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From First Page To HEA

3.5 stars, Celebrities, Contemporary, LGBTQIA, M/M, Review

Syncopation by Anna Zabo

February 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

Rating: ★★★ + .5| 295 pages | Contemporary Romance | Carina Press | Release Date: 4/19/18 Ray Van Zeller, the lead singer of Twisted Wishes, needs a new drummer and the last person he expects to walk into auditions is Zavier Demos. Zavier is a Juilliard trained timpanist–and the guy who rejected Ray when he asked him toRead the Post

3.5 stars, 4 stars, Black Romance, Contemporary, F/F, LGBTQIA, Mini Reviews, Review

Black Romance Novellas

December 31, 2018 Leave a Comment

I finished off my romance reading year with these two novellas featuring Black characters. I think we can forget there is so much diversity within capital D  Diversity and these two novellas showcase the diversity in Black romance with each character being from a different part of the diaspora. Former exotic dancer Cinnamon “Cin” BradleyRead the Post

3.5 stars, Contemporary, Review, Sports

Intercepted by Alexa Martin

November 29, 2018 Leave a Comment

  Rating: ★★★ +.5  | Playbook #1 | 308 pages | Berkley | Contemporary | 9/11/2018   When Marlee Harper catches her NFL wide receiver boyfriend cheating she calls it quits on the whole “football girlfriend” life to do bad all by herself. Unfortunately, she can’t fight her attraction to the team’s enticing new quarterback, Gavin Pope. ButRead the Post

3.5 stars, Black Romance, Review, Suspense

Secrets and Lies by Selena Montgomery

November 8, 2018 Leave a Comment

Rating: ★★★ +.5 | 384 pages | Avon | Romantic Suspense |  Release Date: 12/26/2006 Stealing an ancient manuscript from an eccentric South American antiquities collector should be an easy task for expert “recovery specialist” (okay, thief) Sebastian Caine. But when he stumbles across a murder scene he finds himself teaming up with ethnobotanist Dr. Kat LydaRead the Post

3.5 stars, East Asian, Genre, Low Heat, Multicultural, Paranormal, Review, Romantic Elements

Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn

October 17, 2018 Leave a Comment

  Rating: ★★★ + .5  | Release Date: 7/05/16 | Paranormal Romance | 378 Pages | DAW Books When demon portals appear in San Francisco  Aveda Jupiter (aka 26-year-old Annie Chang) becomes the city’s resident superheroine. But when a broken ankle takes Aveda out of the game she turns to Evie Tanaka, her reluctant assistant, andRead the Post

3.5 stars, Contemporary, Review

Asking for It by Lilah Pace

September 26, 2018 Leave a Comment

Rating: ★★★+.5| 336 pages | Berkley | Contemporary Romance | 06/02/2015 Trigger Warning: Rape as backstory and Rape Play I’ve been reading a lot of romance novels this year and sometimes it can all get a little same-y. I was looking for something more boundary-pushing and when I saw this in the library I decidedRead the Post

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