Tag: contemporary

The Mistletoe Trap by Cindi Madsen

The Mistletoe Trap by Cindi Madsen

4.5 stars — You know what?  This was the perfect book to kick off my holiday reading season.  It was adorable and hilarious, with a good mix of heart and emotion. Julie and Gavin were just gold together.  I loved the relationship they had as friends as the book starts, and ADORE the way their […]

Posted November 16, 2020 by lenoreo in Reviews / 1 Comment
Butterfly Bayou by Lexi Blake

Butterfly Bayou by Lexi Blake

4 stars — Honestly?  This felt like a non-menage version of the Nights in Bliss, Colorado series Ms. Blake originally wrote under the pseudonym Sophie Oak.  Which sounds like it should be a criticism, but honestly?  That’s one of my favourite guilty pleasure reads, so I absolutely did NOT care that so much of the […]

Posted November 5, 2020 by lenoreo in Audio Books, NetGalley ARCs, Reviews / 1 Comment
Unbroken by Various Authors

Unbroken by Various Authors

OVERALL: 3.5 stars — You know, this was a pretty successful anthology!  I find there are always a few gems (in this case it was Britt and the Bike God, Per Aspera Ad Astra, and A Curse, A Kindness), and then a few that just don’t hit.  In this one, the ones that didn’t hit […]

Posted October 29, 2020 by lenoreo in Reviews / 1 Comment
The Purest Hook by Scarlett Cole

The Purest Hook by Scarlett Cole

4 stars — I don’t know, this one just worked for me.  I really loved that even though Dred and Pixie were seriously SO DIFFERENT, there was an undeniable connection and attraction between them that they couldn’t help exploring. This book definitely suffered from moments where I was like “OMG, investigate that!  Doesn’t that seem crazy??”  […]

Posted October 14, 2020 by lenoreo in Reviews / 3 Comments
Flashed by Zoey Castile

Flashed by Zoey Castile

4 stars — I loved the first half of this book, it just hit all of my reading buttons, you know?  There’s something about a damaged man and a strange friendship that develops without seeing one another that just…it’s a guilty pleasure.  I will admit that it got a bit slow for a bit, but […]

Posted October 12, 2020 by lenoreo in Audio Books, NetGalley ARCs, Reviews / 3 Comments
Muses & Melodies by Rebecca Yarros

Muses & Melodies by Rebecca Yarros

4.5 stars — Wow.  This was exactly the kind of rockstar romance I was really looking forward to.  There was a rawness about it that just had me desperate to find out how things were going to turn out.  But it was married with a sass and humour that I’ve come to know and love […]

Posted October 7, 2020 by lenoreo in Blog Tour, Reviews / 1 Comment
Rifts and Refrains by Devney Perry

Rifts and Refrains by Devney Perry

4 stars — I’m not sure what I expected from Quinn’s story, but apparently this wasn’t it.  And I don’t mean that in a bad way…or a good way.  Just an unexpected way.  There were certain aspects of this story that just dragged me in and wouldn’t let me go…but there were other parts that […]

Posted October 5, 2020 by lenoreo in Reviews / 1 Comment
Stripped by Zoey Castile

Stripped by Zoey Castile

3.5 stars — I think if I hadn’t been reading this for my Diversity challenge, I might have just DNF’d.  And that doesn’t mean the book was bad, just that I think it wasn’t for me.  It took me almost a whole month to read this one, I just didn’t reach for it. The narrators […]

Posted October 4, 2020 by lenoreo in Audio Books, Reviews / 1 Comment