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Grounded for Christmas by Savannah J. Frierson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Joseph, a commercial airline pilot, and Mary, a STEM heroine(!), “run into each other” on a flight that gets grounded due to bad weather and have to share a place to wait out the storm. (Come on now, you gotta love it.) … Continue reading Book Review: Grounded for Christmas by Savannah J. Frierson
Murder Takes the High Road by Josh Lanyon My rating: 4 of 5 stars You know how sometimes you go back to reading a book, and it’s the right place and right time for you to be reading it? Despite reading the first few pages before November, it wasn’t until after I started my novel … Continue reading Book Review: Murder Takes the High Road by Josh Lanyon
Her Naughty Holiday by Tiffany Reisz My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm not crazy about the holidays, but I've recently found that I like watching uplifting Christmas themed romance movies a la Hallmark and Netflix and reading holiday romances. (Maybe it's because they help me deal with the sad?) I picked up this holiday … Continue reading Book Review: Her Naughty Holiday (Men at Work, #2) by Tiffany Reisz
Broken Protocol by A.R. Barley My rating: 2 of 5 stars I wish I could say I liked this more than I did, but I DNF'd it at about 70%. It wasn't really the book; it was me. I wasn't much of a fan of Dante, one of the MCs, who came across as unlikable … Continue reading Broken Protocol (Smoke & Bullets #2) by A.R. Barley
The Wolf at the Door by Charlie Adhara My rating: 4 of 5 stars Consider me blown away. I find the fact that Adhara is a debut author incredible because everything about this book is solid. I loved the mix of mystery/police procedural, romance, and paranormal. The paranormal element comes in the form of werewolves, … Continue reading The Wolf at the Door (Big Bad Wolf, #1) by Charlie Adhara
Tribute Act by Joanna Chambers My rating: 4 of 5 stars I loved this. Two opposite main characters fall in love over the course of one's recovery from donating part of his liver to their extremely ill sister. Yes, they are stepbrothers, but they don't meet until right before said donation due to a crappy … Continue reading Tribute Act (Porthkennack, #8) by Joanna Chambers
Renegade Cowboy by Sara Richardson 3 of 5 stars This was a good, somewhat sweet romance to read this time of year. It was my first cowboy romance, and it didn't disappoint, especially after reading and DNFing way too many books. I'm not sure cowboy romance is really my thing yet, but that's not a … Continue reading Review: Renegade Cowboy (Rocky Mountain Riders, #3) by Sara Richardson
Dragon Fire, Angel Light by Shara Godwinson My rating: 1 of 5 stars *I received an eARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.*I really wanted to like this. It has an intriguing premise--a dragon shifter thousands of years old falling in love with a human--but it did not work on paper. The … Continue reading Review: Dragon Fire, Angel Light by Shara Godwinson
Kidnapped by the Pirate by Keira Andrews 4 of 5 stars Holy swashbuckling, Batman! This was even more enjoyable than I thought it would be. One would think there would be great amounts of adventure in a book with the word pirate in the title, but that didn’t exactly cross my mind when I began … Continue reading Kidnapped by the Pirate by Keira Andrews
Kill Game by Cordelia Kingsbridge 5 of 5 stars A detective and a bounty hunter are thrown together on a serial killer case that gets personal. The mystery, the characterization, the chemistry, the writing are all basically perfect. I love these characters and have no idea who the killer is, which is rare for me. … Continue reading Kill Game (Seven of Spades, #1) by Cordelia Kingsbridge
