Fave Romance Novellas & Novelettes I Read in 2019

Starting last year, I began splitting off my favorite romances into two posts: favorite romance novels and favorite romance novellas and novelettes. This post gives a rather long list of 50 of my favorite romance novellas and novelettes I read in 2019. (Not all of them were published in 2019, of course.) It focuses on …

Review of Frostbite

Frostbite by J. Emery. 2019. I really enjoyed this vampire/monster hunter snowed in New Years m/m romance! It's full of tropetastic goodness, lovely chemistry, and hits the enemies to lovers aspect just right. I fell really hard for queer fem vampire Ezra in his heels and poutiness, and I also adored the monster hunter Morgan …

#PrideLibrary19 Day 7: Blue Books

I thought I'd share some books from my TBR list for day 7, which focuses on blue covers. All the books on this list are queer and/or trans and/or non-binary; I tried to have a bit of a cross-section, identity-wise and genre-wise. Note: I am using affiliate links to Amazon. If you buy through those links, I …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Alpha Recs: H

Recently, the wonderful Dahlia Adler did a thread on Twitter where she recommended five good books for each letter in the alphabet. She suggested I might do a similar set of recs, and that sounded like a lot of fun to me, so I have decided to do a weekly series of alphabet-based book recommendations. Here is …

Review of Coffee Boy

Coffee Boy by Austin Chant. NineStar Press. 2016. Content Warnings for review: discussion of trans antagonism, misgendering and sex I recently finished my third read of this book, and it is absolutely my go-to reread when I need a dependable trans romance comfort reread that I know I will love. This read, I was particularly struck …