The Pairing is without a doubt Casey McQuiston’s horniest book – it’s also their most sensual one, filled with lush descriptions of food and luxury locales and tourist spots. And yet it’s also the weakest book I’ve read of theirs. The author knows what they’re doing when the book opens with a quote from Mr….
Strong Wine, the third instalment of A.J. Demas’ wonderful alt-ancient-world-set Sword Dance trilogy, begins around a month after the end of Saffron Alley. At the end of that book, former soldier Damiskos Temnon decided he wasn’t going to return to Pheme at the end of his week in Boukos; instead, he’s officially resigned his post…
Having thoroughly enjoyed A.J. Demas’ Sword Dance when I read it for a TBR Challenge prompt recently, I quickly picked up book two, Saffron Alley, which provides a change of pace and focus in that it’s centred far more on Varazda’s domestic life and the growth of his relationship with Damiskos than on a mystery….
A.J. Demas’ Sword Dance is the first book in a trilogy set in an imaginary/alternate ancient world that reads rather like Ancient Greece, so I thought it would be a good fit for this month’s “unusual historical” prompt. There’s mystery and a slow-burn romance, lots of wry humour and a superbly realised setting to enjoy,…
Like its predecessor (Something Fabulous), Alexis Hall’s Something Spectacular is a delightful read with some very pertinent observations to make while being a witty, laugh-out-loud funny, campy, over-the-top and unabashedly queer romance that takes place in a very modern “Regency” setting. As with the previous book, “basically everyone in it is LGBTQ+”, the author (in…
What a fun, refreshing slow-burn of a romance! Chef’s Kiss understands what joy cooking can bring, and it brings it to life through a union between grumpy and sunshine, that universally appealing combo. TJ Alexander has some real writing skills, and they deploy them perfectly. Highly-strung Simone Larkspur is a busy pastry chef who lands…
After reading the blurb for Kris Ripper’s Book Boyfriend, I was looking forward to reading a slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance about a somewhat hapless writer who has been in love with his best friend forever, who ends up pouring out his feelings on paper because he’s too scared to say them out loud. Well, that last…
Curious about a gender-based dystopia where women have been erased as a concept and testosterone, inborn and taken via shots, rules the day? Check out Y Negative. Ember is Y-negative, a person born without a Y-chromosome. In his early years, he was forced to bear children; now, with the help of testosterone injections, he is…
Jay Hogan returns to her Auckland Med. series with Against the Grain, which features a romance between sassy spitfire pathologist’s assistant Sandy Williams (who appeared as a key secondary character in the last book, Up Close and Personal) and Miller Harrison, a member of the Wheel Blacks elite wheelchair rubgy team as well as a…
Another year’s gone by, and another collection of hot stories about willing, eager partners is released in this year’s edition of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 5. This year’s anthology is a little weaker in the quality department while also being stronger in that there are a wider variety of characters for readers…
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