As a long-term book blogger, I’ve gone through periods of time where I’ve blogged almost daily, and I’ve gone through times when I’ve touched my blog every few months. I’m expecting 2020 to be more of the latter than of the former. I’m getting married in the fall, and wedding planning is intense. So I’mRead more
Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith is another slow burn monster/human romance. Aliens came to earth and were quickly separated from humans. The protagonist, Sarah Fowler, has just accepted a new job as a social worker with the organization in charge of resettling and integrating the bug-like aliens. But “resettling” and “integrating” are loaded terms, andRead more
At the end of the previous book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, a vampire named Bella was captured by one of the lessers. Her captor, Agent O, is obsessed with her, as she reminds him a little bit of his ex-wife. So instead of torturing her for information like he’s supposed to, he keepsRead more
The next installment of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series is about a vampire named Rhage. Based on his name, we can already tell that he’s impulsive and has some anger issues. And he pissed off the Scribe Virgin, who is kind of like the vampires’ mentor/god figure, and she cursed him to carry a monsterRead more
During the summer, I’m always on the lookout for a lighthearted feel good beach read. And I’m picky about my romance novels, because I want to see relationships where both characters really are good together and respect each other, but that doesn’t make much of a story. Enter: the vampire romance, where there’s enough goingRead more
After reading R. Lee Smith’s undead erotica novel last month, my friends and I decided to make monster romance book club (well, that’s the sanitized version of the name) into a regular event. We all loved R. Lee Smith’s worldbuilding, and we knew that she had another monster romance, this time featuring an alien lizardmanRead more
A couple months ago at the end of Dungeons & Dragons night, one of my friends put forth a proposition. She had read a review online about some kind of eldritch erotica book, and she said she’d buy it if we’d read it too. Eldritch erotica sounded like the most bizarre subgenre I’d ever heardRead more
Next up on my stack of pulpy vintage trash… Sorcerer’s Legacy by Janny Wurts. The basic premise is this: a woman named Elienne has sex with her husband. She’s pregnant, but doesn’t know it yet. The next morning, an invading army kills her husband, and Elienne is captured and thrown into a cell. She’s then visited byRead more
A brief overview of the series thus far: A girl named Nina is attacked by a werewolf, and then she becomes one. She is taken to Abigaile Island, a prison/school for werewolf children to learn how to become docile slaves to their human oppressors. Once there, she enters into a love triangle with Roy, theRead more
Tama of the Light Country begins when a group of girls is kidnapped from a summer camp in New England. A young journalist goes to investigate, and he discovers more than he bargained for. The girls haven’t just been kidnapped, they’ve been abducted by aliens! And so begins his grand adventure, in which he discovers aRead more