Oh, my heart. I loved this book. I see the Christian side of my family reflected very often in romance, and in fiction in general. However, very rarely do I see stories where I recognize the Jewish side of the family. Matzah Ball Surprise is just such a book. It’s sweet, hilarious, uplifting, and made me…
If you’re a fan of LGBTQ paranormal romances, and especially those featuring shifters, then Mia West is an author who should be on your reading list! Having first picked up her work with the Alaskan set Grizzly Rim series featuring native wildlife of the area (including my first ever book with an eagle shifter), I…
Kacen Callender’s funny, flawed, authentic story of young love and broken arms, This is Kind of an Epic Love Story focuses on the messy complexities of romance, friend-love and parental love in all of its frustrating, confusing forms. Seattle-raised sixteen-year-old high school junior Nathan Bird, stuck mending a broken arm in the middle of the…
A Notorious Vow is the third and final book in Joanna Shupe’s Four Hundred series, but don’t worry if you haven’t yet read the first two as this one stands perfectly well on its own. The couple from A Daring Arrangement (book one), makes a brief appearance here and I enjoyed catching up with them,…
I’m always on the lookout for books featuring competent, true-to-life characters with disabilities. Unfortunately, these aren’t as easy to find as one might think. So, when I heard about Not A Sound, the latest novel from author Heather Gudenkauf, I was eager to get my hands on it. Ms. Gudenkauf crafts wonderfully suspenseful novels, and…
This second volume of erotic short stories written by women is an interesting collection that ranges from erotic romance to erotic horror, mainly with a D/s or bondage-centric themes. The quality of the content varies quite widely; so while the book contains twenty-one stories, I’ve selected the best and worst of the bunch to give…
I’m not sure why it took me so long to read Tessa Dare. She’s certainly a well-respected historical romance author. This is largely why I selected Three Nights With a Scoundrel to review, and man, am I glad I did. I loved every page. When Lady Lily Chatwick’s twin brother Leo is murdered, she is…
I admit it. I like World War II stories, and there aren’t many romance novels set in that era. I guess the 1930s and 1940s aren’t far enough in the past to be truly “historical,” but they aren’t recent enough to be “contemporary.” And all too often they have tragic endings. The Conway sisters Polly,…
When I think of Sandra Brown, I think of page-turners. Her books aren’t always good, but they are always exciting and hard to put down. At least, that was true until she wrote Unspeakable. In Unspeakable, we have a small southern town, a folksy retired sheriff, an unsolved murder, some revenge-bent escaped convicts, some sleazy…
When I finished Unspeakable, my first instinct was to take it to the bookstore and get my money back (which I still intend to do). As I’ve been trying to write this review, analyzing why I didn’t like this book, I keep finding myself thinking, “Well, I guess it wasn’t that awful.” The best I…