C- Reviewsbisexual / Contemporary / Erotic-Romance / exhibitionism / menage / queer / virgin hero8 Comments
Dear Cara McKenna, I enjoyed Crosstown Crush and liked Downtown Devil, the first two books in your Sins in the City series and I’d seen some early buzz about Midtown Masters – intriguingly, the blurb was extremely vague. The books in the series don’t share any characters. Rather, they share ... more >
Book ReviewsBoston / Contemporary / Erotic-Romance / joint review / rape fantasy3 Comments
*Spoiler Alert & Trigger Warning: A major plot point, which is not revealed in the cover copy, is discussed in this review. Also, per author: This book contains consensual but intense rape role-playing scenes that some may find upsetting. A note to readers: Hopefully, by now, every reader who ... more >
C- ReviewsContemporary / Paranormal lite4 Comments
Dear Cara McKenna: One might think with the cover, blurb (outlaw king anyone?) and title that this would be a motorcycle club novel. One would be wrong. I was thirty percent in before I gave in to my impulse to do a word search for things like “club” and “president” ... more >
C+ ReviewsContemporary romance / Ireland / novella / vacation romanceComments Off on REVIEW: Her Best Laid Plans by Cara McKenna
Dear Ms. McKenna: During a vacation around ten years ago, I observed a couple of teenagers beginning a flirtation in the hotel pool. It made me wistful for those unexpected, thrilling crushes of adolescence, those miniature relationships that sometimes happened when two strangers around the same age wound up in ... more >
B Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary romance / criminal / epistolary4 Comments
Dear Ms. McKenna: I’ve not been able to connect to every one of your books as I would have liked but I couldn’t help but be drawn to the idea of a felon and a librarian. For all of its forbidden nature, this is a lovely, heartfelt romance. Annie Goodhouse ... more >
A Reviews / Recommended ReadsErotic-Romance / Scotland24 Comments
Dear Ms. McKenna: Lately, a number of erotic romance authors (Charlotte Stein and Abigail Barnette, for example) have been writing books that deliberately use the basic trappings of Fifty Shades of Grey to subvert its themes and reclaim the genre. I don’t know if it was intentional, but this novel ... more >