The Breakup Doctor

In Phoebe Fox’s The Breakup Doctor, Brook Ogden is a licensed mental health counselor who specializes in relationships: how to improve them and how to give them up gracefully. Her expertise – and sanity – are called into question when her own relationship falls apart, leaving her friends and family to wonder, who counsels the […]


Tell Him About It

If I had to sum up Holly Kinsella’s novel Tell Him About It in a single word, it would be “meh.” The slow-paced story is very predictable and the characters’ endless inner thoughts are obvious and repetitive. Worse, the viewpoint switches between characters constantly and confusingly, even within a single paragraph. Several of the characters […]


Animate Me

Despite its male protagonist, I think women are more likely to enjoy Ruth Clampett’s Animate Me than men. The author tried to offer a man’s perspective, but it still feels very chick lit-y to me – which is no bad thing, just surprising. In any case, it’s a cute story for the most part about […]


Love Actually

It’s 10 years old, but Love Actually is a timeless, intelligent, and thoroughly wonderful movie about new love, young love, lost love, and impossible love. With a star-studded cast and enough charm to melt Scrooge’s heart, it’s a perfect romantic comedy and Christmas movie.


Crazy in Love

If you like a little paranormal activity, some shady businessmen, and a murder or two mixed in with your love stories, Lani Diane Rich’s Crazy in Love might be right up your alley.


Zen and Sex

The protagonist of Dermot Davis’s Zen and Sex (a Comedy Romance) is a bumbling idiot when it comes to dealing with the opposite sex. He starts dating for the sole purpose of finding a hot date to take to his ex’s wedding (very mature), and goes on three ridiculous first dates. Then he meets an […]


Happy(ish)

Despite the instant dislike I took to Cara Trautman’s Happy(ish) during the opening scene, I kept reading and kept thinking “I really don’t like this.” I even re-read the mostly glowing reviews on Amazon, hoping to find one that shared my aversion to it.


Playing Along

I loved Rory Samantha Green’s book Playing Along. I really loved it, so much that I’m having trouble writing a review, because I don’t want to give anything away. I’ll tell you this much:


Mix Lit

So there’s tons of chick lit out there, and there’s some guy lit, but what happens when you combine the two? I enjoy books which tell the story from both points of view. They’re usually authored by a man and and a woman who each write their gender’s character(s), though sometimes a single person succeeds […]


Village Books

Village Books, by Craig McLay, is about a guy who works in a bookstore. He talks about books, he meets a woman, he drinks a rare brand of hard cider – and that’s pretty much it. There’s not a whole lot of plot to this book, it’s really just about his day to day life, […]