How Sweet It Is was a charming autumnal escape from the summer heat and a true romcom that had me smiling my way from meet cute to HEA in a single afternoon. Like a platter of petit fours, there’s nothing too heavy, just bite sized morsels of sweet and savory delight as the story serves up slapstick silliness, chemistry laced banter, and sentimental small town moments that evoke an idyll of simplicity and connection.
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake has been a source of comfort and delight during a challenging week, and I implore anyone with a love of GBBO and messy stories of love and self-discovery to grab a copy, a cuppa and a favorite sweet treat for a decidedly delicious afternoon.
A loose, contemporary riff on Sleeping Beauty, A Cowboy to Remember manages to dodge melodrama and sail over the typical pitfalls of an amnesia plot to offer a truly satisfying take on the trope. Zach is a sweetheart with swagger who winkingly subverts cowboy stereotypes, but is happy to play up the aw shucks image when it’s to his advantage. While his rejection of Evie in their teens led to a decade long estrangement, when her injury brings him back into her life, he’s upfront about their history and careful not to take advantage of her memory loss.
This book is an infusion of pure joy! Thoughtful, silly, and sexy in equal measure, it’s the perfect conclusion to the Brown Sisters trilogy, and a tropetastic confection packed with enemies (to friends) to lovers, opposites attract, pining roommates, chest rubbing feels and grumpy/sunshine goodness.
I’m always ready to read a historical romance with a heroine who has a strong sense of self and a healthy disregard for gender norms, but make her a maverick rancher and put her in the hands of a storyteller like Beverly Jenkins, and you’ve got a book I’ll come back to again & again.
