If you’re looking for a sweet, quick love story, check out The Cell Phone Lot, by Stephanie Elliot.

It took me a few chapters to get into Eryn Scott’s A Chance for Sunny Skies – it dragged a bit at first with the detailed descriptions of panic and solitude. I almost gave up, but then things got more interesting

Gretchen Galway’s Love Handles is an interesting twist on the old “falling for someone you work with” schtick. When Bev inherits her grandfather’s clothing company, everyone wants and expects her to sell, but instead she decides to make a go of it, despite knowing nothing about activewear. As she works to understand the business, tries […]

The unfortunately named Wounded, by Lindsay Buroker, is more action-adventure-mystery than romance, but it’s still a pretty good book. The title unnecessarily references a tragic event in the male lead’s past, and originally made me think this would be a dark book

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 […]

It’s a cute premise, but the accidents in Tara Mills’s Accidents Make the Heart Grow Fonder cross the line into ridiculous more than once. Then, inexplicably, there’s a long stretch of injury-free dating, and then more accidents. Other than that, and the fact that I found Jackson’s interest in Sabrina somewhat farfetched, it was a […]

While it’s not quite a Harlequin romance novel, the fairly graphic descriptions in Perfect for You make it a bit steamier than run-of-the-mill chick lit – which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I liked the story a lot, I cared about all the characters, and I enjoyed the various subplots. As for negatives, the sabotage […]

If you’re looking for a quick, cute read, J.W. Bull’s Pickin’ Tomatoes might be just the thing. The protagonist manages to get a job writing a column about cooking, though she is neither a chef nor a writer. So of course she has to learn to do both, and fast. Some of the cooking disasters […]