Contemporary Romance
Left of Forever
Do you feel you’ve missed out in life by not being a marriage counselor? Do you long to spend hours of time in the company of two 30 somethings with…
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Just This Once
This book should have been a novella. The premise is fine for 150 pages: a San Francisco marketing executive, burnt out and in need of a break, books a solo…
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Promise Me Sunshine
I wasn’t in the mood for a grief novel. Lately, real life has been more than generous on that front. A story about a woman paralyzed by the loss of…
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Addicted
Charlotte Stein doesn’t write predictable love stories, and Addicted is no exception. It resists easy classification. The book is erotic and introspective, crude in places but surprisingly gentle, and uninterested…
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You Give Me That Feeling
Readers kept telling me Julie Kriss was worth it. After reading the Riggs Brothers series, I wasn’t convinced. The books were fun, but they skated on charm more than substance….
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Make Me Beg
The last of the Riggs Brothers books lands as smoothly as Dex Riggs himself—reckless, a little messy, but somehow still on its feet. I’d been curious about Dex—sure that, like…
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Work Me Up
Imagine four men, each hotter than barbecue in August, who all find love in a gritty Michigan small town—welcome to Julie Kriss’s Riggs Brothers series. I’m reading them all. I…
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Take Me Down
I enjoyed the first Riggs Brothers book, Drive Me Wild. This one? Not so much. Jace—25, tall, muscled, and allegedly deep—just finished a 20-month sentence for grand theft auto. (The…
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Drive Me Wild
Westlake, Michigan is the kind of town where, in ways mostly bad, everyone knows your name and they never forget your sins. It’s a place young people leave as soon…
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How To End a Love Story
How to End a Love Story is billed a romance shaped by grief and healing. It delivers a shallow, joyless hash instead. I’ve read it–you probably shouldn’t. This is a…
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Nothing But Trouble
I loathe football and you couldn’t pay me to watch a hockey game and yet two of my favorite romance series feature each: Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Chicago Stars (football) and…
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Untouched
There’s a certain satisfaction in finding a romance novel that’s fully aware of its contradictions. Maisey Yates’ Untouched is one of those books that pulls you in, even as you…
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