Genre: Contemporary

Review: Can’t Resist a Cowboy – Elizabeth Otto

Review: Can’t Resist a Cowboy – Elizabeth Otto

Can’t Resist a Cowboy is a sweet and hot story, with characters who are extremely stubborn. Also nice to see the characters from the prior Paint River Ranch books. My Can’t Resist a Cowboy review: I really enjoyed Carrie Lynn and Levi in Can’t Resist a Cowboy, especially because they had been dating before Levi left for the army, and they had a lot of unresolved feelings and issues to deal with. As it became clear that Levi hadn’t completely made the choice to leave Carrie Lynn, my heart ached for both of them. It was also interesting that Carrie Lynn had some health issues, and her father had used these in the past to make sure she would go […]

Posted 8 May, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 7 Comments
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Review: The Truth About Alice – Jennifer Mathieu

Review: The Truth About Alice – Jennifer Mathieu

The Truth About Alice really shows all the different points of views to how freezing someone out of a group of friends might happen. It’s sad and realistic, and I can’t help but feel happy Alice was so strong! Rumour : ru-mour / noun: a piece of information, or a story, that people talk about, but that may not be true. My The Truth About Alice review: Somehow, The Truth About Alice managed to take a lot of the young adult tropes and kind of turn them around, analysing the why behind the labelling of people in high school, why is one girl called the slut, why is another girl popular, and how come lies can be so much easier […]

Posted 7 May, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 9 Comments
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Review: With a Twist – Sawyer Bennett

Review: With a Twist – Sawyer Bennett

With a Twist follows Wyatt on an undercover assignment, and the work is really difficult! Andrea, the hot FBI agent both makes Wyatt’s work harder and easier, as she is set up to be the next woman to disappear from the club where they are trying to dismantle an illegal operation. Again, some editing issues – but not enough to snap me out of the story. My With a Twist review: Wyatt was the cop friend on the sidelines in the other books in the Last Call series, and he definitely needed his own story! With a Twist definitely has some twists and turns, as Wyatt went undercover in a club where there were suspicions of human trafficking. At the […]

Posted 5 May, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 10 Comments
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Review: Conflicted – Helena Newbury

Review: Conflicted – Helena Newbury

Conflicted is fast-paced, twisted and filled with both tension, hope and regret. My Conflicted review: Oh wow! Things definitely sped up in Conflicted, and after the wild ride of Seduced, I should have expected just that! Between the very hot sex, having to make sure she kept her secrets, and Luka showing her some vulnerability, Arianna sure had her work cut out for her! It seemed as if pretending she didn’t speak or understand Russian was the most difficult part of her job in this instalment. While I really enjoyed the story, and also the character development in Conflicted, it became more obvious that it’s very strange that Arianna was chosen for this kind of operation. She had no field […]

Posted 1 May, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Review: The Life and Death of Sophie Stark – Anna North

Review: The Life and Death of Sophie Stark – Anna North

Quite strange and different story, narrated from various characters’ point of view – but still all circling around Sophie Stark and her strangeness as a person and film maker. My The Life and Death of Sophie Stark review: Because the narration of Sophie Stark’s life and death was done from characters who had been close to her, and thus sharing their views of her, it made it very hard for me to connect with any of them. Sophie was definitely the main focus fo the various parts of the story, but since none of the characters really understood her – just as she never really understood other human beings – it always felt like something was missing. Each character had […]

Posted 30 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 2 Comments
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Review: Unwritten – Chelsea Cameron

Review: Unwritten – Chelsea Cameron

Unwritten is a fun, quirky and romantic story – featuring a duo of writers using a pen-name so nobody can figure out they’re behind the smutty books that are selling so well. My Unwritten review: I’m not sure what part of Unwritten I enjoyed the most! The humor definitely got to me in a big way, but so did the library, the sexy single dad, the friendship between Raine and Blair, the writing, the excellent use of the English language… See what I mean? The characters are a big plus in and of themselves, and their interactions were always believable, even when they were slightly over the top. I loved both the main story, and the little side-stories that took […]

Posted 29 April, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 1 Comment
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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: 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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