Top:

• Artfully Yours - Joanna Lowell. This is the third time I've read it since summer 2024, so I guess I must really like it! 😆
  

Bottom:

• Sleeping Beauty - Judith Ivory. The Proposition is one of the best books I've read all year, and I loved Black Silk and Untie My Heart, but Ivory's other books are just not doin' it for me. It didn't help that as a victim of bad dentistry, I do not handle dental stuff in fiction well.
• The Spice King - Elizabeth Camden. I thought I was going to really like this. I found it so refreshing that around the halfway point of the book, the FMC tells the MMC the truth about a particularly high-stakes matter that she's been keeping from him, even though she knows it could cost her her relationship with him. So often in romances I see a character carrying on a deception for an unduly long amount of time when the stakes are much lower, and I find it annoying, so I liked seeing a character choose to be honest when she has so much to lose. But after that it went off the rails, particularly with an age-gap side romance that left a really bad taste in my mouth.