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A middle-aged dog trainer who loves to read and hates cancer.

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A playing card with a black woman on top and a black man on bottom

How are you supposed to win if the deck is stacked against you?

Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

March 12, 2023 by RevGirlUtena Leave a Comment

I have spent the better part of a month trying to write this review. I really really really wanted to love this book. For the first seventy-five percent, I was really into the mystery and the characters, but the last quarter of this book goes completely off the rails. To the point that it makes me dislike the rest of the book. Devon is a student at the prestigious Niveus Academy. However, he is one of only two black students and is also a scholarship […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

RevGirlUtena's CBR15 Review No:15 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé ·
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A woman and a creature embrace passionately

Banging The Creature From the Black Lagoon

Found by the Lake Monster by Lillian Lark

February 22, 2023 by RevGirlUtena Leave a Comment

Amy is a normal human woman, out in the woods with her paranormal research buddies, when she gets lost and finds Adrian, a Lake Monster who mistakes her for his blind date. He happens to be in the middle of his heat cycle and needs to mate. This may be his last cycle and therefore his last chance to have children. Amy has been reading a lot of Monster Smut (like me!) and is intrigued instead of repulsed. The only problem is what if Adrian’s […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: Lillian Lark, monster smut

RevGirlUtena's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: Lillian Lark, monster smut ·
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What Can I Say? I Loves Me The Monster Smut!

Stalked by the Kraken by Lillian Lark

February 22, 2023 by RevGirlUtena Leave a Comment

Stalked by the Kraken tells the tale of a Kraken who falls in love at first sight, finds the bathhouse her family runs, and contracts with her to have three sexual encounters while her family harvests the wild magic that comes from their union. Of course, he knows she is his Mate (capital M) and all of this is his wild plan to court her. It’s a tale as old as time! Gideon is a Kraken. Yes, that Unleash The Kraken kind of Kraken. He […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: Lillian Lark, monster smut

RevGirlUtena's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: Lillian Lark, monster smut ·
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A woman with long purple dread locs embraces a man with a button up shirt

Adulthood Doesn’t Mean Maturity

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

February 22, 2023 by RevGirlUtena Leave a Comment

Talia Hibbert continues to delight with the third novel in the Brown Sisters series. At this point, the only sister left unattached is Eve, and of the three Brown sisters, Eve is the flightiest one. At Twenty-Eight, she still can’t hold down a stable job, and her parents worry that she just isn’t cut out to handle adulthood. They threaten to cut off her trust fund and kick her out of the house if she can’t keep a job for six months. In retaliation, she […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Talia Hibbert

RevGirlUtena's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Talia Hibbert ·
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Humans are the real monsters

A Soul to Heal by Opal Reyne

February 17, 2023 by RevGirlUtena Leave a Comment

I read the first novel in The Duskwalker Brides series, A Soul to Keep, last year and I absolutely fell in love with it. The author has stated that she was inspired to make this series by the anime/manga The Ancient Magus’s Bride, and since that is one of my all-time favorite series, I knew I had to check these books out. A Soul to Heal is the second volume, and you definitely need to have read the first book to fully understand this one. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: monster smut, Opal Reyne

RevGirlUtena's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: monster smut, Opal Reyne ·
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A Door Opens above the Strawberry Soda Sea

“Frosting isn’t a good medium for lengthy dissertations on fate.”- Wayward Children Book 3

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

February 11, 2023 by RevGirlUtena Leave a Comment

“Nobody promised me a happy ending. They didn’t even promise me a happy existence.” This volume takes place chronologically shortly after Book One. One day at Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, a girl named Rini falls out of the sky and into the turtle pond. She claims she came from Confection, a Nonsense world where her mother was in charge. She came back to our Earth to save her mother, a teenage student at the school. The problem is that her mother died in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Seanan McGuire

RevGirlUtena's CBR15 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Seanan McGuire ·
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