Book Reviews / D Reviews18th-century / accountant / Dark / Japan / Literary fiction / midwife / Netherlands / POC / shipping / unrequited-love8 Comments
Trigger warning: Dear David Mitchell, Your literary novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, caught my attention because of its setting, the environs of Nagasaki in 1799-1800. I heard of the book through great word-of-mouth from people whose opinions I generally trust so I was excited to read it. ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewscats / Dark / Friends / middle grade / mystery / school4 Comments
Could Bert really be a zombie cat? Two friends put their brains together to find out in a wry new mystery series. While helping her best friend, Danny, film his latest horror flick, Mellie discovers a scraggly cat behind a dumpster outside the YummCo Foods factory. Mellie names the stray ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAsian-American / crime / Dark / domestic violence / First-Person / high-school / murder / POC / POC author / revenge / stalker / young adult fictionNo Comments
A classic sort of love story…except somebody might wind up dead. Nobody knows Delilah like Logan does. Nobody. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can through her social media and watching her through a hidden camera he has trained on her house. Some might call him a ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / Dark / Idaho / MC / novellaComments Off on REVIEW: Shade’s Lady by Joanna Wylde
Dear Joanna Wylde, I pre-ordered Shade’s Lady some time ago. When I was on holiday recently I was just in the mood for the kind of book you tend to deliver – something which, like a book by Kylie Scott or Kristen Ashley, I tend to gobble up in huge ... more >
B ReviewsContemporary / Dark / domestic abuse / Erotic-Romance / Rape / rape fantasy3 Comments
*all the trigger warnings* This book features rape fantasy and themes of rape and abuse. There is reference and depiction of sexual assault in the book but it is not perpetrated by the hero or the heroine. What happens between the hero and the heroine is all consensual. (This was ... more >
B ReviewsContemporary / Dark / Rape / rape fantasy6 Comments
*all the trigger warnings* This book features rape fantasy and themes of rape and abuse. There is reference and depiction of sexual assault in the book but it is not perpetrated by the hero or the heroine. What happens between the hero and the heroine is all consensual. (This was ... more >