B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsaccountant / Alternate POV / beta hero / dancer heroine / family relationships / First-Person / friends-to-lovers / Paradise Bay Series / romantic comedy / second chances5 Comments
Melanie Summers welcomes you back to Paradise Bay for a ridiculously romantic, laugh-out-loud tale of reluctant homecomings, lost loves, and second chances… Yoga instructor, Hadley Jones, has loved Chase Williams since high school. Fifteen years later, she still does. And while he hasn’t popped the question yet, she knows it’s ... more >
Book Reviews / C- Reviews#ownvoices / 1920s / colorism / Dancer / dancer heroine / dual-timeline / First-Person / Historical fiction / Jazz Age / organized crime / POC / POC author / racism3 Comments
1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Café is the ritziest black-and-tan club in town. Honoree Dalcour is a sharecropper’s daughter, willing to work hard and dance every night on her way to the top. Dreamland offers a path to the good life, socializing with ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsCancer / Christmas / Contemporary / dancer heroine / England / friendship / introvert / shy hero / Willoughby CloseComments Off on REVIEW: Christmas at Willoughby Close by Kate Hewitt
Welcome back to Willoughby Close, with four new residents and happy endings to deliver… Belinda ‘Lindy’ Jamison has moved to the Cotswolds for a fresh start and to open a dancing school—her lifelong dream. Pushing forty and still looking for Mr. Right, Lindy is determined to no longer wait for ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / dancer heroine / first person present tense / New Adult / Rape / Recommended Reads20 Comments
Dear E.K. Blair: I have been drawn to New Adult books lately in spite of the fact that I haven’t had the best of luck with the ones I’ve read. I was immediately wary of this book when, not a page into the prologue, the male protagonist muses to himself ... more >