Was it Mrs. Julien who recommended a list of modern romance novels? I have failed to find the link, but whoever you are, thank for you recommending this book! (EDIT: it was Malin, thanks for the list, I have a queue at the library based on it!) It had everything I like: fake relationships, British humour, love rivals, and drama – quite literally, as a chunk of the action takes place on the stage in London’s West End. Elaine (Lainey) Graham is an actress, forced to […]
If she only had a spine
I was looking for a fun, light contemporary, and Hired Bride seemed just the thing. It had a quirky Southern matriarch, a dilapidated house – complete with taxidermy, and a marriage of convenience. I was all in. Deanna Beaufort works as a receptionist, barely making enough to get by and allow her sister to stay in college without working (although why that seems like a good idea is never explained). Despite having a long family history in Savannah, Georgia, which seems to indicate that they […]
A Grown-Up M/M Romance
I took too long to write this review (I finished this book several weeks ago now), so it won’t be a thorough as I would like. But, it was just too enjoyable not to share. This book told my favorite kind of story. A story of grown ups learning to love and live with each other, and how they support each other through life’s problems. Laurie Parker was a world class ballet dancer until he decided to try ballroom dancing in competition with another man. […]
I Think Lisa Kleypas was working through some issues
Lisa Kleypas’ Blue-Eyed Devil and Smooth Talking Stranger are two of my inexplicable comfort reads. They have their good parts and bad parts, but they are not stellar books. I didn’t particularly like either of them when I got them, but I got them both as ebooks, so I have read each of them multiple times, because there they are. I’m scrolling through my kindle and instead of the many long languishing books I haven’t read, I read these two. It probably says things about […]