Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★ Sylvie Fairchild’s baking sheet is full. From running her insta-famous bakery, Sugar Fair to becoming a judge for Operation Cake, the show that just four years prior had caused her to go viral when her cake malfunctioned and decked the buttoned up Dominic De Vere. Now, she’s gunning for […]
What the Cat Dragged In by Kate McMurray
Rating : ★ ★ ★ Thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for providing me with the eARC in exchange for an honest review. Paige seems to be scraping the bottom of the dating pool with the guys she finds on Tinder and Josh, as a first year associate at a law firm barely has time […]
How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams
Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ CW:Abusive Relationship(Ex-boyfriend), PTSD from said Abusive Relationship Naya is trying to find her footing after letting work at the University take the main focus in her life after the relationship with her ex. Trying something new, Naya goes to a bar and inadvertently picks up Jake thinking she […]
The Royals Next Door by Karina Halle
Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Piper feels like an outsider on the tiny island she calls home, never fitting into the small community, mostly because of her ex. This doesn’t mean she isn’t happy with her life, teaching elementary school and reading romance novels for her podcast. That is until she gets new […]
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Olive has to convince her best friend that she’s over her ex so that she’ll stop inciting the girl code and agree to date him. He isn’t really an ex, they went out on a few dates and she noticed the connection he had with her best friend […]
The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Catalina Martín needs a date for her sister’s wedding and she didn’t anticipate the offer from her work adversary, Aaron Blackford. She was always aware of his presence, his aggravating, well put together, Clark Kent-like presence and how her poor first impression and the subsequent moments of him […]
Teach Me by Olivia Dade
Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★ A romance between two teachers, kind of a slight adversaries to lovers story, not quite enemies. Rose’s cherished World History classes are given to Martin Krause when he joins the faculty. Even if it wasn’t Martin’s intentions and he doesn’t know what exactly he’s walking into he tries to […]
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★ Thanks to Edelweiss+ and Avon books for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review. Piper Bellinger has a reputation and millions of followers on Instagram ready to tap the little heart icon on her newest post, but after the longest relationship of her life capped […]
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
Rating : ★ ★ ★ April is done with hiding, she’s ready to show the world who she is and her love of writing fanfic for Gods of the Gates. When she posts a selfie of her newest Lavinia cosplay on twitter. There’s a lot of positive feedback but also some very nasty comments to […]
Book Review Category Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fantasy Five Star Genre Star Rating Young Adult
Places No One Knows by Brenna Yovanoff
Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Waverly is perfect to the point of being cold and robotic, near the top of the food chain at school and almost untouchable. Though underneath she can’t sleep and barely feels like she’s part of the waking world, trading rest for nightly runs until her feet blister and […]
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Inspired by the riot grrl movement in the 90’s and frustrated with the treatment of girls at her High School, Vivian follows her mother’s rebellious ways and starts a zine as a glimmer of hope and understanding. Without thinking much as the Moxie movement grows it becomes something […]
Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch
Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★ Like the other books in the Love & Gelato series this is about an American girl finding herself in another country with a light romance mixed in. I just want to way since no one has mentioned it. This can be read as a 100% stand alone story, I […]