I have been in a complete reading slump. I am in the middle of three contemporary romances right now, and while I intend to finish all of them, none of them are holding my attention. Historicals were my first love, and will always be the thing I come back to. But, the more I read, the crankier I get and it just gets harder and harder to please me. I want the author to do something new! Something different that I haven’t seen before. ‘Wow’ […]
A for Improvement
This book a nice return to form for Lisa Kleypas. She is one of my top two favorite historical authors, and the last book (Cold Hearted Rake) was a huge let down. This is the second book in the Ravenel series, and I’m liking the Victorian setting. The set up for this story in Rake was that Helen Ravenel is a very sheltered, slightly fragile young woman looking to *maybe* break out of her shell. Rhys Winterborne (in the vein of many Kleypas heroes) is […]
Good, not great, M/M romance
I have really mixed feelings about this book, but overall really enjoyed it. If I had the luxury of time to sit and read it in a single sitting I would have. Every time I picked it up I found myself sucked in. But strangely, when I wasn’t reading it, I had trouble finding the compulsion to pick it back up. This is a contemporary New Adult M/M story. Refreshingly, both characters are already out, and at no time question their sexuality. (I know there […]
I wish this had been a novella
I feel guilty about giving this a low grade (for me), but there it is. I wish this book had been a novella instead of a novel. I rarely feel that way, but this is one of those cases. This is book 7 (the final book) of the Survivors’ Club series. I appreciate it when authors write each book in a series so that you could pick up any one of them and not be lost, but I also think it is perfectly acceptable for […]
What book could live up to this cover?
Jaci Burton’s books were described to me as ‘explicit sports romances’. Those words, in that order, speak directly to my soul. Unfortunately, I was not really taken with this book. Rather than the characters ever feeling real to me, it ended up more like fantasy, football porn. (That comma is key, I am not talking the kind of fantasy where you pick your team each week and brag to your coworkers – more like the kind where someone dreams about being whisked away in a […]
Don’t give me a novella and call it a novel
This is a Julia Quinn Book. If you have read more than one of her books you know exactly what I mean. Julia Quinn has a brand of romance that is nearly uniformly; light, sweet, full of banter (some of the best in the business), recurring characters, and close-knit families. Julia Quinn is synonymous with ‘comfort read’ in my world. There is nothing wrong with this, and many things right with it. I would say this book falls squarely in the middle of the pack […]
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