★★★✩✩ (This is a review of the audiobook.) Xe Sands gives us a lovely narration. Good differentiation between characters and I liked her pacing and inflection. I was enjoying this lighthearted book until - bamb - a bit of a double standard occurred. In any book, if the hero did what Freya did...
Return To You (Laurel Heights #3) by Kate PerryC, blaze/inferno, no kink, contemp, 344 pagesIt's been eleven years since Michael left town to persue his dreams in Hollywood, leaving the love of his life, Olivia, behind. Now he's come back to film a movie and has to face Olivia again. Olivia's b...
This is the third Kate Perry book I've read, and I'm done now. It's very difficult for me to find the romantic relationships of her protagonists believable enough (beyond sexual attraction) to discover their true love for each other and understand how they can so quickly agree to get married at t...
I've liked this series by Kate Perry enough to continue to read through the series. This one was executed best by far -- I liked both characters.There's definitely a formula to Perry's books; POVs from the main hero and heroine; and secondary story told from a single point of view. This time I ...
This book was good, but I thought it ended kinda weird...It left a few things undone...I never heard about a couple of the characters again, and that bothered me. It should've let us know what happened to them. It was a little weird to me how the book kept switching from one story to the other an...
This was a cute little story. Different from the others in the series in that the second romance involves two high school kids: Rachel & Aaron. It reminded me a bit of twilight in that Rachel is new to the school and town and she ends up being the lab partner to 'the cute guy' in school. But it's...
5 fabulously funny stars.I love when a book sneaks up on you and surprises you. This has been on my kindle for ages and I had never bothered to start it. I loved it. It was hilariously funny and heart melting at the same time. Not only were the main characters of Greg and Freya brilliantly cr...
I had the same problem with this book as I had with the last one of hers. There are a couple of key plot elements that just get brushed over or completely dropped at the end, and you're left wondering.For example, Olivia has a miscarriage and the father of the baby finds out after she yells it at...
Wow....this is the best read in the series till now for me. I enjoyed Looking for you very much. I loved Rick and Gwen. They were so awesome together. It was very exciting to read their bickering and interactions. A really fast-paced dialogues , i was awake till 3 am reading this book! The author...
This is a book about family relationships as much as it is about finding that someone to spend your life with. Somewhat predictable, but still an interesting read. The theme of the story is honor and family, which is also on the family crest of the Summerhill's. The main character, Rosalind, retu...
I guess I'm kind of a sucker for Kate Perry. Her books are light, fun, and a quick read. Sure, they are predictable as are most in this genre but her characters are genuinely likable. There's the abrupt meeting with instant attraction, bold moves, hot sex, relationship development, misunderstan...
Rarely do I read romance specific writings. This proved to be enjoyable with a small paragraph structure and 139 pgs it made for a quick and easy read, plus it was free. Told from the perspective of both the main characters, Melanie & Colin; a story about a woman who placed her life on hold wit...
How do you find the perfect match for the boss from hell? Katherine Murphy needs to know! Her obsessive, demanding supervisor has given her an assignment that goes way beyond the call of duty: find her a man. But not just any man--he must have the perfect combination of good looks, job security, ...
Hijinks and hilarity abound in this heartwarming romance featuring a woman determined to get her ex back, who starts dating his best friend and loses her heart. Original.
Bea looked up from the newspaper she couldn’t focus on. She smiled at the front desk clerk despite her irritation, because he wasn’t the man she was annoyed with. “Thank you, Leo.” He set it on the corner of her table and quietly bowed before leaving. &nb...
Because her thoughts were bitter and brutal, she closed it so Sebastian wouldn’t be subject to them. “I could say the same for you.”“Jetlag.” He shrugged, standing with his hands in his pockets.“Still?” She arched her brow, gesturing to the coffee she’d made. “You’ve been here for too long to hav...
“What are you doing in my bathroom again?”“Watching you as you clean up for your date.” She handed him a towel. “I’m being useful.”“That’s overstating it.” He took the towel to dry off his face.She studied him as he checked his jaw in the mirror to make sure he’d gotten all the rough whiskers. “Y...
Sitting up in bed, Titania stared at her screen. Maybe she should let it go to voicemail. But what if he was calling to tell her this was all just a joke? She snorted. Delusional. Still, she decided to answer. “Tell me you’ve come to your senses.” &...
He’d called her to remind her about their date.Dinner in his suite.Meredith pressed a hand to her stomach as she waited for her tub to fill. She wasn’t sure if she felt excitement or nerves. Hence the bath, to calm herself. She even brought a glass of wine with her to relax.Slipping out of her ro...
He stilled, holding his breath as he read it and looked at the picture.The second time he read it, his jaw clenched. The third time he barely resisted putting a fist in the wall. Imogen takes Dirk back! He crinkled the newspaper in his fist. What the hell? Why was Imogen holding this man’s hand?H...
Eve took a deep breath and tried to set the day aside. She wore the bustier under her strapless dress, and she knew she looked fabulous. She was going to have a great time and no one—not even that Crumpet woman—was going to contaminate her evening. Grabbing her wrap, she went downstairs to meet h...
The bar was nice, and it was close to the Asian Art Museum, where she worked. Most of all, it was public and neutral, so she should have fewer qualms about meeting him there.Whether she’d show up or not was the question.He flexed his fingers, sore from the punching bag he’d beaten up that morning...
Anna looked around, relieved that Max hadn’t arrived yet. She walked toward Eve, who manned the front counter along with her part-time barista Kristin. Eve’s face lit up as Anna approached and she stepped out from behind the counter, her arms outstretched. “It’s been a long time, stranger! Your s...
The man ran a crop across his palm, and the woman shuddered at the hissing sound. Edward could care less. As he sat in his private room in the Easy, he glanced at his watch. Collins was late. Deidre shifted next to him on the couch. He knew the tabl...
It was from Eleanor, which was immediately something to perk up about. Are you home? she asked. His answer was simple: Can you come over? She replied back with, On my way, and I'm coming over with inspiration. He tried not to let his mind go there. Good luck with that, son, his dad's voice soun...
Max looked down at the angel in his arms. Tucking her hair behind her ear, he traced a finger down her soft cheek to that beguiling mouth that had driven him insane. Correction: he was going to hell after a short detour through heaven. But what had him reeling was the way he’d almost lost control...
While she waited on hold, she brought her feet to the seat of the chair and examined her toes. If she wasn't worried about making her money stretch, she'd have gone to get a pedicure. She'd just have to do her toes herself. She hated that. "Scott Cleary," a masculine voice said over the line. She...
Second option—without a doubt. She couldn't talk to Tony. She was afraid she might tell him about Daniela, and she wasn't sure how to handle that yet. So she grabbed the present for Valentine, left her cell phone, and walked out of the house. It hadn't occurred to her that Valentine might not be ...
“Oh. Edward.” His wife put a hand to her neck, as though he were the last person she expected to see in the hallway of their home. Not that he could argue a counterpoint. They never ran into each other. The house was too big for two people, that was true, but he wouldn’t h...
Someone—she couldn’t remember what his name was, she’d met so many new people—had put it there. She hadn’t touched it, though, because eggnog.But she couldn’t set it down either. That’d be rude, and the last thing she wanted to do was insult their host—not on Christmas Day, and especially not bec...
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War “How was the bridal shower?” “Girly.” I sighed as Pete slipped off my shoe and rubbed my left foot. Heaven. I wore sandals today, but being on your feet for twelve hours straight takes a toll regardless of how comfy your shoes were. I closed my eyes and rested my head ...
All evening he kept popping up when I least expected. I dropped more beer bottles than I had since I first started working at the bar. The harder I tried to pull it together, the more out of control I spun. And if the haunting wasn't enough, the scroll obsessed me, as well...
Leilani sat next to him, calmly answering emails on her phone. How she could be so cool and collected, he had no idea. But then she didn't know what he was planning to do this weekend. Mel would have called it a ballsy move. He figured he was either absolutely brilliant or completely daft. She dr...