On My Bookish BS

 So I've said before I love Brittany Ann. A few times. I'm going to say it again. I LOVE BRITTANY ANN. Seriously.  First it was dark, baseball, mafia romance. Then it was cowboy and bull rider romance. Then it was street racing romance. Now we got bounty hunter romance.  The first half of the Catch Me duet , Catch Me When I Fall, was just released on August 26th and I DEVOURED IT. If work and being sick interfered I would have finished it same day but alas... real life.  The story of Carrie and Grayson is wild, steamy, dramatic and ends on an INSANE cliff hanger that literally had me flipping the last few pages going WHAT THE CRAP! NO WAY! and HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE DUET!?!?!?  Not since the Dean-cliff-hanger in the Batter Up series have I screamed at Brittany like this ... so it's been a while but it was well deserved then and even more so now. How dare.  Carrie has been in an in-patient rehab facility since her finding the b...

When I saw Astray  by Poppy Fitzgerald mentioned on Threads one evening I thought to myself "That cover looks HAWT" and so I added the book to my to be read pile. The tags on the post were your usual dark romance trigger words and I was like ... sure, I'm in. What I found was more romantic thriller than dark romance and I am not mad about it.  I mean … that’s hot. Eloise is a strong, smart, and intelligent woman whose life takes a very twisted path after meeting a dark, dangerous, Jason Momoa type at a bar when her bestie bails on a girls night out.  It's hard to talk about the twists and turns in this book without ruining the plot but let me just say when it comes to how I feel about the men in Eloises life ... As someone who is proud to be the first person to guess the killer in any murder mystery I am so excited to say I liked being tricked by the charming bad guy this time. I really did think he was an okay guy. Well done, Poppy!  Well written, face paced, charac...