Content warnings: grief, past death of a child, sexual assault Dear Trish Doller, Last year you released Float Plan, the first in the Beck Sisters series. I loved it (in fact I must apologise because I did not include it in my best books of 2021 and I should have ... more >
Dear Jessie Mihalik, The DA reviewers had a conversation post recently about the enemies to lovers trope and whether we liked it or not, when and why. I’m generally not a fan of the trope in contemporary romance but it works well in SFF because the stakes are often believably ... more >
Dear Elle Kennedy, I was so excited to read this book. It was one of my most anticipated books of the early part of the year. (I usually enjoy your books; something about your writing style just works for me.) I did enjoy Good Girl Complex but it was not ... more >
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 >
He’s done fighting his attraction to the sexy vampire… To say former firefighter Colin Zhang is struggling to accept his new life would be a vast understatement. He’s bound to a vampire he didn’t choose, living in a house filled with creatures better left to the imagination—there’s a lot to ... more >
Janine: Kaetrin and I have been reviewing Mary Balogh since her Westcott series of historical romances began eight books ago and this review continues the tradition. Someone Perfect is Westcott-adjacent and the start of Balogh’s “Friends of the Westcotts” series; its heroine, Lady Estelle Lamarr, is Viola Westcott’s stepdaughter. Estelle ... more >