Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren
This is a second chance romance, but if you love a Big Grovel, you won’t find it here. Plot: our heroine is the kind of secret child of a mega star who has been effectively in hiding since her mom took her and they left LA for the solitude of a small town. For her 18th birthday, she goes on vacation to London, meets a super cute boy, and has a whirlwind romance. Which he ends by selling her story to a gossip magazine. […]
Snapped by Alexa Martin
This book is written for a pretty specific audience, and if you’re in that niche, you will almost certainly love this book. Plot: The plot is heavily inspired by taking on knee during the national anthem. In this novel, the quarterback of the Mustangs begins to take a knee as well, with his protest not only about the general state of things for black people in America but also specifically targeting the Mustangs in not supporting older retired players suffering from severe adverse health complications […]
A Touch of Snow and Stone (book 2 of A Gathering of Dragons) by Milla Vane
I had extremely mixed feelings about the first book in this series. The only two reasons I ended up picking up the second book were (1) the incredible world building that for once doesn’t feel like Tolkien fan fiction but its own thing, and (2) Emmalita telling me I’d like it better than the first. Emmalita was 100% correct. Plot: We’re picking up from the first book with a caravan of emissaries from Kosh (the island nation untouched by the Destroyer the first time around) […]
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
This is the very long awaited sequel to Hyperbole and a Half, which Brosh published nearly a decade ago, and it is so good to hear from her again. I know I echo a lot of fans of her work when I saw my first interest in this book was foremost just wanting to see how she’s doing, and hoping she’s doing well. I guess the problem is, as Brosh is often quick to point out herself, that as much as we want life to be […]
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
This books holds up amazingly well considering the subject matter. I didn’t originally pick it up when it came out because I had, at that point, basically read Brosh’s blog to the point of memorization and didn’t see a need to have a hard copy of it, but after her second book came out, I felt the need to revisit her previous work to see if I was actually comparing her new material to what she’d produced before or my weird memories of it. It […]
The Roommate by Rosie Danan
Think Crazy Ex Girlfriend meets Legally Blonde, but instead of law, it’s porn and meticulous business management. Got your attention yet? Plot: our heroine is a recent graduate from a PhD Program in Art History. Her family is stinking rich (plus all the negative stereotypes therein). She’s had a life long one sided crush on her best friend (though we never see on the page how they’re best friends, maybe because she has no others). He’s off in California chasing a career as a rock […]
