The Introvert's Book Club

  Get Yourself A Copy 🖉 Rating : 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot : 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb : Goodreads Choice Award  Winner for Readers' Favorite Romance (2023) Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t. They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Be...

  Buy on Amazon Cinnamon Rolls and Pumpkin Spice #7 Rating:  3/5 Spice: 0/5 Primary Genre: Billionaire Romance/RomCom Trigger Warnings: Alcohol use, bad parenting Plot: 3/5 Billionaire heiress Fenella needs to go into hiding after her most recent, very public break up with her cheating ex. Where to? Her other ex’s (who’s a prince, by the way) remote town! Well, technically it’s a whole country. Fenella can’t get enough of the local coffee shop, Coffee For the Sole, and her pumpkin spice lattes. She also becomes interesting in the coffee shop owner, Silas, once she realizes there’s more to him than coffee beans. Tropes: • cinnamon roll hero • friends-to-lovers • small town • opposites attract The Good: * If you love a small town vibe, you’ll be obsessed with Battle Harbor. * The LGBTQ+ character representation was great to see. I honestly wasn’t expecting it, it was refreshing. * I loved the fall setting of the book, it’s a great vibe for an October read. The Meh:  * Whil...

Purchase Skymar #3 My Rating: 3/5 Primary Genre: RomCom Christian romance Blurb:  In this hilarious, sweet, low-spice rom-com, opposites attract when a princess falls for a flannel-wearing carpenter. Perfect for fans of Sarah Adams and Emma St. Clair. Sometimes love means embracing the good, the bad . . . and even the impossible. Dear Reader, My name is Luke Edgewood, and there are few things in life that I require. Mainly black coffee. And flannel. And lots of solitude. And my dogs, Chewy and Indie. What I don't need is romance, so I have no plans to change my thirty-year-old-bachelor status anytime soon. But my youngest sister thinks that by accepting a short-term construction job in the small European country of Skymar, I'm going to follow along in her footsteps and discover my own romantic adventure. Nope. Bah humbug. The End. This time, her rom-com-movie senses are totally wrong. Or maybe not. Because I've met a Grace Kelly look-alike who is annoying . . . until she is...

Purchase Make-Believe #5 My Rating: 4/5 Stars Primary Genre: Billionaire Romance/Contemporary Romance/Clean Romance Blurb:  The proposal is fake, but his feelings are real. A heartwarming friends-to-true-love story. Billionaire businessman, Roland Kirk, has moved on with his life but never opened his heart to love again since losing his wife six years earlier. The nanny he hired to help raise his two girls has, piece by piece, woven the broken strands of their lives back together. So, when her ex-boyfriend breaks her heart, he’s ready to jump in with a fake proposal to help her save face. June Green always wanted to be a nanny. She loves her position, working for the hottest billionaire in Atlanta and taking care of his beautiful daughters. When her ex-boyfriend parades his new fiancee in front of them all, she’s devastated… until Roland gets down on one knee, surprising everyone. He’s her friend, her boss, and the most eligible bachelor in town. Anything more between them would be...

Purchase Make Believe Series #1 My Rating: 4/5 Stars Primary Genre: Billionaire Romance/Christian Romance/Contemporary Romance Blurb:  Take one billionaire cowboy in need of a fiancée, add one divorced teacher with trust issues and mix in a fake engagement. What could possibly go wrong? Gwen Alder is starting over — divorced and broke, she’s come to Billings, Montana for a new beginning. But waitressing in a roadside diner for the summer isn’t paying the bills, and she finds herself in over her head with no hope of catching up. Heath Montgomery has it all — fame, fortune and a mega-watt smile, but one thing he doesn’t have is a date for his cousin’s wedding. When the two of them cross paths, Heath has an idea — what if he paid her to be his date? No strings, no complications, just a simple business transaction — a way to finally win his father’s trust, and get his parents off his back about settling down once and for all. She’s poor and plain. He’s wealthy and arrogant. They didn’t...

Purchase Big Star, Small Town #2 My Rating: 3/5 Stars Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance Blurb:  I promised myself I wouldn’t fall for someone rich and famous. Not after what happened last time. But when leading man Lucas Stone comes to town, I might have trouble keeping my promises After getting my heart broken and being kicked out of my apartment, I return to my hometown. I settle for a job – and a place to sleep – at the local bed and breakfast. The job? Playing tour guide for tourists with more money than sense. It’s irritating, but it’s only temporary. Thank God. Until Hollywood hotshot Lucas Stone arrives. He’s scouting locations for his next flick, and after one look at me, he demands that I be his personal tour guide. Which wouldn’t be a problem if he wasn’t such an entitled jerk. And there’s no way I’ll be getting involved with someone like him. Not again. But when we get trapped in a way-too-small tent during a thunderstorm, we have no choice but to cuddle together, and ...