Have you ever tried to read for 24 out of 48 hours in a single weekend? It’s not as easy as I assumed it would be! This is the second time I’ve participated in the 24 in 48 Readathon and I haven’t yet managed to hit the 24 hour mark. I managed 18 this time,
Tag: contemporary romance
Hard Knocks Artisanal Pop Tarts + A Giveaway
I love finding funny, smart, new-to-me romance writers and Ruby Lang definitely fits the bill. The second book in the Practice Perfect series, Hard Knocks is about a neurologist coping with parental illness and an aging hockey player working though a vocational crisis. It doesn’t appear to matter whether these are read out of order.
Guest Post by Maria Rose: Midnight Secrets Baked Ziti
My good friend Maria Rose is guest posting today for me. She’s a reviewer for Straight Shootin’ Book Reviews and a truly voracious reader. She has great style and I think you’re going to love this review of Midnight Secrets by Lisa Marie Rice. I’ll pick back up with the recipe for baked ziti after
Stay With Me Forever Chicken Wings
Stay With Me Forever by Farrah Rochon is a great example of small town romance done right. Personally, I love small towns, but I rarely love small town romance. A lot of it is too precious and cutesy for me, particularly with a trope like the one Stay With Me Forever features: that of a
Fantasy Girl, 1983 Harlequin Presents #2U5S
Welcome back to the Utterly Unscientific Summer Saturday Series Sex Survey! I gotta be honest, I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to continue this project a few weeks ago. I was trapped in the sexist, racist, slut-shaming, heroine-blaming, alpha-hell of 1970s contemporary category romance and, uh, I’d rather lost my objectivity and
Blogiversary Week Review: Taken Honey-Pepper Salmon
Don’t forget to enter the Cooking Up Romance Blogiversary Week Giveaway for a $50 Amazon Giftcard! Pretty much any romance involving a kinky bookseller is always going to get my vote. And if it’s by Charlotte Stein? Double vote! Can we vote twice? Whatever, I just did. Taken, a recent offering by Stein, features
Under His Touch Cannoli
Under His Touch by Jeffe Kennedy is a May-December boss-subordinate office romance, a setup that is complete catnip for me that nevertheless has epic potential to go really far wrong. I love huge age gaps in my romance (my husband and I are ten years apart) and I love the realism of office romances. But
Party Lines Fiesta Chicken Salad
Emma Barry is one of my favorite romance writers. And I’m not just saying that because she’s a friend. She’s one of those writers who could write cereal box copy and I’d read it and love it. But add in the romance and politics and Washington, DC settings of the Easy Part series and this
Truly Honeyed Cauliflower Soup & Sandwiches
A few weeks ago, I read a string of hero-as-chef romances all in a row: The Chocolate Thief by Laura Florand, Ruby by Jeffe Kennedy and this one, Truly by Ruthie Knox. I waited to review it until closer to the release date, which is this Tuesday. I’d read one other book by Knox in