On My Bookish BS

 Yet another read I found while trolling the wilds of Threads and let me tell you... WOAH... Willing Prey is a novella by Allie Oleander and it's the HOTNESS.  I'd be prey for pecs like that. Now let me say... primal play, not my thing. I don't run even when chased. Even in a zombie apocalypse, I will not run when chased. I will be the first eaten by the zombie hoarde. It's fine. I know my limits. However, in written format, I'm in. I'm in hard. Sign me up for the EMOTIONAL chase and this one? It was like a season of Supernatural worth of a hunt.  Claire signs up to be prey for Shane for 30 days after her divorce from her super deficient clown of a husband is caught cheating on her. Shane hires her to be prey after finding out Claire and her ex used to go on "erotic hunting trips" together and becoming a little obsessed with her. What could go wrong... or right?  Dual POV with characters I immediately wanted to know more about, beautiful prose, great ...

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...