B Reviews / C- Reviews1920s / American historical / Historical / Los Angeles / Musicians / Samhain-publishingComments Off on REVIEW: Notes of Temptation by Rebecca Halsey
Together they take the stage. Together they must defend it to the death. Hollywood Jazz, Book 1 When Carrie Cooper leaves her small gold-mining town to seek her fortune, it’s not until she arrives in L.A. that she learns her college certificate is a fraud. The only work available is ... more >
B ReviewsContemporary / lesbian romance / LGBTQ / Los Angeles / Movies / Young-Adult3 Comments
Dear Ms. LaCour, I’ve been on a contemporary kick lately. Something to distract me from my speculative fiction funk, I guess. I haven’t read any of your previous novels but after Everything Leads To You, I think I’ll be tracking them down. Emi Price is a high school senior who ... more >
A- Reviewsgay romance / Los Angeles / multicultural / mystery / Recommended Read5 Comments
Dear Michael Nava: I decided to take on Wendy the Super Librarian’s TBR Challenge this year, and February’s theme is series catch-up. Wendy is adamant that we don’t have to follow the theme if we don’t want to (or don’t have an appropriate book in our TBR), but I was more ... more >
B ReviewsDelacorte Press / dystopian / Los Angeles / Science Fiction / Young-Adult6 Comments
Dear Ms. Price, The YA dystopian subgenre is fast becoming glutted. It seems like so many titles fitting the category are coming out these days. But sometimes I wonder if that’s because they genuinely fall into that category or are just being placed there for marketing purposes. When I first ... more >
B Reviewsattorney / brothers / Chicago / Erotic-Romance / Los Angeles / Recommended Reads19 Comments
Dear Ms. Barbosa, A while back you mentioned on Twitter that you were writing a series of four novellas, each written from one of four brothers’ first person POVs. The series is called The Gospel of Love because the brothers’ names are Luke, Mark, Matthew and John. I asked if ... more >
Film Reviewscoming out / Friday Film Review / gay romance / Los Angeles / mormon16 Comments
Latter Days (2003) Genre: Gay Romance Grade: B I’m an absolute sucker for coming out stories and especially, apparently, for “religious twink overcoming his background to accept who he is” stories. This film delivers quite nicely. I came to it oddly: I stumbled across a novelization of the film while ... more >