Contemporary Romance

Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell: a review by Kayne

Fever Dream by Elsie Silver: a review by Kayne

Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune: a review by Kayne

First and Forever by Lynn Painter: a review by Kayne

The Daisy Chain Flower Shop: a review by Kayne

And The Crowd Went Wild by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Dabney: Susan Elizabeth Phillips published her first Chicago Stars book, It Had to Be You, in 1994. The book, featuring a tall, rugged football coach named Dan and a curvy…

The Plight Before Christmas

The Plight Before Christmas needs an editor, has leads in their late thirties who behave at least ten years younger, and manufactures so much angst in its final few chapters…

Hunk for the Holidays

Hunk for the Holidays knows exactly what it is: a light Christmas love story that exists just to entertain. Lane leans into the charm of a slightly ridiculous premise and,…

Duet

Duet, the first in Julie Kriss’ Road Kings series, has a sweetheart of a smokin’ hot rock star improbably named Denver who spends much of this slight tale trying to…

Rebel Bride

Hatch Kershaw, NFL hockey star (of the fictional Chicago Rebels) and son of one of the sport’s greats, doesn’t want to be at the wedding of his asshat teammate Dash…

Love Sick

I met my husband, a surgeon, in the last year of his final residency, and for the next fifteen years watched him train residents of his own. I have never,…

Scotch on the Rocks

I love this book. It’s sexy, very funny, moving, grounded in its sense of place, and just—well—yummy. It’s easily the best contemporary romance I’ve read this year. Callum Macabe met…