On My Bookish BS

Forbidden Professor by Vivian Wood was a quick read with delicious tension, fun characters, good spice level, and I enjoyed the tension among the characters. A little taboo, a little sweet, a lot yummy. I love a good teacher x student romance and add to that the whole wild and crazy family tree drama and this story gets complex in new and creative ways that made me go oh, oh, I think I like that.  Eve is a delightful FMC who is both young and sweet but also strong in her convictions and I love watching her come in to her own and be exactly who she is meant to be. Carter is exactly what I look for in an MC - strong, sexy, smart and utterly gone for his lady.  Loved the story, loved the universe, love all the characters, it’s a delightful read all around! I read this as an ARC reader and I am so excited that this is now out there for everyone to read! Go get you a copy and enjoy! 

The Monster Trilogy is the last stop on our trek through the RinaVerse. This may be the most interesting in terms of drama that we've gotten to enjoy from Rina thus far.  Back when we were with Ria and Kyle a secret came to light about Aleksander, the closest body guard to Kirill Morozov and this series explores that in incredible depth.  We travel back to Russia to the military and special ops training and meet a younger Aleks and Kirill and how they became so close, what they survived, and the journey from military brothers to... something more.  This was a weird book to me at first and I wasn't sure it was going to pass the sniff test for handling issues of gender identity well but it far surpassed my expectations. I love Aleks and Kirill together and they are by far two of the most multidimensional characters we get to meet in the RinaVerse.  Total whiplash while reading this series. I'm going to give this an extra high rating of 5.25 out of 5 for the wild ride i...