This week Heidi reviews one of her favorite books from the past year - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne.  Does this book get the elusive PERFECT TEN on the Heidi rating scale?   The Hating Game is a contemporary romance with two fantastic characters, a great workplace setting, and a witty, effervescent, style.  It is a hate to love romance which Heidi is really into right now.  Come and see if this is a book you may love too! Each podcast is broken into two sections, separated by a music interlude to let you know when Part II - with mild spoilers has started. Part I ..read more

Heidi reviews a paranormal romance Rhapsodic The Bargainer Book 1 by Laura Thalassa.  Heidi explores this author (her first time reading her) and explains what she liked and didn't like about this book.  This book involves a romance between a Fae King and a Siren!  Come and check it out if you are a paranormal romance reader! Each podcast is broken into two sections, separated by a music interlude to let you know when Part II - with mild spoilers has started. Part I - A spoiler free review of the book to help you discover if you want to read the book or not with Heidi's rankin ..read more

Beverly Jenkins novel Rebel is Book One in the 'Women Who Dare' series, book two just came out in Feb 2021! This book features Valinda Lacey our heroine, and Drake LeVeq an AMAZING hero, in Reconstruction era New Orleans.  Beverly Jenkins is a MASTER and you need to come and hear why. One hint, she does what she calls 'edutainment' which she describes as teaching while entertaining. You become immersed in the different cultures of New Orleans in this time period so vividly that you won't realize you are learning, you will just see the Quarter, the electric energy of the city, while watch ..read more

Hot Alpha dragon male who has something from his horde stolen by the mysterious heroine, Pia. What is her secret? How long does it take him to track her down and find her? Why does the dark fae want them dead? Find all this out and Heidi's reaction to the book! New format includes: ~Author biography ~Overview of the book -no spoilers ~Heidi's Loves ~Heidi's Gripes ~What Heidi would have said if she were the Editor ~Heidi's ten point scale ~Spoiler Section  Support the show (https://paypal.me/romancebookreviewpod ..read more

Love fated mate stories? Love wolf shifters?  The Phoenix Pack series comes up as a recommendation whenever someone asks for a good fated mate or wolf shifter story so Heidi checked out Book 1 Feral Sins.  This is a "marriage of convenience - or mating of convenience" trope in order to help out both the heroine and hero and is definitely a STEAMY insta-lust book! Heidi provides a deep dive into the book to give you a breakdown on the overall premise so you can see if it will appeal to you. Heidi then gives her opinion of the book and the things she connected with, or that didn't rea ..read more

After reading Grace Goodwin's first book in her Interstellar Brides series Assigned a Mate for her last book review podcast, Heidi decided to give Grace Goodwin another chance with this book The First Starfighter. Heidi is a lifelong gamer, and the idea that a sexy videogame character was real and would come to your front door to take you away-uh hello Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher you can take Heidi away anytime-really appealed to her. (The Witcher was a book series made into a video game series before it became the Netflix show and Henry Cavill is a gamer and he played it...drool). The ..read more

Heidi discusses the report she received about an author bullying other authors, and the offensive social media post she saw a few days ago. This is a quick, extra podcast this week. Be prepared for some fireworks. Support the show (https://paypal.me/romancebookreviewpod ..read more

Heidi talks about Grace Goodwin's Assigned a Mate. It's described as an erotic romance with a lot of spanking and it delivers. But does Heidi like it? This is a hugely popular series with 21(!) books in it but this first book is about heroine, Eva, needing to go undercover into space for protection from the mob while she waits to provide testimony in court. She needs to seem like an actual "bride" in the brides in space program and she's paired with the Hero Tark. Our story goes from there! Heidi does the 10 point rating system and then the spoiler section. Support the show (https://paypal.me ..read more

Heidi reviews the contemporary romance On Dublin Street.  This is her second novel with this author and Heidi finds her novels fun and fast paced and they focus on the present day chemistry between the hero and heroine with not a ton of plot other than these two getting together.  This is a great beach or plane book that will have keep you turning the page to get to the end.  Come and join Heidi to get to know a little bit about our hero and heroine and see if you might enjoy this book too! No spoilers in this episode!   Join us at:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/63 ..read more

Heidi reviews this New York Times Bestseller from 1989!  Does it stand the test of time?  Is this book still good after 30 years?  Come and find out! Each podcast is broken into two sections, separated by a music interlude to let you know when Part II - The Pivot Point has started. Part I - A spoiler free review of the book to help you discover if you want to read the book or not. Part II - There are mild spoilers about the book as Heidi does a deep dive to explore what she liked or didn't like and give you the details on why.  There is a brief music interlude to break up ..read more