Christina Lauren is pretty popular around these parts, and Dating You / Hating You seems to top most lists. The only book I’ve read from the collection is the one that started it all, Beautiful Bastard, and let’s just say I wasn’t a fan. So I broke up with CL and the Beautiful series, and didn’t give it another thought, until Dating You / Hating You was free on the library website, and since all of you guys seemed to like it, I thought I’d […]
Robert Gottlieb and the New York Times Book Review Can Kiss My Romance Reading Ass
This may be more rant than review. Go buy the book, it’s good. I had this whole other review written and I expected to publish it Wednesday morning. It talked a little bit about how great Cannonballers are and some #BlameMalin jokes. I reviewed the book. I was debating a spoiler section at the bottom where I could talk about what I really loved. And then I read a tweet from The Ripped Bodice about Robert Gottlieb’s fabulously condescending “round up” of Romance books. I’ve […]
I’ve Read Every Book in This Guilty Pleasure Series
The last in a series of ten books and novellas, Beautiful serves as a standalone-ish contemporary romance from writing duo Christina Lauren, as well as providing visits with the five other couples in the group and wrapping all the threads up with a bow. Usually landing on the erotic end of the romance spectrum, Beautiful was pretty tame by Lauren standards, but still in keeping with the authors’ style. Pippa is visiting Boston to see her best friend, Ruby, and take a two-week road trip […]
Simply put, Evelyn Abbey is my former almost-girlfriend-turned-archnemesis-turned-tentative ally whom I would now very much like to permanently seduce
4.5 stars Carter Aaron and Evelyn “Evie” Abbey (nicknamed Evil by Carter shortly after their first meeting due to her nefarious and wicked laugh) meet at an early Halloween party. They seem to be the only single people in a sea of couples, and both drift towards a corner of the room away from the “marrieds”, discovering that they coincidentally both came in Harry Potter costumes. Hitting it off instantly, their enthusiasm towards one another wanes a bit when they find out they are both […]
My embarrassment knows no end
I…I…I’m so embarrassed. This book is a horror and encapsulates so much that is wrong with the romance genre. I devoured it quickly and hated myself the whole time. Basically, I feel about this book the way the heroine felt about the hero the whole time – this is SO wrong for me, but I just can’t keep away. Chloe Mills is a business school student finishing up her degree with an internship at a marketing company. Her boss is Bennett Ryan, the titular Beautiful […]
The cream of the crop
Guys. GUYS. I’m pretty sure Christina Lauren, like, really listens and responds to feedback. This book would have been written too early to claim a direct line of insight from the epic post on slut shaming in romance, but I feel like the cultural tides that made way for that post influence Christina Lauren very much. 1) Luke, the male hero, out-and-out declares himself a feminist. 2) In direct contrast to almost every other book featuring a recovering rake, this one goes out of its […]
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