Tag: 2016 New Release Challenge

Review: I Found My Rhino by Erin Hayes

Review: I Found My Rhino by Erin Hayes

I Found My Rhino by Erin Hayes Rating: 4 stars Blurb: Last night was great. Mind-blowing, even. One minute, I’m at a bar trying to locate Ernest Shepherd, a rhino shifter. The next, I’m going home with a gorgeous bartender named Ryan for a night that I’ll never forget. What I didn’t realize is that Ryan is Ernest’s grandson. He’s a rhino shifter, too. And he may just be the rhino I’m looking for to fill a vacancy at the zoo. When we started our professional relationship with unsanctioned benefits (my boss would kill me if she knew), I didn’t […]

Posted January 18, 2017 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 18 Comments

Review: Death of a Toy Soldier by Barbara Early

Review: Death of a Toy Soldier by Barbara Early

Death of a Toy Soldier (Vintage Toyshop Mystery #1) by Barbara Early Rating: 4 stars Blurb: Liz McCall grew up in a playful winter wonderland but it was never her dream to manage her father’s vintage toyshop. However, after he sank his entire police pension into the business, someone needed to help him turn his dreams into reality—and keep him from sneaking off to patrol the not-so-mean streets of East Aurora, NY. The mood goes from nice to naughty when a nervous man, who was trying to have his antique toys appraised, is found in the shop with a lawn […]

Posted January 16, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Mystery, Review / 12 Comments

Review: The Royal Trade by Erin Hayes

Review: The Royal Trade by Erin Hayes

The Royal Trade by Erin Hayes Rating: 3 stars Blurb: Cara thought she was living the fairy tale life. After all, she is engaged to the man of her dreams, who just happens to be the prince of an island nation in the Mediterranean. But when he publicly cheats on her, her life is turned upside down and she doesn’t want to come back to reality. Then Eric, her ex-fiancée’s brother and a playboy prince himself, offers her the chance to run away from it all. Because he fell for her first. And he’s going to prove to her that […]

Posted January 13, 2017 by Lola in Contemporary, Coyer, Review, Romance / 12 Comments

Reading Challenges 2016: Fourth quarterly Recap

Reading Challenges 2016: Fourth quarterly Recap

This is the last recap post of this year! Let’s see how well I did. Previous quarterly recaps: First Quarterly Recap – January, February and March Second Quarterly Recap – April, May and June Third Quarterly Recap – July, August and September The Blogger Shame Review Challenge is hosted by Herding Cats and Burning Soup and Addicted to Happily Ever After. The goal of this challenge is to read books you received for review that have been on your review list for 6+ months count. I set my goal to read 12 books for this challenge, so one every month. […]

Posted December 30, 2016 by Lola in Challenges / 22 Comments

Review: The Trouble with Mistletoe by Jill Shalvis

Review: The Trouble with Mistletoe by Jill Shalvis

The Trouble with Mistletoe (Heartbreaker Bay #2) by Jill Shalvis Rating: 4 stars Blurb: If she has her way … Willa Davis is wrangling puppies when Keane Winters stalks into her pet shop with frustration in his chocolate-brown eyes and a pink bedazzled cat carrier in his hand. He needs a kitty sitter, stat. But the last thing Willa needs is to rescue a guy who doesn’t even remember her … He’ll get nothing but coal in his stocking. Saddled with his great-aunt’s Feline from Hell, Keane is desperate to leave her in someone else’s capable hands. But in spite […]

Posted December 26, 2016 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 26 Comments

Review: A Cotswold Christmas by Kate Hewitt

Review: A Cotswold Christmas by Kate Hewitt

A Cotswold Christmas (Willoughby Close #0.5) by Kate Hewitt Rating: 3 stars Blurb: Welcome to Wychwood-on-Lea… a not-too-quaint village where frosty evenings, welcoming fires, and second chances will make this a Christmas you’ll never forget. Anna Vere has escaped to the Cotswolds for Christmas to try to heal from her broken engagement and, far worse, her broken dreams. When her reserved room at a bed & breakfast is flooded, she takes up the offer of camping out in Willoughby Close, the converted stables of the nearby manor house… and is taken under the wing of sexy local carpenter Colin Heath. […]

Posted December 24, 2016 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 10 Comments

Review: Lipstick & Lattes by Tracy Krimmer

Review: Lipstick & Lattes by Tracy Krimmer

Lipstick & Lattes by Tracy Krimmer Rating: 3 stars Blurb: Whitney only needs two things to survive — a steaming cup of coffee and the opportunity to create art with makeup. But until her big break comes along, she’s stuck selling makeup at the mall. While out at a nightclub dancing her cares away, Whitney catches a fleeting glance of a man she’s convinced is Prince Charming himself, but she misses her chance to talk to him. How will she find him now? Taking a wild chance, she places an online ad and her dreams come true when he appears. […]

Posted December 19, 2016 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 22 Comments