Tag: Romance
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Father Material by Alexis Hall: Emotional and Vulnerable
Luc and Oliver have been through it all: fake dating to save Luc’s career, I-guess-this-is-actually-for-real dating when all of that blew up spectacularly, (briefly) breaking up over irreconcilable differences, (definitively) getting back together over perfectly reconcilable everything else, (almost) getting married, (finally) moving in together, and ultimately celebrating years of perfect domestic bliss. But as…
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The Fake Divination Offense by Sara Raasch: Magical Romance
Orok Monroe: Half-giant. Rawball defensive tank on the Philadelphia Hellhounds. Follower of Urzoth…only Orok’s tired of following the god of aggression. Alexo Warden: Cheerleader. Human? A dancer with a stadium’s worth of secrets. When Orok saves Alexo at a bar, fans go feral for the star athlete protecting the pint-size dude-in-distress. The Hellhounds propose that…
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Strange Familiars by Keshe Chow: Slow Burn Romance
All Gwendolynne Chan needs is to get through final year at Seamere College, where she is on track to graduate as number one —as long as the pretentious prat Harrisford Briggs doesn’t beat her to it. Harrisford Briggs’s father, the chief financial officer of Magecorp, a major global distributor of magic, expects him to come…
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Death’s Daughter by S. A. Barnes: Creative Worldbuilding
After a lifetime of chaos, Jocasta has finally found her home with good friends, great classes, even a messy situationship with her former TA—a normal life. Well, as normal a life as the only child of Death can have. She’s always refused to embrace her father’s legacy. Instead of taking lives, she feeds on her…
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The Antiquarian’s Object of Desire by India Holton: Charming and Witty
Magical-antique experts Amelia Tarrant and Caleb Sterling have been best friends forever, although lately each has begun secretly wishing for more than friendship. But when rumors about their relationship spread, they’re forced to fake being enemies to protect their reputations and keep their jobs. The resulting arguments spark havoc across Oxford University, and when they…
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Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan: Wonderfully Strange
In the wake of The Great War, the world is a decidedly unmagical place for Mouse Dunne. She once dreamed of becoming a Faerie anthropologist, but with one telegram, her world shattered. At the Battle of the Somme, her cousin’s body disappeared into the mud, and her brother was left with debilitating shell shock. It…
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A Crime Through Time by Amelia Blackwell: Murder Meets Time Travel
Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she isn’t expecting to end up quite so far from home. But after encountering a mysterious object in the nearby woods, she finds herself transported almost two hundred years into the future. Saltram, 1995. At a grand country house where a film…
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You, Me, & Tuscany: Emotional and Hilarious
When I saw the trailers for You, Me & Tuscany, I thought it sounded fun and much like most romantic comedies, a film that I would enjoy, especially with the cast. I liked Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid and Regé-Jean Page from Bridgerton. What I wasn’t anticipating was just how emotional and hilarious the…
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Green and Deadly Things by Jenn Lyons: Compelling Magic
Centuries ago, necromancy almost destroyed the world. That’s how history remembers it. History remembers it wrong. Mathaiik has trained all his life to join the sacred order of the Idallik Knights, charged with defending their world from the forces of necromancy. Only vestiges of that cursed magic remain, nothing like the fabled days of the…
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Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett: Charming and Magical
Agnes Aubert leads a meticulously organized life, and she likes it that way. As the proudly type-A manager of a cat rescue charity, she has devoted her life to finding forever homes for stray cats. Now it’s the shelter that needs a new home. And the only landlord who will rent a space to a…
