Category: Contemporary Adult

(Guest Post) A Character Interview with Alistair Young from Fever

This is a guest post from Ellen Mint, author of Fever. It’s a character interview with Fever‘s love interest, Alistair, and it’s hilarious. Thank you so much, Ellen! Today we will be interviewing the hero from Ellen Mint’s newest romantic-suspense book, Fever. Let’s start off with an easy question. What’s your name? Alistair. Er, Alistair…

Woman Moves to Town of Psychics to Avoid Teaching High School Physics

Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal My rating: 4 out of 5 stars Goodreads Rating: 4.01 out of 5 stars Page Count: 190 pages One little paragraph about spirit energy ruined Akira’s career as an academic professor. Now she has two options: get a job at General Directions, a mysterious company in Florida that wants to interview her…

3 Alpha Female Romance Novels to Read Today

Even though the outdated damsel in distress romance novel heroine has turned into detectives, cops, veterans, and CEOs, more often than not it’s still the man doing the chasing. But sometimes you want the females to be the ones pursuing. Even though alpha female romance novels get lost among alpha male and wolf shifter romance…

The Ultimate Indie Book Reading Challenge

I’ve talked to many people who want to read more indie books (books published independently of the Big Five publishing companies) this year, and that’s excellent. There are a lot of indie authors writing high-quality works but remain relatively invisible in the book world. In fact, one-fifth of indie authors never get any income from…

Bland Characters Gun Each Other Down in Gunning For Trouble

Genre: Contemporary Page Count: 217 Pages Average Goodreads Rating: 3.79 out of 5 stars My rating: 1 out of 5 stars Caleb was in a dead sleep until his phone alerts him to a break-in to his apartment. Immediately his defensive instincts — honed by his dangerous work of tracking missing persons and protecting witnesses…