October 31, 2019

REVIEW: Geeky, Freaky, Clueless: A Halloween Romance (Crazy, Sexy, Ghoulish Book 4) by G.G. Andrew

JayneB+ 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 >

October 27, 2019

Open Thread for Readers for November 2019

JayneMisc / Need A Rec!book-pimp / Open Thread / Promotion8 Comments

Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general?

October 24, 2019

REVIEW: Jade City by Fonda Lee

JanineA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / family / Fantasy / Hong Kong based world / mafia / martial arts / POC / political intrigue / saga / Wuxia5 Comments

Dear Fonda Lee, Your adult fantasy novel, Jade City (the first book in your Green Bone Saga), has won both the World Fantasy and Aurora Awards for Best Novel, as well as being nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards. Set on an island with some similarities to Hong Kong, ... more >

October 23, 2019

REVIEW: The First Step (Coastal Carolina, #1) by Shira Anthony

SiriusB 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 >

October 18, 2019

REVIEW: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

JanineA- 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 >

October 16, 2019

REVIEW: No Man’s Land by Kevin Sullivan

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAmerican Navy / Australia / autobiography / flying / non-fiction / pilot / PTSD9 Comments

A gripping account of how a major air disaster was averted, by the captain and former Top Gun pilot “Instinctively, I release my pressure on the sidestick. Out of my subconscious, a survival technique from a previous life emerges: Neutralise! I’m not in control so I must neutralise controls. I ... more >