Meeting Millie (Oxford Romance #1) by Clare Ashton, narrated by Gabrielle Baker
Millie coming to terms with her unexpected feelings is a thing of beauty I already knew when I started listening to this audiobook that I would love it. I had a slight apprehension about the narration because there were tiny details I didn’t love completely in Gabrielle Baker’s performance of Finding Jessica Lambert, but none […]
Love, Morgan (Jackson Point Collection #2) by Jacqueline Ramsden
Jacqueline Ramsden successfully mixes humour, sweetness, and deeper issues At first sight, Morgan is the brat that most of us try not to be, even if they exist inside us. In my review of Dear Ripley, where she was introduced to us as Ripley’s best friend, I called her exquisitely obnoxious. She’s so over the […]
Not Just Gal Pals by Elizabeth Luly
A deliciously tropey romance Every step of her life, Jenny’s gone with the flow. If not for someone else’s mistake, she would still be enjoying her job as an influencer, a job that took off organically. As it is, her agent suggested she take a break, and visiting the hometown she couldn’t wait to escape […]
The Flight Risk by Macon Leigh
Macon Leigh’s writing is free and sharp, tough yet tender, like the MC of this book Sometimes, you’ve barely started reading a story and you know it’s going to be good. The kind of good that makes you want to swear because it’s so fucking good. The kind of good that makes you have to […]
Unleashed (The Pirate & Her Princess #3) by Alli Temple, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
In this last book of the trilogy, George and Lou get the closure they – and we – needed I really enjoyed this series. I have from book 1, Uncharted, when George and Lou were first reacquainted and had to find their way back to each other after years of living very different lives. In […]
Blood Rituals (Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit, Book 1) by Aoibh Wood, narrated by Abby Craden
A complex and thrilling debut I usually find out about new books and new authors through fellow reviewers and readers. This one, however, came to my attention when Abby Craden tweeted about it. It’s a debut, another very exciting and promising debut. Cait Reagan is a police detective working on a gruesome murder. Her boyfriend […]
In the Roses of Pieria (The Blood Files #1) by Anna Burke
Pure Burke Beauty From the first sentence, you know it’s going to be pure Burke beauty. By the second, the mood is set. When given the opportunity to study hitherto unknown artefacts from the Nektopolian civilisation, Clara Eden doesn’t hesitate long. Higher wages than she’s ever received in her six years as an adjunct teacher […]
The Veracity of Lies by Anna Woiwood
A difficult but captivating story This is a hard book to read. It’s often discouraging and tragic. It’s also very good. I’ll start with content warnings so you can decide if you’re up to it. There’s a lot of abuse of all sorts: drugs and alcohol, abuse of power, men over women, sexual and emotional. […]
Seeking Approval by Rachel Spangler
One of Spangler’s best Feeling seen is a rare and precious thing. We all carry the weight of expectations, some more than others. Emery Pembroke has to prove herself to be more than an impetuous heiress in order to take over as CEO of the family company after her father’s untimely death. Arden Gilderson has […]