I made a resolution last year that's carrying into this
year to read more different book. To not turn down a
genre just because I think I'm not going to like it, but
instead to give it a try and actually determine if that
is for me or Read more...
Right, okay. *Takes deep breath* Honest reviews, right?
That's the deal here. So let me be honest - STEALING THE
BACHELOR
didn't work for me. I
trudged through it because I made a commitment to review
it, and I take those seriously. I found the book
cloying and frustrating Read more...
One of my resolutions is to be more careful about making
sure
I read books which are about characters of color and/or
by authors of color. I've been following the calls for
diversity and the pushbacks saying there is already
tons of diversity, but we're simply not Read more...
A few days ago, I was reading this sumptuous novel and my
husband was talking to me. Or so he says he was, I have
no recollection of it. He could have been telling me
there were cats having tea on our ceiling and I would
paid him no mind Read more...
I like YA a lot, but ROMANCING THE NERD didn't work for me,
and I think it was the voices of the characters
themselves. For me, putting this one in first person took
away from understanding or empathizing with them -
especially Dan. I had a hard time connecting
with Read more...
INTO THE FURY is the first book in Kat Martin's newest
series. As per usual with Martin, it involves Alpha
males, strong ladies who first appear soft, an edge-of-
your-seat suspense peppered with sexual interludes
between aforementioned dudes and ladies. If you've loved
Martin before, you Read more...
DIRTY DEEDS, while the third story in the series, is a
delightful capsule
novel that can be read at any point in the arch-narrative.
I've read a few
other stories in this series and so I really enjoyed
checking in on some
former friends, as it were, but Read more...
Here's the basic summary of IN LOVE WITH PARIS: everything
is wonderful, all
dreams come true and nothing bad is permanently bad. In
that way, it is
the ultimate escapist fantasy. There is no real conflict,
no real tension, and
there are some folks who will
lap this right Read more...
Y'all! This book is so delightful!
I've dipped in and out of the Spindle Cover series
(I
seem to have
missed one or two, entirely by accident and this will be
rectified soon), but it's wonderful. Tessa Dare is a
queen of the genre for Read more...
I have been super skeptical of MC books, worried that the
Alpha grunting of it all would just turn me off. I
avoided the genre in its totality for ages, citing that I
hated Sons of Anarchy and the roar of a Harley did
nothing to jump start Read more...
Y'all, this book is about a woman whose job is to make
chocolate better for us all. In other words, this book is
about a saint. So of course I was rooting for her to find
her happily ever after, especially after that HEA is
going to be with Read more...
This is a great story about two people are clearly
perfect for each other but have a boatload of baggage to
get through first. Chase and Hope met ages ago and had a
torrid affair which concluded with her moving to Canada
and Chase moving to Texas to be at Read more...
THE ROCK is the latest in Monica McCarty's Highland
Guard
series about the group of elite soldiers, spies and
healers who supported and surrounded Robert the Bruce in
his bid to free Scotland from King Edward of England.
Edward, for the record, was a right jerk to Read more...
Before I say anything else, let me say this: if you are a
fan of historical romance and have not read Monica
McCarty, what the heck are you doing?! This oversight is
only forgivable if you've either never heard of her. Other than that, welcome
to your new favorite Read more...
REBEL COWBOY is fundamentally about two people loosing their
identities and finding new ones together. As said
identities are hard wired into who Mel and Dan are as people,
the destruction and reconstruction is a super hard
process. They fight both it and each other before
stumbling towards that happily Read more...
I struggled with this one. Not only in the
reading of it, but in the writing of this review. So let
me get this out of the way before I dive in: I did not
enjoy this book, and I don't think that's my fault.
There Read more...
One of the things I'm trying to focus on in my reading is
making sure that not all of the heroes and heroines in
the books I'm reading look the same. I'm trying to read
from different time periods and different countries,
realizing that since I so Read more...
DUKES PREFER BLONDES is so much fun! I read it while I was
on a business trip.
which involved a load of flights and found myself biting
the inside of my
lip to keep from laughing right out loud at the banter
between our hero,
Raven, and our heroine, Clara Read more...
Bess and Daniel have history and it keeps getting in the
way of the future in this fun and sweet book, A SAVANNAH CHRISTMAS WISH, the
second set in the Fitzgerald B&B.
I'm a bit of a sucker for B&B/hotel stories, which
probably has a lot Read more...
I am an avid supporter of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign. As a
heterosexual, Caucasian lady, I know that while a lot of romance
characters look like me, not all readers do. I'm also a curvy lady, so I love reading
about body positive heroines. I know nothing of the experience Read more...
Their profession is based on discipline and focus, which usually, shall we say, flows over into other areas, haha! Plus, all the reasons you listed above for sure.
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