C- Reviews#ownvoices / action / Contemporary / detective / enemies to lovers / LGBTQIA / Missouri / mystery / police procedural / romantic-elements / Small-Town4 Comments
Readers please note: The following review contains spoilers both for this book and for some of the other books in Gregory Ashe’s Hazard and Somerset gay mysteries. If you want to avoid spoilers, do not read further in this post and check out my review of book one, Pretty Pretty ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / activist / black MC / cat / election / grief / high-school / one day courtship / POC / POC author / romantic-elements / students / voting / YA10 Comments
Dear Brandy Colbert, I’ve been meaning to read one of your books for a long time and when The Voting Booth was published I was struck by the cleverness of the concept. This romantic YA novel takes place over the course of one day—Election Day—with Marva Sheridan, an activist eighteen-year-old ... more >
Book Reviewsgods / Mediterranean setting / Megan-Whalen-Turner / plot twists / romantic-elements / spoilers / thief / YA fantasy108 Comments
A thread for discussing Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief series with spoilers included. All your thoughts are welcome. For those readers who prefer spoiler-free reviews and discussions, reviews of the earlier books can be found below: The Thief The Queen of Attolia The King of Attolia A Conspiracy of Kings ... more >
Interviewsgods / Mediterranean setting / Megan-Whalen-Turner / myth / romantic-elements / thief / YA fantasy5 Comments
Readers please note: the following interview contains SPOILERS for books 1-3 in Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief series. As I mentioned the last time I interviewed Megan Whalen Turner, her Queen’s Thief series is one of my favorite YA series, novels filled with high-stakes intrigue and deception, loyal friendships, dangerous ... more >
C- Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / detective / enemies to lovers / LGBTQIA / locked room mystery / Missouri / mystery / police procedural / romantic-elements2 Comments
Trigger warnings: Dear Gregory Ashe, Recently I finished Pretty Pretty Boys, the first novel in your Hazard and Somerset series. While it wasn’t a keeper for me, the slow, slow burn relationship between the main characters and their explosive chemistry sucked me in, and I knew when I finished that ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / detective / enemies to lovers / LGBTQIA / mystery / police procedural / romantic-elements16 Comments
Trigger warnings: Dear Gregory Ashe, I saw your Hazard and Somers series recommended and though I don’t read many mysteries or m/m novels, something made me want to pick it up. There’s a long free preview of this first book and by the time I reached the end of it, ... more >