Fave Valentine’s Day Themed Romances 2020

This post lists my favorite Valentine's Day-themed romances I read this year.   These recs definitely show my bias towards contemporary romance of all flavors; it includes erotic romance, Western romance, and romantic comedy. You may also be interested in my 2018 Valentine's Day's romance recs list and my 2019 list, which include other subgenres. I link …

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 …

Double Review: Every New Year and Grand Theft N.Y.E.

Every New Year by Katrina Jackson. 2019. & Grand Theft N.Y.E, by Katrina Jackson. 2019. Katrina Jackson has given romance readers not one but two New Years romances to close out 2019 and they are both wonderful! Every New Year is an angsty friends to lovers billionaire romance full of pining and heat, and I …

Review of Bear with Me

Bear with Me by Lucy Eden. 2019. This is a cute, fun shifter romance novelette centering a social media influencer who is trying to save her career after a post-break up public meltdown, so she goes to a cabin in the woods, documents it for her followers, and ends up falling for a bear shifter. …

My 2019 Summer Romance #RippedBodiceBingo TBR

This is a bingo created by the Los Angeles romance bookstore, The Ripped Bodice! It runs from June 1-August 31. For each row you complete, you can enter to win prizes!   Here is my TBR for this challenge! All romances, of course. I am selecting several potential options for each square because options help me, …

#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 …

New Years Romance Reads

While I didn't do a full-on winter holiday romance list for 2018, I thought I might start off 2019 with a New Years Romance recs list. It definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but there is a smattering of romsusp and historical romance too. I read a bunch of holiday romances to get to this …

Alpha Recs: A

Yesterday, the wonderful Dahlia Adler did a thread on Twitter where she recommended 5 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. (I'm …

Best Reads November-December 2018

This (rather belated) post gives a list of my favorite books I read in November and December 2018. I had a lot of disability flares in November and December, including a lot of brain fog, and that in combination with my bent for holiday romances makes this list full of novellas and novelettes, mostly. This …

Review of From Scratch

From Scratch by Katrina Jackson. 2017.  I found this contemporary m/m/f polyamorous erotic romance utterly delightful! It has so many things I love, all together in one fluffy package: a lovely meet-cute, a really sweet friends to lovers arc, humor, heat, heart, baked goods, queerness, excellent friendships, polyamory, stellar fat representation. I laughed out loud …