A Look at the Spice Scale

Not all of us are devoted romance readers. Not all of us are on the ol’ BookTok following the “smut” lit comedy and reviewers. I guess we no longer call a certain type of romance literature erotica? Because there is a scale, instead. On one end of the scale, Anne of the Island, the third…

Book Review: Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea

I should have known. But the teal spredges on Rebecca Thorne’s Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea #1) got me. But there was the kinda cringe-y title and the AI-looking, too-modern illustration inside the front cover. And there was the okay rating, my friend warning me about the “clunky” writing. And the event…

Book Review: Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Here’s the thing: I have an issue with blood. It is a real thing rooted in trauma and it has grown worse with age. Here’s the other thing: Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan very unexpectedly features an awkwardly large number of scenes where the protagonist either bites the inside of her…

Book Review: Fourth Wing

In case you were wondering, there is actually not that much sex in Rebecca Yarro’s Fourth Wing, besides Violet’s frequent internal diatribe about how attracted she is to one of the other characters and the frat-boy conversations between the characters. But the sex scenes that are there are lengthy and extremely graphic, down to the…