Category Archives: Contemporary Romance

ARC Review: Just Like Starting Over by Deborah Cooke

In Deborah Cooke’s second entry in The Carpe Diem Café series, Just Like Starting Over brings us back to the small town of Empire where Sylvia Kincaid must deal with the lingering feelings for Mike, her 15 year old daughter’s father. Written in first person in alternating points of view between Sylvia and Mike forContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: Just Like Starting Over by Deborah Cooke”

ARC Review: Here for a Good Time by Pyae Moe Thet War

Here for a Good Time by Pyae Moe Thet War is advertised as a romcom, but I found very little romantic or funny in this book. I really wanted to love Here for a Good Time, the premise sounded interesting, the setting was different, and I was looking forward to reading a romance set inContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: Here for a Good Time by Pyae Moe Thet War”

ARC Review: Give Me a Reason by Jayci Lee

Give Me a Reason by Jayci Lee is a contemporary take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion in which Anne is a Korean drama actress who has returned to Los Angeles after 10 years, and her former love, Frederick, is a captain in the Culver City Fire Department. There are many similarities to the original novel: AnneContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: Give Me a Reason by Jayci Lee”

ARC Review: The Love Haters by Katherine Center

I found The Love Haters by Katherine Center to be one of the best rom-coms I’ve read in quite a while. It was such a fun, and also suspenseful story before the end, that I couldn’t put it down and was up until the early morning hours to finish it. Katie Vaughn is about toContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: The Love Haters by Katherine Center”

ARC Review: My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein

My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein is a steamy romcom that will have you laughing throughout the book. Connie/Hazel’s neighbour, Beck is a 37 year old virgin and has been hiding from his coworkers and boss the fact that is isn’t really married. When Hazel witnesses Beck’s bully torturing him at a party,ContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: My Big Fat Fake Marriage by Charlotte Stein”