Frozen Heart, Melting Kiss

I wanted to like this a lot more than I actually did. The premise sounded cute but the execution just wasn’t there. 90% of the book is repetitive exposition from the MC’s inner monologs and it just wasn’t that interesting the 15th time. I never felt like the MCs formed any kind of meaningful connect......more

I really wanted to like this more than I did. It has all the ingredients for a delicious dish. An emotionally remote and scarred hero. Tick A needy heroine willing to do anything for love and acceptance. Tick Sweet cottage in the English countryside to hang out in. Tick Two people stuck together in a k......more

The character descriptions should have been catnip for me but left me meh instead. A whole, whole lot in the major breakthrough sense happened without my knowing when, why, or how, beyond being told so. That was most of the book--a lot of being told what was happening and how they felt, not being sh......more

FROZEN HEART, MELTING KISSES by debut author Ellie Darkins is a Harlequin Romance release for September 2014. Maya Hartney signs Will Thomas for one of her cooking classes as he finds nothing good in her cooking! But she hadn’t counted on the closeness and the chemistry which would spark up between t......more

The hero is as closed off as any I've ever read, refusing to even enjoy food, which insults the heroine. She refuses to cook for anyone who won't like her food, and when she declines the catering job, it gets the hero in trouble with his boss. So he calls to see how he can fix things, and she will t......more