The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer by S.E. HarmonLGBTQ Adventure/ Paranormal RomanceJuly 20, 2023- Self-PublishedKindle Unlimited Review by Angela Okay, okay- I totally picked this book up because of the cover. The blurb sounded fun, but mostly because of the cover. This is a new to me author, so I went in blind. All I knew was that I wanted this book to live up to my high expectations after the blurb and cover. I'm happy to report that it absolutely did. The Sawyer family Continue Reading
Review: The Gossip and the Grump by Pippa Grant
The Gossip and the Grump by Pippa GrantThree Best Friends and a Wedding #2Contemporary Romance/Romantic ComedyOctober 5-2023- Self-PublishedARC Review by Angela The second book in the Three Best Friends and a Wedding series focuses on Sabrina Sullivan, best friend to the would-be bride and gossip extraordinaire, and the man she met in Hawaii during the disastrous wedding week. Who turns out to be the new owner of her family's coffee cafe. Sabrina is depressed and upset by how her Continue Reading
Review: Spider and Frost by Jennifer Estep
Spider and Frost: An Elemental Assassin and Mythos Academy novella by Jennifer EstepFantasySeptember 26, 2023- Self-PublishedARC Review by Angela Spider and Frost is a crossover novella featuring Gin Blanco of the Elemental Assassins series and Gwen Frost from Mythos Academy. This fast-paced adventure is full of familiar faces, magic, and mythology. Gin Blanco, aka the Spider, is on vacation with Owen, Finn, and Bria when she's cut off from her friends and forced to take a planned Continue Reading
Angela’s Minis- Reviews for books by Shelley Parker-Chan and Pippa Grant
He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-ChanThe Radiant Emperor #2LGBTQ Historical FantasyAugust 22, 2023- TorARC After absolutely loving the first book in this duology, She Who Becomes the Sun, I was desperate to get my hands on the finale. This book is brutal. The main protagonists are dark and unrelenting in their separate quests- for power, for redemption, and for revenge. These are terrible people who repeatedly do terrible things. The story is told from multiple POVs and Continue Reading
Review: The Summer I Saved You by Elizabeth O’Roark
The Summer I Saved You by Elizabeth O'RoarkThe Summer #2Contemporary RomanceSeptember 14, 2023- Self-PublishedARC Review by Angela The Summer I Saved You is the second book in The Summer series and features Caleb, a friend of Luke's from The Summer We Fell, and his next-door neighbor, Lucie, a woman going through a divorce with two small children. This is billed as "An Angsty, Single Parent Romance", and it is... but, not to the degree of the first book in the series. This is more Continue Reading
Review: Shucked by Kate Canterbary
Shucked by Kate CanterbaryThe Loew Brothers #1Contemporary RomanceAugust 22, 2023- Vesper PressARC Review by Angela Set in the same world as In a Jam, Shucked is a grumpy/sunshine, opposites attract, age-gap, best friend's little sister, small-town romance. Yes, that's a lot of tropes, but y'all- IT WORKS. When Sunny Du Jardin wins a dilapidated bait shop in a poker game, she's distressed to find out it's located in her hometown of Friendship, Rhode Island. But she quickly rallies Continue Reading
Angela’s Minis- Cypress Ashes by Kai Butler and Craving in His Blood by Zoey Draven
Cypress Ashes by Kai ButlerSan Amaro Investigations #7LGBTQ+ PNR/Fantasy RomanceJune 19, 2023- Self-PublishedKindle Unlimited This was one of my most anticipated reads of the year, the finale for a truly fabulous fantasy series. This series has everything- old gods, saints, werewolves, dragons, witches of every kind, the fae, and a local private investigator and his detective lover out to save the world. The individual mysteries are just plot lines in a bigger series arc that is Continue Reading
Review: Kissing My Soulmate by Evan Grace
Kissing My Soulmate by Evan GraceThe Kissing Games #5Contemporary RomanceAugust 10, 2023- Self-PublishedARC Review by Angela I will admit to having a little bit of dread after reading the first chapter of this book. I had really been looking forward to this marriage in trouble, second chance romance which also happened to be the finale of The Kissing Games multi-author series, then I realized what the issue was between the couple and why they were breaking up. I don't think I'm Continue Reading
Review: Only Good Enemies by Jennifer Estep
Only Good Enemies by Jennifer EstepGalactic Bonds #2Science Fiction RomanceJuly 18, 2023- Self PublishedARC Review by Angela Vesper Quill and Kyrion Caldaren are back in the second book of the Galactic Bonds series. When we last left them, they had defeated the traitorous owner of Kent Corp and went their separate ways, Kyrion oblivious to the bond that still existed between him and Vesper after she had cleverly hidden the effects of the test given by the Imperium leader Lord Callus Continue Reading
Review: Kissing A Stranger by Lacey Black
Kissing a Stranger by Lacey BlackThe Kissing Games #4July 13, 2023- Self-PublishedARC Review by Angela So, uh, this book is quite a bit sexier than the previous installments in this multi-author series. If you've read the whole series so far, you've met Adeline and Decker already. Adeline is a bridesmaid in the wedding that didn't happen, and Decker is a bartender at the resort. I was going to lead that their relationship started with a kiss, just like in the other books, but Decker Continue Reading