(Amazon Affiliate links used in this post) Each week Stephanie, Lillian and I will be featuring a SUMMER OF LOVE review on our blogs. If you missed Stephanie’s post from yesterday, check it out at Once Upon a Chapter. And look for Lillian’s review this Thursday at Mom With a Reading Problem. Welcome to my first review […]
4 stars — I was worried about this one! In the first chapter, I was NOT getting a good feeling for Ian. Like, he seemed like a self-involved douchecanoe. I was contemplating DNFing…but I persisted, b/c it’s Lauren Layne. And while she’s not a guaranteed win for me, she gives me enough success to push […]
4 stars — This was a solid Lauren Layne romance, and a great end to the series. It’s been quite a while since I read a book by Ms. Layne actually, and I’ve even been on a bit of a contemporary romance hiatus as of late. I will admit that there was some super small […]
4.5 stars — I’m not a huge enemies to lovers trope lover, and this one wasn’t quite that…but the animosity between Matt and Avery truly made me feel sad and uncomfortable initially. But I loved the way the story played out, and how Matt and Avery navigated this Christmas stuck in their office. It was […]
4.5 stars — THIS BOOK!!! OK, I read the first two books in this series quite a while ago (I got them both as ARCs), and both ones had a lot of promise, but there were just things about them that niggled me and prevented me from loving them. But THIS was the book I […]
3 stars — Oh dudes… I know I’ve been conflicted about books before, but I can honestly say this one is probably my most conflicted ever. Because the things I loved, I LOVED. But there were things that I essentially hated too…or at least strongly disliked, b/c I really try not to hate things. So […]
4 stars — This one honestly is probably even maybe a 4.5 stars (rounded down), but for reasons I cannot explain, I just was not having a good reading day today, and so I kept getting drawn out of the book. I honestly don’t think it was the book this time, but I still rate based […]
4 stars — This one started off *amazing*, but for me it fizzled about halfway through. Still enjoyable, just no longer 5 star-y, you know? It’s always hard to read a book about a character that’s really really intrigued you. Because he probably intrigues each reader for different reasons, and as a series goes along […]
4.5 stars — This book was so much of what I love about Lauren Layne. It gave me butterfly tummy tingles, it made me LAUGH OUT LOUD, it made me giggle quietly, and it gave the mouth hurts from grinning too wide. And not only that, it gave me frowny faces, and tummy hurts, and chest […]
4 stars — I was super weirdly reluctant to read this last installment to the series. While I’ve enjoyed the series as a whole, I had some reservations about Alexis and how her story was going to play out. And shit, after book 2 was so amazing, it’s hard not to wonder how this book […]