D Reviews / DNF Reviewsbisexual hero / campaign / diversity / England / joint review / LGBTQIA / m/m / NA / politics / prince / publicity / Washington DC26 Comments
Sirius and I both read accolades for Casey McQuiston’s debut, Red, White and Royal Blue, an m/m New Adult romance. We decided to review it together. – Janine What happens when America’s First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was ... more >
Need A Rec! / Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten Lists#ownvoices / African American / Alpha & Omega / Asperger's / California / class-difference / Contemporary / Doctor / Eastern Europe / econometrician / escort / Fantasy / India / Italy / journalist / LGBTQIA characters / magic users / moneylender / monsters / Native Americans / Ocean changelings / Paranormal / POC / police / Psy-Changeling Series / queen / Rivers of London / The Founders Trilogy / thief / turn of the century / Urban-Fantasy / Washington DC / werewolves15 Comments
I love end-of-year reading lists so I hope our readers share their own favorite books of 2018 in the comments. Here are the 2018 releases I enjoyed most: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik Naomi Novik’s fantasy novel is the story of three young women’s quest for empowerment — a Jewish ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAfrican American / class differences / coming-of-age / Decades: A Journey of African American Romance / historical romance / musician / POC / POC author / Washington DCComments Off on REVIEW: A Delicate Affair by Lindsay Evans
Dear Ms. Evans, There’s an interesting story behind how A Delicate Affair came to be. In the early 1990s, Harlequin published a series of twelve romances each set in a different decade, mostly in the twentieth century, but featuring white authors and characters. More recently, romance author Wayne Jordan approached ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended Readsantihero / Contemporary / First-Person / lawyer / law related / orphans / Washington DC8 Comments
A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight. When you’re a defense attorney in Washington, DC, you see firsthand how hard life can be, and that sometimes the only way to survive is to be harder. I, Jake Becker, have a reputation for being cold, callous, and intimidating—and that ... more >
B+ Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Reads1980s / Advertising / category romance / Contemporary romance / Harlequin American Romance / lawyer / law related / Marriage-in-Trouble / Washington DC17 Comments
Dear Ms. Seidel, Your out of print 1984 novel, When Love Isn’t Enough (Harlequin American Romance #80), opens when three men return to the DC area from Texas, where they’ve been spending time on behalf of their legal firm. All three are lawyers who over the past ten months have ... more >