Category: Romance
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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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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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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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Next Level Love
Shameez Patel, 2026 3.5 Stars for Nostalgic Play The premise and setting of this story are pure jellybeans and cinnamon candies – bite-sized, munchy, and bingeable. Lincoln is a grumpy engineering god, a singular talent who builds freeway structures and holds high standards for urban planning. In real life, he…
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Most Eligible
Isabelle Engel, 2026 3.5 Stars In the beginning, this book was delicious. It was chardonnay with an ice cube, starburst red and pink candies, and freshly laundered Roots sweatpants. For this, I recommend fans of dating shows read Most Eligible and have themselves a pj party watching her try to…
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Western Heat
Caroline Richardson, 2026 This was a solid 4 star cowboy romance that focused intensely on the family saga, the relationship between the brothers, and the real conflicts of learning to run a ranch. I highly recommend this book and anticipate it will become a three-book series because it lays groundwork…
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Love and Other Brain Experiments
Hannah Brohm, 2026 4.5 Stars for Overachieving This is the STEM-iest of STEM novels and I ate it up. It’s a must-read, must-own for any fans of STEM storylines and romance. Hannah Brohm hits the beats of a rom com: fake dating, exes in the workplace, slow burn enemies to…
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Role Model
Rachel Reid, 2021. Five Stars. This is a book about believing sexual assault victims and unpacking identity. This is a book where a professional hockey star on the first page is traded to Ottawa, one of the worst teams in the league, because he was caught on tape calling his…
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