Willow by Grace Parks A bubbly personality and a great job in social media didn’t mean that Willow Lawson had it all. Her love life was distant memory and her social life only work related. The maddening demands of life seemed to get in the way of finding […]
A Little Hotel in Cornwall Book 2 A Spirited Girl on Cornish Shores by Laura Briggs It looks like a perfect Cornish autumn, with aspiring novelist Maisie Clark still finding inspiration as a maid at the historic Penmarrow Hotel. Between the staff of quirky co-workers, glamorous and unusual […]
Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book is not for anyone who has to get in the last word, but it is for all book nerds, especially those who live next door to so-called unapproachable gorgeous guys. There’s no debating the chemistry. Nina Barnes thinks Valentine’s Day […]
I want to send out sincere apologies for being absent. First to Rachel’s Random Resources for whom I write reviews. Secondly, to the authors who were expecting reviews. Last but not least, to my followers. To cut a long story short, in the lead up to Christmas I […]
The Promise of Tomorrow by AnneMarie Brear Charlotte Brookes flees her lecherous guardian, McBride, taking her younger sister with her. After a year on the road, they stumble into a Yorkshire village. There, they are taken in by the Wheelers, owners of the village shop. This new life […]
A Christmas Date by Camilla Isley No one wants to be single at the holidays. Even Little Miss Grinch, Nikki, a successful and independent woman, must face her bachelorette status at the most horrible time of the year. December is her personal version of holly-jolly hell: a merry torture […]
All four books are sexy, witty, funny, and every single one is a thoroughly enjoyable read
Cupid F*cks Up by Paula Houseman Ruth Roth is a straight shooter. Pity Cupid’s not. Smart-mouth Ruth is an inspirational humour columnist for a popular women’s magazine. Recently divorced, she has found the love of her life. Without any help, mind you, from the little fat love god. […]
The Fake Date by Lynda Stacey Nine hours and eleven minutes … That’s how long it’s been since Ella Hope was beaten to within an inch of life and left for dead. She lies, unable to move and praying for somebody to find her, as she counts down the […]
A Laughing Matter of Pain by Cynthia Hilston Harry Rechthart always knew how to laugh, but laughter can hide a lot of pain that’s drowned by the bottle and good times. He grew up the joker in the early 1900s in Cleveland, Ohio, but as he enters adulthood, […]
Mrs Bates of Highbury by Allie Cresswell The new novel from the Readers’ Favourite silver medalist. Thirty years before the beginning of ‘Emma’ Mrs Bates is entirely different from the elderly, silent figure familiar to fans of Jane Austen’s fourth novel. She is comparatively young and beautiful, widowed […]
Haircuts, Hens, and Homicide by Stephanie Dagg Megan finds mayhem when she arrives in France to bury her Gran and sort out her affairs. She expected difficult encounters with civil servants and red tape but not with wandering chickens, an imperious policeman and a dead body. Together with her […]
A Wedding in Cornwall (Books 7—12) by Laura Briggs The last six novellas in the UK bestselling series A WEDDING IN CORNWALL are now available in one collection! Join American event planner Julianne in her final set of adventures ‘across the pond’ in beautiful Cornwall. From celebrity sightings […]
Having already read and reviewed three books in author Beth Good series, namely the Oddest Little Romance shop, Chocolate Shop, and Book Shop, and loved all three, I approached the final two books with excitement and trepidation in equal measure. What if they were not as good? What […]
Sleeping Through War by Jackie Carreira It is May 1968. Students are rioting, civil rights are being fought and died for, nuclear bombs are being tested, and war is raging in Vietnam. For three ordinary women in Lisbon, London and Washington life must go on as usual. For […]
Today Heartshaped is reviewing three of author Beth Good’s novellas from her Oddest Little Shop series. Two more will be coming later. Reading a novella is a lovely change for a blogger used to reading full novels. Rather like a sorbet after a fish dish, they clear and […]
Heartshaped’s Recommended Neck-Nibbler Books! There’s nothing quite like a good vampire novel to get the blood surging and the nerves tingling. None of the hairy Werewolf nonsense! Over recent years we’ve had a plethora of books, TV series, and films dedicated to vampires, all of which were set […]
Although I review romance novels via Rachel’s Random Resources, I do read other genres as the fancy takes me. So for those who read my blog and reviews, it makes sense to show the books I buy for myself. I love a good charity shop rummage and have […]
A Match Made in Heaven by Sun Chara Who’s meddling with happily ever after? The Wedding: it’s a set up. The Break-up: it’s a con. The Reconciliation: it’s a trap. When high society bride, Samantha Carroll, devises an ingenious plan to ditch her meddling matchmaking mamma’s groom of […]
Odyssey in a Teacup by Paula Houseman Encounters with a pair of supersized Y-fronts; a humourless schoolmarm with an unfortunate name and monstrous yellow incisors; and a tut-tutting, big-breasted, modern-day gorgon are the norm for Ruth Roth. She’s used to crazy. Her mum squawks like a harpy and her […]
The Mysterious Lord Millcroft by Virginia Heath Life as a duchess… Or something much more dangerous…? Part of The King’s Elite. Constantly told her beauty and charm is all she has to offer, Lady Clarissa is intent on marrying a duke. And intriguing spy Sebastian Leatham will help […]
A summer wedding, fifty cupcakes and a man she thought she would never see again …
The Promise by Michelle Vernal Two women from different generations brought together by another’s wrongdoing. When British backpacker, Isabel Stark happens across a car accident on a lonely stretch of road in the South Island of New Zealand her life changes forever. The sole passenger, Ginny Havelock asks her […]
The Little Cornish Kitchen by Jane Linfoot It’s time to come home to Cornwall With an exciting new life in Paris, Clemmie Hamilton isn’t looking forward to heading home to the picturesque but sleepy village of St Aidan, Cornwall. However, when she discovers that the cosy apartment by […]
The Daughter of River Valley by Victoria Cornwall Beth Jago appears to have the idyllic life, she has a trade to earn a living and a cottage of her own in Cornwall’s beautiful River Valley. Yet appearances can be deceptive … Beth has a secret. Since inheriting her […]
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