Tag: book reviews

Quicksilver by Callie Hart | Review

Posted March 3, 2025 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

It’s an amazing feeling when you go into a book with high expectations from all of the hype, and they end up being 100% met. That was my experience with Quicksilver, the book that had the romantasy community in a chokehold in 2024. I was eager but also a little dubious considering the recent boom in romantasy titles (it feels like the general population just discovered ACOTAR in the past year or two and I’m like the real ones pre-ordered it ten years ago XD) and with an extreme surge in popularity and mainstream attention can definitely spur many lackluster […]

First Time Caller by B.K. Borison | Heartstrings #1 | ARC Review

Posted February 10, 2025 in Books, Reviews / 1 Comment

I was so, so thrilled when I heard that B.K. Borison was starting another romance series! The Lovelight Farms series really took the romance book community by storm, and I was intrigued to see how the author would pivot from a small-town series to a big city one. I’m pleased to report that First-Time Caller has all of the charm and coziness that readers have come to expect from Borison’s stories, cocooned in a romantic radio booth tucked away amongst the hustle and bustle of big-city Baltimore. Inspired by Sleepless in Seattle, First-Time Caller is a dual POV romance novel […]

Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco | Review

Posted February 3, 2025 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

I am a huge fan of the OG Kingdom of the Wicked series (books 2 & 3 specifically, book 1 was kind of mid). So when I heard we were getting a spin off series about the OTHER PRINCES I was verrrry intrigued. Especially because there’s potential for SIX additional books (if there’s one per prince, which I’m hoping very much is the case!) I love a good companion series where I can dive into a new story in a universe where I’m already familiar with the world building and have a solid foundation of knowledge of which to build […]

Let’s Call Her Barbie by Reneé Rosen | ARC Review

Posted January 20, 2025 in Books, Reviews / 3 Comments

My first five star read of 2025! I’m so happy this came across my inbox to read and review because it reminded me just how much I love reading historical fiction (I feel like I say this every time I read and review a historical fiction novel, lol). I’ve always been a fan of Barbie (I had the boat, the motor-home, the airplane, etc growing up) and I loved the resurgence of Barbie-mania in 2023 with the movie (ah, the summer of Barbenheimer). I was intrigued at the idea of a historical fiction take on the creation of the iconic […]

Holiday Romance Review: Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

Posted December 9, 2024 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

When I found out that my Spotify premium account now came with a free number of audiobook listening hours per month, I instantly pursued their romance selection and decided it would be a great chance to try my first Tessa Bailey novel. I’d heard her name floating around often online, and I was trying to make a conscious effort to read more holiday novels in December (always a challenge for me, as the month feels like it flies by so fast!) I didn’t know much about this one except it sounded seasonally appropriate and since it was “free,” I decided […]

Enchanted to Meet You by Meg Cabot | Witches of West Harbor #1

Posted October 7, 2024 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

I have been reading Meg Cabot’s books for over 20 years, and she’s an auto-read author for me at this point. I don’t even bother reading the synopsis most of the time, I just know a new release is going to make it onto my TBR, regardless of the subject matter. Despite the fact that I would have read Enchanted to Meet You no matter what, I was THRILLED to see that Meg was getting in on the witchy rom-com trend. I loooooove witchy stories, movies, aesthetic, etc. and the cover + premise + title (please don’t be in love […]

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson | Review

Posted August 26, 2024 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

I was a huge huge fan of Jackson’s debut novel, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, and overall felt it was a very strong trilogy. I know she’s put a few books out since then, but this is the first I picked up since the original trilogy, and I was excited! I’ve been wanting to start reading more thrillers as the end of summer looms and we transition into fall up here in the Northern Hemisphere, and what better way to kick off my thriller TBR than with a tried and true author? Turns out I was wrong. I honestly […]

Forget Me Not by Julie Soto | ARC Review

Posted June 10, 2024 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

In a world over-saturated with illustrated romance covers, this one stopped me in my tracks. I found it stunning, and almost water-color like, completely different from the cartoony covers that are so popular in romance these days (which I love too!) THEN I heard that the author, Julie Soto, cut her teeth writing Dramione fanfiction, including one that’s very high on my TBR (The Auction) and I knew I had to read this one. Set in Sacramento, California (the first time I’ve read a book set in California’s capitol!), Forget Me Not centers on two protagonists who are in the […]

Mixed Signals by B.K. Borison | Lovelight Farms #3

Posted March 18, 2024 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

I think I’m in a funky place with this author where I adored the her debut in the Lovelight Farms series (so much so that it actually made me enjoy one of my least favorite tropes, friends to lovers), but none of the subsequent romances in the series have really hit for me. I really like all of the characters in the couples as individuals, I just find their romantic stories not to my taste. This is definitely the case with Layla and Caleb, who are honestly just two great people, but it made for a really boring romantic story […]

Love, Me by Jessica Saunders | ARC Review

Posted January 15, 2024 in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

*Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for providing an ARC for review!* While admittedly (in my opinion) more “women’s fiction” than romance, I was fully captivated by this debut novel by Jessica Saunders that explores the forbidden “what if” you ran into your high school ex fantasy. However, the twist here is what if your high school ex was now a highly popular celebrity? I live for this kind of drama in my stories so this one was RIGHT up my alley. The story follows Rachel, a successful lawyer, mother of two, seemingly happily married woman who is leading […]