Review of Team Phison Forever

Team Phison Forever by Chace Verity. 2019. Content Warnings for review: discussion of abusive family, familial estrangement, depression Team Phison Forever gave me so many feelings. It was rather different, and substantially more angsty when compared to Team Phison, which I also really enjoyed, as a fluffy cozy grumpy/sunshine geek foodie romance between two queer …

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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 …

2019 Autistic Pride Readathon TBR

Becca from BeccasBookRealm is hosting an Autistic Pride Month readathon this April (#AutisticPrideReadathon) and this is my TBR! I like to have options for reading challenges, so I'm including four for each category. I am marking the books/stories with #ActuallyAutistic authors with two asterisks**. These books lean to romance, YA and SFF as my reading does (esp romance). I …

Alpha Recs: G

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 …

Review of Criminal Intentions: Junk Shop Blues

Criminal Intentions: Junk Shop Blues by Cole McCade. 2018. Content Warnings for review: Discussion of trauma and sex.  This is episode 2 in a contemporary police procedural slow burn m/m romance between homicide detectives on the Baltimore PD. It's incredibly queer and complex and I have been excited about it since I first heard the …

Fave Valentine’s Day Themed Romances 2019

This post lists my favorite Valentine's Day-themed romances I read since last Valentine's Day's list. I tried 30 romances to get to this list! These recs definitely show my bias towards contemporary romance, but there are romsusp and paranormal romances included as well. I link to reviews where I have written them; and also where …

Review of Her Christmas Cookie

Her Christmas Cookie by Katrina Jackson. 2018. Her Christmas Cookie is the fourth book in the Welcome to Seaport series by Katrina Jackson. All of the books are wonderful. This book will be much more satisfying if you read it after reading From Scratch, which is a delight and definitely worth the read regardless. It …

An Excerpt from The Prince and Her Dreamer

I'm so thrilled to share an excerpt from The Prince and Her Dreamer by Kayla Bashe! This f/demigirl Nutcracker retelling looks wonderful and is out on December 12, 2018. The Clara in this story is autistic, and the author has written about how writing this story was part of their own self acceptance of their non-binary …

Cover Reveal for Wrapped Up In You by Ceillie Simkiss

  I am thrilled to be part of a cover reveal for Wrapped Up In You, the sequel to Learning Curves that comes out December 14! It's always fun to revisit couples from romances I enjoyed, and I'm excited for another Christmas with these two awesome characters. (You may recall that I interviewed Ceillie Simkiss about Learning …