Reviews and other ramblings from a 50-something lover of books, dogs, and carbs
Marlowe Banks, Redesigned by Jacqueline Firkins Pub Date: 25 Oct 2022 from St. Martin's Griffin Marlowe Banks has a problem. Several, actually. She's a costume designer in NYC whose designs for her last show tanked, so she ran away across the country to the anonymity of a job as a lowly assistant on a popular... Continue Reading →
You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy JanovskyOut now from Sourcebooks Casablanca You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince is basically a Hallmark movie in which David Rose moves in with a handsome lumberjack and I was here for all of it. The titular mean one is spoiled brat rich boy Matthew Prince, who has... Continue Reading →
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood Publication Date: 23 August 2022 "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a community of women trying to mind their own business must be in want of a random man's opinion." - Bee Königswasser If Ali Hazelwood was worried about following up The Love Hypothesis, the must-read book that... Continue Reading →
Café Con Lychee by Emery Lee Publication Date: 10 May 2022 I had decidedly mixed feelings about this one. Our main characters, Theo and Gabi, are sons of rival café owners who put their differences aside to save their family businesses from the shiny new World Fusion Café that has moved into town. I absolutely... Continue Reading →
Fool Me Once by Ashley WinsteadPublication date: 05 April 2022 A rom-com that is so much more, Ashley Winstead's Fool Me Once was a delightful read. Our heroine Lee, known as Stoner to her friends, works for a company that produces electric vehicles (better than Tesla and women-owned!). She is trying to bring green energy... Continue Reading →
She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson DerrickPublication Date: 05 April 2022 I requested an ARC of this title because the blurb had me hooked with some of my favorite things: a sapphic, opposites attract, enemies to lovers, trying to get the wrong girl romance? Sign me up! But this book was so... Continue Reading →
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