A friend of mine from book club mentioned that she’d read some romance novels by C.M. Owens and really enjoyed them. I was intrigued, always ready to find a new, favorite romance author. I went on Amazon and quickly found Hooked on the Game (2014), the first book in the Sterling Shore series for free! So that worked out perfectly. Unfortunately, even though there was sometimes some good heat and connection between the leads, I found the whole thing preposterous. Raya Capperton is a focused college student, […]
Hurricanes and Hockey
About two months ago, which tells you how far behind I am on my reviews, Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida. Each day we watched the cone move further and further west, until it looked like it was going to come right up the west coast and in to Tampa Bay. And each day, I packed more things into bags and suitcases, until finally, on Friday afternoon, they declared a mandatory evacuation of my entire town. I went home to collect my kid and […]
“Why is some accident of uncontrolled neurochemistry the ‘real me,’ and a carefully reasoned system of priorities somehow false?”
Borderline is a sharp urban fantasy book with a new take on the “fairies walk among us” trope. It stands out, in part, for its unusual protagonist (more on that later) but also achieves above-average marks for its balance of fresh world-building with a well-paced plot. Leaning too hard on one or the other can result either in a story that drags under the weight of excessive detail, or an ill-defined, unprincipled universe where anything goes with the plot because anything can be magicked to […]
The Hearts Wants What It Wants
I picked this one up on a whim, thinking the cover was pretty and the story sounded intriguing. At the time, I didn’t realize it was categorized as New Adult – a genre I have steered away from, or I might have put it back on the shelf. That said, I found myself sucked into the story fairly rapidly, and I enjoyed the dialogue and the change of pace from historical romance. This is actually the third book in The Starcrossed Series, but it did […]