Since I started reading romance, I have mostly stuck to historical romance novels with a few exceptions, including The Hating Game and Lucy Parker’s London Celebrities novels which I quite enjoyed. Despite that, I am still hesitant about contemporary romances but decided to try this one out based on Malin’s recent reviews. I think one reason I am more drawn towards historical romance is that it is easier to suspend disbelief when talking about dukes and earls looking for love (or actors in London) than […]
Starting off with a …meh…
My earliest review, evar!! I usually only review things that evoke a strong response and I’ve never even made a quarter Cannonball. This year I’m going to try to write about every book I finish. This book was basic. It was free on Kindle (still is as of this writing, if you just haaaave to read a romance set on Coronado) (N.B. how the fuck y’all gonna afford any real estate out there?) Hannah Davis was jilted and wants to find out what tore her […]
More New York-based contemporary romance
Francesca “Frankie” Cole’s parents went through a fairly harrowing split when she was fourteen. Her father cheated with a much younger woman, left her mother as a broken-down wreck and walked out without ever looking back. Frankie was the one who had to try to pick up the pieces with the devastated parent she had left. After a period of mourning, her mother seemed to decide that enough was enough, cut her hair, lost a lot of weight and started borrowing her daughter’s clothes, determined […]
The control freak and the commitmentphobe find love in New York
Events planner Paige Walker was expecting to be promoted, but instead finds that she’s been fired, alongside her two best friends and a lot of others. Having spent much of her childhood and her teenage years in hospital due to a heart defect, Paige is fiercely independent and wants to be in control of every aspect of her life. Normally very calm, collected and always the one with the plan, Paige is suddenly at a loss and very much adrift. She has some savings, but […]