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 >
A Reviews / Classic Romance Reviews / Recommended ReadsDark Fantasy / m/m romance / Magic / Rape38 Comments
A son of a forest dwelling people, Yhalen knows little of the world outside the ancestral forest, until he is captured by a band of ogres on a slave-taking mission. Only grim tales of the barbaric giants had reached the forest, but Yhalen soon learns that even the darkest fireside ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / digital publishing / Ebooks / Microsoft / Nook / Rape / Scribd14 Comments
The Most Popular Book in Each of the 50 States – So the first caveat here is the results are limited to Scribd downloads, which makes the results both narrower and more interesting. Alabama, for example, was Lisa Kleypas’s Midnight Angel, Missouri, The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, Tennessee, I ... more >
C+ Reviewsm/m / New Adult / Rape / Series2 Comments
Dear Ms. Blair: I read books #1 and #3 in the Fading series, Fading and Falling, last year. The two books essentially told the same story from the perspective of the two main protagonists, Candace and Ryan. Book #2, Freeing, covers much of the same time period but focuses on ... more >
B- Reviewsdancing / domestic violence / New Adult / Rape5 Comments
Dear Ms. Blair, I read and reviewed the first book in this series, Fading last year. When I heard that there would be a sequel from Ryan’s POV, I was intrigued. I am a bit cynical about romance sequels that tell the same story over from the hero’s perspective, but having ... more >
B- ReviewsContemporary / female friendship / friends-to-lovers / New Adult / Rape / Young-Adult2 Comments
Dear Ms. Ballard, For the past few months, I’ve been dabbling in the older YA/new adult subgenres but I find myself looking for something a little different from what’s out there. I like tattooed bad boys as much as the next person but there is such a thing as too ... more >