Hellooooo! It’s time for Wednesday Links! How are we feeling about April? Have the allergies started for anyone yet? I’m always dreading allergy season, but mine didn’t start until mid-May last year. I keep waiting for the day I don’t get them because I’ve heard if you live in an area for a decade, your body gets used to it. Well…I’ve surpassed a decade and I still have ’em. Maybe I’m just a…late bloomer. (lol) … Continue reading Links: The Spice Girls, More Trader Joe’s Discussion, & More →
It’s our last Links of 2023! Next week, we’ll be taking a break from content to run our Best Of lists, from posts to reviews to Cover Snark. I want to take a moment to reflect on these posts. When I started doing them, it was just a way to show off some cool or interesting things from around the internet. And it still is! However, I love that it’s also morphed into a little … Continue reading Links: Libraries, Baking, & More →
Don’t start Our Crooked Hearts unless you have time to finish it. It’s such a wonderful, spooky, thrilling story that it’s hard to put down. It’s a book about imperfect parents, teenage dissatisfaction, and female empowerment and it unfolds beautifully. It’s also a remarkable ghost story. While this book has horror elements to it, it wasn’t especially scary and would be appropriate for a teen. I do want to warn readers about some violence to … Continue reading Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert →
This is a weird book, y’all. It opens with raunchy pining, segues into creepytown, and ends with a full-throated critique of Catholicism. What did I just read? As a devoted veteran of tortured priest love stories, I was curious to see if this book could avoid the potential minefields in the pairing. The first couple of chapters made me think I was getting an edgy romcom with steamy high-conflict angst. By the end, the book … Continue reading Hot Under His Collar by Andie J. Christopher →
Can you believe it’s November? I’m officially back from vacation. I went to Florida to visit family and hit up Disney World. My body is incredibly sore and I’m doing my utmost to get back into the land of the living. I slept for a glorious eleven hours last night! … If you’ve purchased any ebooks from the Harlequin website, here is some incredibly important news about your books: Harlequin is changing their approach to … Continue reading Links: The Kiss Quotient, the Cell Block Tango, & More →
Looking Inside is one of the best erotic contemporaries I’ve read in a really long time. It’s not a perfect book, but it worked for me on every level. I devoured it. Basically if I had to take a shot for every one of the Elyse-catnip elements that shows up in this book, I’d be on the floor singing “Red Solo Cup.” If you put this book under a box being held up by a stick, it … Continue reading Looking Inside by Beth Kery →
His Forever Family by Sarah M. Anderson is a billionaire/boss-assistant/Cinderella/adoption story (please let that be a category on Jeopardy someday) that features a pretty substantial conversation about race, class, and privilege. All of that is packed into 256 pages, but somehow it works. Also it’s about finding your family which is a theme that almost always works for me. Marcus Warren (billionaire and one of The Warrens) is jogging with his assistant Liberty Reese, like they … Continue reading His Forever Family by Sarah M. Anderson →
