Reviews of my Reading List
Divine Rivals
Review #456 “It helps to know someone is hearing me. Someone is reading what I pour onto a page.” Divine Rivals is the first of a duology. I give this (historical?) fantasy romance a 4.8/5 stars. It’s positively frustrating when an author makes writing look easy. The...
We Play Games
Review #455 I give this drama thriller a 4.0/5. I read it as an audiobook and the second half felt quite a bit different than the first. Here’s my comments while reading: The beginning sounds like a husband and woman in a non traditional marriage who are con artists...
Crossed
Review #454 Trigger- On page r@pe. Which frustrated me. Yes, the author gave trigger warnings leading us to her website for more information. But I’m frustrated with the genre of dark romance as a whole. I’d love to find morally gray characters where SA and r@pe...
The Narrator
Review #453 I haven’t read a thriller in a while though this felt more like a half-mystery, half mild thriller. I gave it 4.6/5 stars and enjoyed the twist! there were multiple points of view, both first and third person. Here are my comments while reading: I’m...
Just for the Summer
Review #452 I gave this contemporary romance, by Abby Jimenez, a 4.5/5 stars. This is more of a “real” and deep feeling romance where it’s not all sugar coated and superficial. I appreciate the realistic mental health representation and advocating for therapy. Maddy...
Raiders of the Lost Heart
This is a story by, Jo Segura, is of love with Mexican history entwined with an Indiana Jones movie, but a female being the badass. I give It a high 4.8/5 stars and would barely change a thing. It’s actually surprisingly how much I loved it because it’s written in...
With You Forever
Review #451 I kept forgetting the title name of With You Forever, but I’ll give this contemporary romance a 4.4/5 stars. I love how real the characters feel. It’s a standalone with 2 PoV within a series. So Rooney and Axel both have secret crushes on each other...
No Words
Review #450 Overall, I gave this sweet, clean contemporary bookish romance a 4.2/5 stars. Written all in one point of view, I enjoyed the island setting. The fact that they were at an author festival was cool since I was invited to my first one recently. Here’s my...
Seatmate
Review #449 Cara Bastone has a unique way of making a 5 hour conversation interesting. The story is completely dialogue, like her other read I recently listened to that seems like would only work as an audible. I gave this novella a 4/5 stars and here’s my ramblings...
DNF- No Judgments
No Judgments starts with Bree’s new life on the island of Little Bridge, which is about to get slammed by a hurricane. She doesn’t want to evacuate although most others are. There’s her needy cat, Gary, to take care of among other reasons and it sounds like local,...
Splintered
Review #448 I bought Splintered by Howard because I love retellings. I give this one a 3.9/5 stars. Honestly, I was confused quite often. Written in one point of view, first person present tense, I enjoyed the use of strong action words throughout but sometimes it...
Sweet Talk
Review #447 This was a sweet, cute, clean “get to know each other” pre-dating romcom novella where the characters actually had depth in a short duration. I’d give it a 4/5 stars. Here’s my random notes: The notification beep for each of their incoming voice...
Sun of a Beach
Review #446 I give this contemporary romance novella an average 3.5/5 I read it as an audiobook, 2 POV and 2 narrators. Here’s some random thoughts and notes: The FMC’s opening idea to change magazine spreads to find a different readership population. Which is very...
DNF- The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Here’s the blurb! In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held...
DNF- When Women Were Dragons
This is a compilation of snippets of women’s lives as mothers, wives, daughters, and abuse and or anger. I’m not a huge fan of novels starting out when the character is a child since I’m assuming it’ll cover a broad spectrum of time/go slowly. I’m also not...