My favourite Carsen Taite books are usually the ones with lawyers and courtroom scenes but this one comes close. Royal Scott is an FBI agent specializing in undercover operations. At the beginning of the story, she gets pulled from a job and immediately sent to another one, spying on the Mancuso family, and, more precisely, … Continue reading Her Consigliere – Carsen Taite
I was writing my review of Catch and Cradle and browsing the author’s website where I found about this novella, starring Iz, Hope’s nonbinary housemate, and I just had to stop everything and read it. It’s set a few months after the first book but both stories can be read as standalone, though I recommend … Continue reading Stop and Stare – Katia Rose
I’ve been reading several books with delicate topics in a row, I don’t know what happened. As children, Nev, her twin sister Viv and their best friend Kinsley were inseparable. The day Viv died, Nev lost everything. Nev and Kinsley meet again as adults, by chance. Years of families blaming and badmouthing the other have … Continue reading A Turn of Fate – Ronica Black
Swift Vengeance is a paranormal thriller with a healthy dose of romance. Months after a motorcycle accident that almost killed her, Brittany starts getting visions, terrifying, bloody visions. As much as she’d like to ignore them, she feels she’s getting them for a reason and follows them to Swift Island, in New England. A few … Continue reading Swift Vengeance – Jean Copeland & Jackie D. & Erin Zak
I don’t know what to think of this book. It’s well-written. There are feelings. Teenage angst. So much teenage angst. Andie has been in love with Ivy since forever. Ivy doesn’t do relationships and goes from girl to girl, which isn’t that surprising at nineteen. Andie is okay with it because she’s convinced that, someday, … Continue reading The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe – Hannah Moskowitz
I am, it seems, one of a few who enjoyed this book more than the first one in Olivia Waite’s Feminine Pursuits series (both books can be read as standalones). While I liked The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics a lot, I pretty much fell in love with Penelope and therefore with her story. Set … Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows (Feminine Pursuits #2) – Olivia Waite & Morag Sims (narrator)
Whoever said romance is dead? Lena is lost and not sure what she wants out of life but she does want to fall in love. Grace tried and failed but she still believes in romance so hard that she leaves anonymous little notes in a grotto to an imaginary man she hopes will not turn … Continue reading The Safest Place – Lily Seabrooke
Likotsi didn’t expect a fling to break her heart but a few nights with Fabiola were enough for her to be all in. Not Fabiola, though. A few months, chance brings them together again but for Likotsi, the fear of going through the same pain again is overwhelming. After I read Alyssa Cole’s soon-to-be released … Continue reading Once Ghosted, Twice Shy (Reluctant Royals #2.5) – Alyssa Cole
Makeda may not know what she wants from life but she knows exactly what she doesn’t want, and that’s being a princess. The family folklore according to which her grandmother had a fling with the prince of the tiny kingdom of Ibarania was fun to entertain until it became her mother’s obsession. So when, in … Continue reading How to Find a Princess (Runaway Royals #2) – Alyssa Cole
3.5⭐️ - A comedian at the Rothmoor Hotel in Las Vegas, Mara is hoping for her big break. She’s focused on her career and relationships will wait. Nothing wrong with that, she believes, despite her friends teasing her for being a player. Victoria loves her job as a nurse and is especially proud of being … Continue reading Love’s No Joke – Cheri Ritz
