Category: Romance

Book Review: Beach Read by Emily Henry 📖🏖🖊

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Imagine a dare is born out of a college-nemesis/complicated past feelings relationship, that results in two bestselling writers crafting stories from genres they despise. The winner has to poach their novel to publishers, get the biggest book deal and the highest paying advance. 

Enter January and Gus. 

January has just made the worst discovery of her life. After her Dad’s recent passing, a letter he left her explained that he had been in love with another woman and had built a life with her all in a small beach town. January is confused as he was always the most loving father and their connection was strong. He has left the house that he shared in his double life to January. Not only is she thrown for six but her writing jué jué is off and the timeline on her next book is closing in. 

Gus has never forgotten the frustratingly talented writer from college who never failed to make every writing assignment into a happy ending. He much prefers to research for years, uncover and pull apart the pieces of people that we sometimes never see. Seeing January in the house next door on the summer evening of his birthday was not what he had on his Bingo card for this year. But will it turn out to be his, and her, best year of writing yet?

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5)

Book Review: Lost and Lassoed by Lyla Sage 📕❣️

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Teddy Anderson is her small town’s so-called ‘good time girl’, who is guaranteed to always be the life of the party and draws the attention of most people in a room with her suede fringe jacket and skin-tight jeans. 

Yet underneath the social glow of many eyes, Teddy is a hard worker, a carer for her chronically ill father and will always be there to support her best friend Emmy Ryder, along with her family. 

So when Emmy calls Teddy in a pickle, she decides the positive outweighs the negative because it’s only for the summer – right.?

 Within 24 hours, Teddy is a stay-in nanny for Emmy’s niece and living with the one Ryder family member she’s never seen eye to eye with – Angus Ryder. 

Angus is a single dad, a cattleman and the over protector for all his family members. One thing he knows for certain is that being around Teddy Anderson is much easier when they’re throwing cutting words and displaying their utmost mutual distaste to one another. Now having her in his home, spending quality and helpful time with his daughter, Angus is forced to see a different side, a softer side, of Teddy unravelling. She’s getting under his skin, but not in the way she did before. 

Lost and Lassoed is number 3 in the Rebel Blue Bell series. Teddy and Angus’ story is the classic enemies to lovers trope that has you devouring paragraphs and pages in no time!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5!!)

Book Review: Love From Scratch by Amy Hutton ❤️🐶🍝

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Australian movie star and heartthrob, Ethan James has a problem. He is filming a new movie that is expected to rocket launch his career but his dog Harry cannot cope with the time he constantly needs to spend on set without him. He is in desperate need of a dog sitter.

Hazel is in the process of escaping her everyday life and trying to hide from her career as a chef, after an embarrassing and upending experience over the quality of her food. She’s looking for a job that won’t involve her interacting with self centred humans but rather an energetic, playful and affectionate furry kind. 

When approached to become the dog sitter for a mysterious and private individual, paying quite a healthy sum of money and in town for a limited amount of time, Hazel jumps at the opportunity. But little did she know, she was signing up for daily interactions with Australia’s hottest movie star and his beloved pet. 

Hazel and Ethan push each other’s buttons, test the limits of their working relationship and reveal slithers of their personalities’ to each other from behind self-conscious walls. Slowly, their trust in each other builds but when their individual goals start being met, can they work through them as a duo? Or will it be the end of this short-term contract? 

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5)