Book Review: Arcana Academy by Elise Kova

Publisher: Random House Publishing,  July 22 2025 Format: ebook Pages: 576 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): A woman who wields magical tarot cards lands herself in a false engagement with the headmaster of a mysterious academy in this first installment of an enthralling fantasy romance series from the bestselling author of A Deal with the … Continue reading Book Review: Arcana Academy by Elise Kova

Book Review: Friends to Lovers by Sally Blakely

Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing,  July 22 2025 Format: ebook Pages: 351 Rating: 4.5/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): Best friends Joni and Ren have been inseparable since childhood. So when Joni moves across the country for her job, the two devise a creative way to stay in they’ll be each other’s plus-ones every year for wedding … Continue reading Book Review: Friends to Lovers by Sally Blakely

Book Review: In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy

Publisher: Little Brown and Company,  July 15 2025 Format: ebook Pages: 384 Rating: 3/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): The monster is always slain…Imogen Nel is in hiding. Hiding from a cruel kingdom that believes Sirens are monstrous, blood-hungry creatures. Hiding from a king and his captain who viciously hunt her kind. Hiding from her own … Continue reading Book Review: In the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie Cassidy

Book Review: Offside by Avery Keelan

Publisher: Tor Books, July 25 2025 Format: ebook Pages: 540 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): An addictive college hockey romance.Heartbreaker. Troublemaker. And my ex's biggest rival.After my boyfriend of two years unceremoniously dumps me on my twenty-first birthday, my friends drag me to a trendy new nightclub to drown my sorrows. Several drinks later, … Continue reading Book Review: Offside by Avery Keelan

Book Review: The Ripple Effect by Maggie North

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, June 17, 2025 Format: ebook Pages: 336 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): A grumpy burnt out physician and a sunshine psychologist must fake an engagement to save his whitewater canoeing/ relationship therapy startup in Maggie North's sparkling second novel about starting over.Burned-out former ER doc Stellar J Byrd can solve … Continue reading Book Review: The Ripple Effect by Maggie North

Book Review: Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner

Publisher: St. Martin's Press,  May 6, 2025 Format: ebook Pages: 320 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): Two pairs of siblings, devotees of Jane Austen, find their lives transformed by a visit to England and Sir Francis Austen, her last surviving brother and keeper of a long-suppressed, secret legacy.In Boston, 1865, Charlotte and Henrietta Stevenson, … Continue reading Book Review: Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner