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Promising Series Start with Some of the Usual First Book Challenges

August 21, 2018 by Jen K Leave a Comment

For Two Heads Are Better Than One, emmalita and Jen K chose to read and review Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning, the first in The Sixth World series.  In order to make this simpler, we are pulling the Amazon description for the plot summary, and then going into our thoughts below that!

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #ownvoices, cbr10bingo, emmalita, JenK, post-apocolyptic, Rebecca Roanhorse, rural fantasy, The Sixth World, Trail of Lightning, two heads are better than one

A gender-swapped Pretty Woman featuring a South Asian neuro-atypical heroine who works in STEM. Also – Cannonball!

July 6, 2018 by Malin 7 Comments

Stella Lane loves mathematics and equations and is extremely good at her job, which involves creating algorithms to predict customer purchases, It makes her highly valued by her employer and she makes more money than she has any idea what to do with. Stella has Asperger’s, which means she’s on the Autism Spectrum, and has not had a lot of success when dating in the past. She believes this is her fault (it’s not, she’s clearly dated some total loser creeps). So when her mother declares […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CBR10, #ownvoices, autism, Contemporary Romance, Helen Hoang, Malin, sex work, STEM, The Kiss Quotient

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