B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscoming out / Contemporary / friends become lovers / LGBTQIA+ / m/m romance / New Adult / Penguin Random House / Photographer / road trip8 Comments
Dear Ms. Erickson, Sometimes we pick up books for random reasons. When I learned your main character was a photographer, I lit up with interest. I guess I’ve been interested in reading more photographer-characters that aren’t related to tabloid journalism. Your novel, Trust the Focus, is an M/M new adult ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsestranged family / family relationships / Gothic / Penguin / road trip / supernatural / Young-Adult9 Comments
Dear Ms. Tucholke, Between the Spark and the Burn is the follow-up to your debut, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, which I read and enjoyed last year. It continues the story of Violet, whose life was rocked when the Redding brothers walked into her life. I won’t ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsHistorical Romances / road trip25 Comments
Dear Ms. Dare, As I read A Week to Be Wicked, I kept thinking about Cyndi Lauper’s assertion “Girls just want to have fun.” The heroine of this book, Minerva Highwood, prior to hitting the road with your hero, Lord Colin Payne, really hasn’t had much fun. She certainly hasn’t ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewscomputer programmers / Fantasy Romance / road trip / wizards13 Comments
Computer programmer Joanna Sheraton must rescue an imprisoned wizard to save the universe from destruction. There was a time when Joanna Sheraton knew nothing of the Void. She was an ordinary computer programmer, toiling in a cubicle in air-conditioned Southern California comfort, unaware that sinister forces had penetrated her universe. ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewscomputer programmers / Fantasy Romance / road trip / wizards25 Comments
Dear Ms. Hambly, In the discussion of my review of your book “Bride of the Rat God,” lots of our readers chimed in with their favorite Hambly books and with suggestions of what book of yours I might try next. The Windrose series was listed more than once and I ... more >
B Reviewsmusic / road trip / Suicide / Young-Adult6 Comments
Dear Ms. Harrington, I’ve been wanting to read more YA; the genre seems to have changed so much since I was a, well, young adult. There are so many fresh and exciting YA books being written these days, and that’s exciting to me, especially when I’ve just finished my umpteenth ... more >