A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / captain / corporation / disability / diversity / epistolary / found family / LGBTQIA+ / loss / mother and son / music / Mysterious powers / POC / queer characters / single mother / spaceship5 Comments
Dear Simon Jimenez, This beautiful standalone science fiction novel was one of the novels on my “Best of 2020” list. I read it in December of 2020 and have put off reviewing for over a year because I felt hard put to do it justice. I’m finally taking the plunge ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsEngland / Fantasy / Historical / Late Victorian / selkies / single father / single mother / Widowed Heroine / working class / Yorkshire9 Comments
On a windswept British coastline the tide bestows an unexpected gift… It was the cry that she first noticed, the plaintive wail that called to her over the crash of winter waves. Wrapped only in a sealskin, the baby girl looks up at Effie and instantly captures her heart. Effie ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews#ownvoices / deaf / deafness / diversity / father and son / Jewish characters / LGBTQIA characters / single mother / unplanned-pregnancy / workplace-romance7 Comments
Izzy Fineberg can take on any challenge—and she’s had some big ones lately. After one fateful night with the hottest Deaf man she’d ever met, Izzy found she was pregnant with his child. And she never caught his name. She’s been doing the single mom thing for nine months now, ... more >
Book Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / England / family relationships / grief / Older-Woman-/-Younger-Man / single mother / teacher / Widowed Heroine / Willoughby Close2 Comments
Laura Neale is grieving. A year after her beloved husband’s death, she’s still left with far too many questions and is struggling with feelings of guilt, anger and grief. Hoping to rebuild her and her children’s lives, she moves to Wychwood-on-Lea with her two troubled kids—an eleven-year-old son with too ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas / Contemporary / Holiday / Paranormal lite / Post apocalytpic / short stories / single mother / volunteer2 Comments
PENNIES – With donations running low for the shelter, Monica tries to find another means to raise enough money to at least buy the children Christmas gifts, when an old man named George helps her discover the value of a penny. ELF NUTS – The story was meant to help ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsAfrica / archangel / Artist / black hero / disease / Guild Hunter series / older woman/younger man / PNR / POC / POC author / single mother / traumatic-past / zombies22 Comments
Dear Nalini Singh, In Archangel’s War, the last book in your Guild Hunter series, Illium’s father, the archangel Aegaeon, awoke from Sleeping. His return caused a seismic shift in Illium’s mother, Sharine, otherwise known as the Hummingbird. After centuries spent in emotional pain and in and out of a fog, ... more >