The Queen’s Guard, Book 1
Heat Factor: 🍆🍆 ← that’s two sexy rumpuses
Character Chemistry: It gets better
Plot: She gets forcibly married to the king and then makes the best of it. It’s good to be queen!
Overall: The opening is extremely YIKES but the second half is excellent
Holidays with the Wongs, Book 1
Heat Factor: It starts with a pretty hot one-night stand, but it’s also not heavily detailed
Character Chemistry: “I really kind of wish I hadn’t let that one-night stand just be a one-night stand.”
Plot: Two adults have one-night stand. Oops! Same two adults are set up on dates with different people at a family Thanksgiving dinner.
Overall: Totally warm fuzzy cute fun
Albin Academy, Book 2
Review of Albin Academy, Book 1
Heat Factor: To use Holly’s metric: 🍆🍆🍆
Character Chemistry: I might recommend therapy over a relationship, but it is what it is
Plot: Student is in trouble, teachers Rian and Damon process a lot of feelings
Overall: Longiloquent is not an inapt descriptor for this book
Heat Factor: Kisses only
Character Chemistry: It is obviously destiny because they like the same kind of ice cream.
Plot: Winnie thought her ex was her destiny, but now she doesn’t. Shenanigans ensue.
Overall: I was having a blast until supposedly responsible adults told this high schooler to put her college plans in jeopardy for a boy.
The Cider Bar Sisters, Book 2
Heat Factor: Fake dates, real sexytimes
Character Chemistry: Mike is so so in love with Charlotte
Plot: Charlotte decides she wants dating lessons, randomly runs into her childhood best friend at a bar, asks him to teach her how to date. He agrees, despite his lack of experience.
Overall: More angst than I was expecting, but still an utterly charming read.
