The Hate Project review

The Love Study ★★★★ I wanted to hate him, but hearing my name in that I’m-just-about-to-come voice made it impossible. As was well-established in my review for the first book in this series, The Love Study, I'm a big fan of romcom's. Part of what I love about romcom's is that with almost all of them…

Knit, Purl, a Baby and a Girl review

content warnings: fatphobia, biphobia, homophobia, mentions of miscarriages and death of a loved one (cancer), minor problems during pregnancy, emotionally abusive parent, representation: fat bisexual protagonist, lesbian main character Sure your outburst hurt our feelings, although not as bad as watching you tearing apart that sweater hurt our sensibilities as knitters, but that doesn't mean…

Just Like This review

1) Just Like That ★★★★½ content warnings: discussions of bullying, violence and the unlawful kidnapping of Indigenous childrenrepresentation: gay protagonist, gay Indigenous protagonist, main m/m romance, side gay characters “Some things just had to be dealt with. And Rian Falwell was apparently one of them.” When I read Cole McCade's Just Like That earlier this…

Feel the Fire review

1) Burn Zone ★★★★2) High Heat ★★★★ content warnings: mentions of homophobic family members, discussions of past death of a partner and family membersrepresentation: Mexican-American gay protagonist, demisexual protagonist, m/m main relationship, pansexual side characters, m/m side relationships “‘There’s always been something so right about holding you. Always,’ Luis whispered. ‘Yeah.’ He had to swallow…

The Love Study review

content warnings: panic attacks, mentions of racism, homophobia and transphobia, discussions of near-death experiencesrepresentation: queer protagonist with anxiety, genderqueer love interest, pansexual Black main character, Korean lesbian main character, trans lesbian main character, biracial (white-Mexican) fat gay main character with anxiety, f/f side relationship Here’s how my friends describe me to new people: ‘This is…

High Heat review

‘You… You’re special, Rain. I hope you know that.’ ‘I do now.’ His voice was soft, and he had to hide his face in Garrick’s neck, not wanting to reveal quite how much those words meant to him. Garrick made him want, made him dream, things he’d thought weren’t meant to be his. All the…

Just Like That review

content warnings: death of a spouse (past), grief, suicidal ideation, bullyingrepresentation: gay main character with anxiety, biracial (Japanese-white) mlm main character, interracial main m/m relationship “You could be soft with me, if you wanted.”Fox quirked his lips. “I don’t know if I have any softness left in me, Summer.”“I think you do,” Summer said. “Or…

The Girl Next Door review

content warnings: death of a loved one, mentions of a fatal car accident, references to homophobia, mentions of major workplace injuriesrepresentation: lesbian main characters, f/f main relationship, sapphic side characters, f/f side relationships “Jude definitely didn’t want to kiss me, which was fine. That was her right. It made things a little difficult since I…

SapphicAThon Round 3 TBR

In our times of self-isolation you would think I would be reading more but alas, I'm just terrible at reading no matter what. Luckily in May the third round of SapphicAThon is going to be held, from May 18th-25th, so hopefully it can get me back into reading. All the books on this TBR are…

Burn Zone review

Annabeth Albert’s previous series, Out of Uniform, is easily my favourite erotica series, so to get something else from her, even if it isn’t (explicitly) part of that world, is amazing. Especially when it’s something as good as this.