Tag: Adult

Review: Knot Playing Fair: Book One by Ember Blaze

Knot Playing Fair: Book One (Knot Playing Fair #1) by Ember Blaze My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Omegaverse Age Category: Adult Type of romance: Polyamory Blurb: My husband demanded an open marriage. Now he’s angry that I’m dating a pack of hot guys, like somehow the rules are supposed to be different for me? I can’t divorce him. We’re business partners in St. Louis’ hottest new Michelin star restaurant, and the place is mortgaged to the hilt. Still, the unfairness of it all is grinding me down day by day. The only bright spot is the new men I’ve met. […]

Posted August 13, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 6 Comments

Review: The Sea Spirit Festival by Claudie Arseneault

The Sea Spirit Festival (The Chronicles of Nerezia #3) 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. Their journey has brought them to Alleaze, a coastal city from which they hope to book passage across the ocean. But Alleaze’s regular life […]

Posted August 11, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 6 Comments

Review: The Hedgehog and the Spinster by Laura Greenwood

The Hedgehog and the Spinster (The Shifter Season #9) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Historical Paranormal Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: A hedgehog shifter accepts an unexpected proposal. Miss Agatha Spineforth has been considered a spinster for years, with no prospects of marriage and even her mother has all but given up. Until the offer of marriage arrives from an unexpected place. Desperate to change her fortune, Agatha accepts, even if it isn’t because of any foolish notions of love. Only once she’s in her new husband’s home does she realise that there […]

Posted August 8, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Review, Romance / 8 Comments

Review: The Dead Come to Stay by Brandy Schillace

The Dead Come to Stay (Ardemore House #2) by Brandy Schillace My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: A delightful new cozy crime novel from the award-winning author of the “twisty, engaging, and thoroughly unexpected” (Deanna Raybourne) The Framed Women of Ardemore House An amateur autistic sleuth. A wry English detective. A murder case that thrusts them both into the wealthy world of the rare artifacts trade… Jo Jones can’t seem to catch a break. She’d hoped that trading in her city life for the cozy, peaceful hills of North Yorkshire to […]

Posted August 6, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: A Purrfect Date by Alex Erickson

A Purrfect Date (Cat Yoga Mystery #2) by Alex Erickson My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Up-and-comer Ashley Branson usually aims to keep both feet placed firmly on the ground—unless she’s instructing a class at her trendy cat yoga studio. But she soon finds herself caught in a downward spiral when a stretch beyond her comfort zone leads to murder . . . Ashley Branson is sure of one thing after experiencing a disastrous blind date—she would much rather enjoy the single life and hang out with playful felines at her […]

Posted August 4, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 6 Comments

Review: Starlight and Space Between by Alicia Haberski

Starlight and Space Between (Nova Moss Chronicles #2) by Alicia Haberski My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Scifi Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: f/f Blurb: A dark, frozen world. An old secret. A misbehaving meteorite. Life among the stars can change in an instant. In the second installment of this cozy f/f space opera, Cori and Aster find themselves at a crossroads unlike anything they’ve faced before. Five years after the events of Where Starlight Burns, doctor Cori Nova and botanist Aster Moss are enjoying married life on the beautiful Centauride Station. Cori has an exciting venture on the […]

Posted July 30, 2025 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 1 Comment

Review: What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon

What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon narrated by Elizabeth Lamont My Rating: 5 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Dani Dorfman is looking for an escape. She’s not expecting to land a new job to take her from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, but after recently getting dumped and fired, she’s determined to make this a fresh start. But at the end of her first week, the big move is looking like an even bigger mistake. Especially when she crashes her bike into Wouter van Leeuwen, her handsome Dutch exchange student from ten […]

Posted July 28, 2025 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 2 Comments