B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscats / Contemporary / dog / dysfunctional family / family relationships / Harlequin / New Hampshire / Small Town Romance / Widowed HeroineNo Comments
The only thing they have in common is a property line! He’s trying to uncover his past. She’s hoping for a brighter future. Cam Maguire is in Blackberry Bay to unravel a family secret. Meredith Price has moved next door with her daughter. He’s unattached. She’s a widowed single mom. ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / fake relationship / interracial-romance / mental health8 Comments
CW: anxiety, depression, grief Dear Talia Hibbert, I don’t really know what fits into the “rom com” subgenre and what just falls into the contemporary bucket. My personal preference is to regard all of them as contemporary romance and not bother about the rom com label at all. That way, ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / fat MC / holiday romance / tennis4 Comments
Dear Olivia Dade, First off, what a gorgeous cover! It’s pretty, fun and flirty and represents the main characters very well. Tess Dunn, who is about to turn 40, is the assistant principal at Marysburg High School and is on vacation with her BFF Belle, a fellow teacher (who now ... more >
Book Reviews / C+ Reviewscollege / Contemporary / family relationships / Fiction / lawyer / mothers and daughters / single mother / teens / Womens-FictionNo Comments
Jessica and Emily Burnstein have very different ideas of how this college tour should go. For Emily, it’s a preview of freedom, exploring the possibility of her new and more exciting future. Not that she’s sure she even wants to go to college, but let’s ignore that for now. And ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / etiquette / non-fiction8 Comments
From the most trusted name in advice comes a fresh, contemporary guide to modern manners dilemmas. Minding Miss Manners: In an Era of Fake Etiquette is a modern guide to modern manners. Facing down the miscreants purveying false etiquette rules (no, you may not wait a year to send a ... more >
Book Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / epistolary / Fiction / fish-out-of-water / London / long distance relationship / nurse / PTSD / Scotland7 Comments
Lissa, is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she’s been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the victim of a shocking crime. Her supervisor quietly arranges for Lissa to spend a few months doing a much ... more >