Other – Like to read books in order? Hate randomly discovering the book you got is actually the second in a series? These books are for you!
Lovelight, Book #1
Heat Factor: It’s not not sexy, but the vibe was definitely in keeping with the cover art
Character Chemistry: Stella and Luca have been in love for NINE YEARS but refuse to a) admit it and b) do anything about it
Plot: Thirty-year-old woman is incompetent at both entrepreneurship and love, figures out how to do both during the course of this book
Overall: I was not a great audience for this book, but there are many people who will totally love it
Super Love, Book #1
Heat Factor: Some under-the-tablecloth-at-a-restaurant shenanigans
Character Chemistry: “I shouldn’t like you but I doooooooo”
Plot: The Evil Bane recognizes Michaela as the Amiable Accomplice when he comes into urgent care. He doesn’t reveal her secret identity, but he does ask her out on a date.
Overall: Fun premise, clunky writing
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
Scottish Bookshop #1
Heat Factor: It’s not a hot and heavy book, but there IS some slow burning tension.
Character Chemistry: UGH, call me a sucker but apparently my weakness is Very, Very, Grumpy Scottish Men and Beautiful Isolated Places
Plot: Nina is laid off from her job as a librarian and jumps headfirst into running a very small, very cute bookstore from a very large van in the northern Scottish countryside, where she ends up meeting a grumpy farmer going through a divorce.
Overall: It was adorable to the max and full of dry humor.
Heat Factor: Our trio is very creative about the ways they fit their bits together.
Character Chemistry: They didn’t seem like fleshed out characters to me, so it’s hard to say that they had chemistry. But they didn’t have negative chemistry either.
Plot: What happens when a woman comes to gold rush California, when men outnumber women 100 to 1.
Overall: Very expository.
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