Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

Goodreads Synopsis “I made the wrong choice.” Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All …

5 Star Reads of 2022

As 2022 has ended and we are getting comfortable in 2023, reading Sammie's Five Star Reads of 2022 made me want to go down memory lane as well. So, before I do exactly that, let me tell you that I set myself a goal of reading 52 books in 2022; a book a week. But, …

The Christmas Trip by Sandy Barker

Thank you NetGalley for an ecopy. I loved the first book in the series. Review of The Christmas Swap can be found here. Goodreads synopsis Another year has passed and it’s Christmas again. This year best friends Chloe, Jules and Lucy are all loved up but living worlds apart.Chloe is madly in love with her celebrity beau, …

Love Under Contract by Cassie Connor

Goodreads Synopsis When you can’t find the perfect date for the holidays you hire him! Hotshot lawyer Rebecca Madison is dreading the annual family Thanksgiving break where the question on everyone’s lips will be ‘why are you still single?’. When it comes to her career, she’s the best of the best, hired for her take-no-prisoners …

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

Goodreads Synopsis The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the …

The Flatshare by Beth O’ Leary

Goodreads Synopsis Tiffy and Leon share a flatTiffy and Leon share a bedTiffy and Leon have never met… Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they’re crazy, but it’s the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy’s at work in the day, …

Mr Right Across The Street by Kathryn Freeman

Goodreads synopsis Mia Abbott’s move to Manchester was supposed to give her time and space from all the disastrous romantic choices she’s made in her past. But then the hot guy who lives opposite – the one who works out every day at exactly 10 a.m., not that Mia has noticed thank-you-very-much – starts leaving …

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

Goodreads Synopsis A fresh, irresistible rom-com from debut author Emma Lord about the chances we take, the paths life can lead us on, and how love can be found in the opposite place you expected.Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain …

Soothsayer by Kathryn Amurra

Goodreads Synopsis Aurelia has always valued love and happiness over titles and power. Though her kind-hearted father has allowed her to turn away suitor after suitor in pursuit of a love she cannot yet define, when he dies her choices die with him. Knowing that marrying the elderly governor of a neighboring province can secure …

The Christmas Swap by Sandy Barker

Before I being with my thoughts and tell you more about the book, I'd like to thank Claire at One More Chapter (HarperCollins UK) for inviting me to the Readalong of The Christmas Swap by Sandy Barker. I absolutely love all things Christmas and am always up for reading a Christmas themed story. Goodreads Synopsis …