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  • It’s Different This Time

    It’s Different This Time

    Joss Richard, 2025 4.25 Stars for Style and Immersion The swoons are a full five stars and so is the wish fulfillment between these highly attractive dream chasers who are finding success in New York City and running around a brownstone ignoring their real feelings. As a friends to lovers,…

  • August Lane

    August Lane

    Regina Black, 2025 5 Stars for Finesse and Craft Absolutely beautiful story of romance and beginnings and family/community. This story is a ballad, and it’s told in three different timelines but it transitions between each of them with perfect timing. I was so taken by August and Luke as these…

  • Up Close and Personal

    Up Close and Personal

    Ana Holguin, 2025 3.75 Stars for strong women I was excited about this book from the Smart Romance substack which had an author Q&A, but it didn’t give me fireworks and super swoon, although Silas wins the award for the hottest damn tattoo I’ve ever seen in a love story. …

  • Yes No Maybe

    Yes No Maybe

    Jessica Sherry, 2024 3.75 Stars for Colour in Community Rowan was a very striking character with so much depth. As Jack uncovers her real passions and vulnerability, I began to care more and more about her. I’m impressed at the story that Jessica Sherry wanted to tell with these community…

  • Fun at Parties

    Fun at Parties

    Jamie Harrow, 2025 3.75 Stars for a Low-Impact Ride I am torn on this one because I was not connecting to the social media plot line, but I am a softie for Jamie Harrow because her debut novel was a marvel that I discovered unassumingly on a library shelf. I…

  • Wild Card

    Wild Card

    Elsie Silver, 2025 2.75 Stars for Supported Tree Pose This one didn’t hit for me personally because I wanted more scenes of Gwen talking with friends and being a member of the community to care more about her and relate to her growth, outside of scenes with Bash and Clyde.…

  • Anywhere with You

    Anywhere with You

    Elsie Palmer, 2025 5 Stars for Perfect Chaos The burn on this is slow and sizzling. I want to restart this book and re-read it for the second of many times, and it’s five stars because I can’t wait to share it with friends, especially those who are new or…

  • Best of Luck

    Best of Luck

    Kate Clayborn, 2018. Chance of a Lifetime #3 4.5 Stars for Big Truths This one just goes simmer, simmer simmer. The spaces that Greer occupies in this book and the overall trilogy are unlike anything I’ve ever read, where she has this very respected energy, quiet but intense in a…

  • Luck of the Draw

    Luck of the Draw

    Kate Clayborn, 2017. Chance of a Lifetime #2 4.5 Stars for Assertive Swooning Absolutely tantalizing chemistry between the two characters. This is really close to Georgie All Along in the craft and the buildup between them, plus the work on accepting past and faults that aren’t really yours to bear.…

  • Beginner’s Luck

    Beginner’s Luck

    Kate Clayborn, 2017 3.75 Stars for Setting the Scene Excellent debut from Kate Clayborn. Sweet and hot with difficult decisions for the couple to make from life stakes of work and history which is refreshing (these! are! adults!). Kit is a smart and sexy FMC and her drive to be…