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Stepping out of the comfort zone

Conventionally yours: An LGBTQIA Rivals-to-Lovers road trip romance by Annabeth Albert

April 5, 2021 by persnickety chick 2 Comments

This book was an unusual choice for me- it’s a genre (m/m romance) I don’t read often, about a subject I don’t really get involved in- tabletop gaming. I bought it because it was on sale, and the email from the publishing company intrigued me. I read it as an E-book. The main characters are college age, in some ways this is a New Adult book. The book uses alternating chapters from the point of view of the two main characters- a device that seems […]

A semi-disappointing read from an author I usually enjoy.

The Sumage Solution (San Andreas Shifters, #1) by G.L. Carriger

March 26, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

Maybe because this was self-published, but this was one of the most fanficky romance novels I’ve ever read. And that’s not a negative! It was sort of bonkers in the way it just went for it. I liked the first half much better than the second half, though, in that regard. Then it sort of went off the rails at the end. I still enjoyed it, but at least to me, it was obvious this book was self-published. It felt much less polished than other […]

A good trilogy ender.

Enlightened (Enlightenment, #3) by Joanna Chambers

February 22, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I was hoping for a real firecracker with this one, just a really undeniably great closer to this lovely trilogy, but what I got was more what I actually should have expected, which was more like the slow burn of a hearth fire. This has been entirely a trilogy about quiet, inner emotions and inner growth, and not melodramatic, shout to the sky emotions. The more I reflect on how this series ended, the more I liked it. David has been recuperating for the last […]

An excellent middle book in this historical romance trilogy.

Beguiled (Enlightenment, #2) by Joanna Chambers

February 22, 2021 by narfna 6 Comments

This series continues to be the perfect blend of historical fiction and romance. Most historical romance authors use the historical setting as a backdrop and creator of atmosphere, or convert it into a sort of fantasy realm to explore other things, which can be really fun! But as I said in my review of the first book in this series, there’s just something so pleasurable about stone cold history being actually explored in this format. In the first book, it was the fallout from a […]

A strong finish to a nicely done series.

Wonderstruck by Allie Therin

February 1, 2021 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Wonderstruck is a strong finish for Allie Therin’s historical urban fantasy series, Magic in Manhattan. To recap, Arthur “Ace” Kensie is the younger son of a wealthy and politically powerful New York family. As a lieutenant in the army fighting in WWI, he discovered that magic exists. Though he has no magic, he becomes part of an unofficial group of magic users trying to protect the world from paranormals who want to use magic for evil reasons. Theodore “Rory” Brodigan (not his real name) is […]

So that what happens to game designers when they retire?

Billy and the Beast by Eli Easton

January 12, 2021 by Professor FluffyKitten Leave a Comment

Eli Easton is the pen name of Jane Jensen a game designer and writer who helmed one of the more successful Sierra adventure game series, Gabriel Knight. She is also somewhat blamed for the death of adventure games due to a specific puzzle in Gabriel Knight 3 and the fact that it was the last adventure game released by Sierra. This is a shame mostly due to Jane Jensen being A. one of the only female game designers who directed her own series of games […]

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