Full disclosure: I’ve written a novel set in Baltimore. When I found this one I was a little excited to see how someone else would see Baltimore. It was fun seeing references to street names I knew and places I could kinda guess the locations of. I played “what place were they actually thinking of when they talked about this place”. That was nice. I really wanted to like this book. There were some problems with pacing and some plot devices that I was uncomfortable […]
A lot of people like this book. I don’t know why.
I love humorous, breezy chick lit. Books of implausibly normal girls with normal bodies falling love with improbably wonderful guys. I did not love this book. In fact, I pretty much LOATHED this book. The protagonist is a 26 year old kindergarten teacher named Moxie. She is a size 16, and while she is quite comfortable with her size, it has always been an issue with her cartoonishly manipulative step-mother. The book opens with Moxie having sex with a guy she doesn’t like after a […]
Not What It Sounds Like, But Click for an Unforgettable Book Cover Just the Same
Don’t worry, despite the title it’s not one of these: Now, you can’t unsee it either. The Knitting in the City contemporary romance series is extremely highly-rated on Amazon and I both do and do not understand why. I don’t know what juju is in these books, but I keep re-reading the ones I have, particularly Neanderthal Seeks Human and Neanderthal Marries Human which both focus on the same couple. Re-readability is a kind of litmus test for me with this genre. I interact with […]
I mean, the price was right.
Bedding the Wrong Brother is a serviceable contemporary erotic romance that is, importantly, free on Kindle. It’s a pretty short story, so there isn’t any particular lip service paid to anything like a “plot” or “character development.” What we know is this: our heroine, Melina, has known the Dalton twin brothers, Max and Rhys, since childhood. Melina went on to have a respectable life in academia, but never really came alive in the bedroom. Part of this is because she dated jerks, and it’s partly […]