B Reviews / Book ReviewsAlternate POV / Coach / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / First-Person / King and Queen series / mechanic / novella / sports romance / Tattoo Artist1 Comments
When love is a full-contact sport, surrender may be the only way to win. Roller derby is more than a place where Amelia can unleash her inner beast. It’s her safe space. And yeah, she gets the irony. Off the track, men have thwarted her every move. So when her ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsCEO / Contemporary / Erotic-Romance / family feuds / POC / POC author / psychological insights / Reunited Couple / star-crossed lovers / Tattoo Artist2 Comments
Dear Ms. Rai, Every year since the decade-old rift between their once close-families opened up, Nicholas Chandler and Livvy Oka-Kane have met in secret on Livvy’s birthday, each time in a different location, to spend one night together. Every year but the last, when Livvy did not text Nicholas the ... more >
C ReviewsContemporary / LGBTQ / m/m romance / New Adult / Penguin Random House / Tattoo Artist14 Comments
Dear Ms. Lee, I’ve read the previous books in your new adult series. Some I like more than others but overall, I have a favorable opinion of them. Your latest, There You Stand, continues the series with an M/M romance. (I guess gay romance is a thing now in new ... more >
B ReviewsContemporary / New Adult / Scotland / Tattoo Artist3 Comments
Dear Ms. Young: Shannon MacLeod is on the run. She’s fled Glasgow, her home town, to escape her last boyfriend, who beat her to a pulp. She’s come to Edinburgh to start her life over. First order of business, find a job. She reluctantly goes to INKarnate, an award winning shop ... more >
C Reviewsalcoholism / college / Ebooks / New Adult / Penguin / sexual-assault / Tattoo Artist7 Comments
Dear readers, Although I’m not an ardent fan of Erin McCarthy’s True Believers books, I did like the first two novels enough to keep reading. The endings of True and Sweet didn’t quite leave me satisfied but the rest of them worked well enough to hold my interest. With Believe, ... more >
B- Reviewscollege / ebook / New Adult / Penguin / Tattoo Artist / virgin hero10 Comments
Dear Ms. Lee, I’ve been slow to climb on the new adult train. I’ve read a few but I keep running into what I call the Trauma Wall. So much trauma. So many victimized characters. I get that angst is very popular in the genre right now, but I can ... more >