Book Reviews / C Reviewsactor / dysfunctional family / dyslexia / emotional abuse / fandom / fanfic / fat MC / fat shaming / insta love / online community10 Comments
Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. The world may know him as Aeneas, star of the biggest show on television, but fanfiction readers call him something else: Book!AeneasWouldNever. Marcus gets out his frustrations with the show through anonymous stories about the internet’s favorite couple, Aeneas and Lavinia. But if anyone discovered ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsactor / Christmas / Contemporary / dog / England / Seasons by the Sea series3 Comments
Christmas by the sea – that sounds romantic, right? Tansy Merriweather is down on her luck. She’s lost her business and her relationship, and instead of a glamorous London apartment, her home is now a campervan on a Dorset beach. And as if things couldn’t get any worse, a scruffy ... more >
B Reviewsactor / Aruba / Contemporary / Philadelphia5 Comments
Dear Mia Sosa, I was hooked from the very first paragraph: I’M STANDING IN the middle of an airplane aisle, inching my way to row 12, when I spot her. I don’t know her name, nationality, age, or occupation, but I know this: Someday I’m going to marry the woman ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended Readsactor / Classic Review / Contemporary / epistolary novel / Love-Triangle / soap operas / Writer16 Comments
Dear Ms. Seidel, About a dozen or so years ago, I read your 1994 epistolary contemporary romance, Again, and fell in love with it. I went on to read most of your other books and while I was very fond of most of them, this one remained one of my ... more >
B Reviewsactor / college / Contemporary romance / marriage on the rocks / Reunited Couple10 Comments
Dear Joan Wolf: When I started browsing through this book and saw that the heroine’s husband asks her to get an abortion, I had to immediately check the end to see whether he could actually be the hero. In most of the romances I read, if abortion comes up at ... more >
B- Reviewsactor / bisexual / Contemporary / Hollywood / prostitute / queer / trans5 Comments
Dear Theo Fenraven, I bought this book after it came highly recommended to me when I expressed a wish to read more diverse romance. I’m glad to have read it, even though parts of the story didn’t entirely work for me. Your writing style is very engaging and I found ... more >