Tag: contemporary (Page 36 of 122)

Review at Dear Author

September 4, 2019 / Kaetrin

I’m over at Dear Author with a review of Well Met by Jen DeLuca. Cute and fun debut set in and around a Renaissance faire – grumpy heroes FTW!

Review at Dear Author

August 23, 2019 / Kaetrin

I’m over at Dear Author with a review of Unbreak Me by Michelle Hazen. This one didn’t work very well for me.

Review at Dear Author

August 13, 2019 / Kaetrin

I’m over at Dear Author with a review of Playing House by Ruby Lang. Enjoyable novella about two Chinese-American urban planners finding love in Manhattan.

Review at Dear Author

August 7, 2019 / Kaetrin

I’m over at Dear Author with a review of The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai. Overtly feminist and full of competence porn with a prickly heroine and a cinnamon roll hero. Recommend.

I’m over at AudioGals with a review of Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey, narrated by Rachel L. Jacobs. A little slow, a little kitschy but some fun things too – right up until the end when the heroine did something that made my blood boil.

July Round Up

August 1, 2019 / Kaetrin

Monthly Mini Review

Arctic Wild by Annabeth Albert, narrated by Iggy Toma – B+ I enjoyed Arctic Sun recently, the first book in the Frozen Hearts series set in Alaska and after Caz enjoyed the follow up book, I decided to listen as well. I hadn’t listened to Iggy Toma narrate before but he has been highly recommended so I decided to give it a try.

Listeners were introduced to Tobias Kooly briefly in Arctic Sun but this book stands alone fairly well. Reuben Graham is a white guy in his late forties, going on an Alaskan holiday/adventure for his birthday. He was supposed to go with a couple of friends but they had to cancel at the last minute so he goes alone.

31 year-old Toby is the pilot/guide for his tour. Toby’s identifies his ethnicity as:

“My family background is a mix but mostly Athabascan from Ninilchik and Kenai. Also some Russian, Dutch, German thrown in.”

and it forms a large part of his identity. While I know the author is white, it seemed to me that the representation was done well but as I’m also white I’m hardly the expert here. Continue reading