Alexa Martin burst into the romance scene with Intercepted, a frothy pop-culture fueled heroine-centric romance about a biracial woman finding her way. I inhaled it. But each of the subsequent books in this series wowed me less and less. In this one Martin takes on racism and player pensions which feels out of step givenRead the Post
F/F Romance Mini Reviews
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
Audiobook Review: Cowboy Untamed by Vicki Lewis Thompson
When I started listening to this book in late March I was just getting used to working from home. We were going into lockdown and I found myself spending less time in my car where I did most of my audiobook listening. I wanted something short and light that I didn’t have to get too investedRead the Post
Harlequin Category Mini Reviews!
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
Syncopation by Anna Zabo
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
Virgin Territory by Lia Riley (Hellion Angels #3)
Rating: ★★★ +.5 | 149 pages | Avon Impulse | Contemporary Romance | 03/06/18 I’m a sucker for the virgin hero trope, it’s a rare one and I really like it in M/F romance because it subverts the typical gender expectations. After getting into a bar fight with a scummy lawyer, hot-headed pro hockey goalieRead the Post