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#HumpDay Reviews: Meet Cute Club by Jack Harbon
A fun, fresh take on small-town romance and bookstore love, Meet Cute Club is the perfect quarantine read. While you’re stuck inside, dreaming of the day you can safely browse a bookstore’s shelves once more, this book offers bookstore drama, Romancelandia nods, and one very cute couple at the heart of it all. And let’s not forget about the grandmothers! Both Jordan and Rex each have grandmothers who heavily influenced their love of reading, as well as their individual outlooks on life, picking up where distant parents left off. Their love for their grandmothers helps bring them together, even after a first meeting that’s more cat fight than love cats,…
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Hump Day Reviews: Perfect Strangers by J.T. Geissinger
“These kisses of his… they’re demanding and possessive. They’re hungry and deep. They’re the kisses of a man who wants more of a woman—who wants everything—and isn’t going to stop until he gets it.” Author Olivia Rossi hasn’t been able to write a word since tragedy struck two years ago and ripped her world apart. Heartbroken and still haunted by the past, she accepts an offer to spend the summer at a friend’s apartment in Paris in search of healing and her lost muse. What she finds instead is James, an enigmatic stranger who ignites in her an unexpected and all-consuming passion. Agreeing to tell each other nothing more than…
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#HumpDay Review: Five Dates Only by RL Kenderson
Sloan What do you do when your best friend’s guy cheats on her? Help her get revenge, of course. Getting caught by his brother isn’t part of the plan. The brother’s price for not turning us into the cops? I pretend to be his girlfriend to help him close a business deal. I’d rather go to jail than play the part of Caleb Stanton’s latest conquest, but my friend has been through enough. Caleb What do you do when your boss won’t sell you his store because he thinks you’re a flight risk? Produce a girlfriend, of course. Blackmail wasn’t normally my thing, but I’ve got less than twenty-four hours.…
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Hump Day Reviews: Miss Subways by David Duchovny
Yes, it’s Monday and not Wednesday (i.e. Hump Day). Yes, I’m reviewing a book written by a celebrity. Yes, that, David Duchovny, of The X-Files and Californication. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s talk about romance. This book is being pushed as Magical Realism, and it definitely contains elements thereof. But Miss Subways, Duchovny’s third book, is actually a romance novel. Some points to consider: SPOILER ALERT: It contains a happy ending. The heroine, Emer, is a 40-ish schoolteacher in New York City. The hero, Con, is alternately a writer or an actor, depending on the trajectory of their story. The heroine defines the scope of…
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Rom-Com Roundup: The Greatest Rom-Com of All Time
There can be only one. And, clearly, the Best Rom-Com of All Time is… The Princess Bride. As the kids on Twitter say, don’t @ me. Or, as a fellow writer pal has said, there’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. This one just works. If you hate The Princess Bride, then clearly you hate both romance AND comedy. And you just don’t get life, the universe, or ANYTHING. How can you hate a movie that’s got it all? Swashbuckling swordplay, pirates, giants, spicy Sicilians ready to outwit you in a game of life and death, poison, murder, return from the dead, miracles, true love! And I haven’t…
