#RomBkLove: Musician/Singer/Composer MCs

This post is part of #RomBkLove, a month-long Twitter event where folks share their recs for romances that fit particular themes. My theme for today is romances with MCs that are musicians, singers and composers. I love romances that center music not just because I love singing and playing music, but also because I love the …

Fave Jewish Rep in Romances I Read 2018-2019

At the beginning of 2018 I deliberately went seeking Jewish representation in romance, and had intended to do a post sharing my faves, but didn't manage it. So I thought I'd start a new yearly tradition. This post lists my favorite romances with Jewish representation that I read in 2018-2019, organized by trope. (Not all …

Best Reads January 2020

This post gives a list of my favorite books I read in January 2020. This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but also includes paranormal romance, non-fiction, romantic suspense, SFF romance, YA fantasy, and historical fantasy romance. I am putting the audiobooks in a separate category. I link to reviews where I have …

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 …

Fave Winter Holiday Romances 2019

I did a post at the end of 2017 recommending a bunch of holiday romance. This is the 2019 edition of holiday romance recommendations, even though it is being posted in January 2020, right at the tail end of the winter holidays. Please forgive the delay! I'm hoping you might still be interested in winter …

My top dozen 2019 m/m romances

This list is focused on m/m romances released in 2019. I'm listing these in alphabetical order by title, except for the last one which I'm listing separately, as it's a bit of a cheat. This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary adult romance, but there is a graphic novel, a romantic suspense, a historical …

Review of Wolf Rain

Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh. Berkeley. 2019. Content Warnings for review: Discussion of ableism and internalized ableism. Discussion of trauma and torture.  Note: I do not recommend this book to disabled readers, and recommend particular caution to neurodivergent readers, especially readers with mental illness. So, I finally read my first Psy-Changeling novel.  I've read and …

Best Reads November-December 2019

This post gives a list of my favorite books I read in November-December 2019. This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but also includes paranormal romance, contemporary fantasy romance, YA romance, romantic suspense, and science fiction romance. I am putting the audiobooks in a separate category. I link to reviews where I have …

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 …

Best Reads August-October 2019

This post gives a list of my favorite books I read in August, September, and October 2019. (I usually do a separate post for each month but wasn't able to this time. I'm glad to have finally gotten this post up!) This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but also includes paranormal romance, …