I have been wondering why the past couple of years have been so much harder on me even than Trump’s first presidency, and this is exactly why. There is just so much happening, all at once. (Beware: image and link heavy post below the fold; both the images and discussion of government violence rape may be...

Back in April, I was invited to read this ARC and, as I was in a fairly good place and a few of the authors are known quantities, I accepted. (Little did I know what would soon come my way.) Bewares for the collection as a whole: Christmas as setting rather than religious holiday; explicit sex on page, including...

When I first saw the trailer for this show, I was all in: two women ‘of a certain age’ being the protagonists of an action adventure show with some comedic elements? Yes, PLEASE! I eventually binged all eight episodes, and while I liked it well enough, I had issues with a couple of aspects of the show. Beware:...

I will confess upfront that I’m not a fan of this cover, though I’m the first to admit my tastes are, in a word, pedestrian. I requested the ARC due to name recognition and a desire to read more non-white authors. Beware: internalized homophobia/queerphobia as backstory; one of the protagonists is a struggling genre...

I had hoped to post this review back in July; alas, my brain made a different decision, and for the second time this year, I found myself unable to read new-to-me books, or to write about…well, anything. Things are looking up for the moment, so here I am, back with my Game Changers/Heated Rivalry nonsense. Beware:...

I had hoped to review this second entry in the Dorothy Gentleman‘s series, back in March; alas, best laid plans and all that.My reading mojo has been so inconsistent, that it’s now over six months after publication. Beware: Alzheimer’s Nobody’s Baby, by Olivia Waite One of the very real joys of genre fiction is...

For several months now, I’ve been fighting the impulse to write a rant about the appalling callousness on display on social media towards people with disability, especially people notionally in the U.S. (most of the random people I rub against online are names on a screen, who knows where they actually are?–or even...

I am cheating; the them for SuperWendy’s TBR Challenge for September is “lush life”. Now, things can be lush in the sense of glorious or blooming or abundant or luxurious, but I first encountered the word (as an adult ESL learner) to mean ‘someone who’s habitually drunk’–which fits Judith Potts to a T. So while the...

With a hat tip again to Erin, whose review of this one you can find here. Beware: depression; cheating leading to STI; not particularly descriptive, consensual sex on page between two adult men. “It Started With a Text” by Jax Calder This is the second story in the Queer Ways to Fall in Love duology, the premise of...

A couple of months ago, after reading this review by Erin (which is chock-full of all my catnip triggers), I grabbed both stories in the duology (see footnote 1) Beware: non-quite-explicit sex on page between two consenting adult men. “Moderating Love” by Jax Calder This novella is one of those stories that have no...

Version 1.0.0 Version 1.0.0 Version 1.0.0 Last month, Caz published a review for this trilogy, and I was intrigued enough to grab the first one. I eventually read it, and then the other two in quick succession. And yet… Beware: PTSD for physical injury in the past; recovery from being shot, on page; emotional...

For reasons, I ended up watching season 1 of “Off Campus”. Watcher beware: loss of a parent to cancer (in the past); rape drugs, rape off-screen, and references to rape culture on-screen; drinking; domestic violence; abusive parent; misogyny, both societal and internalized; full frontal nudity, various characters....