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3.5 stars, Historical, Review, Virgin Hero

The Lord I Left By Scarlett Peckham

December 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

I feel like at one point last year Scarlett Peckham’s Charlotte Street series was EVERYWHERE and being billed as a subversive historical romance series. I mean just look at the covers. They trade in the usually bright, colorful, swirling dresses for a more detailed desaturated look. If Scarlett Peckham is the next evolution of historicalRead the Post

3.5 stars, Celebrities, Contemporary, Review

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

December 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

For 7 years Marcus Caster Rupp played Aneas on Gods of The Gates, a high-budget fantasy television show based on a popular book series. He’s also secretly Book!AneasWouldNever, a prolific writer in the Gods of The Gates’ fanfic community. When geologist April Whittier is harassed online for posting her cosplay of Marcus’ onscreen love interest,Read the Post

3.5 stars, 4 stars, 5 stars, Black Romance, Contemporary, FP, Interracial, Latinx, Low Heat, Review

Mini Reviews: Firefighter Romance

December 2, 2020 Comment : 1

I randomly started binge-watching NBC’s Chicago Fire and it made me want to check out some firefighter romance. I still haven’t finished the show so no spoilers! Riding the Storm by Brenda Jackson (The Westmorelands #5) While on business in New Orleans the last person Fire Captain Storm Westmoreland expects to see is Jayla Cole–the daughterRead the Post

3.5 stars, Contemporary, Review

Audiobook Review: Instant Gratification by Lauren Blakely

November 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

I’ve been listening to the Audibly Addicted podcast and they talk a lot about duet narration audiobooks–where narrators read all the dialogue assigned to their character. This is relatively new to me and seems to be a popular narration style in the indie romance world. Lauren Blakley takes this to a whole new level withRead the Post

2.5 stars, 3.5 stars, 5 stars, Black Romance, Celebrities, Contemporary, East Asian, Erotic, F/F, FP, Interracial, LGBTQIA, Millionaires & Billionaires, Mini Reviews, Multicultural, Review

F/F Romance Mini Reviews

October 21, 2020 Leave a Comment

Something To Talk About by Meryl Wilsner This debut tells the slo-o-o-o-w burn romance between a Chinese-American showrunner in her 40s and her younger assistant. A Hollywood workplace romance with this kind of power dynamic may sound cringe but Wilsner navigates it effectively. Still, I could never fully engage with this one. I found theRead the Post

3.5 stars, Black Romance, Contemporary, Harlequin Category, Review, Royalty

Audiobook Review: Delaney’s Desert Sheikh by Brenda Jackson

October 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

This is the first book in Jackson’s sprawling Westmoreland series and, even though it debuted in 2002, be warned it has some extremely dated and problematic elements. Namely… the sheikh thing. I do think Jackson handles the sheikh element somewhat deftly. The titular sheikh is of mixed ethnicity from a fictional Arabic and African countryRead the Post