Alexa Riley ramps up the passion and intensity in her first full-length novel Everything For Her. A man’s singular pursuit of his perfect woman is romantic escapism at its best and I was quickly swept up in the emotional fervor of the story. Written with a wink to the fantastic but grounded in the reality…
I should have loved Downed. Everything about it appeals: I like the author, love sports romances and I enjoyed the first two books in the Gridiron series. But unfortunately, Ms. Frederick fumbled the ball this time out. Her heroine, Bryant Johnson, is such an exaggerated version of the stereotypically sweet, “southern” (come on!) sorority girl,…
So I was reading Looking Inside more or less swimmingly until I came across this: “Her long, slightly bent legs slid along his suede bedspread.” Suede? Suede?? As a BEDSPREAD??? That was it. I totally lost it. It goes without saying that I’d suspend reality for a story about a voyeuristic inner-sex-kitten librarian who works at museum and…
After reading The Bronte Plot on a whim, I was impressed by the fantastic character arcs created by the author and I enjoyed the historical literary references sprinkled throughout the text. When Reay’s latest novel, A Portrait of Emily Price showed up on my radar, I couldn’t resist giving it a try. I’m glad I…
I wanted to love this book. I’ve liked the other two books in the series despite my normal “eh” response to most New Adult. I’ve liked the hero, Zach, in the other books and love the “virgin hero” trope. But, it was not to be. For starters, the premise of this book didn’t work for…
Marisol Gutierrez travels to the U.S. to pitch their nonprofit at a grant conference. The competition is stiff, Marisol is not usually the organization’s spokesperson, and she is especially nervous to do it all in her second language of English, but has stepped in at the last minute and is determined to do well. The…
Christmas is a time for miracles, family, and happiness. This fourth book of The Charmed Amish Life series tells the story of bad boy Levi Kinsinger, who’s returned home in time to celebrate Christmas with his family – and the season has a miracle in store for him. When Levi’s father suffered a sudden and…
Meg Cabot always makes me laugh. What distinguishes her best books from her less successful efforts is the depth of characterization behind the humor. Unfortunately, The Boy Is Back ranks among her less successful and shallower efforts. This is a story told entirely through text sources (text messages, emails, newspaper clippings, etc) which always has…
“I want you to fuck me,” opens Marie Force’s Sex Machine, a phrase spoken by heroine Honey Carmichael to hero Blake Dempsey which sets the reader to smirking and the hero to stuttering. Things really don’t let up from there as the novella progresses though Blake and Honey’s relationship, which begins as a sexual bargain…
A Change of Heart is my second Sonali Dev novel; I enjoyed The Bollywood Bride, and had high hopes for this one. Unfortunately, the misleading categorization (women’s fiction) and my assumption that like its predecessor (which is linked to this story), it was a romance, left me confused about what was happening at the start…