Sivan brings the diverse city of Tel Aviv to life as a backdrop to this steamy romance about financial trading scandals, steamy romance, intrigue, and the global immigrant experience. With well-researched and realistic BDSM and polyamory rep, this story brings the heat in a big way.
I’m Reading: Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens
Laura is a hopeless romantic and professional meet-cute reporter. Her own parents' story of being brought together by a broken antique coin across the sea has set high standards for her love life, and she's not about to settle for less than epic romance. As she travels to the island of Jersey to trace her … Continue reading I’m Reading: Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens
I’m Reading: Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
Finlay Donovan's life is a complete mess. Her newly ex husband fired the nanny without telling her, she's behind on the bills, the book she desperately needs to finish to cover the mortgage is past due (and barely started), and her kid chose this morning to cut her own hair before school, then insists on … Continue reading I’m Reading: Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
I’m Reading: Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill web designer who wants to experience life away from the hovering and smothering care of her family. So she gets an apartment and makes a list: Do something bad, ride a motorcycle, go camping, enjoy a drunken night out, have meaningless but enjoyable sex, and travel the world with … Continue reading I’m Reading: Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert
I’m Reading: So Not My Thing by Melanie Jacobson
Elle Jones has learned the hard way that the Internet is forever. After a humiliating teenage rejection by her pop star crush went viral, it threatened to follow her forever. But she regrouped and rebuilt. She's now on track to a wildly successful career in New Orleans real estate...until the man who wrecked her life … Continue reading I’m Reading: So Not My Thing by Melanie Jacobson
I’m Reading: The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
Catalina Martín has a problem. When she discovered that her newly-engaged ex would be best man at her sister's wedding in Spain, she may have accidently let slip that she would be bringing a date. Not just a date, though, a boyfriend. A handsome, charming, non-existent boyfriend. It was that or showing up single (again) … Continue reading I’m Reading: The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
All the World’s a Stage…And your Characters Should Act Like it!
Technically a lot of things make up a really good book. But as a reader, I will forgive an author many plot and style problems. The one thing I can't get past is the characters. Good characters can make an atrociously bad premise readable. Bad characters can render the most meticulous world-building pointless. The thing … Continue reading All the World’s a Stage…And your Characters Should Act Like it!