posts by Willaful:
Dear Ms. Cole: Back in 2008, Jane wrote about the romance trope subversion found in the “Immortals After Dark” series, in which the conventional male/female roles are often flipped. That continues in this story, which features a completely inexperienced hero and a heroine who’s been around the block quite a ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readsfeminism / Historical Romances / journalist / POC author / Recommended Reads / Victorian28 Comments
Dear Ms. Milan: It seems very apt that the last book in the Brothers Sinister series is being promoted with a funny tumblr written by one of its characters, because it feels like a book that sprang from the Internet. I’m honestly not sure if that’s a complaint or a ... more >
B ReviewsContemporary romance / Erotic-Romance / femdom / Musicians / performers20 Comments
Dear Ms. Clark: I don’t normally include the book blurb in my reviews, but in this case, it seems significant. In Shelley Ann Clark’s seductive debut novel, two damaged souls discover that when they’re together, their bodies hit all the right notes. Rock diva Emme Hayes already broke up one ... more >
Book Reviews / Reading Lists25 Comments
I recently discovered an astonishing online resource: Open Library, which is part of The Internet Archive. Open Library is “an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published,” which is cool enough in itself — as a sad GoodReads librarian on strike, I’ve enjoyed ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / actor/actress / ebook only / historical romance / London / post WWI / short-story14 Comments
Dear Ms. Kaye: I might not have started this if I’d realized it was part of the Harlequin Historical Undone line, and that would have been my loss. I think of Undones as short, sexy, frivolous stories; this is short and sexy, but far from frivolous. Five years after the ... more >
B Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary romance / London / novella / second chance at love3 Comments
Dear Ms. Morgan: I enjoyed the novella Ripped, but found it leaned more towards chick-lit than I like, with its humor based on the narrator’s humiliation. The sequel Burned gets the balance just about right, combining many of the usual elements of contemporary romance with a fun, fresh voice and ... more >