A review by Nalini Haynes Solange Pereira is not quite a wedding crasher: she’s helping out her wedding planner cousin when she overhears the bride …
Romance
A Lady’s Guide To Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin
A review by Nalini Haynes With both parents dead, the extended family estranged and creditors at their door, Kitty Talbot decides to travel to London …
With This Kiss by Carrie Hope Fletcher
A review by Nalini Haynes Lorelai works at an old-fashioned cinema while secretly writing screenplays for books that haven’t been converted to movies yet. But …
The Gifts by Liz Hyder
A review by Nalini Haynes It is 1840 in Shropshire, England, when Etta spontaneously grows wings only to be shot by a surprised young man. …
No Hard Feelings by Genevieve Novak
A review by Nalini Haynes No Hard Feelings is a rom-com featuring lots of common tropes but, in an absolute win, left me wanting to …
Lies my memory told me by Sacha Wunsch
A review by Nalini Haynes From the title, Lies My Memory Told Me, the reader assumes Nova has false memories. This is somewhat spoilery. However, …
Murder Most Fancy by Kellie McCourt
A review by Nalini Haynes Indigo of the multiple-hyphenated-names is an heiress who, in the first novel, proved she wasn’t guilty of murdering her husband. …
King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St Clair
A review by Nalini Haynes Isolde is princess of the House of Lara. Her father is about to surrender to the Blood King to save …
Midnight in Everwood by M A Kuzniar
A review by Nalini Haynes Midnight in Everwood is a fantasy novel set in a non-magical world where Marietta lives with her parents who plan …
The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker
A review by Nalini Haynes Ren is a Reaper living in London in a society of Reapers. The problem is, she’s also half-Japanese, which makes …
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
A review by Nalini Haynes Anna Sun needs to learn the Heart Principle. She gives her boyfriend Julian a blow job although she doesn’t like …
Unworthy Duke by Charlotte Anne
A review by Nalini Haynes Ellen flees a domestic violence situation with her brother to pose as a Miss Smith, lady’s companion. When arriving in …
You’ll Be Fine by Jen Michalski
A review by Nalini Haynes Alex is in a kind of limbo. She’s still grieving her ex leaving abruptly. Then her mom dies. She flies …
I write “all the feels” romances – Paige Toon
Nalini Haynes talks to Paige Toon about romance, “all the feels”, research and more in this podcast. Paige Toon grew up between England, Australia and …
An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi
A review by Nalini Haynes Shadi is a Muslim teenager living a couple of years after 9/11 while America gears up for war in the …