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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

3 stars, Black Romance, Contemporary, Low Heat, Multicultural, Review

Audiobook Review: Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson

September 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

IDK why I keep trying with these Berkley books.  I really try to come at them with an open mind but by the time I got to the end of this one I was just annoyed with everybody. Real Men Knit probably has one of the best log lines of 2020: Four brothers begrudgingly comeRead the Post

Black Romance, Book List, Historical, Suspense

Tropes & Sensibility: Next Door Neighbor

September 18, 2020 Leave a Comment

Welcome to a new feature where we talk about and give romance recommendations based on a much-loved romance trope! This Next Door Neighbor trope is a close cousin to Forced Proximity because it requires the heroes or heroines to be in the same place. It’s the perfect way to throw together two characters who mayRead the Post

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Harlequin Category Mini Reviews!

September 12, 2020 Leave a Comment

I was fortunate enough to wether the beginning of the shutdown working from home and one of the things I did at lunch is read some books in my basket of category romances. Body Check by Elle Kennedy Elle Kennedy is a much-loved author on this blog and this is an interesting library sale findRead the Post

3 stars, 3.5 stars, Black Romance, Genre, Interracial, Latinx, Mini Reviews, Review

Kindle Unlimited Readathon Mini Reviews

January 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

White Whiskey Bargain by Jodie Slaughter The Hawkins and Meza families have been dominating the moonshine business in the Kentucky mountains for generations. When an outside force threatens their livelihood, the families draw up a marriage of convenience between Hawkins family leader Hannah and Javier the recently divorced son of the Meza patriarch. Javier wantsRead the Post

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