A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsAlpha & Omega / horror / Mercyverse / music / Patricia-Briggs / rape survivor / romantic / UF / werewolves / Witches31 Comments
Trigger warnings (spoilery): Dear Patricia Briggs, Wild Sign, your latest novel, is book six in your Alpha and Omega series. The urban fantasy series centers on a werewolf couple, the quiet, deadly Charles and the gentle but stubborn Anna. I’m always up for reading about them, so I eagerly requested ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / action / Contemporary / LGBTQIA / Missouri / mystery / police procedural / Private-investigator / romantic / Small Town Romance3 Comments
The following review contains spoilers for some of the books in Gregory Ashe’s Hazard and Somerset gay mysteries. If you are interested in reading the book and want to avoid spoilers, avoid this page and visit my review of book one, Pretty Pretty Boys. Content warning: Dear Gregory Ashe, This ... more >
Publishing Newsbad mother / diversity / Fairy-Tales / hotels / Penguin Random House UK / publishing / romantic / stepmothers / stereotypes1 Comments
PRH UK to pay work experience participants in diversity drive – Each year, 450 individuals have the opportunity to “work” at Penguin Random House UK for two weeks. In the past, those experiences would be unpaid, except for travel and food. Now, though, participants will be paid £262.50/week, which is significant because ... more >
Letters of Opiniondefinition / genre criticism / HEA / Romance / romantic65 Comments
Sunita has a nice post up at her personal blog detailing some of her thoughts about a conversation she and I had the other day about the difference between a Romance (objective genre classification) and a book one finds romantic (emotional identification on the part of the reader). I want ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / government / romantic7 Comments
Farmer creates heart-shaped meadow in memory of wife – “Dedicated Winston Howes, 70, spent a week planting each oak sapling after his wife of 33 years Janet died suddenly 17 years ago. He laid out the fledgling trees in a six-acre field but left a perfect heart shape in the middle ... more >
A Review Categoryclass-difference / coming-of-age / Edwardian-era / England / Italy / romantic15 Comments
Dear Readers, I don't know if it was Jayne's recent review of the Merchant-Ivory film adaptation of this novel, or a discussion of Forster's works that some of us on Twitter got into a while back. There's also the fact that every time I see Jennie do one of her ... more >