CW: The story includes discussion of past experiences of child abuse, attempted murder, and kidnapping. Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai is full up with tropes that I’m sure are a lot of people’s favs—there’s a romance between a bodyguard and the woman he’s hired to protect! Forced proximity! Cute stray dog! Former soldier struggling to manage his PTSD! A marriage of convenience! Friends to lovers! Small town! Millionaire former celebrity looking to live a … Continue reading Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai →
Special treat for your Monday: a beautiful cover to look at, and a book to one-click pre-order if the cover makes you as giddy as it did all of us! (Side note: is “OCPO” a thing, where you’re pre-ordering with a one-click frenzy so intense you bruise your one-click finger? Would that be OCK-PO? I think OCPO should be a thing.) You may have noticed a general excitement online regarding A Princess in Theory . I … Continue reading A Duke By Default by Alyssa Cole: Cover Reveal →
This book was pitched to me as “Muslim Nancy Drew” and I couldn’t move my fingers fast enough to add it to the TBR-I (To Be Read IMMEDIATELY) list. While the mystery elements sometimes make abrupt turns and some of the secondary characters are a little awkwardly obvious, the core characters of Asiya Haque, her best friend, and her family are just delightful. Asiya Haque is a Muslim high school senior in Canada who is very … Continue reading God Smites and Other Muslim Girl Problems by Ishara Deen →
Hold Me is both very ambitious and very uneven. We here at the Bitchery are unabashed Courtney Milan fans, to the point where I cannot possibly read a Milan book without both bias in its favor and very high expectations. As with all Milan books, I squeed repeatedly while reading, but the overall reading experience was not as enjoyable as I hoped it would be. Hold Me involves Jay, a physicist, who is super duper … Continue reading Hold Me by Courtney Milan →
I Am Ebony Strike has several elements that are pure catnip to me. It’s science fiction that includes multiple races and species, not all of which are humanoid in appearance. The main character is a female martial artist who is not young (she doesn’t state her age, but she makes it clear that she’s much older than her competitors, so I’m guessing she’s middle-aged). As an added bonus, neither protagonist is white, which is a … Continue reading I Am Ebony Strike by KS Augustin →
Sense 8 is a weird mess of a show that is notoriously slow to grab its viewers’ attention. Most people either love it or hate it by episode three or four. I was completely apathetic at the end of Episode 1 and fanatically obsessed by the end of Episode 2. What hooked me? The romances, and how the romances hook into the idea that people need to connect to other people in order to emotionally … Continue reading Sense8: Like Whoa, Love is Amazing, AMIRITE? →
