Review of Matzah Ball Surprise

Matzah Ball Surprise by Laura Brown. Entangled Lovestruck. 2020. Take a moment just to look at the cover for this book. This cover makes me incredibly happy. It is so rare to find covers for romances that have such clear Jewish representation. The Jewish couple on this cover are gorgeous together, cheerful, have amazing chemistry, …

Fave Romance Novels I Read in 2019

This year, I am splitting off my favorite romances into two posts: favorite romance novels and favorite romance novellas and novelettes. This post lists my favorite romance novels I read in 2019. (Not all of them were published in 2019, of course.) It includes mostly new reads, with a few notable rereads. If you want …

Review of Forever Strong

Forever Strong by Piper J Drake. Forever. 2020. This is book six in a series of romantic suspense novels, True Heroes, where working dogs are central to the story. This can absolutely work as a stand alone, but my reading experience was enriched by the prior books I had read, so I'd recommend starting at …

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 …

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 …

Character Interview with June and Selena from Soft on Soft

I adored Soft on Soft by Mina Waheed! I fell so hard for both of the MCs, and really enjoyed watching them get together. This is an f/f contemporary romance between two fat queer women of color, and it has lovely fat representation that made me happy. I appreciated the demisexual rep and the anxiety rep …

Book and Snack Pairing: Chips Made with Avocado Oil

My plan for this Book and Snack Pairing post series is to taste snacks (two new and one old favorite) and pair them with romances (two recent first time reads and one old favorite). The romances reflect my reading habits, so they tend contemporary, and are a mix of pairings. I am marking the ones …

Best Reads in March 2018

This post gives a list of my favorite books I read in March 2018. It definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance. I am marking the audiobooks with an (A), and there were a lot of them this month, more than usual, because my brain fog was especially bad, which has me leaning to audiobooks …

Review of The Better to Kiss You With

The Better to Kiss You With by Michelle Osgood. Interlude Press 2016. 4 stars I enjoyed this quite a bit. Fun, funny, geeky, hot. Butch/femme romance, told from the POV of the femme character. I love that basically everyone we meet in the book is queer. There is one moment, early on, that felt off …

Fluffy Romance with Little to No Sex on the Page

I've gotten a couple requests recently for romances that are fluffy comfort reads with little to no sex on the page, so I thought I'd put together a quick recommendation post for this. Comfort reads are an individual thing, so I went with gathering things that I consider fluffy, which I loosely define as: not …