Review – Page 16

3.5 stars, Black Romance, Contemporary, LGBTQIA, Review

Acting on Love by Te Russ

August 23, 2019 Leave a Comment

Rating: ★★★+.5 | 297 pages | Contemporary Romance | Self-Pub | Release Date: 4/3/2018 After a sex scandal throws a wrench in her career, actress Rocki Malone returns to her hometown with her childhood neighbor/bodyguard Seth Gardiner in tow. To keep her matchmaking mother off her back, Rocki tells her she and Seth are datingRead the Post

4 stars, Contemporary, LGBTQIA, M/M, New Adult, Review

Him by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy

July 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

Rating: ★★★★ | 8 hours 4 min. | Sports Romance | Self-Pub | Release Date: 7/28/2015 I enjoy the occasional hockey romance even though my knowledge of hockey goes as far as this Chance The Rapper sketch on SNL and that Twitter thread where a Black guy discovered hockey. I was scrolling through AudibleRead the Post

4 stars, Contemporary, Interracial, Review

Tikka Chance on Me by Suleikha Snyder

July 11, 2019 Leave a Comment

Rating: ★★★★| 72 pages | Contemporary | Self-Pub | Release Date: 11/13/2018 Grad student Pinky Grover temporarily returns to her small Midwestern hometown to help run the family’s Indian restaurant and is surprised to discover the local biker gang has made themselves regulars. Everyone in town knows The Eagles Motorcycle club is dangerous including theirRead the Post

3 stars, Contemporary, Review, Romantic Elements

The Matchmaker’s List by Sonya Lalli

July 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

Rating:★★★ | 352 pages | Contemporary | Berkley Romance | Release Date: 2/5/2019 29-year-old Indian-Canadian Raina has met every expectation of a good Indian girl–except marriage. Raina’s secretly nursing a broken heart and isn’t ready for marriage but reluctantly agrees to let her grandmother start matchmaking. Thematically I liked this book. It’s about a womanRead the Post

2 stars, Contemporary, Interracial, Review

Writing Her In by Holley Trent

July 7, 2019 Leave a Comment

Rating: ★★ | 224 pages | Carina Press | Contemporary Romance | Release Date: 03/26/2019 When bestselling mystery writer Stacia Leonard gets an unexpected DM from Adrien Valliere, her book’s cover model, the last thing she expects is an indecent proposal of sorts. Adrien’s wife, Dara, doesn’t experience sexual attraction to him so they’ve agreed to openRead the Post

3 stars, Review

I Am Justice by Diana Muñoz Stewart

July 7, 2019 Leave a Comment

Content Warning: Rape and Sexual Abuse of Minors, Human Trafficking, Infanticide Rating: ★★★ | 359 pages | Romantic Suspense | Sourcebooks Casablanca | 5/1/2018 As far as the public knows, Mukta Parish uses her immense wealth and power to run her foundation and an elite private school for girls. In reality, the school is a coverRead the Post