Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance

Blog Tour with Author Interview:  Poppy’s Parisian Patisserie (The Blossomwood Bay Series #6) by Daisy James

Blog Tour with Author Interview: Poppy’s Parisian Patisserie (The Blossomwood Bay Series #6) by Daisy James

Blurb: Escape to chic and glamorous Paris! When Poppy Phillipson loses her chocolate-making business in the Blossomwood Bay fire, she’s heart-broken; all her hopes and dreams wiped out in the space of an hour. As if that wasn’t enough, her last three dates were a complete disaster – one two-hour lecture on the intricacies of the off-side […]

Posted July 26, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in author interview, Blog Tour / 2 Comments
E-galley Review:  The Fiance Dilemma by Elena Armas

E-galley Review: The Fiance Dilemma by Elena Armas

Blurb: Josie Moore has given the opposite sex—and love—plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include the absentee father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So when her father decides to announce his retirement with a splashy magazine piece about the family, Josie […]

Posted July 24, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments
E-Galley/Audiobook Review:  Do Me a Favor by Cathy Yardley

E-Galley/Audiobook Review: Do Me a Favor by Cathy Yardley

Blurb: Cathy Yardley, author of Role Playing, serves up a delectable rom-com about a widowed cookbook writer and a divorced handyman who find that it’s never too late for a fresh start. Willa Lieu-Endicott moved from California to the Pacific Northwest to start over. Since her husband’s death, she’s been struggling to get back her old career as a cookbook ghostwriter. Unfortunately, her latest project—ghostwriting for a viral cooking […]

Posted July 18, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments
E-galley Review:  The Backtrack by Erin La Rosa

E-galley Review: The Backtrack by Erin La Rosa

Blurb: Life, rewound … Nearly twenty years ago, Sam Leto left her small hometown of Tybee Island, Georgia, to pursue her dreams of becoming a pilot. While she’d prefer to keep flying away from her painful childhood memories, her beloved grandmother Pearl decides it’s time to sell the family home. Reluctantly, Sam is summoned back to pack up […]

Posted July 17, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments
E-galley Review:  The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

E-galley Review: The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

Blurb: Estranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend’s wedding after a string of disasters in this swoony and steamy second-chance romance from the USA Today bestselling author of You, with a View . Georgia Woodward lives by her lists, none more so than the one about her ex, Eli Mora. It’s […]

Posted July 15, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments
ARC Review:  The Five Stages of Courting Dalisay Ramos

ARC Review: The Five Stages of Courting Dalisay Ramos

Blurb: Evan Saatchi can’t keep his eyes off his new co-worker, Dalisay Ramos. Newly arrived from Manila to lead their travel app’s Asia division, nothing matters more to Dalisay than tradition and family. When Evan asks her out, she soundly rejects him for his cheek. Evan learns from his Filipino friends that Dalisay expects more […]

Posted July 8, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments
Blog Tour Review:  It Started With a Book by Camilla Isley

Blog Tour Review: It Started With a Book by Camilla Isley

Blurb: Lose yourself in Lakeville Hills in this gorgeous new romance from bestselling author Camilla Isley… When she’s ghosted by yet another Tinder match, Leighton swears off dating for life. Who needs apps and blind dates when she has the perfect-in-every-way (apart from being fictional) heroes of her beloved romance novels? That night Leigh finds […]

Posted July 6, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, Review / 4 Comments
E-galley Review:  Finding Mr. Write by Kelley Armstrong

E-galley Review: Finding Mr. Write by Kelley Armstrong

Blurb: A  fun romantic comedy about a woman writing under a male pseudonym and the man she hires to play the role in public. Daphne McFadden is tired of rejection. After submitting her manuscript to dozens of agents, she’s gotten rejection after rejection, and now it’s time for something drastic. And so, Daphne submits her manuscript […]

Posted July 3, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 11 Comments
L-L-L-Little Reviews #63:  June 2024

L-L-L-Little Reviews #63: June 2024

Here are the books I read this past month that were not part of scheduled reviews. In the Weeds (Lovelight #2) by B.K. Borison My Review: I really enjoyed the first book in this series, Lovelight Farm, and so decided to try to listen or read each of the other books in the season they […]

Posted June 29, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 8 Comments