What I’ve Been Reading, 10-23-16
Can’t Touch This by Tess Hunter aka Pepper Winters was a fun and funny read about a veterinarian and a guy who rescues lots of dogs. It’s endearing and sweet but funny too. Definitely worth checking out, especially if you’re in the mood for a feel good read. Because, really, what’s sweeter than a hot guy who rescues puppies? I mean, come on.
For a couple of sweet reads in the spirit of Halloween, check out Bewitched and Spellbound by Daisy Prescott. This, again, was Facebook advertising working on me. They’re both short, but they flow one into the other. Set in Salem, MA, it’s the story of two college students, one of whom is a real-life witch, and they’re both descended from women executed in the infamous Salem Witch Trials. They’re cute and have a very mild heat rating.
Next up was Plunge by Violet Paige. It was good, a typical bad boy athlete meets the girl who never has a one night stand. He’s a swimmer and it’s set with the Rio Olympics as the backdrop. I enjoyed it, but I felt like the resolution came a little too easily. But, well-written steamy scenes and enjoyable characters, so check it out if that sounds up your alley and you don’t mind it being light on the angst for the climax and resolution.
The one of this bunch that I was most looking forward to was Our Options Have Changed by Julia Kent and Elisa Reed. I’m a big fan of Julia Kent, so I preordered this when I saw it. And after reading it, I’ve preordered book 2. I loved it. It’s an unlikely pairing of a woman who’s about to adopt a baby on her own and a single dad who’s youngest kid just went off to college. The tension between what they each want for themselves and from each other is deliciously well done. The writing blends together really well. It’s a little more serious than what I’m most used to reading by Julia Kent. Her Shopping for a Billionaire series gets downright slapstick at times, and the Random series is a thing all its own. But this book is sincere and beautiful in the best way. I highly recommend it.
I recently started At Any Turn by Brenna Aubrey. I’d read At Any Price quite a while ago and bought the first three books in the series when the trio went on sale a while back, but just haven’t gotten back to them. So I reread the last chunk of At Any Price and am getting stuck into At Any Turn.
Driving to Bellevue for the Emerald City Writer’s Conference last week and all the crazy that surrounds traveling cut into my reading time quite a bit the last couple weeks. But I’m getting settled back into my usual routine, which means more time for writing and more time for reading.
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