A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / enemies to lovers / interracial-romance / London / TV5 Comments
NOTE TO READERS: The following review necessarily contains spoilers for the previous book in the London Celebrities series, The Austen Playbook. If you haven’t read it yet, perhaps best to look away now. Dear Lucy Parker, I admit I’m not generally a fan of the enemies-to-lovers trope. It’s not that ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewschildhood friends / Contemporary / First-Person / France / friends-to-lovers / Paris / self discoveryNo Comments
Claire Le Noyer, 29, wants a do-over. She wants the life where she majors in history, not accounting. Where she takes two-hour lunches, not ten minutes in front of her computer. Where her pastor boyfriend treats her like an attractive women he’s deeply in love with, not like a nice ... more >
Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsContemporary / family relationships / Holiday / Kwanzaa / LGBTQA / m/m / short-storyNo Comments
Coworkers and cubicle mates, Ishmael “Ish” Cutter and Adan Flores might come from different backgrounds but they have a good number of things in common. The biggest one? They each have a secret crush on the other. This holiday season they are both single for the first time in thirteen ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / holiday novella / Kwanzaa / LGBTQ fiction / LGBTQA / m/m / short-story5 Comments
Before we get started, let me say that this short story is released by Dreamspinner Press. In lieu of buying it, another (perfectly legal and legitimate) way to read it is by seeing if your local library carries it. If they don’t, then check to see if your library subscribes ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / hand lettering / New-York9 Comments
Dear Kate Clayborn, I have a feeling I might be a bit of an outlier in this but it took me a little while to get into Love Lettering. Meg Mackworth, known as “the Planner of Park Slope” hand letters planners and journals for clients. I didn’t even know that ... more >
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I was tempted to make a list of my favorites among the 2019-published books I read this year. In the end I decided to focus on my favorite 2019 reads (first time reads; I didn’t include books I had read / reviewed in prior years) without regard to their year ... more >