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Rom Com Book Review ~ Wreck My Plans by Cindi Madsen

January 2026 writinstuff 1 Comment

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Age isn’t a number.
It’s a state of chaos.

When publicist Mia Andrews becomes the face of a viral disaster dubbed #PantyGate, her career implodes along with her reputation.

Now jobless and single, Mia lands in the last place she expected—her grandmother’s anything-but-quiet retirement community in Florida. It’s chaos. It’s hilarious. It’s exactly what she didn’t know she needed.

Even worse? The meddling retirees are determined to fix Mia’s love life. Somehow, they find time to play matchmaker—with not one but two bachelors under thirty-five.

But amid the mayhem, Mia’s learning that the best second chances come when—and where—you least expect them.

For fans of witty banter, lovable troublemakers, and slow-burn romance, this is the laugh-out-loud novel that proves love never gets old.

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book reviews, Holiday, New Releases, Novellas, Romance

Romance Book Review!! ~ A Navy SEAL for Christmas by Zoe York

December 2025 writinstuff Leave a comment

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A classic holiday meet cute, except one of them is naked…for art! And therefore off-limits.

Spending Christmas alone for the first time in my life? No problem. I sign up for an art class, completely unprepared for my immediate attraction to the life drawing model…which only gets more complicated when I discover he’s also my brand-new next door neighbor.

Navy SEAL Ben Simmons’ return from an overseas tour hasn’t gone exactly to plan, and he needs a distraction. My holiday to-do list turns out to be the perfect way to fill his days. And exploring our immediate chemistry? That would be the perfect way to fill our nights.

Too bad I’ve signed a waiver to treat him with nothing but professional distance. No kissing, flirting, or anything else his sexy smile suggests. At least until the class ends the night before Christmas Eve…

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Romance Book Review!! ~ Technically Yours in Vegas by Sabrina Wagner

October 2025 writinstuff 1 Comment

Title: Technically Yours in Vegas
Series: Vegas Love
Author: Sabrina Wagner
Release: October 8, 2025
Genre: Contemporary Millionaire Romance
Cover Design: Jill White @ JillZeeDesign.com
Goodreads: https://bit.ly/TechnicallyYoursInVegas_Goodreads
Bookbub: https://bit.ly/TechnicallyYoursInVegas_BookBub

Tropes:

Instant Millionaire
Friends to Lovers
Computer Whiz by Day/Dirty Talker by Night
Clark Kent Look-alike
He Falls Hard
Tech-Savvy Nerdy Girl
Keeping Secrets
Hidden Identity

Blurb:

Decoding love one byte at a time…

Tom

Not all superheroes wore capes. Some were overqualified, underpaid personal assistants at a luxury hotel, like me. At night, I spent lonely hours behind a computer screen creating an innovative security system to fight cyber villains. It would revolutionize the casino industry and, hopefully, make me the next Vegas millionaire. Love wasn’t on my color-coded spreadsheet until Aurora LeFleur moved in across the hall.

The tech-savvy blond was smart, gorgeous, and way out of my league. I was afraid she’d never see me as more than a friend, but one kiss rewired my entire system. My data-loving brain knew she was keeping secrets. The lies were piling up and I began to think I didn’t know her at all. When you double down on love, the house always takes its cut, and my heart might just be the payment.

♥♣♦♠

Aurora

I came to Sin City in search of my best friend who’d disappeared without a trace, not to fall for my nerdy neighbor. It was supposed to be a quick, undercover mission and then back to my complicated, messy life. I’d been dodging the future my father planned for me, but the clock was ticking down and time was running out.

Tom Bently’s brilliant mind and kind heart were impossible to resist. His kisses were electric. His touch, addictive. And he had no idea who I really was. I never wanted to deceive Tom but torn between family loyalty and love, keeping him in the dark was necessary. In a city that never sleeps, secrets don’t stay buried forever. With my poker face starting to crack and the stakes climbing, when the truth hits the table, the final hand might cost us everything… including our hearts.

Buy Links (Kindle Unlimited):

Universal: https://mybook.to/TechnicallyYoursVegas
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/4nPn9UL
Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FMBHCPX2
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMBHCPX2
Amazon AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FMBHCPX2

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Romance Book Review!! ~ Billionaire Bachelor in Vegas: An Opposites Attract Billionaire Romance (Vegas Love Book 2) by Sabrina Wagner

October 2025 writinstuff Leave a comment

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Even a billionaire can’t buy love.

Penny
I’d suffered from emophilia my entire life, falling in love so fast it would make your head spin. That’s what happened when I met Brett. Bam! I instantly fell in love. He was every woman’s fantasy and the most eligible bachelor in Las Vegas. The man went through gorgeous women like most people went through tissues.

As an average girl with too many curves, a quirky personality, and a tendency to ramble, my life wasn’t all glitz and glam. I was a personal assistant at a top hotel in Vegas, helped out at my parents’ struggling bookstore, and cared for an ornery cat. What were the chances a guy like him would fall for a girl like me? I’d say a billion to one, but love was worth the risk, so I gambled my heart away.

♥♠♦♣

Brett
Being a billionaire bachelor, I never lacked attention from gorgeous women. I enjoyed their company, but one-night rendezvous were my specialty. No strings. No complications. I was more interested in proving myself capable of running Kingston Enterprises after my father’s death than I was in having a relationship.

But then, in an unexpected encounter, a witty brunette caught my eye. She wasn’t my type at all. In fact, we were total opposites, but there was something about her that intrigued me. Penny had me breaking all my rules. I’d give her anything she asked for, except the one thing she wanted most… my heart.

This book contains mature themes, strong language, and sexual situations. It is intended for adult readers 18+.

Although the Vegas Love series can be read as standalones, it’s suggested to read them in order to give you a deeper perspective of the characters and avoid spoilers.

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Romance Book Review!! ~ The Bossy Billionaire: An Opposites Attract Romance (The Baltimore Boys Book 5) by Samantha Skye

September 2025 writinstuff 1 Comment

ABOUT:

The minute I found out my real identity, things were never the same.

Now I have a bookshop on the brink of bankruptcy and I have no idea how to get my shop profitable, until my brother’s best friend shows up to be my new business coach.

Huxley Hamilton is a billionaire who is smart and sauve with women falling at his feet. He is also frustrating, infuriating, bossy and a playboy, his reputation precedes him wherever he goes.

He shows an interest in my bookshop as a favor to my brother, but I don’t need his help, his annoying smirk or the feeling of butterflies that dance inside of me whenever he is around.

We don’t see eye to eye at first but then the tables turn when he starts taking an interest in me. His hand fits too well around my waist, his protectiveness feels exactly like what I have been missing and he pushes me to do things that are well out of my comfort zone.

But the magnetic attraction we have stalls when one of his ex’s comes back into town.You know what they say, once a playboy, always a playboy.

Except now I know how to play the game. I just don’t know all the players and I think they are all after me.

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Romance Book Review! ~ Hero Ever After by Kait Nolan

August 2025 writinstuff Leave a comment

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I never meant to be anyone’s heroine.

Not when I became the acting mayor of my hometown after the flood. Not when I kept my law practice afloat out of a booth in my grandmother’s diner. And definitely not when my secret romantasy novels went viral.

Nobody in Gibson Hollow knows I’m the author behind the pen name. And nobody was supposed to kiss me at that book convention—least of all my brother’s best friend, cosplaying the hero he doesn’t know I modeled after him.

Now Ramsey Shaw is back in town. Volunteering. Smiling at me like I’m not on the verge of shattering. Like he remembers the kiss. Like he sees the truth.

I’ve spent my whole life being strong. Quiet. In control. But for the first time, I don’t want to be any of those things.
I just want to be his.

In a town held together by hope and heart, it’s the people who show up that make it shine.

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Romance Book Review! ~ The Sun Never Dies : A Novel by A.R. Hadley

May 2025 writinstuff Leave a comment

Do you believe in love at first sight?

A laconic novel fraught with exquisite tension and arresting beauty, The Sun Never Dies is the unforgettable story of one woman’s journey back to self after encountering a strange young man twenty-three years her junior.

Meet Beth, a newly single woman in the late 1990s, and Liam, a recent college grad backpacking his way across the world — as the two collide unexpectedly one fateful night.

Liam’s philosophy on life greatly conflicts with Beth’s. She’s also concerned her family won’t approve. Over the course of two years, this couple sifts their way through a series of life-changing events, ultimately resulting in growth and lessons learned. Namely two:

That we meet people for a reason.
And there are no coincidences.

Leaving the reader to beg the question…

Does the soul plan out this miraculous trip we call life?

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Romance Book Review!! ~ The Pretend Fiancé Fiasco (Copper Valley Bro Code Book 6) by Pippa Grant

May 2025 writinstuff 2 Comments

A reclusive former celebrity, a recovering good girl, and small town trouble…

It started as a joke. After a string of bad boyfriends, I made up a fake boyfriend so people would quit asking when I was going to meet a grumpy lumberjack trying to save his mama’s inn in my adopted hometown.

When my grandma demanded proof from afar, I sent her a picture of me and my “boyfriend.”

Spoiler alert: He wasn’t really my boyfriend.

He was actually a reclusive former boy band member who swings through town sometimes and is friends with my friends.

As much as a reclusive former boy bander can be friends with anyone, that is.

He doesn’t know I told anyone he’s my boyfriend. Or that his name is Steve. Or that my grandma judges him by his tattoos and manbun.

So when Grandma sends the guy she’d rather me marry to town to make sure “Steve” is good enough for me—and to talk me into marrying him instead—I have something of a problem.

But I got myself into this mess, so I’ll get myself out.

By proposing.

Relax, relax, I’m proposing a fake wedding.

And when he turns me down, I can say we broke up.

Except he doesn’t turn me down.

Instead, he offers me a trade.

He’ll pretend to be my groom, but I have to do something for him in return.

And that something?

Hoooo, boy.

I liked the man better when he was my pretend boyfriend Steve.

The Pretend Fiancé Fiasco is an action-packed romcom featuring the reclusive final member of the boy band Bro Code, a recovering good girl with too many men interested in her for all the wrong reasons, a treasure hunt, a fake engagement, and the best surprise to hit the Copper Valley universe since the Fireballs’ new mascot was revealed. This small town romantic comedy stands alone, but you wouldn’t go wrong to read both the Copper Valley Bro Code and Copper Valley Fireballs series, along with Dirty Talking Rival, to catch all of the easter eggs.

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Romance Book Review!! ~ Jaded Until Jax by Theresa Paolo

March 2025 writinstuff Leave a comment

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Return to Red Maple Falls for this newest installment to the steamy small-town series where a wounded Marine and a grieving single mother help each other find light in the darkness.

Being a Marine is all Jax Marshall knows, but a tragic event has him honorably discharged from the service and back in the last place he wanted to be–his hometown. Struggling to come to terms with his injury while dealing with PTSD, his life is further rocked when his younger siblings are less than welcoming. Encouragement from his eldest sister provides him with the push he needs to give therapy one more shot. Not once expecting that decision to change his life.

Kristen Morgan never imagined she would be a single working mom, but a house fire left her widowed and grappling to rebuild life for her and her two boys. In the midst of a panic attack while waiting for her son to finish his therapy session,she strikes up a conversation with a handsome, brooding ex-Marine who turns out to be a complete jerk.

As their encounters become more civil and the attraction too hard to ignore, these two broken hearts begin to find comfort in each other. But when one of them ends up in danger, they have to decide if being together is worth the fight.

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Romance Book Review!! ~ Salty Pickle by JJ Knight

March 2025 writinstuff Leave a comment

ABOUT:

I’m headed to New York to confront the man I met on New Year’s Eve eight months ago.
I had to bring my goat.
And…I’m eight months pregnant.

The man I’m meeting in his fancy New York office is the saltiest hunk of male beauty you never want to cross. He wouldn’t know a smile if you drew one on his face.

I slept with him on a dare. Yes, we used protection.

Faulty protection, apparently.

I was going to raise the baby in my Colorado yurt with my pet goat Matilda. My two best girlfriends were going to be the other moms, but their lives moved on.

I’m a yoga teacher with forty dollars to my name. I had to hitchhike to get here.

I didn’t have a goat-sitter, so I’m loading Matilda onto the subway and headed to Wall Street.

It’s time to confront a salty baby daddy in a place called Pickle Media.

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Salty Pickle is a salty-sunshine story between a city boy and a country girl who are thrown together with a newborn, a goat, and a goat baby, and more poop cleanup than should ever grace the pages of a romance novel, but here we are. It’s part of the Top 100 Pickleverse of rom coms, but you do not need to read any of the other books before this one. You can start your wild adventure with the Pickle family right here.