Category: Reviews

Review: Uncovering Ray – Edie Danford

Review: Uncovering Ray – Edie Danford

Uncovering Ray was a surprising, tender and emotional story, and I will definitely be checking out more titles from this author in the future! My Uncovering Ray review: Ray is a very interesting character, struggling with identity on different levels, both when it comes to family and when it comes to gender. Uncovering Ray really does uncover Ray, and the one character to do that is Wyatt. At the beginning of the story, I thought Wyatt was just another jock, playing with Ray by coming by the café to watch, talk and ask questions for his gender studies class. I quickly realized that Wyatt was the real thing, though, curious about sexuality, and pretty open-minded and very smart. As Uncovering […]

Posted 24 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 4 Comments
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Review: Forgotten Sins – Rebecca Zanetti

Review: Forgotten Sins – Rebecca Zanetti

Oh wow! I finally got to read the first Sin Brothers story – after having already read all the others, and I was still surprised by all the twists and turns. And Shane is totally hot!! My Forgotten Sins review: Forgotten Sins explains the back-story for the Dean brothers a little, but I hadn’t really missed that much starting reading the series with book number two. However, I had completely missed Shane’s book, and his story was mostly an enigma to me. I’m happy to say I loved every word of it, both he and Josie were great characters, and for once, I even enjoyed that one of the characters started the story having amnesia! It made the story move […]

Posted 23 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Review: Still the One – Jill Shalvis

Review: Still the One – Jill Shalvis

Still the One has the romance, the struggle, the humor and the sweetness down pat. My Still the One review: Still the One features two great characters, some amazing dogs, and quite a struggle for both Darcy and AJ. Darcy usually traveled the world to write articles for a geography magazine, up until her horrible car accident, after which some doctors said she might never walk again. Stubborn as ever, though, Darcy did her physiotherapy, and AJ helped the best he could, and after a long time Darcy was able to walk once more – first using a cane, and then on her own. During her struggle to get back on her feet, she stayed with her siblings in the […]

Posted 22 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 8 Comments
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Review: Coming Home – Annabel Kantaria

Review: Coming Home – Annabel Kantaria

Coming Home is definitely a very different kind of contemporary story, what with the betrayal, the secrets and the lies. My Coming Home review: Coming Home started out innocuous enough, with Evie leaving Dubai to go back to London to help her mother after her father’s sudden death. Funeral arrangements, bank statements, insurance papers and more needed to be taken care of, and Evie was quite happy to help. Evie’s mom was pretty cold, though, and little by little, the readers learned at least part of the reasons why. Because Coming Home is so filled with secrets and lies, it’s a little difficult to write a full review without spoiling anything, but I promise I will be very vague! Evie […]

Posted 21 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 2 Comments
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Review: None of the Above – I. W. Gregorio

Review: None of the Above – I. W. Gregorio

None of the Above is a tender and strong story about Krissy, and all the things that happened to her once she (and everyone else) found out that she was intersex… My None of the Above review: I can’t even imagine all the things Kristen went through in the span of None of the Above, from being elected prom queen, going out with her boyfriend and finally having sex with him for the first time – only to have it hurt so bad they couldn’t actually finish. A few days later, she went to see an ob-gyn to figure out why she was still bleeding, and the news she got then were both devastating and shocking. Because her mom had […]

Posted 20 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Review: Seduced – Helena Newbury

Review: Seduced – Helena Newbury

Seduced is a hot little number, with a geeky CIA agent and a charismatic but dangerous Russian arms-dealer. My Seduced review: Thanks to her great knowledge of Russian, Arianna was hired by the CIA straight out of college, and now she spends her days listening to bugged phone conversations made by various criminals that are in the CIA’s sight. Seduced did seduce me, Arianna is the geeky, quiet character who really wants more in life. Still struggling with flash-backs and nightmares after an accident two years prior, she lives with one of her co-workers, and spends all her time at work, or cooking. Luka is a dangerous Russian arms-dealer, and most of his phone conversations are crude phone sex with […]

Posted 19 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 10 Comments
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Review: Night Broken – Patricia Briggs

Review: Night Broken – Patricia Briggs

Night Broken is fast-paced and filled with action, fights and romance, on top of that, there’s a little drama because Adam’s ex comes to stay with them – for once seeking help and comfort from the pack. My Night Broken review: Night Broken was pretty intense, and there was a new creature introduced in the Mercy Thompson universe here. I have to admit I was rolling my eyes at Adam’s ex acting all innocent and needy, and even more so because of all she had made the pack go through when she had decided living with shifters wasn’t for her, then left both Adam and her daughter behind. Once danger came knocking on Christy’s door, though, she definitely didn’t have […]

Posted 16 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 14 Comments
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Review: Meet Me in the Dark – J.A. Huss

Review: Meet Me in the Dark – J.A. Huss

Dark is only the beginning when it comes to Meet me in the Dark! Merc is even more twisted that I thought he was, and Sydney is so confused, broken and out of it she amazed me when she was able to show me she truly did have a backbone after all. My Meet Me in the Dark review: Book hangover V2.0 is what Meet Me in the Dark has given me! There are just so many things happening, and the twists and turns and psychological war Merc has going with Sydney is so above anything I’ve ever read I’m still reeling. And my feels, my poor, poor feels! From disgust to happiness, fear to elation, hope to desolation – […]

Posted 15 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 5 Comments
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Review: Cursed by Ice – Jacquelyn Frank

Review: Cursed by Ice – Jacquelyn Frank

Cursed by Ice is better than Cursed by Fire, but it still didn’t totally make me weak in the knees. My Cursed by Ice review: In Cursed by Ice, I got to know the second of the immortal brothers, Garreth, who still freezes every evening at dusk until the beginning of dawn. With his brother Deathan, he is fighting to overtake a new city, and turn all the inhabitants into worshippers of Weysa. There are some pretty good fights, a dragon, and a strong woman who is soulbound to a dragon that helps her fight to save her city. It turns out she’s a slave, though, and that her sisters are kept away from her to make sure she will […]

Posted 14 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 8 Comments
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Review: Made for You – Melissa Marr

Review: Made for You – Melissa Marr

Made for You is a chilling psychological thriller / murder mystery made all the more chilling because it’s YA, with young characters involved. My Made for You review: Made for You have so many things going for it! One is that it’s not that easy to find a psychological thriller in the young adult category that actually is a thrilling ride! And there are parents who are involved in their children’s lives – not all in equal parts, and some not so much in the beginning, but then they are working on it! There is a very creepy stalker with a God-complex, a best friend who is a very good friend, and the main character is smart and hard-working, and […]

Posted 13 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 29 Comments
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