B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdisability / fake relationship / found family / frenemies to lovers / friends-to-lovers / NetGalley / New Zealand / POC / POC author / rugbyNo Comments
Dear Nalini Singh, It’s been a while since the last Hard Play release (Love Hard – I did in fact love it hard) and there have been a lot of books in between, so I’d kind of forgotten who Catie and Danny were and the various relationships in the Bishop-Esera ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsbisexual / Canada / coming out / Contemporary / depression / disability / Gay / hockey / joint review / LGBTQIA+ / NetGalley / queer / rivalry / star-crossed lovers18 Comments
Janine, Sirius and I were all so excited to read The Long Game and eager to talk about it once we did so we decided to review it together. Please note there will be series spoilers for prior books. Heated Rivalry is essential prior reading but Role Model is also ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdisgraced hero / Fairy Godmother / family relationships / found family / Magic / non-linear timeline / rag-tag / road novels / shy heroine / sisters / underdogs / unlikely heroine12 Comments
This isn’t the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It’s the one where she kills him. Marra never wanted to be a hero. As the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses, to be married away for the sake of an uncaring throne. ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsCanada / Contemporary / hockey / twitter rec23 Comments
Dear Becka Mack, This book was recommended to me by @AGrandRomance on Twitter so first up – thank you Kate for the rec. I bought Consider Me and dived in almost straight away. Carter Beckett is the captain of the Vancouver Vipers hockey team. He’s hot, talented and has the ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsBreaking Cat News / cartoons / cats / comic / comic artist / Humor / journalists / news2 Comments
Your favorite purr-nalists are back and reporting on all of the most pressing cat issues in this fourth collection of Breaking Cat News comics for middle-grade readers. It’s big changes for the kitties at BCN! Burt is bringing this news station up a notch. Join Burt behind the scenes as ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1910s / Emily St. John Mandel / future / investigation / Literary fiction / lunar colony / moon / mystery / New York City / nonlinear timeline / Pandemic / Speculative-Fiction / Time-Travel / Vancouver Island3 Comments
Janine: Jennie and I loved Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel’s breakout novel (Jennie even caught up on one or two earlier books by the author), so we reviewed her follow up, The Glass Hotel, together. When we heard she had a new book, Sea of Tranquility, we decided to ... more >