B+ Reviews / C Reviews#ownvoices / ableism / beautiful food / biracial hero / brain tumor / California / Chef / Contemporary / diversity / Indian American / multicultural / Pride-and-Prejudice / Retelling / surgeonNo Comments
Trigger / content warnings: Dear Sonali Dev, As is evident from its title, your recent novel, the start of a series about the Raje family, is a retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I know what some readers of this review must be thinking: Does the world really need ... more >
B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readsalternate-reality / apocalyptic / disability / female detectives / horror / murder-investigation / NCIS / Science Fiction / time slip / Time-Travel6 Comments
Trigger warning (spoilery): Content warning: Dear Tom Sweterlitsch, Your science fiction thriller with horror elements, The Gone World, came highly recommended by Thea at The Book Smugglers. The Book Smugglers is a site that has rarely steered me wrong, so I decided to give the book a shot, despite the ... more >
B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsm/m romance / mystery / Paranormal / queer3 Comments
Kaetrin: Graveyard Shift is book three in Jenn Burke’s Not Dead Yet series. Sirius and I have reviewed the previous two books together and thought we’d continue the tradition with this one. Please note spoilers for the previous two books follow. If you haven’t read them, look away now! * ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsActing / British / First-Person / holiday novella / Indian American / novella / play / Romance/Multicultural Romance2 Comments
Phineas Harrington was Vina Penjarla’s first real kiss. But when she discovers the gorgeous Brit is the new theater director she’ll be working with, things get super complicated. After all, Vin knows nothing about this dating stuff. And as her attraction for the sweet and intelligent guy grows, so does ... more >
B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscontemporary m/m romance / harbor pilot / reporter3 Comments
The first step is the hardest. After a scandal, New York political reporter Reed Barfield is lying low at the North Carolina coast, writing a story about the seafood industry. But it’s the harbor pilots on the Cape Fear River who capture his interest—men who jump across ten feet of ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / enemies to lovers / epistolary novel / f/f romantic elements / LGBTQ fiction / POC / Science Fiction / Time-Travel / war10 Comments
Dear Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, One look at this 209-page time-travel novel’s blurb and I had to preorder it, so I’m reproducing that blurb here: Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. And thus begins an ... more >