March 26, 2015

REVIEW: Phoenix Inheritance by Corrina Lawson

WillafulC+ Reviewsautistic character / contemporary romantic suspense / Paranormal / Reunited Couple6 Comments

Dear Corrina Lawson: Phoenix Inheritance is a action-packed (Navy SEALs,) family issues oriented (autism,) paranormal (psychic powers) romance, and it does all of those things pretty well. Renee Black and Daz Montoya are no longer together, but Daz is part of their son’s life, although his security work keeps him ... more >

WillafulBook Reviewsaudiobooks / Reading lists2 Comments

This is a selected list rather than my entire reading; if I included every Harlequin Presents I read over the last few months, it’d look like I’m on the take.   A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong by Cecilia Grant Janine wrote a lovely review of this; I don’t have much ... more >

March 4, 2015

REVIEW: Vanilla by Megan Hart

WillafulB- ReviewsBDSM / BDSM Lite / erotica / femdomComments Off on REVIEW: Vanilla by Megan Hart

Dear Megan Hart: I try not to have any expectations when starting a Hart book, unless it’s the expectation that it won’t be a traditionally structured genre romance. That’s definitely the case here. The blurb centers on two people named Elise and Niall, but our narrator Elise doesn’t meet Niall ... more >

February 17, 2015

REVIEW: Summer Storm by Joan Wolf

WillafulB Reviewsactor / college / Contemporary romance / marriage on the rocks / Reunited Couple10 Comments

Dear Joan Wolf: When I started browsing through this book and saw that the heroine’s husband asks her to get an abortion, I had to immediately check the end to see whether he could actually be the hero. In most of the romances I read, if abortion comes up at ... more >

February 5, 2015

REVIEW: A Clean Break by Keira Andrews

WillafulC+ ReviewsAmish / m/m / New Adult / San-Francisco / Series2 Comments

Dear Keira Andrews: Examining oneself in a mirror has become a huge cliche in fiction, but for the character of David Lantz, it’s more than a convenient way of describing what he looks like: it’s his first opportunity to see himself naked. To be admiring his own body was sinfully ... more >

January 20, 2015

REVIEW: Trade Me by Courtney Milan

WillafulB- Reviews / Book Reviewsclass-difference / college students / interracial-romance / New Adult / POC / POC author32 Comments

Dear Courtney Milan: It cracked me up to read the GoodReads comments of people who are waiting for this, because most of them follow exactly my own thought processes: “New Courtney Milan, yay! Billionaire hero New Adult novel…. err…” I don’t think most of those readers will be sorry they ... more >