Tag: contemporary adult fiction
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Elle Cook’s The Man I Never Met Is Not The Love Story You Expect
When I picked up the Man I Never Met, I didn’t expect it to be a love story with a cancer diagnosis. I had never thought of such a thing before, and I have been pleasantly surprised and moved by the power of such a romance. Elle Cook’s The Man I Never Met is a…
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Summer Fridays by Suzanne Rindell Had Me In A Chokehold
Yes, before you ask, I did time this read to be posted on a Friday at the tail-end of the New Zealand summer. What did you expect from me, it’s in the book’s title. Summer Fridays by Suzanne Rindell came up as a one-off recommendation somewhere – I don’t remember where, likely Bookstagram – so…
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Beach Read Is My Favourite Emily Henry Book
Another February post, another romance review. Emily Henry’s Beach Read is a popular one and I finally got around to reading it. I have to say, I was a little disappointed by the misleading title, but not in the way that you would think. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews…
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Ali Hazelwood’s Not In Love Takes A Different Approach
Riding off the high of Ali Hazelwood’s books The Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain, and Love, Theoretically, I picked up Not in Love to see if it was up there with the rest of them. Safe to say it missed the mark for me. With a warning at the beginning to prove it wasn’t…
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Ashley Poston Proves Love Isn’t Dead in the Dead Romantics
I’m back on the romance train, this time with Ashley Poston’s The Dead Romantics. It is as much a tale of confronting the past as it is the present, and through in some emotional turmoil left, right, and centre, and you have this witty, heartfelt, joy of a read. Sometimes the best romances are wrapped…
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Happy Place by Emily Henry is A Good Reminder For All
Happy Place by Emily Henry is that book where you know the content is going to be a little tear-jerking and bittersweet, and you are hoping it will also be funny. With the themes and setting of the book, I knew it would lean in this direction the moment I started reading, and I am…
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Love, Theoretically By Ali Hazelwood Might Be My Favourite
Love, Theoretically shouldn’t have floored me as much as it did, but I was hanging onto every word Ali Hazelwood wrote in this wonderful romance novel of hers. There’s disability rep with our main character Elsie, not just as a character in a novel but in a romance novel at that, we return to the…