Book Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / divorcee / family relationships / immigrant / Indian American / POC / POC author / Running / Seattle / self discovery / The Sood Family Series / Womens-Fiction2 Comments
She’s always done what was expected of her. Until… When 30-year-old Seattle-based Indian housewife Mira Sood is blindsided by her husband’s extramarital affair, her three-year arranged marriage is shattered. Humiliated, heartbroken, near-broke, and facing the united dissension of her orthodox family, Mira is desperate to rebuild her life. She moves ... more >
Book Reviews / Reading Lists / Top Ten Listsalternate England / Best of 2021 / businessman / Earl / f/f / family / Fantasy / heroine in disguise / historical romance / land steward / marriage-of-convenience / nun / paranormal romance / reframing / revenant / revenge / scholar / Scotland / secret society / self discovery / sportsman / suffragette / traumatic-past / Urban fantasy / werewolves / witch / YA fantasy9 Comments
Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light This was probably my favorite book of the year. I don’t read m/m romance much, but this book had me hooked. Full of angst and tension, containing a swoon worthy romance and with a very compelling magical world, it was hard to put down. The ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / aromantic / chick-lit / colorism / Contemporary / family relationships / First-Person / gentrification / immigrant fiction / London / Nigeria / POC / POC author / self discovery / therapy1 Comments
Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is “Yinka, where is your huzband?” Yinka’s Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she’s too traditional (she’s saving herself for marriage!), her girlfriends ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / coming-of-age / England / Historical / love triangles / self discovery4 Comments
Time is running out for Elaine to find her perfect match… England, 1967 Having been orphaned as a child, twenty-two-year-old Elaine Telleen has always been dependent on the charity of her domineering godmother, Aunt Gabrielle. But when Aunt Gabrielle decides to remarry and move away with her new husband, it ... more >
Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Reads / Top Ten Lists1930s / Alien Hero / Art / Asian characters / Australia / Best of 2021 / best of list / Buddhism / cats / children's book / Contemporary / found family / Historical / Historical fiction / m/m romance / older couple / Older-Woman-/-Younger-Man / picture books / POC / POC author / prison / self discovery / sewing / sports romance / Widowed Heroine / Womens-Fiction / World War II16 Comments
From space aliens in the form of a cat or a unicorn, to Aussie prisoners, to a Chinese princess, to a 1920s down on her financial luck heroine, to hero determined to save his childhood love or another ready to deck some halls with Christmas cheer, my reading was all ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsactress / dysfunctional family / family relationships / Firefighter / Hanukkah / Holiday / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Missouri / Orchard Hill series / self discovery4 Comments
When Ellie Bloom’s life literally goes up in flames after an apartment fire, she slinks back to her sister’s house in the St. Louis suburb she’s avoided since her mom died. Ellie quickly caves to her nephews’ pleas to direct the temple Hanukkah play—her mom’s pride and joy—and by the ... more >