Contemporary Romance
The Summer We Fell
In this dual timeline contemporary romance, we follow the lives of Luke, the world’s hottest surfer, and Juliet, a beautiful woman ostensibly characterized as a musician. This label feels tenuous…
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Look on the Bright Side
Dabney: Look on the Bright Side is the third book Higgins has set in the Cape Cod town of Wellfleet–the others are A Little Ray of Sunshine and Out of the…
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Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death
What was Maria Vale, she of the incredible shifter series The Legend of All Wolves, thinking? Who decides to make Azrael, the angel of death, an awkward and surprisingly, given…
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Walk of Shame
If you love smart hockey romances with leads that act like grownups and writing that shows a commitment to excellence, you, like me, will not enjoy this book. Our heroine,…
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Shoot Your Shot
Roxie Nowak is a former basketball player, with a great job in tech and her own swanky place. She doesn’t date, because what’s the point? Men always want someone petite,…
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Hate Me Under the Mistletoe
Look, I’m all in for a good time. Who doesn’t adore a fun holiday romance? But this one, while sporadically amusing and occasionally sizzling, dissipates into the realm of insubstantiality…
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Protecting You & Fighting for Us
The Bailey Brothers series, by the prolific self-published author Kingsley, comes highly recommended by some of our readers. Curious what the fuss was about, I decided to give the series…
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Return to Monte Carlo
Cate C. Wells’ latest offering, Return to Monte Carlo, attempts to revisit the sizzling romance novels of the 1980s, but instead, sinks into a morass of missed chances, icky sex…
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Rebel at Heart
Rebel at Heart is my first Zoe York book–I can see why other AAR reviewers have so enjoyed her work. Very sexy, nicely funny, and with leads you’d like to…
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Good As Gold
In Good As Gold, Sarina Bowen gives us another couple in her True North‘s small town Vermont. Matteo Rossi and Lelia Giltmaker have loved each other since they were teens…
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Wilder at Last
Serena Bell wraps her her Wilder Adventures series with a frenemies to lovers story. This quintet of books, set in the nicest town in Oregon, Rush Creek, features five brothers…
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Flirting with the Beast
In romance novels, the heroine is almost always under thirty. When older women – those over fifty – appear in romance, it’s usually as a secondary character who, if she’s…
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