After adoring Love, Comment, Subscribe, I knew I had to read the next book in the series ASAP. Friends to lovers is a favorite trope of mine, and seeing that it involved two other members of the Nerd Herd? I was so excited! And it definitely lived up to the first book, full of humor,Read the Post
Review: Love & Other Disasters – Anita Kelly
That cover is incredibly gorgeous, and it actually accurately represents the main characters! Dahlia’s hair! London’s freckles! And like the cover, this book is just plain adorable. The authenticity of their feelings was such a breath of fresh air and I loved every bit. Dahlia is still reeling from her divorce, but cooking is theRead the Post
Review: Against the Grain – Melanie Harding-Shaw
I somehow ended up on a mailing list for a bunch of “witchy fiction” written by authors from New Zealand, and when I saw this novella was about a witch with celiac disease? I absolutely couldn’t resist. This was a fun and relatively light cozy mystery with tons of Kiwi flavor. Trinity has a set ofRead the Post
Review: Donut Fall in Love – Jackie Lau
I’ve been a fan of Jackie Lau since her first book, so I was overjoyed when this traditionally published book was announced, and even more overjoyed that it still had the three things I’d consider hallmarks of her work: food, family and feels. Ryan, an up and coming actor with social media worthy abs, hasRead the Post
Review: Witch Please – Ann Aguirre
Content notes: Yes, the book is just as sweet and adorable as the cover suggests. At one point, Titus feels like he’s “stumbled into a mystic portal where everything was weirder and more interesting and infinitely better” which honestly is a pretty good description of how I felt reading this book. Danica and her cousin ClemRead the Post
Review: Battle Royal – Lucy Parker
Content notes: AKA, the book where Lucy Parker rips my heart out, covers it in icing and edible glitter, and then gently replaces it. This book hauled me in and emotionally wrecked me and I loved every minute. It’s grumpy/sunshine, rivals-to-lovers, forced proximity perfection and good to the last crumb! Sylvie first met Dominic whileRead the Post
Review: The Professor Next Door – Jackie Lau
Content warnings: I’ve been reading Jackie Lau’s books for what seems like forever, and there’s three things I love about them: the food, the family, and the humor. This one hits all three marks! “In high school, she’d been the good student, the nerd with few friends. Now she was…what? The sexy, lonely career woman?Read the Post
Review: Anchored Hearts – Priscilla Oliveras
Content warnings: I’ve been reading Priscilla Oliveras’ books for what seems like forever. I’m a big fan of how important families are in her romances, even if those family relationships aren’t always on the best footings, as is the case for this book. It’s also an extremely slow burn second chance romance, the second inRead the Post
Review: Accidentally Engaged – Farah Heron
Content warnings: Ok, this book is absolutely adorable. Delicious food, family shenanigans, drunk cooking show audition videos, fake engagement, sourdough-relate antic – it’s got it all. One of my favorite things about the fake-relationship trope is when authors use it to explore how and why the characters keep secrets, and it was done masterfully. WhenRead the Post
Review: Sweet on You – Carla de Guzman
Content warnings: Oh my gosh, this is just as sweet as the title (and that cute cover) implies! It’s a romance that sparks from a rivalry between a coffee shop owner and the new bakery owner during the Christmas season in the Philippines. “It was competition, after all, and if Sari couldn’t be the best,Read the Post