Jovan’s Reviews

Review: Meet Me in Madrid by Verity Lowell

Jan 6, 2022 | 0 comments

Rating: 2.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel When Dr. Charlotte Hilaire finished her graduate program with honors, she never thought that three years on she’d be stuck as an assistant curator who spends most of her time couriering...

FILED UNDER: 2.75 stars, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: age gap, BIPOC, Carina Adores, Carina Press, instalove, Lesbian/FF, Verity Lowell

Review: Real Danger by Elle Keaton

Dec 23, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Within moments of meeting Ryder Mann, Shay Delacombe knows he’s in trouble. Having the brilliant and attractive Ryder stay with him for a few days as a favor to his half-brother, Niall,...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: age gap, bisexual, Elle Keaton, lawyer, self published, small town, suspense, trafficking, violence, West Coast Forensics series

Review: Strength Check by Katherine McIntyre

Dec 1, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Professionally, Roxie Esposito is living her dream running a tabletop gaming café with her best friends and found family. Personally, her life is trapped in the same ugly nightmare and she’s...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: artist, bisexual, Dungeons and Dating series, found family, gamer, geek, hurt/comfort, Katherine McIntyre, Lesbian/FF, mental health, roommates, self published, verbal abuse

Review: The Gold Persimmon by Lindsey Merbaum

Oct 7, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Clytemnestra lives for the Gold Persimmon; the hotel “is a precisely ordered world full of musts and musn’ts,” and Cly is a strict adherent to its rituals and worships at the altar of its silence....

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: Creature Publishing, horror, Lesbian/FF, Lindsay Merbaum, loss of a child, miscarriage, multiple realities, nonbinary, suicide

Review: Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper

Oct 1, 2021 | 15 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Since the age of 13, Yolanda “Yaya” Betancourt has known she is not sole owner of her body. Infected by a virus that not only changed her genetic makeup, but gave the virus’ creator...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Alternate World, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: character death, dystopia, gore, Hailey Piper, horror, Lesbian/FF, murder, Reading Challenge Month 2021, scientist, Strangehouse Books, violence

Review: Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

Sep 28, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel For nearly a decade, Andrew Blur and Eddie Fulton were inseparable. Described by others as friends, brothers, and roommates, the pair shared a life of “Eddie keeping [Andrew] leashed but...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: bisexual, character death, coming of age, ghosts, gore, grief/loss, horror, Lee Mandelo, menage scenes, murder, new adult, southern gothic, Tor.com Publishing

Review: Various Persuasions by A.E. Lister

Sep 22, 2021 | 15 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Nic Walker is unique and proud of it. At 34, he’s an accomplished Dom whose participation in the BDSM community has helped him discover and embrace who he is and what he likes. However, after a...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, BDSM, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: A.E. Lister, age gap, genderfluid, nonbinary, Persuasions series, Pride Publishing, Reading Challenge Month 2021

Review: Romancing the Inventor by Gail Carriger

Sep 16, 2021 | 14 comments

Story Rating: 3.75 stars Audio Rating: 4.5 stars Narrator: Emma Newman Length: 5 hours, 37 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Summer, 1878 “Although, did two ladies together call it rodgering? Or was there a...