Library Reads

 Having been so wrapped up in books to review I had completely forgotten about books I requested from my local library.  All of these are for sure books where I am late to the party, but better late than never when it comes to seminal texts of Romance Novels.

Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma ✩✩✩✩✩- This book was just as fun a read as all of the rave reviews promised.  A very good (and sexy) retelling of The Taming of the Shrew that despite all of the things about it that I really disliked, was something I genuinely enjoyed.   So, the characters are wholly unlikable, the family is a caricature and the dialog (always with the “banter” that is just tragically immature) is genuinely off putting.  Yet somehow, you kind of want this to work out.  I can honestly say that I loved this book, yet I remember actively disliking like 90% of it?  So….great job? 

American Queen by Sierra Simone ✩✩✩✩✩-  Damn! This one was every bit as hot as the reviews promised.  A not gross take on an age-gap/BDSM power dynamic relationship with a bonus icing of polyamory.  The book shorthands a lot of back story so the reader can get to the good parts and not get bogged down in all the realities of dating a sitting president/existing in American politics.  As a reader, just embrace that and enjoy the filth.

American Prince by Sierra Simone ✩✩✩✩✩- For me, the wheels came off the series a bit here.  I hate to malign Ms. Simone’s writing, because it is a great piece of storytelling, but it just feels like  A LOT following on from the tenor of the first book.  For all the hand-waving away of details in American Queen this one goes deep on backstory, family drama, espionage and cross/doublecross.  Is it a pretty well done thriller? It sure is.  Was it still pretty sexy? Sure.  I just personally didn't enjoy the way those two aspects were interwoven.  That said, this series is functionally a trilogy and often book #2 is just lots of exposition.  I am still excitedly waiting for my hold on the next book so I can see how all this wraps up.