Plot Trysts

If you can deeply internalize the expectation that this will be very short and closed door, everything in this novella is perfect. If you hear the words "virgin hero" and start salivating, that's kinda hard to do.

Add this to the list of books we didn't think would work for us, but totally did! Everything that's usually annoying to us was charming. Maybe that's the meaning of Christmas?

A boy band member trying to rehabilitate his image with a Christmas movie is shocked but not appalled when his new costar is his favorite porn star. Meg loved it, Laine liked it, and it was VERY Christmas.

This cute newsletter novella scratched Laine's Christmas itch, but Meg struggled with some hamfisted Christmas hijinks. We both enjoyed the sex vacation.

We wanted to like this "rival archeologist" book very much, but the male main character is nothing like Lord Ingram or Rupert, so we struggled.

This episode went a little off the rails. We remain charmed by glimmer falls and enjoyed this new twist on an amnesia romance.

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy our unhinged outtakes and random discussions.

We really struggled to review this book! It was really fun and really sexy, but the characters were inconsistent and the plot was hard to follow. We both really enjoyed reading it, but sound like we didn't when talking about it.

Laine found this to be the perfect balance of zany and sincere. Meg had trouble suspending disbelief. Laine 's started a countdown to Christmas.

The perfect newsletter novella makes you want to read more by the author, and this achieves this in spades. It doesn't reinvent "falling for the wrong brother" in exactly the right way, and the heroine manages to be believably young but also not the worst.

Meg felt many things while reading this book, including devastation that the important scientific work of so many women was lost to history. Laine thought it was super sexy and fun. YMMV.

Moral of the story: all half-Scottish people are queer

This is a platonic ideal of a romance novella! Virgin hero, Christmas, and a whole lot of acted-on lust.

Harriet has needed a best friend for a long time: me. Chow might not be as useful as an honest friend over brunch, but he does keep her from making a colossal mistake twice.

We were so excited for this new release by Courtney Milan and it didn't disappoint! The couple was totally adorable even if their personal ethics didn't always point north.

This is a Christmas novel and it is perfect.

This book charmed both of us in different ways. Meg with touching emotional scenes and Laine with WTFery

We remain suckers for this series that is equal parts monster romance and office satire. Is capitalism getting you down? At least you're not at a mandatory off site corporate retreat while in heat.

We were very charmed by this debut novella that taught us we don't hate miscommunication when there isn't supposed to be a prior relationship built on trust and affection. Who knew?

Gambling hell owner and suddenly-legitimized dukes will inevitably have a lot of issues that gently bred but down on their luck women can solve.

We really like books in which the couple is on the same side but there are realistic circumstances keeping them apart. We loved this book.

In which we say the word "dildo" enough times that it loses all meaning.

Meg and Laine talk about anxiety, secret love nest cabins, and duels. Like a lot about duels.

Apologies because neither Laine nor Meg can keep family relationships straight when discussing this one. Dude who expects to get his family castle back finds out it's been gifted to a random American. Would have been normal inheritance shenanigans if it didn't take miscommunication to a whole new level.

A perfect closed-door screwball romance?? Who are we??