Trigger Warning: Child Rape Janine: I’ve been thinking lately about age gaps in romance. When I started reading romances in the 1980s, May/December pairings were quite common, with the MCs often being a decade apart in age. Queer romances were almost unheard of in mainstream publishing, self-publishing was expensive, and ... more >
Recently, I reviewed Patricia Briggs’s latest entry in the Alpha and Omega series, Burn Bright. When it came up in the comments that although I’m an avid follower of Charles and Anna, I had only read the first of the Mercy books, readers persuaded me to read further on in ... more >
*All the trigger warnings* NOTE: The review is pretty much spoiler-free but the comments are not. If you don’t want to be spoiled, don’t read the comments. Go read Kings Rising and then come back and talk to us about all the things. Janine: Three years ago, Kaetrin and I ... more >