Melanie: Well, this book was a ride…the kind of ride I actually wanted to get off of long before it ended. It’s a little strange to me that in the same month that we delved into some of the Psy/Changeling novellas, we also read a book that arguably could and maybe should have been a novella. When Melinda and I were messaging back and forth during the course of reading this book, she made a comment that really resonated. “Is boring worse than asshole,” she pondered. I’m hoping that over the Continue Reading
Review: Exposed by Kristen Callihan
Exposed by Kristen CallihanVIP #4Contemporary RomanceJuly 13, 2021, by Plain Jane BooksReview by Melanie The first two books in this series, Idol and Managed, came out in 2016, and the third and most recent one, Fall, in 2018. That means it has been a 3 year wait for the fourth (though hopefully not last) book in this series and let me just begin by saying this book is more than worth the wait. Maybe a third of the way into this book, I texted Angela to say that there was a solid chance Continue Reading
Review: Determining Possession by Christina C. Jones
Determining Possession by Christina C JonesContemporary RomanceJuly 19, 2017, Self PublishedReview by Melanie I saw someone recommending this book on twitter a week or so ago and I truly wish I could remember who that person was or what they said that sold this book to me so completely because I would dearly love to thank them. This book scratches my personal romance id in a way that is so perfect, that it’s almost hard to put into words but I’m going to do my best to try. Heroine Continue Reading
The Psy/Changeling Channel: Branded by Fire
Melinda: We’re excited to be back and once again have a new dynamic to examine with two alpha changelings in a mated pair with Mercy and Riley. But first we need to give a content warning for suicide of secondary characters. We don't actually touch on that in our deep dive, but this book does have that in the plot so if that bothers you please take care of yourself and skip either all of this book or at least those parts. So we start out with Mercy, immediately being extremely horny and I Continue Reading
Melanie’s Minis: Happy Endings by Thien-Kim Lam & Talk Bookish to Me by Kate Bromley
Happy Endings by Thien-Kim LamContemporary RomanceMay 18, 2021, by Avon Up until about the last 20% of this book, I really loved it and it was a solid 5-star book for me. The female main character, Trixie, is a Vietnamese American who, much to her parent's dismay, sells sex toys for a living. It was a second chance romance with her ex-boyfriend, Andre, who had dumped her via a post it note when he learned about his mother’s cancer diagnosis (this all happens way before the book begins). I Continue Reading
Review: Serving Sin by Angelina M. Lopez
Serving Sin by Angelina M. LopezFilthy Rich #3Contemporary RomanceMay 25, 2021, by Carina Press Review by Melanie Angelina M. Lopez, who burst onto the romantic fiction landscape in 2019 with her debut novel, the delightfully subversive Lush Money, returns to wrap up her Filthy Rich series with the final book in the trilogy, Serving Sin. Set in the fictional Monte del Vino Real, a tiny Spanish principality, the first book focused on Mateo, the future king of the principality and the Continue Reading
The Psy/Changeling Channel: Hostage to Pleasure
A quick note before we delve into this month’s deep dive for Hostage to Pleasure. We’ve going to start incorporating Nalini’s Psy-Changeling novellas into our monthly reads and recaps. They may not happen every month but we’ll be adding them in when appropriate. Since this month’s read focused on the relationship between Dorian and Ashaya, we also read the novella Dorian, which can be found in the Psy-Changeling collection, Wild Embrace. Melanie: I know we say this a lot in our deep Continue Reading
#RomBkLove 2021 Day 7: Bad Decisions Book Club
By Melanie Have you ever gone to bed and right around the time you should be turning off the lights to go to sleep, decided instead to start a book, promising yourself you’ll only read the first chapter? And then cue to 4 hours later, you’re holding your ereader in one hand and forcibly keeping your eyelids open with the other hand because you’ve only got 50 pages left and you must know how the lovable fools in your book plan to make their way back to each other. No? Just me? Alrighty Continue Reading
Review: The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel CleetonHistorical FictionMay 4, 2021, by Berkley Review by Melanie Let me preface this review by stating that I know very little about Cuban politics and history. It’s not a subject that’s focused on in the American public school system and I am also not a history scholar so my knowledge on this topic is greatly limited. However, I am a big fan of Chanel Cleeton, read her consistently when she was writing contemporary romance and when she made the Continue Reading
Review: Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan
Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan Young Adult May 4, 2021, by Inkyard Press Review by Melanie I don’t find myself reading too much YA but this delightful book made me want to change that. There’s so much I want to say about this book that I’m a little afraid my review might be all over the place. But before I start in on the actual bones of the review, I just want to address one thing really quickly: I related HARD to this book. Maybe it’s because of the similarities in our Continue Reading