars Genre: Cozy Historical Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Enjoy this kind and creative 1901 historical fantasy romance set in the magical community of Great Britain. Rhoe agreed to this trip for her own reasons. About to take up a new and challenging position as a healer, Rhoe agreed to a trip with her brother on a luxurious ocean liner. She plans to spend the voyage reading, relaxing, and ignoring the social duelling of the first class passengers. It’s not that simple. Nothing […]

Posted April 22, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Review, Romance / 3 Comments

Review: Viscounts & Villainy by Allie Therin

Viscounts & Villainy (Roaring Twenties Magic #3) by Allie Therin My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Historical Paranormal Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/m Blurb: Don’t miss the conclusion to this spin-off series from Allie Therin’s acclaimed Magic in Manhattan universe! Love redeemed them, but the past isn’t done with them yet. New York, 1925 For jaded Lord Fine—Wesley, to the friends he’s surprised he now has—falling into his lover Sebastian’s world of magic and intrigue has changed everything. But when a plot to destroy magic is linked to Wesley’s own aristocratic world, he’s determined to root it out—especially […]

Posted April 20, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: The Coffee House Witch & The Unwelcome Guest by Ariana Jade

The Coffee House Witch & The Unwelcome Guest (The Cobblestone Coven #4) by Ariana Jade My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: f/f Blurb: Not all is well in the Cobblestones. While life with the grumpy cat might have settled for Cassie, it’s not going to stay peaceful for long. A source of negative energy shows up to disrupt her life and it’s going to take more than a simple cleansing to get rid of it. **** The Coffee House Witch & The Unwelcome Guest is book 4 in the Cobblestone Coven series and […]

Posted April 17, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 2 Comments