B Reviews / Book Reviewsasexual character / criminal / Historical / Late Victorian / LGBTQA / novella / thief / transgender2 Comments
Music-hall singer Miss Christiana is in serious debt, and serious trouble. She owes more than she can pay to a notorious criminal, and now he plans to make an example of her. There’s no way out. But Christiana has an admirer. Stan Kamarzyn has watched her sing for a year ... more >
Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsContemporary / Fantasy Romance / Historical / m/m romance / neurodiverse / queer / Urban fantasy24 Comments
I took a look at my 5 star reads for the year and created my top 10 from that. I’ve decided not to rank them; it’s too hard to do and they were all fabulous books. Iron & Magic by Ilona Andrews. Magic Triumphs could easily have made this list ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended ReadsHistorical / m/m romance / queer / Regency11 Comments
Dear KJ Charles, I have had an exceptionally good run with books lately and Band Sinister only compounded my blessings. Siblings Guy and Amanda Frisby live in quiet seclusion in rustic Yarlcote. 20 years earlier, their mother ran off to the continent with their neighbour, Sir James Rookwood. Their father ... more >
Reading ListsChristmas / Contemporary romance / Harlequin / m/m romance / multicultural / Reading lists / Recommended Reads / SFF9 Comments
Make My Wish Come True by Fiona Harper I was a big fan of Fiona Harper’s categories in the Harlequin Romance line, but then I kind of lost track, Harper switched to other lines and I stopped reading her regularly. But when I saw that she had a Christmas novel ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsEdwardian / England / English Historical / m/m / Recommended Reads102 Comments
Dear K.J. Charles: Damn it, why didn’t I think of this book? (And have the willpower to write it, and the talent to make it good, and the tenacity to get it published…) For someone like me who grew up reading many popular English writers, it is such a clever ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsjoint review / magpies / mystery / paranormal mm romance22 Comments
Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink. A Charm of Magpies, Book 3 With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying occult murders to be investigated, and a young student who is flying—literally—off the rails, magical law enforcer Stephen Day is under increasing stress. And his relationship with his ... more >