I just couldn’t with this book. Maybe it’s not fair that I’m calling it a DNF at the 23% mark, but god, I just cannot bring myself to open it again. It may very well be a personal problem. Sometimes, when I am insanely stressed out, I just can’t sit and READ – as in “eyes on a page” reading. So, I bought the audiobook, thinking that might help. Except the narrator was one of … Continue reading Barefoot at Midnight by Roxanne St. Claire →
I really wanted to have a great review for you all. I bought Ghost Gifts by Laura Spinella on May 8th, right after signing up to review. 3,349 people thought it was pretty good – it has an average of 4.5 stars on Amazon. Give the book a try! Really, you probably will like it. I however, did not. I thought about admitting my failure to Amanda at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. Telling her that … Continue reading Ghost Gifts by Laura Spinella →
NB: Trigger warnings for the below description racism and threat of rape. Well, I picked this book to review because I was late to the sign-up sheet and it was the only book left. Which wasn’t maybe the best sign, but you never know with these things, and part of my idea with this challenge was to get out of my comfort zone and try something new. The Depth of Beauty is not the book … Continue reading The Depth of Beauty by A.B. Michaels →
Obstetrician Avery Wallace and ER doctor Justin Garrett have always had a mutual attraction. But she doesn’t want to date another doctor, and definitely not one with his reputation for sleeping around. However, when a moment of passion after a stressful shift leaves them with unexpected consequences, she has a lot of decisions to make. The first thing I do when setting out to write a review of a book is to look back at … Continue reading Two Doctors and a Baby by Brenda Harlen →
Having devoured the reviews in last year’s RITA Reader Review Challenge, I was chomping at the bit to get involved this time around. What better way to discover some new authors? Hence “Searching for Mine” being my first pick, as I wasn’t familiar with Jennifer Probst before this. This book is a novella-length spin-off from Probst’s Searching for… series, which in itself is a spin-off from her earlier Marriage to a Billionaire series. …And it’s … Continue reading Searching for Mine by Jennifer Probst →
Usually, I give book around a hundred pages before I throw in the towel. A lot can change in those hundred pages. But for Fighting Attraction, I made it to page thirty-nine before I noped on out of there. Before I get to the series of instances that seems to get progressively worse in the book, I want to issue trigger warnings for violence against women, self-harm, and issues with consent. Now, this is billed as … Continue reading Fighting Attraction by Sarah Castille →
Sometimes I can only take so much crazysauce and wtfery before I have to tap out. I know, I know, you good folks rely on me to read this shit so you don’t have to, but even I have my limits. I DNF’d Hunt the Dawn, but I did get far enough to share some prime F+ moments with you. Hunt the Dawn is a romantic suspense novel featuring Lathaniel (yes, yes, that is his actual … Continue reading Hunt the Dawn by Abbie Roads →
I jumped at this book with grabby hands because of this sentence in the summary: Back in college she tied this former frat boy to the bed with her argyle socks! I mean, male bondage! Argyle socks! It’s an irresistibly charming and random combination. How could this not be fun? Unfortunately, what I got was a cliché-laden good girl-bad boy romance that is drowning in sexism. (As well as several other – isms, but let’s … Continue reading Once Kissed by Cecy Robson →
I picked this book because it’s rare that I strike out with the first in a series and keep going with another installment. Once bitten, twice shy, you know? But while I didn’t enjoy the first book, I have enjoyed a couple of the author’s novellas, so I thought this would be a perfect opportunity for an experiment: giving series with a disappointing first book another shot. I am a firm believer in ditching books … Continue reading Facing Fire by HelenKay Dimon →
I jumped at the chance to review this. I was so excited. I love Vikings. Medieval Icelandic literature does it for me. I adore romance novels. Romance novels featuring Vikings have never worked for me before, but I’m like a bird that doesn’t understand glass. This time, this time it’s going to work out. Flutter flutter flutter. Thunk. I tried repeatedly to finish this. I tried really hard, harder than any erection you have encountered, … Continue reading Viking Warrior Rising by Asa Maria Bradley →
Recap: Della Tsang, a seventeen-year-old vampire who can also see and speak with ghosts, struggles with the revelation that her uncle may have murdered her aunt. In the meantime, her father acts strange and behaves coldly towards her. She is determined to solve the mystery of her aunt’s death. As if these weren’t enough problems for a teen vampire, she is inevitably stuck in a love triangle and must choose between Chase Tallman or Steve. … Continue reading Unspoken by C. C. Hunter →
