2.5 stars — Welp, these freebies can often be a toss up, and this time I just ended up on the wrong side of the coin flip. Sometimes you find a new author to love, and sometimes it just doesn’t match. This was the latter. If I hadn’t been desperate to try to achieve my […]
4 stars — Ha! I started this one stupidly at 1am when we had been out late and I couldn’t fall asleep right away thinking I would just read a chapter or two…next thing I know it’s 4am, and I’m forcing myself to put it down. The same thing happened the next night. So to […]
4.5 stars — I actually read these novellas totally out of order and finished this one last, but that didn’t impact my enjoyment at all! I wasn’t sure what I was going to get with these two characters, but what I got was freaking adorable. I loved the crushes, and the tentativeness, and the blushes, […]
4 stars — I just love how Ms. White packs so much into her books. I honestly feel like my favourite part is reading the Author’s Note at the end and finding out which elements were based in fact and where she took liberties to make it work in this world. I have read the […]
3.75 stars — Honestly, I don’t really know why this one isn’t a full 4 stars…probably my mood. So for all intents and purposes, just consider this a 4 star review and let’s ignore Lenore’s weird need to be precise about shit. It’s been quite a while since I read Dylan and Chastity’s book, and […]
3.5 stars — I will admit, this one did not start off with a bang for me. I was kind of disappointed in the writing (felt a bit simplistic), and I wasn’t getting captured by our characters. I pushed through because it was an older NetGalley, and I’m really glad I did, b/c about 1/3 […]
4 stars — There were parts of this book that I absolutely loved, but I think I spent a lot of time thinking of gender identity and all that that encompasses, and while this touched on that to some degree, particularly the paths that were open to women in this time period vs all the […]
4.5 stars — This was utterly delightful. Honestly, the happy moments between Mina and Simon were just so freaking good, I just wanted to read them over and over. You could genuinely feel the connection between these two. From their initial intrigue, to crush, to fascination, to lust, to more. It was just…so good. I […]
3.5 stars — I think my mediocre rating for this one had to do with 2 things on a personal front: having expectations for who Stacey was and how I thought this story would go; and simultaneously reading a book I’m really loving so I would inevitably compare the two and notice more clearly what […]
4.5 stars — This one just settled in more strongly for me! There was definitely a lot of contention between the characters, but I wouldn’t call it enemies to lovers necessarily. I think I could just see how much Easton and Gemma wanted one another, so I was rooting for them. At first I wasn’t […]