Going Public is a story about a personal assistant who worships his kind but distant boss and the boss who slowly falls for him. It’s not a dynamic that’ll work for everyone, and sometimes it didn’t work for me here. Overall, the book is just a little dry, especially due to its strong focus on…
Dating Dr. Dil was something I definitely didn’t expect it to be – goofy. Example: the hero nicknames his penis “Charlie” and never tells the heroine, so the reader is forever subjected to scenes of internal monologue featuring Charlie jumping in delight in his pants at the sight of her. As always, Nisha Sharma writes…
Jasmine Guillory’s sweet, charming new novel, By the Book, is a modern-day retelling of a beloved fairy tale that is sure to delight fans of the author – and make her some new ones. This novel is listed as the second in the Meant to Be series which are novels based on various fairy tales….
In the Face of the Sun is an engrossing family saga filled with heartbreak and love, victory, forgiveness, and loss, and a wonderful character study of several unforgettable women. It is 1968, and a pregnant Frankie Saunders is leaving Chicago, abandoning an abusive marriage to the violent, controlling Jackson with the help of a ride…
Business Not As Usual is a story for the every-person. You, slugging away at your coffee, stuck in a dead end job, living in a bad neighborhood, dealing with crappy relatives. This is your book, and if you wanna escape into a fluffy Cinderella fantasy, you’re going to enjoy it. The wonderfully-named Dreamy Daniels has…
The final instalment of Vanessa Riley’s Rogues and Remarkable Women series, A Duke, the Spy, an Artist and a Lie suffers from and yet thrives upon the one thing that pushes the story forward: the utter inability of the hero and heroine to sit down and tell each other the truth. It’s the weakest of…
Olga Dies Dreaming is a lot of things. An urgent remark upon America’s colonization of Puerto Rico and subsequent refusal to allow them state’s rights. A character study about two siblings, one closeted and HIV positive, the other coming into her own as a Latina woman who won’t settle for white standards of what is…
Kamila Knows Best is a gently funny, charming romcom that upends Jane Austen’s Emma and has a lot of fun with its energetic heroine and engaging premise. Kamila Hussain is a Toronto accountant with a warm, closely-knit friend circle and an Instagram-famous dog, Darcy. She’s popular, happy and successful, she adores her father and tries…
Seressia Glass’s The Love Con indicated the author is someone who gets geek culture, so I was curious to see how she’d do as the author of an urban fantasy series. Shadow Blade is quite competent, with dashes of excellence. Kira Solomon is a Shadowchaser, dedicated to fighting forces of Shadow on behalf of the…
Homicide and Halo-Halo is the second book in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen cozy mystery series, a set of novels that revolve around a young restauranteur solving crimes in the small town of Shady Palms, IL. I would strongly recommend reading the tales in order since a lot of the character building and relationship building between…