As a Korean adoptee, Hara Wilson doesn’t need anyone telling her she looks different from her white parents. She knows. Every time Hara looks in the mirror, she’s reminded that she doesn’t look like anyone else in her family—not her loving mother, Ellen; not her jerk of a father, Pat; and certainly not like Pat’s […]
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, […]
Suddenly single, in her forties, and eager to do what it takes to start over, Elaina Samuels meets three women with similar circumstances at a cash-for-gold event. They quickly become friends and form the No Sweat Pants Allowed – Wine Club. This newly found alliance brings about some humorous escapades, a few tears, and a […]
Hello book lovers and welcome to my first in a series on my favorite fantasy books! Today’s topic at hand will be my favorite fantasy series that are classified as urban fantasy; contemporary set fantasy books usually focused on vampires, werewolves, and some witches! The Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews This series by Ilona Andrews […]
Joe Goldberg is a romantic. He sees himself in the male leads of traditional rom coms, waiting for the right moment to finally get the girl. And one day that girl comes into the bookshop he works at. Her name is Guinevere Beck, she’s a writer, and she likes the same books and rom coms […]
Jack Valentine has been a Silver–a vampire–for a couple of decades now. She’s been working with the Seekers, a vampire enforcement team that monitors Silvers to ensure they don’t cross any lines that may lead to humans discovering what they are. A series of murders in London rear their ugly head in Oxford, finally, when […]
New Orleans is no stranger to the weird and magical. So it’s no surprise that Mateo, a metal artist and a werewolf, is able to find a few witches there who may be able to help him. See, Mateo is cursed and unable to transform into his wolf counterpart. The wolf inside him has begun […]
Cups and Cards and Books 