Plot Trysts

I think I could smell jelly shoes while reading this book. Welcome to 1998.

This novella is so feel-good and adorable, and packed way more 🌶️ than we were expecting! With a unique and real sense of setting, we both really liked it!

We really loved this book, Jack is the best hero she's ever written. The tropes here are pretty close to the first two books, but she really does something new with them here! We're hoping for some new situations with her next book, because topping this one would be really hard.

Oh no, these two people who are extremely hot for each other are forced into constant close proximity to keep him from marrying her daughter! Whatever will they do?

There is a lot of trauma packed into this novella. Milan is a good author who is capable of deftly handling some heavy issues in romance. The question, dear listener, is if you can get past the subject matter to fall for the characters.

You'd think a book about two people stuck on a deserted island waiting for rescue would be stressful, but this one isn't at all. Caro and Max know their friends and family are fine and rescue is coming, so they get to focus on more important things. We liked it.

Camille finally gets her happily ever after and it involves a sex bargain! That sex is largely spent recovering from past trauma, which works for 50% of plot trysts.

Yasmin is a BAMF who has overcome a ton to become both sassy and likable. Giles is a wet noodle.

This short and sweet contemporary romance hit the spot for both of us! A total potato chip read, if you need something for a plane or beach!

Unexpected road trips and a fantastic epilogue made this a fun read, if you can handle a lack of communication as the central conflict.

"What Happens in the Carriage House" would have been a more accurate title.

Sometimes you just need a book where nothing bad happens and everyone is a good person just trying their best. This is that book.

This excellent debut novel has a ton of sexual tension and smart people, which we appreciated, even if their decisions stressed Laine out.

This book has so many trigger warnings and yet is also exceptionally hot? This is pretty much the whole book.

The best way for a man to beg forgiveness when he left you at the altar is to 1) actually grow up and 2) provide multiple organisms.

As promised, we rank all 15 of these books. We felt very differently about this series overall, but the important parts were unanimous.

Is it a man who has always worked for the system and begins to question the system? Are Meg and Laine trash? You bet.

Penvale and Jane agree to get married because they both love the same house, but Jane's hoping she can live in it solo. In excellent romance novel form, she realizes being with Penvale might be better than being alone, but we wish the realization process had been less ambiguously frightening and more explicitly f... More explicit.

We read a dino book, you guys. It was a whole thing (but also not as strange as we were ready for).

We end Maiden Lane with the least angst-y Hoyt ever? There are only three content warnings! Worth it for the reunion at the end alone.

Ana Maria is super into this dude but she's engaged to someone else and she's too much trouble for him. The first 70% of the book is described by the jacket, so if it sounds interesting it will be exactly what you expect.

Sophie Jordan has some serious magic powers, because we both loved this dark book with a ton of infidelity because it was hot and fun?

You know we love a competent man who learns quickly. Eli learns sex for Maria.

Welp. We finished Maiden Lane and have some THOUGHTS. Spoilers abound because there is so much trauma.

This novel was super delightful! There was a lot of romance novel hijinks and some very heavy issues but the book managed to have so much levity and fun without every feeling dark or angsty. It's not deep, but it's a great time.