I haven’t made a secret of my love of Theresa Romain or my love of horses, and when Romain announced that her new series involved Regency horse racing, I declared that she had hit upon the perfect RedHeadedGirl bait, and if this is a plot to get me kidnapped due to being told that an ARC is down a dark alley somewhere, it’ll probably work. Please don’t, though. This is a novella to set up … Continue reading The Sport of Baronets by Theresa Romain →
Zero Gravity Outcasts is short, fast paced, fun novella. It doesn’t have very much romance, but it does have a fun rag-tag space crew ensemble that skirts the edge of the law. Basically, if you liked Firefly, you’ll like Zero Gravity Outcasts, but you might be annoyed that you don’t get more of it. Behold the plot: When Minka was kicked out of Central Command, she only knew how to do one thing – fly. … Continue reading Zero Gravity Outcasts by Kay Keppler →
At least six different people in three different forms of media have contacted me to ask, “HAVE YOU READ THIS?!” But in a good kind of way, not in a “No, really, I need to tell you about the chocolate pie,” kind of way. This novella is a compelling, immersive reading experience, and I mean that in all the best definitions of both words. I loved the immersion into modern orthodoxy, and the ways in … Continue reading Craving Flight by Tamsen Parker →
I started reading this novella on an unusually cool spring day in Los Angeles when it was actually overcast and spitting rain—pretty much as close to Christmas weather as you can get in that part of the country. I made tea, curled up on the couch with my iPad and everything was lovely. Then life intervened (like, twenty minutes later, as it does), we moved three hundred and fifty miles north and I’m finally getting … Continue reading A Yorkshire Christmas by Kate Hewitt →
This book is part of Harlequin Intrigue NOIR, a digital-first line. The book was originally titled The Precinct: After Dark and is set in the world of Miller’s fictional Fourth Precinct. Her long-running The Precinct series for Harlequin Intrigue started back in 2005 and includes over 25 books. But unlike many of her miniseries within The Precinct series, this book totally works as a stand-alone. The heroine’s teenaged sister has gone missing and she puts … Continue reading Bad Girl by Julie Miller →
“Will You Be My Wi-Fi” by Caroline Linden is one of four stories in the At the Billionaire’s Wedding anthology , though you can now get the story on its own. In the anthology, all four novellas take place (obviously) at a billionaire’s wedding. The characters to be wed—though they aren’t super important aside from facilitating the location where all these stories take place—are Silicon Valley tech billionaire Duke Austen, and romance novelist Jane Sparks. … Continue reading “Will You Be My Wi-Fi” by Caroline Linden →
“A Game of Brides” started out in a promising way with its vivid prose. Emmy Mathis is in shock after meeting Griffin Hyatt, her childhood crush, again while traveling to her sister’s wedding to be her maid of honor. The strongest selling point with this novella is the writing. I’ve lived in Montana, but I was pretty amused that Crane’s descriptive rendering paints the place as some kind of alternate universe paradise. But as the … Continue reading A Game of Brides by Megan Crane →
This selection was nominated in the Romance Novella category; I don’t read many novellas, because I tend to prefer characters with deep questions that I can watch them struggle to answer throughout the book. Shorter novellas do not usually fulfill me in that regard. Now that I’ve shared that bias, here’s my review: We are first introduced to Harper, a free-spirited artist who hates to sit still. While both of those adjectives would not be used … Continue reading Pushing the Line by Kimberly Kincaid →
This story could have made an excellent full length novel. The tale begins with a two page journal entry written by the hero detailing his entire backstory. If this was a novel, it would have taken chapters but to keep the page count down the author tells us everything we need to know about him in 3 pages. Starting a book off by showing not telling tends to drive me crazy. Our heroine, the Duchess … Continue reading The Last Wicked Scoundrel by Lorraine Heath →
I’m really the wrong person to review this novella. First of all, I’m not a huge fan of novellas, because I like an author to have space to really expand on his or her characters and settings. I love showing rather than telling and strong sensory impressions of person and place, and the novella format requires a certain efficiency that can seem sparse. Furthermore, I am not a huge fan of inspirational romance. In fact, … Continue reading A Love Letter to the Editor by Robin Lee Hatcher →
I was obviously practicing family law on the wrong side of the Potomac River. Maryland seems to have the only hot Scot attorney with a sexy burr and a cat named ‘Fat Bastard’. Here in Virginia, I only seemed to encounter the fat bastards. (Just kidding, my colleagues were all agreeable people to work with, even if they weren’t Scottish.) Divorce lawyer Jane DeLuca finds herself in the enviable position of being attracted to, and … Continue reading Kiss and Tell by Grace Burrowes →
