Genre: Contemporary, Literature Page Count: 391 pages Average Goodreads Rating:4.2/5 stars My rating: 3.5/5 stars Ziva has the ability to read fortunes in coffee grounds, passed down from her grandmother. She does it for her family and friends. But then Ziva uses her ‘gift’ for herself. Throughout her life, her talent had been freely given…
Category: Contemporary Adult
5 Romance Novels I’m Kicking off 2017 With
We’ve now been in 2017 a little over a week and it looks like my reading list is not going to decrease any time soon. Right now I have 5 romance novels in my immediate reading list and I’m in the middle of 4 of them. So, here’s a quick peek at some of the…
Book Review: Telling Jase
Genre: Contemporary, LGBTQ My rating: 4/5 stars Jase grinned, “you were about to tell me why you always hated Marcus?” Sean closed his eyes. Truth, he reminded himself. He took a few deep breaths. “I envied him, Jase.” “What? Why?” Truth, truth, truth. “Because he got to have you, and I didn’t. Because I wanted…
Holiday Book Review: The Mistletoe Bride
Sometimes we all need a little bit of a pick-me-up during the holiday season. It’s supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year and all that, but it’s frickin’ stressful. Between the in-laws and the holiday shopping (not to mention the calories. Yikes!), December can quickly turn into a jolly nightmare. However, The Mistletoe…
Second Time Around by H.A. Caine
Genre: Contemporary, LGBTQ Word Count: 8,140 Average Goodreads Rating: 2.67/5 stars My Rating: 3/5 stars Second Time Around is a story about mistaken identities. Jamie meets the man of his dreams, Matthew, at a party celebrating the opening of his new bakery. Better yet, Matthew seems to be into him. There’s just one problem: there’s…
Book Review: Same Time Next Year by Jenna Bennett
Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 4,560 Average Goodreads Rating: 3.27/5 stars My rating: 4.5/5 stars It’s not often a book can surprise me. But Same Time Next Year totally took me off guard. Every year, for the past either years, Regina White and Tyler Harrison meet at the same hotel, in two connecting rooms for one night….
Book Review: Note to Self by Belinda LaPage
Genre: Contemporary, LGBTQ Goodreads rating: 3.73 out of 5 stars My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Anna never considered herself bisexual or a lesbian. She’s totally in love with her husband and happy with her life as a wife, mother, and cop. But that all changes when she meets Susan, a pretty, feminine doctor,…
Book Review: Hart Broken by Annie Arcane
Genre: Contemporary Goodreads Rating: 4.75/5 stars My rating: 4/5 stars Mickey Hart doesn’t do one-night stands. Until she wakes up in a luxury penthouse. With nothing but a t-shirt. And no idea who it belongs to. Enter Cale Windermere. Driven. Ambitious. Successful. And so gorgeous he could’ve walked straight out of a romance novel… Except…
Only He Knows by Hiranya Borah
Words, 3,330 Average Smashwords Rating: 5/5 stars My rating: 2/5 stars I’ve had such mixed feelings about Hiranya Borah’s stories and Only He Knows is no different. It’s about a married couple that seem perfect but not everything is as it seems. Himangshu cheated on his wife Seema for years, even when she’s dying of cancer….
Book Review: Fallen Angel by Tracie Podger
Genre: Contemporary Adult Average Goodreads Rating: 4.27 My Rating: 2.5 “What do you see when you look into my eyes?” I asked breathlessly and not entirely sure where the question had come from. “All there is to know,” was his reply. “What do you see when you look into my eyes, Brooke?” he whispered, there…