• Tourist Season

    Tourist Season

    Brynne Weaver, 2025 So I was not aware that serial killer love stories were a micro genre of romance, outside of some expected monster kink, but here you have it. Brynne Weaver really gives this a flow with the quirky Cape Carnage setting and Nolan as our strong dimpled male…

  • Never Over

    Never Over

    Clare Gilmour, 2025. 5 Stars for Chemistry in Song Absolute five-star read because this defies all the tropes and slashes them to the ground to make way for a slow burning, cauldron bubbling, sweet steamer of a novel with A+ chemistry, solid partner communication, and a family dynamic that felt…

  • 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.…