40-Love is part of the Marysburg series by Olivia Dade. Shana and I both enjoyed this romance between a tennis player in his twenties and a forty-year-old high school assistant principal on vacation. The book glories in having a fat heroine and addresses issues including chronic pain, the challenge of reinventing oneself, inequities in the American school system, and navigating romance across an age gap. Despite all these topics, however, the book remains light and … Continue reading 40-Love by Olivia Dade →
Update: I still need a vacation and am not getting one till January, so I’m reading all the beach-y things. Enter Holiday in the Hamptons. Sarah Morgan is one of my go-to Happy Feels authors, but I was lukewarm on Holiday in the Hamptons because of weak internal conflict and a heroine who, on occasion, baffled and irritated me. Felicity “Fliss” Knight grew up with a horribly emotionally abusive father, so her summer vacations in the Hamptons … Continue reading Holiday in the Hamptons by Sarah Morgan →
I really, really need a vacation, but between work and personal obligations, that’s not going to happen till next year. So I’m turning to the next best thing – vacation romances. Cover (Story) Girl by Chris Mariano is a Filipino romance set on the island of Boracay in the Philippines. A quick image search tells me that Boracay looks like this: I would like to be there now, please. The entire story is told third … Continue reading Cover (Story) Girl by Chris Mariano →
Summer is here, and many of us flock to Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. I’ve been to Disneyland with little kids, and it was delightful. It was even pretty romantic in the sense that watching my sweet husband carry our exhausted daughter all over the park warmed my cold little heart. However, it’s easy for me to picture going with my husband and having a truly romantic time with just the two of us. I’ve … Continue reading Romance Wanderlust: Disneyland Resort →
