B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / American historical / American Revolution / American Revolutionary War / Boston / British Navy / Historical / LGBTQIA / Loyalist4 Comments
1775, Boston Harbor. James Sparhawk, Master and Commander in the British Navy, knows trouble when he sees it. The ship he’s boarded is carrying ammunition and gold…into a country on the knife’s edge of war. Sparhawk’s duty is clear: confiscate the cargo, impound the vessel and seize the crew. But ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsEssays / guilty pleasures / Handheld Classics / HistoricalNo Comments
Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things the feminist critic and novelist Rose Macaulay enjoyed most in life. Review Ever since I read and loved “Business as Usual,” I’ve kept an eye open for other books that are being reissued ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsAsian hero / Asian heroine / biracial hero / Canada / Holiday / Holidays with the Wongs / matchmakers / novella / POC / POC author / Toronto6 Comments
A Thanksgiving rom-com with lots of food and interfering family! Advertising executive Nick Wong enjoys living in Toronto. He loves late nights partying and taking women back to his penthouse. And so it is with great reluctance that he returns to his boring hometown of Mosquito Bay for Thanksgiving. This ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviewsm/m romantic suspense / SFF m/m romance2 Comments
I thought getting shot, losing my memory, and being hunted by people I didn’t know for reasons I couldn’t remember was rock bottom. Turns out I was wrong. I found a shovel, dug a little deeper, and found a whole new sublevel of suck. Apparently, I took something from the ... more >
Book Reviews / C ReviewsBuddhism / cats / First-Person / religion / self discoveryNo Comments
As kittens we feel it often. All it takes is a wind-blown feather, an unexpected delicacy, or the alluring rush of water and instantly we are caught up in it: Wonderment. Enchantment. Being fully absorbed in the here and now. By the time we reach senior status, way beyond the ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsfamily relationships / misunderstanding / novella / protection / Regency / Widowed Heroine2 Comments
Marigold Kinderley’s uncle kept her wrapped in cotton wool. So Lady Sylvia found a way to take Marigold home with her for summer break. When Terence Kinderley discovered Marigold missing, he assumed she had fled to the border with the dancing master. Sylvia’s mother Alicia discovered the deception. Though Alicia ... more >