Mini-reviews of How to Love Your Elf, Inked With A Kiss, Crave and Witches of Ash and Ruin. So that's a f/m adult fantasy romance, an f/f contemporary, a f/m YA paranormal and an f/f YA paranormal/fantasy/horror.
The Happy Ever Playlist opens with a near-miss: Sloan almost hits a dog that runs out into the street. (No dogs were harmed in the production of this novel.) When a policeman pulls her over, she ends up taking in the obviously neglected dog to save him from the pound and then she tries to find the dog's real owner. Many phone calls later, she finally hears back from Jason, a singer-songwriter who's been on location in Australia and without cell service and left his dog, Tucker, with a person who turns out to be horrible and left after just a couple of days.
I think I've found a self-pub gem of a series with Bryce Oakley's Kaleidoscope Album. I've only read Undone so far, but I'm hooked. You know all of those rock band series with five men? This is that, but with lots of lesbian (and maybe bi?) women.
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The Perfect Escape opens with a zombie attack! Okay, not a real one. High-school seniors Nate and Kate work together at a zombie-themed escape room, each saving money for a different reason. White Kate's controlling tech-CEO father demands that she enter the family business after high school, but she wants to go to NYC to pursue her theater dreams. Nate's Korean-American immigrant family has financial struggles and he wants to be able to afford college so he can get rich and help them/never worry about money again.
I enjoyed this book from the very beginning. The opening line is the title! "Mom, we've been over this. Don't read the comments." —It's kind of Divya's slogan. She's got an Etsy sign and everything.
Mini-reviews of three queer young adult novels and one queer contemporary polyam romance: Dark and Deepest Red, Only Mostly Devastated, In the Shadow of the Sun, and Three Part Harmony. All read as audiobooks!
Jackpot is a wild ride. Often literally! Rico and Zan spend a lot of time in the car on their way to chase only-vaguely-possible leads. There’s also a lot of family drama and a lot of feelings.
In Undercover Bromance, Lyssa Kay Adams attempts to lighten the intensity of a sexual assault plot with male camaraderie and jokes. It's not entirely successful. The book itself is not entirely successful and I admit to being greatly disappointed. This is a complicated review since my feelings are messy, but I tried to keep spoilers to the end. However, there are a few from the first 20% of the book that I've included because I don't believe setup to be spoilers.
