Synopsis: “Vanity Fair called this intensely erotic story of a young woman’s sexual and psychological odyssey ‘a provocative tour through the dark side.’” Jesse, a beautiful twenty-nine-year-old, is adrift in San Francisco’s demimonde of sexually ambiguous, bourbon-drinking, drug-taking outsiders. While desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend in a world of confused and […]

For years, I ignored Fitzgerald. I’m not sure why other than for the sake of being contrarian. There’s a frenzy around him, I was hesitant to read him. Tender is his fourth and final novel while he was alive, and it was the book he thought would solidify his spot as a great writer, it […]

Given what I normally read, romance always feels like a mini-vacation. The Brown sister series consists of three books, and this is the final installment in the series. I did a bad thing and skipped the second book, but I plan to read it later!

I’m going to start by stating, upfront, that this won’t be for everyone. Some readers will, reaching certain points, cringe and toss the book to the ground never to be picked up again. Others will read with such urgency they can’t possibly put it down and so the book becomes a kind of appendage until […]

Synopsis: When Kate’s boyfriend of 12 years takes her to breakfast only to break up with her, she’s left reeling and lost. Left without a place to live, Kate decides to return to her hometown, Sea Point, to live with her parents for the summer.  While home, Kate devises a three-point plan to get her life […]

I read Beach Read, Emily Henry’s first adult rom com, last summer and I loved it so much. It sparked my continued reading of romance. After a few months of quarantine, I was struggling to read, but romance was a genre that was … happy and light and just what I needed.

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. Pages: 209 Year Published: 2020 Monotony. Mundane. Ordinary. Repetitive. Depression. Anxiety. Existence—all these words come to mind while reading Want by Lynn Steger Strong. On the surface, Want is a tale of womanhood, motherhood, and friendship. It interrogates how each of these things manifests in a woman’s lives, subverting expectation […]

Publisher: Atria Books Page Count: 368 Publication Date: February 9, 2021 Synopsis: Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together, perfect for fans of The Lilac Girls and The Paris […]