Another Kindle Unlimited book, another M/M romance, and one of two romances I have read recently in which there was a large age difference between the main characters. From Amazon: In 48 hours, I lost everything. I came home to find my girlfriend of four years with another man. The next day a plane crash ripped my family away from me, shattering me in the process. In many ways, I died that day, too. The fun-loving man who’d lived in the fast lane and loved his career […]
This Review Contains a Mic Drop
A New Adult romance about a professional football player and a woman in her last year of university on a track scholarship, Play was an odd read. As happens sometimes with this genre, it felt like the version of romance conjured up by an awkward teen who has never been kissed other than that one time at a 13th birthday party, “but that was on a dare, so it doesn’t count.” I have some notes, but the first one is the showstopper: Opening with an […]
“Come to My Side,” He Murmured. “We Have Baked Goods and Tea.”
Courtney Milan Iconoclast … is what I assume Ms. Milan’s business cards say. Could she please to stop almost bringing me to tears with her messages of empowerment and self-determination? Why almost? Because I am made of steel. Why tears? Because the truths she writes about touch me deeply. Her Every Wish is the first novella in Milan’s new Worth Saga Victorian romance series. In the long-term, it will contain eight books for us to devour, for now there is just one other novel, Once […]
A Frump, a Virago, a Maneater, and a Manipulator Walk Into a Book
Four and a quarter stars. The four Reluctant Bride Collection novels, jaunty in tone and virtually chaste, provided a great introduction to Megan Bryce’s work. Connected by theme, but not characters, each of the books in this Regency historical romance series tackles a female stereotype and features an unusual and fiercely independent heroine: To Catch a Spinster – The Frump To Tame a Dragon – The Virago To Wed the Widow – The Maneater To Tempt the Saint – The Manipulator What I enjoyed most was that […]