As is so often the case with the books I review, this read began with a message from Patty: “I’m reading this book. It’s gotten off to a really good start and is quite funny in parts.” Of course I immediately check it out and purchase from Amazon. It’s what I do. I really should know better by now. Having been battling alternating bouts of rage, frustration, and fear for awhile now, The Best Man (Blue Heron Series – Book 1) by Kristen Higgans sounded like […]
So much more than that girl standing on the subway grate
I was offered an advance copy of UNFINISHED: A Graphic Novel of Marilyn Monroe by Elizabeth Periale in exchange for a timely and fair review. Y’ALL. THIS THING IS FUCKING GORGEOUS. Why did we as adults give up one of the best parts of books? The illustration for goodness sake. I mean, how could it not be considering that its subject matter is one of the iconic beauties of the 20th Century? It’s more than that though. You can tell that a great deal of […]
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end
Soundtrack for today’s review: https://youtu.be/xGytDsqkQY8 Katie: Patty and her messages about books make me justifiably wary. I mean, that’s how we started down the Kristen Ashley road or the book where they played escape and evade as foreplay. (I now think of it as the raisin sex book because of Patty’s metaphor.) So when she sent me a message that she was sending me a book that was amusing and refreshing, you can imagine my terror. Patty: SUCH a drama queen. Katie: Honestly, this […]
Consensual Raisin Sex We Do Not Speak Of
Patty: Well. So that happened. Welcome to our first CBR review of 2017. Katie: You know it’s going to be at least interesting when Patty messages you to buy this book because it’s off to a good start and then not 12 hours later messages you again because she’s making this face when reading the sex scenes. Whereas I was all… Just kidding. I really had an expression more like Patty’s. Patty: Our heroine, Elise, is working on her PhD in archeology. She’s also working […]