The Sprawl is more of a memoir/essayist format; this book is more about feeling and culture than actual history. I went in expecting history, but I enjoyed the author's background, and the impact of suburbia has on American culture. Diamond focused on murders, movies, music, and youth culture by capturing the feel of the suburbia and the social impact that it has on the American culture.

I received an ARC and Coffee House Press in return for an honest review.

I somehow managed to have an ARC of this and never read it. SHAME! But I read it less than 3 hours, so it was saved for a day I needed, albeit past its published date and into a next year.

It was delightful, and it might be my favorite one in the series. I think it because the characters, IMO, I related to more than the others. I saw parts of my personality in the Hero and Heroine of this tale.

This story is a proper Chick-Lit/RomCom. I have been reading many newer ones, and they are more fiction with romance and what this subgenre should be. This story was fun, had its moments of ups and downs, and you knew that ending was going to be worth it. She can write a make-up HEA scene.

I got an arc from Edelweiss and Berley for my honest review (super late).

It was a fun and steamy read! The conclusion of the Union of the Rakes series is finally here. Some of the greatest 80s movies take place in this series, and the last book is no exception. We get "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," AND a bit of "Footloose," well as best as you can in a Regency period romance novel. The trope older woman and a younger man are in play.

Most of this story takes place in a carriage attempting to get Lady Ferris to a weekend bacchanal party and the honorable rule follower Captain Duncan McCameron escorting her there. But incident after incident forcing them to share the one bed left in the inn and moments that can only happen when you bring the 1980s to Regency.

Super-steamy, but that is par for the course with Eva Leigh.

I got an ARC from Edelweiss and Avon in return for an honest review.

It was a perfectly fine forced proximity romance that was also a second chance at love.

When they were in their twenties, they had an intense summer romance, and then reality hit them in their face, and their differences in what they want in life were apparent. Texas billionaire and now Mayor of Dallas Chase Ferguson returns to a Montana to get away from Dallas and his life, to a house he bought to remember a particular summer ten years ago, he runs into those memories. Mimi Andrix still lives in the area and runs into her old and most important relationship at Whole Foods (the whole contemporary was fine, but the paragraph on WF took me out of the story). While eating Thanksgiving meal, Mimi decided to take some leftovers to the alone man in a mansion on top of the hill, a snowstorm is starting, and she barely makes it the mansion alive. Mimi and Chase forced (but really by choice) to spend the storm together. Memories, feelings, and desire come out, but can they stay for what their lives are like after a snowstorm and in real life?

Overall, decent. I just had a hard time believing the main characters that they care about each other besides sex this at this moment in their lives. Most of the book felt like they were using each other for one last hurrah, and then suddenly, there is a marriage proposal at the end.

I received an ARC from Netgalley and Harlequin for an honest review.

I do enjoy a Bow Street Runner with a heart of gold and an Aristocrat who doesn't care.

"Kiss Me at Christmas" was just a fun read. Within the first chapter, the gauntlet tossed; Lady Regina comes to the Bow Street Office to ask Daffin Oakley to sleep with her (take her virginity) before she becomes engaged. They worked with others in a past book, and the flirting and a connection was obvious. She wants one night with someone of her choosing. Daffin is intrigued but turns her down.

But Regina is in danger, and the family calls upon Daffin to protect the family during Christmas. Tempting fate and his self-control, he moves into the family home while protecting and fighting his desires to pursue Regina.

Regina wants Daffin to give in to his urges; she wants to give in to her desires while attempting to ignore the older neighbor next door that wants to marry her for her family land.

Recommend. It's not a Christmas Romance, but a Romance that happens to be around Christmas, if that makes sense.

I received an ARC from St. Martins and Netgalley for an honest review.

The was sheer fun. It carries uses the trope love potion, but does it with a twist more believably.

Lady Delilah Montebank is in search of a husband, finally, and partly because her mother ordered her. She has her sights set on the Bachelor of the Season, and regardless of her ability as a matchmaker for all her friends, she seems to fail at her attempts for her match.

Her best friend, Lord Thomas Hobbs, Duke of Huntley, has been in love with Delilah since they were young. He claims that he has no interest to marry is a lie until Delilah decides she is ready to marry. While Delilah has her sights on another and with a ridiculous love potion in hand, Thomas does what he came in her schemes to prove that he and only he is worthy of her.

It's Midsummer Night's dream on a stage and in real-life in this book. It was fun. I am not a big fan of friends to lovers trope, but this book worked.

I received an ARC from Netgalley and St. Martins in return for an honest review.

Was this cheesy? Yes. Was it not all real-life of College Professors? Yes. But I did enjoy the few hours it brought to me. So, I called this a win. Nothing was new or surprising in this book, but it was enjoyable, and sometimes that is all that you want.

I received an ARC from Netgalley and Loveswept for an honest review.