Jen Crusie’s Bet Me and Welcome to Temptation remain two of my favourite romances. Crusie is what the genre does best when it does it well. So, an opportunity to still experience a Crusie cannot be passed up…hence, why I nabbed the chance to listen to Crusie’s … Continue reading Audiobook Review: Jen Crusie and Bob Mayer’s Rocky Start series #1: ROCKY START| Miss Bates Reads Romance
In 2014, I read Emma Barry’s historical romance, Brave In Heart, and loved it. Last night, an insomniac’s kind of night, I finished reading Barry’s Bold Moves and loved it. What I…| Miss Bates Reads Romance
2 posts published by Miss Bates during August 2025| Miss Bates Reads Romance
I am here to say, again, how great this series is. And to say, again, don’t start with this latest, a very strong addition btw, but go to book #1, What Angels Fear, published in 2005, and continue from there. You will not regret it. … Continue reading Historical Mystery Review: C. S. Harris’s WHO WILL REMEMBER (Sebastian St. Cyr #20)| Miss Bates Reads Romance
I was enthralled by Moore’s Long Bright River and now I’ve read her latest, The God of the Woods, I can’t decide which one is better. I’ve spent long commutes and daily walk…| Miss Bates Reads Romance
The Montreal summer continues hot, stuffy, and humid, but the reading is good. I read in the evenings, when it’s cooler (sometimes) and I’ve managed to day-check off a few items from the to-do list. The city is near-empty: holiday departures and, since Friday, an … Continue reading Recent Reading: van der Wouden, Stewart Taylor, and Markham…| Miss Bates Reads Romance
I will start by saying I haven’t read a contemporary romance novel this good since this year’s magnificent Cara-Bastone Promise Me Sunshine (a nod to Beth O’Leary’s Swept Away, which had that promise until it didn’t), though I don’t draw parallels between them, just standing … Continue reading Contemporary Romance Review: Victoria Lavine’s ANY TROPE BUT YOU| Miss Bates Reads Romance
Though I’m certain people in spas or on dream holidays are happy, nothing can quite match the happiness of a spinster English teacher on summer holidays with uninterrupted reading time. C’est moi! My hols always begin on Canada Day and are followed by recovery-time from … Continue reading Latest reading: McCloskey, Everett, and Burke-Patel…| Miss Bates Reads Romance
Frankly, there was a time, when I first started reading romance, when Silverleaf Rapids would have been a satisfying read/listen. I certainly read plenty of “Thomases” and reviewed them…| Miss Bates Reads Romance
One of the things I love best about Holiday is how, with every series, she tries something different: setting, character, country, and I enjoy reading what she does with it. What doesn’t chan…| Miss Bates Reads Romance
It’s been a while since I did a “round-up” post of recent reading, but things have been busy. My teaching job is in that time of year thou mayest in a teacher behold: exams, gradu…| Miss Bates Reads Romance
I didn’t have any great expectations of Kanter’s first adult romance, maybe because, as a teacher, I’ve tired of the first-person teen narrator, which are Kanter’s previous …| Miss Bates Reads Romance
