B Reviews / Book ReviewsCaribbean / Fiona Carver / NetGalley / romantic-suspense2 Comments
Dear Rachel Grant, I recently listened to Dangerous Ground on audio and loved it so when I saw the second Fiona Carver book at NetGalley I was impatient to find out what was next. I read it almost straight away even though as I write this it’s October and the ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsCaribbean / Chef / Christmas / Contemporary / f/f romance / holiday novella / immigrants / LGBTQIA+ / novella / opposites attract / POC / POC author / ScotlandNo Comments
Kiskeya Burgos left the tropical beaches of the Dominican Republic with a lot to prove. As a pastry chef on the come up, when she arrives in Scotland, she has one goal in mind: win the Holiday Baking Challenge. Winning is her opportunity to prove to her family, her former ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book ReviewsCaribbean / contemporary m/m romance / millionaire / POC / POC author / social-workerNo Comments
Fairy-tale endings don’t just happen; they have to be fought for. New York City social worker Camilo Santiago Briggs grew up surrounded by survivors who taught him to never rely on anything you didn’t earn yourself. He’s always dreamed of his own happily-ever-after, but he lives in the real world. ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsCaribbean / Chef / immigrants / librarian / m/m romance / POC / POC authorNo Comments
No one ever said big dreams come easy For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. If it works? He’ll be a big fish in a little pond. If it doesn’t? He’ll have to give ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / Caribbean / Florida / Historical / LGBTQIA+ / pirates / POC / shipboard / slaveryNo Comments
Hijacking an Englishman from a brothel is all in a day’s work for Captain Mattie St. Armand. She needs protective coloration, and a naïve (and expendable) white man will keep the eyes of the authorities off her as she smuggles slaves from the Florida Territory to freedom in the Bahamas. ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviews / Ebooks18th-century / Caribbean / pirate / revenge-plotComments Off on REVIEW: The Privateer by Danielle Thorne
Dear Ms Thorne, I’ll come right out and admit that this book took me a long time to get into. There’s a huge cast of characters and while this normally doesn’t bother me, here I felt adrift for ages before I finally began to get a handle on them. And ... more >