You know how sometimes you pick up a book because it looks like fun, and then it turns out to be clever and funny and tender and tropey and still somehow unique, and you read it all in one sitting and hop straight onto the Kobo site after midnight to order the previous book in the series? Yeah, that was A Most Unusual Duke for me. This story worked so, so well for me. It’s … Continue reading A Most Unusual Duke by Susanna Allen
This edition of lightning reviews covers three very different books! There’s the much-awaited Marrying Winterborne, a Titanic-esque retelling in a science fiction setting, and a contemporary renovation romance.
Only You had the potential to be a sexy romantic comedy in the same vein as Jill Shalvis but I had a huge issue with one of the characters. Holly Greenwood is a wedding planner with a lot of talent and a boss-from-hell, Nicole. She’s also dealing with putting the grandma who raised her in a nursing home due to dementia. So when a sexy new neighbor moves in across the street, she doesn’t think … Continue reading Only You by Denise Grover Swank
