Rating: 4🌈 V.L. Locey’s low angst, contemporary hockey romance series, Watkins Glen Gladiators, continues with Defending the House. It’s a very sweet story, comprised of 30 something Carson Dries, Captain of the Gladiators, a caretaker for his grandfather and owner of a peke a poo , and a younger Criswell Dobbs, waiter and guardian of… Continue reading Review: Defending the House (Watkins Glen Gladiators Book 2) by V.L. Locey
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Review: Givers (Upper Echelons Book One) by Casey Cox
Rating: 3.5🌈 Casey Cox is diving further into the billionaire romance trope with the first in Cox’s new Upper Eschelons series, Givers. I’m a fan of this author from the Vet Shop Boys and thought I’d see what sort of perspective they’d bring to this popular contemporary romance trope. There’s some good elements here with… Continue reading Review: Givers (Upper Echelons Book One) by Casey Cox
Review: Wolf Soul (Outcast Pack, #3) by T. J. Nichols
Rating: 4.5🌈 Wolf Soul , third in the Outcast Pack series, is my favorite to date. It changes up things by introducing a cat shifter, in this case, a leopard shifter as a mate. It also brings in toxic male sexual stereotypical roles, hypermasculinity, all within a werewolf pack or rigid community. And the idea… Continue reading Review: Wolf Soul (Outcast Pack, #3) by T. J. Nichols
Review: Accidental Lover (Exit Strategy #5) by Jocelynn Drake
Rating: 4.5🌈 Alexei Prescott , assassin and nephew of assassins extraordinaire, has a target. Gabor Kalman, shady arms dealer. Soren Jessen, cat burglar, ex CIA, has a target. Gabor Kalman, shady arms dealer. One will kill him, the other will steal from him. At the same time. The mission puts both men on a collision… Continue reading Review: Accidental Lover (Exit Strategy #5) by Jocelynn Drake
Review: The Christmas Rescue (Laurel Holidays #4) by V.L. Locey
Rating: 4.25🌈 Part of Locey’s Laurel Holidays series, The Christmas Rescue is a story that allows the author to explore her love and knowledge of the realities of farm life and winter in the Pennsylvania hills through the characters sweet holiday romance. The barns and farm living is realistic, accepting of the early hours and… Continue reading Review: The Christmas Rescue (Laurel Holidays #4) by V.L. Locey
Review: Eldon (Christmas Sprites #3) by Macy Blake
Rating: 4.5 🌈 Oh those fabulous Christmas sprites! Eldon, the serious one, gets his mate, in a story that runs almost concurrently with all the others. So we get mentions of events we know happened in the other Sprites romances. Here in a not really “frenemies to lovers “ trope, it’s Tatum William Bixby III… Continue reading Review: Eldon (Christmas Sprites #3) by Macy Blake
Review: Nyall (Christmas Sprites Book 1) by Macy Blake
Rating: 4🌈 Nyall is a sweet holiday romance, an adorable beginning to a new Christmas series about a holiday village, Mistletoe Falls, and a special magical family of sprites looking for their HEA’s. First up is the village baker, Nyall, who meets reporter Aaron Newton, banished to the village to write holiday fluff by his… Continue reading Review: Nyall (Christmas Sprites Book 1) by Macy Blake
Review: This Is Real by Barbara Elsbourg
Rating: 3.75🌈 I like Barbara Elsborg, so I didn’t want to pass up her latest holiday romance, This Is Real. A contemporary romance, it’s got a late coming out element, a snarky Englishman, a closeted American actor and a holiday movie set that brings them together. I found it entertaining and sweet with characters that… Continue reading Review: This Is Real by Barbara Elsbourg
Review: Sass (Style Book3) by Jay Hogan
Rating: 5 🌈 Sass is definitely my favorite of the three Style novels. The writing is tight, the scenes runs the gamut from wryly funny to serious discussions to emotional pathos, all done so beautifully. The superbly crafted characters are ones we’ve gotten to know superficially in the previous books but now get their own… Continue reading Review: Sass (Style Book3) by Jay Hogan
Review: Spring Strings by Lily Morton
Rating: 4🌈 Another wonderful contemporary romance from Lily Morton, Spring Strings is situated in the same model universe that has such wonderful characters as the incredibly beautiful always stoned Dean, Jude, and the effervescent Pip. It’s a novella so unlike some of Morton’s longer fabulously memorable stories, Spring Strings misses in some of the depth… Continue reading Review: Spring Strings by Lily Morton
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 