Tag: POV – First Person
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Married to the Mafia, by Lucy Smoke
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️/ 5 Summary & Review This was a fun listen. I hadn’t heard either of the narrators before (Lisa Zimmerman or Gomez Pugh), but both did a great job with their characters. This was a dual narration, not a duet, so be mindful that during Daisy’s chapters,…
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Call Me Freak, by J.A. Roles
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️/ 5 Summary & Review What a wild ride. The story is dark, obsessive, chaotic, and super unhinged. The author wrote an insane story and the narrators helped breathe life into it. This is one intense, wild ride of a story. Whew. Honestly, Joe Arden and Lucy…
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Gray After Dark, by Noelle W. Ihli
It’s been a minute since our last joint review, but we’re back and ready to share our newest book club book – Gray After Dark! We were both approved for this ARC via NetGalley and were so excited, we dove right in! This story follows Miley, primarily, after she finds herself kidnapped and trapped in…
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The Night We Met, by Abby Jimenez
Book Stats Book Ratings Book Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars Spice Rating: 🌶️/5 chili peppers Summary & Review If Abby Jimenez writes a book, I’ll read it. She is such a wonderful Rom-Com author and I adore all of her work. So imagine my excitement when this book became available to borrow on Libby! I paused all…
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Eldritch (Book 2), by Keri Lake
This is book 2 of the series. For our summary and review of book 1, Anathema, check out this link! Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️/5 Summary & Review If you read my review of Anathema, book 1 of the series, you’ll know how much I loved not only the writing and plot,…
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Metal Slinger, by Rachel Schneider
Book Stats Book Rating Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️/ 5 Summary & Review I initially read this book in April 2025, but once this became available again on NetGalley, I was excited to jump at the chance to re-read it and refresh myself on the details of the story before book 2 comes…
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Lights Out (Book 1), by Navessa Allen
Our next joint review is a favorite of ours! Both of us have listened to this audiobook several times and we just adore it. 🖤 The writing is wonderful, the characters are a blast, and the narration is so well done. Such a fun piece of fiction that everyone should really listen to! This story…
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Good For Her, by Tylor Paige
Book Stats Book Rating Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 5 Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️/ 5 Summary & Review Okay, this one was FUN. I was pulled in immediately and enjoyed every minute of it. This is considered a horror/dark Rom-Com type of book. It’s unique, cheesy, and entertaining. There are several tropes, such as – Second Chance, Fake Dating,…
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Mariposa (Book 1), by Lexie Axelson
Book Stats Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️/5 Summary & Review To be totally honest, I was nervous starting this book because it has some seriously mixed reviews. So many negative ones talking about characters lacking chemistry, things being rushed, the MMC being bland, etc. Ultimately, I was intrigued by the premise and James Cassidy…
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Sinner & Saint, by J.L. Beck
Book Stats: Book Rating Overall: ⭐⭐⭐/ 5 Spice: 🌶️🌶️/ 5 Summary & Review This book has some wonderful tropes – Small town, age gap, morally grey MMC, cowboy romance, bad boy X preacher’s daughter, enemies-to-lovers, forced marriage, etc. There’s a lot going on there and I was ecstatic for that! Prior to this book, I…