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“Don’t you think it’s possible that this could be good? That maybe this won’t lead to disaster after all? What if we find out that we fit together, like your grandparents and their hands?” (Bingo #8)

Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon

October 23, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Blackout is a novel comprised of several short stories covering five hours in the course of one night in New York as it experiences a blackout. Tiffany D. Jackson writes The Long Walk which is broken up into five acts, Nic Stone contributes Mask Off (perhaps my favorite of the bunch), Ashley Woodfolk’s Made to Fit, Dhonielle Clayton provides All the Great Love Stories… and Dust, as well as being the person who sparked the project into existence, Angie Thomas’s No Sleep Till Brooklyn, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: Adaptation Coming, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Black love, blackout, cbr13bingo, cityscape, Dhonielle Clayton, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon, nic stone, nicola yoon, queer love, read harder challenge, read women, Tiffany D. Jackson, we need diverse books, young love

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: Adaptation Coming, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Black love, blackout, cbr13bingo, cityscape, Dhonielle Clayton, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon, nic stone, nicola yoon, queer love, read harder challenge, read women, Tiffany D. Jackson, we need diverse books, young love ·
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Tex, if there’s anything I love more than playing Russian roulette with your standard case of rabies it’s storytelling

If the Boot Fits by Rebekah Weatherspoon

October 8, 2020 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I am certainly not a Rebekah Weatherspoon expert, but If the Boot Fits feels like the most comfortable book she has written. I don’t know if it’s the one I’m the most comfortable with, or if she’s comfortably in her authorial stride. Either way, everything about this worked for me. Her Cowboys of Charming series has a lot less steam than her self published books, but she doesn’t skimp on the heat between Amanda and Sam. Best of all, she hasn’t toned down her amazing […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Black love, Black romance, Contemporary Romance, If the Boot Fits, NetGalley, Rebekah Weatherspoon

Emmalita's CBR12 Review No:78 · Genres: Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Black love, Black romance, Contemporary Romance, If the Boot Fits, NetGalley, Rebekah Weatherspoon ·
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