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I will confess upfront that I’m not a fan of this cover, though I’m the first to admit my tastes are, in a word, pedestrian. I requested the ARC due to name recognition and a desire to …

I had hoped to post this review back in July; alas, my brain made a different decision, and for the second time this year, I found myself unable to read new-to-me books, or to write about…wel…

Vic Degrassi is a baker on the rise, and it’s all thanks to his rare ability to make—and keep—his New Year’s resolutions. Whether it’s losing weight, giving up smoking, or graduat…

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Swordheart, Book #2 Holly’s Review of Swordheart, Book #1 | The Whole Team’s Convo about Swordheart, Book #1 Holly’s Take Heat Factor: A high ratio of innuendo to shagging Charact…

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There’s nothing Ethan Barnes has wanted more than to play hockey with his brothers. Avery, Charlie and Ethan have been dreaming about uniting the Barnes brothers on one team since they were barely …

I had hoped to review this second entry in the Dorothy Gentleman’s series, back in March; alas, best laid plans and all that.My reading mojo has been so inconsistent, that it’s now over…

Love & Spite, Book #1 Heat Factor: A solid chunk in the middle is them having allllll the sex Character Chemistry: She asks him to do activities with her and he discovers that having fun is a g…

Gray Seas is the eighth book in Hailey Edwards’s Black Hat Bureau series, narrated by Stephanie Richardson. Picking up just four days after the events of Gray Court, Rue and her team are focu…

Secret of the Syphon, Book #2 Review of Secret of the Syphon, Book #1 Heat Factor: It’s mostly a lot of angry yearning, but it does have some heat Character Chemistry: They’re mates but they haven’…

Here’s another handful of shorter-than-usual reviews for recent reads/listens. Winter Ball (Winter Ball #1) by Amy Lane (audiobook), Narrated by Nick J. Russo Through a miserable adolescence …

Review originally posted 9/26/2016 by Kini. The Fixer (New Wave Newsroom Book 1) by Jenny HolidayPublication Date: September 13, 2016New Adult RomanceSelf-Published Blurb Jenny Fields is a crusader…

One thing that’s come up quite a bit over the past year, especially in our podcast discussions, is our frustration with authors who spoon feed every bit of information to readers. I admit, usually …

Unspeakable Things by Elizabeth Hand My rating: 3 of 5 stars 2.5 stars  I received this book for free, t...

After landing on a world gone mad with a virus that turned the majority of the population into feral zombies, a small special forces team closes in on the answers to so many mysteries about this horri...

A Nest of Magic by Kate Moseman My rating: 4 of 5 stars I received this book for free, this does not aff...

Bottom line: Do you like the Medieval setting? Holly: OMG YES. I don’t even know why but it hits every single part of my id. Erin: It’s so stressful. And for years I really couldn’t get over how fi…

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I read quickly and easily. Finally we are getting at the heart of the family and Margo’s rift with her mother. Margo gets a call from a nurse who worked with her dad.  Maybe Margo can finally solve th...

Guides to Villainy and Love, Book #2 Review of Guides to Villainy and Love, Book #1 Heat Factor: It’s steamy in a few parts, but there’s a lot going on so they don’t have a ton of time for hanky pa…

With a hat tip again to Erin, whose review of this one you can find here. Beware: depression; cheating leading to STI; not particularly descriptive, consensual sex on page between two adult men.

Bodies of Magic is a standalone dark academia tale of five medical students thrown together for final exams covering the next five days. It’s stressful enough trying to solve five cases with people ra...

September’s TBR Challenge Theme: Lush Life (some definitions of lush = luxuriant, thriving, prosperous, savory, drunkard, curvaceous. Run with it folks!)   Released in Spring 2026, this novel…

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September’s theme prompt for Super Wendy’s #TBRChallenge 2026 was “Lush Life.” Here are the books we chose to tackle our TBRs this month. Holly Read: Something about Emmaline by Elizabeth Boyle Bac…

Best friends Darcy, Camilla, and Kate escape for a post-divorce retreat in the Maldives, the perfect place to relax, reset, and embrace a fr...

Don’t fall in love with me… Evangeline, Lady Courtenay, has flirted with scandal her entire life, and paid a steep price for it, with two unhappy marriages and a tarnished reputation. She’s vowed n…

I am cheating; the them for SuperWendy’s TBR Challenge for September is “lush life”. Now, things can be lush in the sense of glorious or blooming or abundant or luxurious, but I f…

A couple of months ago, after reading this review by Erin (which is chock-full of all my catnip triggers), I grabbed both stories in the duology (see footnote 1) Beware: non-quite-explicit sex on p…

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Peter Kent―newly inherited Duke of Stanhope and recently of New Orleans, Louisiana―must become respectable. Between his radical politics and...

Yes, Chef by Grace Reilly Publisher: Avon Release Date: July 21, 2026 Reviewed by PJ   If you can’t take the heat…get out of the kitchen. Af...

London 1825. When a young American heiress arrives at a Society ball draped in long-lost sapphires and diamonds belonging to the late Duchess of Ashington, jaws drop and tempers rise. Thirty years …

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Version 1.0.0 Version 1.0.0 Version 1.0.0 Last month, Caz published a review for this trilogy, and I was intrigued enough to grab the first one. I eventually read it, and then the other two in quic…

The Hocus Pocus Handbook by Ann AguirreCozy Fantasy Romance Published September 1, 2026 by SourcebooksARC Review by Angela I liked the premise of this book when I read the blurb, and the cover gave…