April and Dennis were such compelling characters and I loved watching their relationship develop. Holy moly did I love this book! It's a top notch contemporary romance and my very favorite of the year. Feel free to give it a Like while you're over there!įor the Love of April French by Penny Aimes You can find my full reviews with content notes on Goodreads. I can't imagine life without our daily conversations. But the real gift was the friendships I formed with them.
( You can see my definitive ranking here.) Definitely mind the content warnings. Reading her backlist was an experience in and of itself, full of highs and lows. That led us to the next book and the next and then we decided we might as well be completists. We'd all independently read For My Lady's Heart and Flowers From the Storm and shortly after the pandemic began, we decided to buddy read Shadowheart. One of this year's highlights was finishing my foray into Laura Kinsale's backlist with Charlotte, Hannah, and Vicky. I'm not completely done with their backlists but that won't be true by the time this next year ends. They all have interconnected series and a series with varying degrees where the stories happen concurrently, which is my catnip. Whenever I had a string of lackluster reads or just wanted to be completely consumed by a story, I'd pick up one of their books and be lost to the world for a while. Wells, I found their books to be compulsively readable. In the case of Genevieve Turner, Kate Canterbary, and Cate C. Maybe to make their backlist last longer? I'm not sure. This might not sound unusual but it's not something I do! I can go months, if not years, before picking up another book by an author I'm enjoying. I also wound up inhaling the backlists of three different authors.
(This series must be read in order check out the content warnings as needed.) I loved it just as much the second time around and the same was true of my other re-reads. In the case of Sierra Simone's New Camelot series, enough time had passed and a few friends wanted to read it for the first time that it became an excellent excuse to revisit it.
This year I re-read a few of my very favorites, which is rare for me. In such uncertain times as these, romance has been a balm, a catharsis, and an escape. My life has changed for the better in so many ways because of it! Besides the obvious of discovering so many amazing stories, I've made life-changing friends and, wildest of all, beta read books. It's hard to believe I only got back into romance almost 5 years ago.
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