Fighting to be Free by Kirsty Moseley is an over-the-top, angsty, dark New Adult novel. I know that all appeals to a lot of readers, but it didn’t work for me. It also features a seventeen-year-old heroine and an eighteen-year-old hero, but it is NOT YA. I repeat, NOT YA. It’s basically a “boy from the wrong side of the tracks meets poor little rich girl” with humping and sadness. The humping is explicit and … Continue reading Fighting to be Free by Kirsty Moseley →
I’m pretty sure everyone at Smart Bitch HQ is sick of hearing about Passenger by Alexandra Bracken because I’ve been talking about it incessantly. Normally I don’t dig YA very much–lots of navel gazing, lots of love triangles–but this book worked for me on all the levels. It’s a time traveling non stop action adventure tale with romance and swashbuckling. Swashes are buckled, you guys. The heroine of this story is 17-year-old Etta Spencer, a violin … Continue reading Passenger by Alexandra Bracken →
I love stories set in the 1920’s, and I loved author Alaya Johnson’s most recent book (Love is the Drug). So I had high hopes for Moonshine, which is a paranormal with romantic elements about a social worker in New York in the 1920s. As it turned out the book was…OK. It was entertaining but it was easy to put down. It’s the first book in a series, so the romance element ends in a … Continue reading Moonshine by Alaya Johnson →
