Rating: 4.5🌈 Soft Place to Fall is a heartbreaker of a book. Full of a broken partnership , a past of broken dreams and broken promises, and a mother who is being shattered by that most Insidious of diseases, Alzheimer’s, this story is one guaranteed to have you sobbing. Often. It’s so well written that… Continue reading Review: Soft Place to Fall by B.A. Tortuga
Month: October 2021
Review: Two-Man Team (Stick Side #5) by Amy Aislin
Rating: 4.5 🌈 Kris Xappa’s getting ready to make his post season retirement announcement. On top of that, there’s the eminent launch of the charity youth foundation, Forward Thinking, he started with his two long time best friends but nothing is going according to plans. In trying to stop a fight at a friends bar,… Continue reading Review: Two-Man Team (Stick Side #5) by Amy Aislin
Review: Corruption (The Bureau #1) by Kim Fielding
Rating: 3.5 🌈 Corruption is a short story that begins a new series by Kim Fielding. It’s supernatural with what hints to be the beginning of a complicated hurt/comfort relationship with one clearly in the Master side of a D/s Angel/demon relationship. The characters, only loosely set here but enormously fascinating with tremendous chemistry, have… Continue reading Review: Corruption (The Bureau #1) by Kim Fielding
Review: Extraordinary Things (Star Shadow #4) by Beth Bolden
Rating: 4.75🌈 Extraordinary Things is the series finale for Star Shadow, Beth Bolden’s rock band romance. While all five musicians got their HEA, the heart of the band and much of its drama centered around the couple Leo Humphries and Caleb Chance. It was the disappearance of Caleb that caused Star Shadow to disband and… Continue reading Review: Extraordinary Things (Star Shadow #4) by Beth Bolden
Review: Pines and Violets (Colors of Love #7) by V.L. Locey
Rating: 5🌈 Colors of Love has quickly become one of my favorite series and one I highly recommend when people ask me for a contemporary romance novel to read. Beautifully written, well crafted characters of depth that immediately grab at heart and mind, the stories all have certain fascinating elements. One main element is a… Continue reading Review: Pines and Violets (Colors of Love #7) by V.L. Locey
Review: Gingerbread Mistletoe (Lighthouse Bay #2) by Amy Aislin
Rating 4.5 Gingerbread Mistletoe is a story who’s events and romance runs concurrently with those of the first book in the series, Christmas Lane. So yes, they really need to be read together and in the order they were written to understand the relationships and personal dynamics. Ah, Christmas tales and loves stories! Honestly, I… Continue reading Review: Gingerbread Mistletoe (Lighthouse Bay #2) by Amy Aislin
Review: Desert Dreams (Owatonna U Hockey #6) by R.J. Scott and V.L. Locey
Rating: 5🌈 It’s been about a little over a year since the events of Valentine’s Hearts, the preceding book in the Owatonna U Hockey series. In that story we saw two momentous events, a sexual assault on Jacob and finally Ryker and Jacob’s wedding. As the series finale opens, Jacob’s dreams have been realized and… Continue reading Review: Desert Dreams (Owatonna U Hockey #6) by R.J. Scott and V.L. Locey
Review: Hazardous Things (Star Shadow #3) by Beth Bolden
Rating: 4🌈 Hazardous Things is the third story in the Star Shadow series and the review I’m having the most problems writing. One one hand I genuinely love the characters of Felix Humphries and Max McCloud, Star Shadow’s drummer. Felix has been a snarky bundle of intelligent judgment and wry humor from the beginning with… Continue reading Review: Hazardous Things (Star Shadow #3) by Beth Bolden
Review: Impossible Things (Star Shadow #2} by Beth Bolden
Rating: 3.5 stars After the emotionally traumatic, narratively heavy first story (Terrible Things), I had wondered how the author was going to top that. It was a great story and had a charismatic couple at its heart. Did I find that with Impossible Things? Not exactly. This story has one of the issues that I… Continue reading Review: Impossible Things (Star Shadow #2} by Beth Bolden
Review: Terrible Things (Star Shadow #1) by Beth Bolden
Rating: 4.5🌈 Terrible Things is another terrific start to a contemporary rock band romance series by Beth Bolden. Set in southern California, the location allows the author to fold in characters from her other series (Kitchen Gods, Food Truck Warriors) into making guest appearances where needed. Or even serving up as locations ala Terrior Restaurant… Continue reading Review: Terrible Things (Star Shadow #1) by Beth Bolden
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 