One of the 18% of romance readers who are male. Perfectly OK not being the target audience. Here to geek out about what I’m reading and find recommendations. Yes, I have a spreadsheet.
@willaful To be fair, I was not that impressed with the first two in the series - I wouldn’t even have picked this up if the second (“Wildfire”) hadn’t been better than the first IMO. Grace is a competent writer, I suspect she’s just not telling the kind of story I’m looking to read. @bookstodon @romancebooks
@willaful I seem to have hit a bunch of sports books; I’m reading Grace Reilly’s “Wicked Serve” which is fourth in a series, this one a volleyball player and a hockey player. Just finished listening to Hannah Grace’s “Daydream” which wasn’t really for me; it felt more like it was for people who liked Grace’s last two and just want to hang out with the characters for 11 hours (or 400+ pages, depending on how you read). The pace is glacial. @bookstodon @romancebooks
@willaful Now that’s done I’m picking up Chanel Cleeton’s “Fly With Me” which I haven’t read enough of to talk about yet…@romancebooks
@willaful I just finished reading Serena Bell’s “Hott Take”, the second in her “Hott Springs Eternal” series; it’s a good fake engagement/marriage of convenience book, definitely not the expected resolution of the “faking it” part, but really sweet characters. Bell’s Rush Creek setting is a fun place to go back to, as well. @romancebooks
@willaful oh, I’ve got that on my “look out for” list. Actual characters of my age is a major selling point. I’m listening to Susan Lee’s “The Name Drop” which started delightfully but is reaching the hard part of the plot now. @romancebooks
@willaful I’m listening to Rebecca Yarros’s “The Things We Leave Unfinished” which has an interesting dual timeline structure, 1940 and present day, but I’m still not sure I care about the present-day characters very much. Reading Tarah DeWitt’s “Savor It” in which not much is happening but I could read the characters (especially the FMC) bantering *all day*. I like the style. @romancelandia @romancebooks
@willaful @romancebooks I ❤️ Jenny Holiday and how she experiments with tropes and styles. Canadian Boyfriend almost felt like it was Abby Jimenez at times (maybe that was the setting). But her books are always memorable in a way not every book is.