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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko
Beautiful writing and an MC I loved from the beginning First, there was a video and a song. Now there’s a book. I’ll be honest (when am I not?), I requested this book because I was curious: if a story fits in a five-minute video, is there enough for a entire novel? Turns out that […]
The Doors We Open (Libellule’s #3) by Donna Jay
Donna Jay is a safe bet for good kinky scenes The Doors We Open starts with a bang. Freshly divorced, Eloise treats herself to a session at Libellule’s, to explore her desires with both kinky sex and women. After a fantastic introduction to this new world by the super hot Savannah, Eloise can’t get her […]
Stars Collide by Rachel Lacey
Rachel Lacey’s books always make me happy At thirty-six, Eden Sands is in a slump. And yes, she’s a superstar but she’s also relatively recently divorced, her shows don’t sell out in a few minutes anymore and her last album is doing okay. Okay isn’t enough and while Eden is mostly okay too, it’s not […]
Live It Out by Jenn Alexander
A beautifully-written and very emotional romance I really needed to cry when I read this book and it delivered. Sad tears, happy tears. All the feels. The Song of the Sea is one of my favourite books and I knew I could count on Jenn Alexander to write a story that would be both terribly […]
Sizzle Reel by Carlyn Greenwald
Hilariously relatable Relationships aren’t easy. Realizing you’re not straight isn’t easy. Coming out isn’t easy, falling in love isn’t easy, distinguishing between lust and love and what’s exciting because it’s new and what’s exciting in itself isn’t easy. It’s all a mess and it can be scary and exhausting but damn is it worth it […]
Meeting Millie by Clare Ashton
A delightful rom-com This book started breaking my heart from the very beginning, even as it made me laugh. A quarter in, I knew it was touching something very intimate in me, about friendship and caring (or not caring) about people, about needing them (or not needing them) in one’s life. Charlotte Albright is back […]