4.5 stars — That’s it. I think I’m just going to listen to Mariana Zapata’s books from now on, particularly if they’re narrated by Callie Dalton. Dudes, that chick knows how to give good narration. Like she takes a book that I would have enjoyed reading on my own, and turns it into a favourite. […]
4 stars — OMG, I loved Rahn and Roman…they were so cute together. I love sweet characters, and both Rahn and Roman fit that bill. I just wanted to hug them both, and I LOVED the way they loved each other. I did NOT expect the storyline at all! It threw me totally off-guard, though […]
OVERALL: 4 stars — As with all anthologies, there are going to be hits and misses. I actually expect that, because I don’t match up with every author. Sometimes there are more misses than hits. This one had a pretty good balance actually. I think only 1 or 2 really missed. And for the ones […]
DNF @ 19% — I just wasn’t engaged in the story. It was a bit far-fetched, but I knew that going in with the blurb… It wasn’t that so much as I just didn’t care about our protagonist. I felt like I wasn’t getting to know him at all, and it was just a recounting […]
4 stars — Well, this one ended with a lot of tears…it’s been a few months since a book has done that to me. And it wasn’t the only time I teared up in this book! Which is not to say that this is a sad book, by any means. But Vela goes through some […]
4.5 stars — OK, this is one of those books that would probably have been a 4 star book if I’d read it myself, but listening to Callie Dalton narrate it pretty much sent it out of the stratosphere! She was AMAZING as a narrator, definitely going to be put into my top faves. I […]
4 stars — This book had a lot of really great stuff going for it, but it had some major flaws as well. But in the end, the parts that surprised and impressed me balanced out the things that bugged me and left me with an overall enjoyable reading experience. I will admit, the “bad […]
4.5 stars — I am in love with this book. Heck, I’m in love with this whole series, but I read them out of order so I’m only just now finally getting back to the first book in the series! I have a feeling I’m going to have a hard time elucidating what I loved […]
3 stars — OK. So. Hmmm… I adored the first book in this series, so I was excited to see more. But…while this one wasn’t bad, it was just missing something. The tropes in this story are friends to lovers and fake relationship, and I didn’t always understand their friendship, and I DEFINITELY didn’t understand […]
3 stars — I was really looking forward to this book, and the main reason is the obvious awesome diversity! Not only is our author a person of colour, but so are BOTH of our main characters! And I’d seen some good reviews for Ms. Guillory’s debut, The Wedding Date, so I figured it was […]