A Seditious Affair
4 stars!This is another KJ Charles winner for me. I adore her writing and can never get enough of her books. Every time I pick one up, I devour it and am left wanting more. A Seditious Affair was no different.
I was a little nervous starting this. Knowing who this book was about and meeting them in the first book, A Fashionable Indulgence, left me wondering how they could possibly work as a proper couple and not leave me wanting to tear my hair out. Surprisingly, these two worked incredibly well together and they weren’t exactly what I was expecting.
I love Silas. Have done since the first book, if I’m honest. He’s a radical Bookseller, a seditionist, who isn’t afraid to stand up and fight for what he believes in. All of that makes it impossible for me not to love him. Add in the hard time he ends up having in this book, which I won’t spoil, and he is easily one of my favorite characters in this series.
Dominic was a bit harder for me. Some of his actions in the book annoyed me and left me frustrated and wanting to hit him, especially toward the end of the book. But I did love him in the end.
The first few chapters overlap with the timeline of the first book, which I appreciated because there were things that we didn’t get to see, for obvious reasons, in the first book that I desperately wanted to see.
Silas and Dom were a lot sweeter as a couple than I expected them to be. Yes, they were into rougher, dirtier sex. I was expecting and excited for that. But I wasn’t expecting to think of them as being lovely together, which they were, in my opinion. There were moments that before I read this book I never expected to happen. Softer, more tender moments.
I liked most of the secondary characters in this. Loved catching up with Harry and Julius and really enjoyed seeing more of Ash. I really need to read the short story in this series because I would love more of Ash.
The ending of this is a HEA. And it was a nice one. However, I’m not completely sold on it. I think, after everything they had been through, the ending felt a tiny bit disappointing. It’s going to be interesting in the third and final book, to see how Silas is coping with all the changes in his world.
If you’re a fan of the first book in the series or if you’re simply a KJ Charles fan, this is definitely a book you should read. It has her amazing writing and addictive storytelling that I lap up. And if you’re a fan of historical romances that feel realistic, I would definitely recommend this series.
ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.
Woohoo! I got an ARC!
Reasons To Love A Nerd Like Me
4 stars!Reasons To Love A Nerd Like Me is a really nice YA story that I enjoyed reading.
Our MC, Scotty, is openly gay and the target of three school bullies. He has a history with one of the bullies, the main bully, Taylor. I can’t say I was expecting the history, to be honest. Normally I can tell something like that is coming, but apart from a little niggle right before, there was nothing. It was nice to be surprised.
I liked Scotty a lot. He wasn’t the perfect MC you sometimes read about. He made mistakes and he did things I didn’t like. But he never intentionally tried to hurt the people he was closest to. Actually, he really believed he was protecting them and that made him so much more likable. I was rooting for him throughout the book.
I also liked his best friend Olive “Ollie”. A couple of times that wavered because I thought she was being very hard on Scotty. But I warmed up to her again pretty soon after that. And their friendship, when going well, was strong.
The love interest, Vincent, I adored him from the start. He had been through a lot and wasn’t always the nicest to everyone. But the way he was with Scotty melted my heart. I would have liked a chapter or a few scenes from his POV because there were a couple of times, during the massive fallout, that I think his POV would have been useful. I could understand how he was feeling, but I still got frustrated with him and I don’t think it would have been as bad had we gotten his POV.
Taylor and Alexis are two characters I’m still not really sure if I liked or disliked. I didn’t particularly love them, even in the end, but I didn’t hate either of them in the end. Out of the two, Taylor, was the hardest for me. But while I never completely warmed to him, I did sympathize with him a little close to the end. On the other hand, I really liked Scotty’s mum. She was supportive and loving, which was needed in some of the chaos of the story.
The negative for me was the drama that ensued after Scotty’s past relationship with Taylor came out. I didn’t hate it completely. But it bugged me more than once. It did fit with the book, however, and it made the ending even more enjoyable for me. I think had the fallout not continued for as long as it did, I would have loved this book.
I’m so glad I read Reasons To Love A Nerd Like Me! This is Becky Jerams first book and I’m excited to see what she releases next.
A copy of this book was provided by the author in exchange for a fair and honest review.
A Strong Heart and a Nerve of Steel
I kinda liked this a lot.Okay, so I liked this more than a lot.
I really liked it.
This gave me warm fuzzies. And left me with a smile on my face.
I'd love to read a sequel at some point.
