Fave New Romances Jan-Mar 2019

Here are my fave new-to-me romances I read in the first quarter of 2018, grouped by trope. I limited myself to selecting three at most from each author. A bunch of these books were by new-to-me authors! I love finding new backlists to check out. This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but also …

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Summer 2019 Releases I’m Anticipating

Here are some books I'm excited about that are coming out June-August 2019. Disclosure: All links to Amazon will be affiliate ones. If you buy through those links, I will make a small amount of money on that sale (which I plan to use to buy books to review), but it will not add any to …

Best Reads April 2019

This post gives a list of my favorite books I read in April 2019. I ended up reading quite a few books that didn't work for me, and a bunch of books that were kinda okay but that I wasn't especially excited about recommending, so this list is a bit shorter than usual. This list …

Review of Rafe: The Buff Male Nanny

Rafe: The Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah Weatherspoon. 2018 Read by Lacey Laurel. Content Warnings for review: References to an abusive relationship in the past and sex on the page. Hilarious, hot, and full of heart, this romance between a surgeon and her new nanny for her twin daughters feels exactly like the domestic sweetness …

Review of Rogue Ever After

Rogue Ever After (anthology). 2019. Rogue Ever After is the seventh and final book in a series of collections of resistance romance, and one of my favorites. Rogue Ever After (2 f/f, 1 m/m, 1 f/f/f, and 4 m/f stories) is more queer than some of the previous collections, containing five stories with queer MCs, including an …

Review of Fumbled

Fumbled by Alexa Martin. Berkeley. 2019. Content Warnings for review: Discussion of ableism and internalized ableism. Brief references to misogyny, cissexism, queer antagonism, anti-sex work sentiment. Brief discussion of stalking, hero's controlling behavior. Note: I do not recommend this book to disabled readers. I wanted to read this because I enjoyed Intercepted and was looking …

Review of Appetites and Vices

Appetites and Vices by Felicia Grossman. Carina Press. 2019 Content Warnings for review: discussion of ableism, Anti-Semitism, and sex.  I wanted to read this because it is a historical romance centering a Jewish MC, written by a Jewish author, and ownvoices romances with Jewish MCs are hard to come by, particularly historical romances. I was …

March Update: Hockey Romance Read

So one of the things I decided to do this year was to embark upon a reading project focused on hockey romances. I am going to do a monthly post with mini-reviews of the hockey romances I've read this year, note DNFs in a separate section, and include general observances as I explore this new-to-me …

Best Reads March 2019

This post gives a (belated) list of my favorite books I read in March 2019. (Sorry for posting so late, I got overwhelmed in early April.) This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but also includes speculative fiction, picture books, romantic suspense, crime/mystery, and a graphic novel. I am putting the audiobooks in …

Recs for A-Spec Representation in Contemporary Romance

For #AspecApril I wanted to do a list of contemporary genre romances with ace spec and aro spec representation that I liked, because I know some a-spec readers are really looking for books like this, particularly folks who enjoy reading romance. This isn't meant to be an exhaustive list of ace and aro spec rep …