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While You Were Seething
Charlotte Stein, 2026. 3 Stars. This starts tough, with Caleb as the most irascible male love interest I’ve seen. He is a world-renowned romance author known to be a bitter pill and recluse, and Daisy of course has a history with him in school where they both angered one another…
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Don’t Tell Me How it Ends
Adrienne Thurman, 2026. 4.25 Stars. Yes, absolutely yes. The heat between the two characters is really compelling, and we see Kaia in an absolute gutter of a life event, trying to find purpose and grit to figure out a job, city, and space within her family. A love life? She’s…
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Unbound
Peyton Corinne, 2026 4.5 Stars for tears, swoons and sworn commitment. This series is hockey romance with deep therapy to address issues that are rising up in their college setting. It’s much more personal than Off-Campus or the Icebreaker/Maple Hill books, with each character working to reconcile neglect and trauma…
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How to Write a Love Story
Catherine Walsh, 2026 Four big stars for this being a quiet but feisty escape read with a strong female lead who kept surprising me and making me laugh. This is the story of a daughter reconciling her father’s death by constructing the final missing book in his fantasy series opus,…
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Once and Again
Rebecca Serle, 2026 4.5 Stars for Making Choices. This was an absolute feast of a book, with the narrating laying out almost as a suspense novel to me, with gentle notes of romance. We begin with Lauren sharing that her father died in a car accident, but he reappears at…
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Two Left Feet
Kallie Emblidge, 2026. 4.5 stars. This was absolutely delightful and reminds me of Cat Sebastian’s baseball MM romance series, because we spend most of the story in the inner life of the MMC as he works to unravel his feelings about remaining in the closet, while being tempted for a…
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The Fortune Flip
Lauren Kung Jessen, 2026. Four Stars. Well-written and well-paced novel less about romance build up and more about early relationships and the work we do on ourselves to become good partners, as life hits you with different events to weather. So often we get Romance novels that build for two…
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My Italian Vampire
B.C. Dolce, 2026. 4.25 stars. Betty Corrello is in my top five authors, so I was extremely jazzed for her to go into the monster f**king genre, and this gives me the big strokes that she really excels at crafting: A female main character who is fearless but lonely (with…
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Loon Point
Carrie Classon, 2026 5 Stars This book is quietly beautiful. From the beginning when we meet our four characters and a withering dog, we are not sure where they will interact and what types of relationships they will build together. We see that Norry and Bud are caregivers and Lizzie…
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Epicenter of Forever
Mara Williams, 2026. 4.5 Stars. I devoured this in one sitting because it felt very real, very emotional and rooted in 30-something adult behaviour, my favourite sub-genre of romance. Mara Williams is a new author to me, but I was drawn into the story on the first page because we…
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