Mood
Heat Factor: The whiskers get a bit frisky, but it fades to purple
Character Chemistry: Eh
Plot: Elaine is living her routine hockey life until Roland gets sent down from Edmonton and shakes things up
Overall: This was significantly less infuriating than I expected.
Heat Factor: “We’ll just bang it out, and then I’ll have it out of my system.” Always a solid plan.
Character Chemistry: They do things to make the other one happy.
Plot: Helen asks her long-time friend to be her fake boyfriend so everyone will stop feeling sorry for her after her last break-up goes viral
Overall: So cute. And now I want an anatomically correct heart cake. And a charcuterie chalet.
Big Sky Cowboy, Book #1
Heat Factor: They’re making each other hot and bothered
Character Chemistry: Luke is the most emotionally aware romance hero I’ve ever read, which makes chemistry adorable
Plot: Luke and Maddie meet, start dating, act cute together, and fall in love—but Maddie has a *secret*
Overall: I read it in an hour and my heart went pitter-pat
A Princess for Christmas, Book #3
Review of A Princess for Christmas Book #1, Book #2
Heat Factor: Two encounters toward the end of the book
Character Chemistry: Two obviously compatible people working against each other because of external circumstances
Plot: Modernization vs tradition, fought out against a backdrop of twee mountain villages.
Overall: Do you like competence porn? If so, this is the book for you
Soothsayer’s Path, Book #3
Review of Soothsayer’s Path, Book #1 & Book #2
Heat Factor: It’s a closed door, mild heat. Sweet, but not overtly sexy.
Character Chemistry: It’s friendship to devotion, with some light tension.
Plot: Narilla is desperate to establish her legitimacy with the upper echelons of society after a lifetime of watching her mother’s rejection for marrying a merchant. Jovian is a good-hearted and talented masonry artisan who is also, as it turns out, a thief who steals Narilla’s birthright.
Overall: This was a really well-written and sweet love story and a strong follow up to the other two in this series.
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