Tag: Rivals-to-Lovers Romance

Category Romance Review: Teri Wilson’s MARRY AND BRIGHT (Love, Unveiled #3)

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Marry_and_BrightI was so looking forward to more of Wilson’s Love, Unveiled series because I adored the first one, Her Man of Honor. I don’t know how I managed to miss the second one, but anyhoo, onwards and forwards with Marry and Bright, Love Unveiled #3. While I can’t say the third was as good as the first, I still couldn’t stop reading it, even when I had sundry other things I should’ve been doing.

One thing stands out in every Wilson romance, she is such a darn good writer, witty, droll, sharp, smooth. In this her third in the series, she tackles two ambitious workaholics vying for the coveted position of editor-in-chief of the bridal magazine Veil, dead-tree and digital. The publisher’s blurb will fill in further details:

Both up for the editor-in-chief position at Veil magazine, Addison England and Carter Payne are fierce adversaries. But despite their bickering, the pair has to work together and prove themselves before the magazine’s Christmas deadline. Stepping in to pose as the bride and groom for a wedding shoot starts the unexpected change from rivalry to romance…until they discover the “fake” vow exchange was entirely legal. Now the newlyweds have to decide if power really is their ultimate endgame.     (more…)

REVIEW: Emma Barry’s PARTY LINES, Or The Best Minds of a Generation

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Party_LinesEmma Barry writes Miss Bates’ favourite kind of romance novel: rich in context, with characters immersed in a definitive place and time, uniquely themselves, but also emerging out of that place and time. Barry sets her contemporary romances in the arena of contemporary American politics. It was the stew that bubbled forth the first in the Easy Part trilogy, Special Interests, and second, Private Politics. Barry’s third “politically-set” romance, Party Lines, is her most “politically dense” novel yet, but it also offers a gloriously interesting romance. It contains a delicious irony in premise and title. Party politics/lines, especially modern party politics, are constantly in the public eye in this social-media age. How to carve space for intimacy, friendship, love, for “private spaces” in the midst of an election campaign as a key organizing player? That is the story of Democratic campaign manager, Michael Picetti, and Republican assistant to the deputy campaign manager, Lydia Reales. What if the furthering of one’s career hinges on this performance? What if the object of one’s love and desire is on the opposing side? Ideology, conviction, ambition, loyalty come into play and clash with desire, friendship, love, fulfillment, when political affiliations draw the line on what lines can’t be crossed for love. Continue reading