Isn’t She Lovely is a prequel story to the Redemption series following two people through a summer semester in college. Both Stephanie and Ethan are avoiding things this summer. They are avoiding parents, recent breakups, future obligations and their pasts. Stephanie is a film student; she is excited to spend the summer semester with an […]
Lauren Layne does the rom-com-chick-lit up right. She usually brings flirty fun to the table and builds characters and situations you can root for. The Man of the Year series is one of the few she has written that so far, where characters between books have had no crossover interactions and so even though Yours […]
What do you do when you are getting ready to run for Governor and find the incumbent’s wild child daughter hiding out in plain sight? Well, if you are Man of the Year and current Mayor of New York City, Robert Davenport, you hire her to cater an event for you to see if you […]
Marriage on Madison Avenue is the story of the two best friends that everyone knew were in love, well everyone except for them. Audrey and Clarke have been best friends since they were kids, they’ve been with each other through everything and just skipped the part where they ever got physically close. So when Clarke […]
Lauren Layne has been a favorite contemporary romance writer of mine for some time now. Every single one of her books reminds me of a chick flick I’ve made the hubs watch with me. Love on Lexington Avenue completely fits that bill as well. Claire is recently widowed. I’d like to say she lost the […]
I’ve read a number of Lauren Layne (LL) books somewhere between eighteen and twenty and there are a few things I’ve come to expect.  I always expect a thoroughly enjoyable story, an eventual HEA, a group of fun friends that are pretty hilarious and one or two steamy sex scenes.  Passion in the Park had […]
Matt is a Wall Street wiz kid and he has just been caught in a precarious situation at a bachelor party by a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Â He needs to fix his reputation fast, before his clients start jumping ship and there is no better way to do that than to seem like […]
I Think I Love You is the finale to the Stiletto/Oxford series by Lauren Layne, which also just happens to be my favorite contemporary romance series to date.  It is bittersweet to say farewell to all the characters I’ve come to know and adore. It is also the friends to lovers trope I usually crave […]
I love it when a contemporary romance author can take a guy that at first meet you would need at least two drinks to buy into his pickup lines and turn him into a man you are really rooting for. Sure, the girl has to carry the book for a little bit but the thing […]
The Bachelor scenario isn’t one of my favorite tropes.  Twenty some odd chicks all vying for one man’s attention. *gross* I hate almost everything about that situation.  I do admit I’ve been sucked into a few of the reality shows like it, like Outback Jack (I completely binge watched that show twice) and even […]