• The Heartbreak Hotel

    The Heartbreak Hotel

    Ellen O’Clover, 2025 3.75 stars, not for the lighthearted.  Sometimes I wonder why do I do this, jump into books where the women are fractured and flailing about until they meet the town vet and he has this raspy voice that mutters slow, low feelings. All the insta love and…

  • A Little Holiday Fling

    A Little Holiday Fling

    Farah Heron, 2025 3.75 Stars but damn I want to give it more. This was so close to a four-star or higher rating for me because it was escapist, it had a strong intelligent love interest, and the setting was a main character, a love letter to finding home and…

  • You Between The Lines

    You Between The Lines

    Katie Nayman, 2025 3.75 Stars Wow – I see why this is highly reviewed because the form of this, the writing and the vulnerability (actual poems) is top notch. Leigh is the main character but her Anxiety is a supporting (unsupporting) character and this is a study in self-doubt. I…

  • Summertime Punchline

    Summertime Punchline

    Betty Corrello, 2024 4.5 Stars for Del, anytime HOW did she do that? Betty Corrello wrote one my most favourite-ever FMC and then she kept building on growth and positive decisions and made Del even more assured and confident throughout the story. This book is beautiful and simmering and fully…

  • 32 Days in May

    32 Days in May

    Betty Corrello, 2025 5 Stars for Nadia, all of her Absolutely masterful writing and storytelling from Betty Corrello. I related so closely to the feelings of unhappiness, the deep blue that Nadia is trapped in, despite it stemming from a personal health issue, because the writing was so vivid. Corrello…

  • Auston Matthews: A Life in Hockey

    Auston Matthews: A Life in Hockey

    Kevin McGran, 2025 3 Stars for warmups Nothing really surprised me about this book and it felt very surface-level, like I was reading a series of long-form articles in the Toronto Star, instead of a biography. Part of this is due to the author repeating storylines from chapter to chapter…

  • Bride

    Bride

    Ali Hazelwood, 2024 5 Stars, of course On re-read, this a five-star read and I’m 100% going to buy for keepsies. This is a story with a smart ass vampire who cares an awful lot for the werewolves who show her compassion and it’s a sly thriller because she’s solving…

  • Mate

    Mate

    Ali Hazelwood, 2025 4.75 Stars for Unhinged Delights Fantastic. Can’t wait to re-read as audiobook and spend more time in this world. This sequel to Mate goes straight into Northwest wolf den territory. In Bride, the big reveal was that they are mates, but this book starts there, at Go.…

  • 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…