I was not pleased that the first book in this series didn’t really click with me. So many people enjoyed it! I wanted in on the party. But something about the romance between the MCs didn’t gel with me, so I rated it three and a half stars and moved on with my life, hoping that book two would be more my style. And it was! Oh, yay. Something that I did really appreciate in the first book and that holds true for this one […]
On the Importance of Purse Snacks
When Romance Twitter gets hype over a book, I listen. Which is how I ended up paying full price* for this delightful book despite it sharing a title with a not-very-good-but-serviceable-on-a-Saturday-night movie. Alexa Monroe finds herself trapped in an elevator with Drew Nichols. During a power outage, the two flirt over purse cheese, prompting Drew to ask Alexa to be his date that weekend for the wedding of one of his exes to one of his friends. The sparks from their flirtation erupt into a […]
Aaliyah and Luke Bryan fan fiction
Shauna Stellar, nee Chantel Evans, reigning R&B princess has hit rock bottom. After a public breakdown on the day she buried her mother, she was dropped by her record label and her accountant and lawyer ran off with her money. All she has left is her manager, the recording studio her mom left her, and the last artist her mom signed to produce: a country music group fronted by Truman Woodley. After ten long years trying to make it in the music business, Truman thought […]
Making out in the food truck is definitely a code violation
Summary: Camille Marino owns an up-and-coming food truck in San Francisco. While the truck does well, she’s barely holding her head above water. Coupled with the challenges of being the guardian of her younger sister, Camille is in desperate need of a night out. She gets a little more than she bargained for when that night out leads to reconnecting with her first love, Drew Bautista. Drew is thrilled to see Camille again, though the timing could definitely be better. His Army unit will be […]
Interracial contract babies for the win
Because I’m trying to make more of an effort to read interracial romances, perhaps it was inevitable that Amazon was going to flag me for the BWWM subgenre. Either that, or their algorithm has correctly deduced that I am a black woman married to a white man. (Well done, algorithm!) When this book popped up in my Amazon recommendations, I remarked to my husband that the title had a lot going on. We’ve got a middle-aged heroine, a billionaire, and some contract babies. Using the […]
A slave and a Confederate soldier fall in love. What could go wrong?
Alyssa Cole is an author well-liked by other authors I like. Her Off the Grid trilogy is especially popular, but the post-apocalyptic setting isn’t my favorite. I did like her historical short story Agnes Moor’s Wild Knight so when An Extraordinary Union came up for pre-order, I didn’t hesitate. I paid a full sawbuck for this e-book, y’all. That’s how much faith I had that I was going to like it. An Extraordinary Union did not disappoint. The short version: Ellen Burns uses her eidetic memory to serve […]