Just Physical Review: Is It Worth Reading?
Jae’s Just Physical pairs an actress with MS and her stunt double in a steamy no-strings romance. Readers love Crash and the careful MS writing; the long push and pull is the catch.
Friends with Benefits
Reservations of the Heart Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Verdict: A witty, steamy age-gap romance: Stella Gilbert, a 41-year-old doctor and divorced mom still wary after her marriage ended, and Aurora Shirley, a 29-year-old temp reeling from a family secret, both swear off love and settle for something casual. Readers love the banter and the heat; critics found the leads’ anti-love attitudes grating and … Read more
Brooklyn Summer Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Verdict: A breezy, sexy summer romance: newly divorced math teacher Ashleigh plans to be a tourist in her own city, and her best friend sends his army buddy Kellan along instead. Friends with benefits is the deal — until it isn’t. Readers love the chemistry, the New York sights and Lori Prince’s audiobook; some found … Read more
Two Can Play That Game Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Verdict: A flirty, spicy, low-angst WNBA fake-dating romance with great representation and two likeable leads. Early readers split over whether it has any romantic tension at all — the couple are together almost from the start — and there is less basketball than the premise promises. Best for: Readers who love fake dating, open-door heat … Read more
Down South Bayou Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Verdict: A fast, fluffy and very steamy Black sapphic romance with loving plus-size representation and a WNBA love interest readers adore. Fans call it a feel-good, low-angst treat; critics say it reads like a Wattpad story, with instalove, little plot and messy tense-switching. Best for: Readers who want high heat, Black sapphic joy and a … Read more
She’s a Keeper Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Verdict: A steamy, emotionally healthy pining romance between two pro soccer teammates who become roommates, then fake dates, then more. Readers who love yearning and heat are happy; a vocal minority found it slow, repetitive and hard to invest in. Best for: Readers who love unrequited pining, friends with benefits and adults who work through … Read more
Score to Love Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Verdict: A hot, soccer-heavy enemies-to-lovers romance between a Brazilian newcomer and a coach’s daughter on the same team. The chemistry and football scenes land, but Camila’s hot-and-cold behaviour tests many readers’ patience for much of the book. Best for: Readers who want a steamy rivals-to-lovers sports romance and don’t mind a prickly heroine. Heat level: … Read more
Desperate Times Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Verdict: A rare, frank and often funny butch/butch romance about the only two lesbians in a conservative ranch town, with heat readers rave about, held back by a heroine many readers struggle to like and a third act that resolves its hardest moment too quickly. Best for: Readers hunting for two butch heroines on the … Read more
Three Reasons to Say Yes Review — Is It Worth Reading?
Updated on October 9, 2026 Verdict: A warm, funny, genuinely hot butch/femme vacation romance with a single-mom doctor, her four-year-old twins and a heroine who thinks she is bad at sex, held back by a push-pull middle and a best-friend subplot that eats more page time than some readers want to give it. Best for: … Read more