December 2021
Amor Actually
ADRIANA HERRERA, ALEXIS DARIA, MIA SOSA, AND MORE
Nochebuena. One party. Nine Happily Ever Afters.
I am loving this collection of stories inspired by the movie Love Actually written by seven bestselling Latina authors. I actually HATE the movie, but these stories are a delightful and refreshing spin on the general plot lines through the movie. There's a variety of pairings here: m/f, m/m, f/f, and m/m/f. So far, the ones by Adriana Herrera, Alexis Daria, and Mia Sosa are my favorites, but I haven't finished them all yet.
Rake I’d Like to F…
SIERRA SIMONE, JOANNA SHUPE, EVA LEIGH, NICOLA DAVIDSON, ADRIANA HERRERA
I preordered a paperback version of this anthology and spent Christmas morning reading the first story in front of the wood stove. As always, Sierra Simone delivers a scorching hot, filthy bit of sweetness with a pair of damaged, yet lovable, characters who deserve their HEA. This anthology also has a variety of pairings (no f/f here, though, sadly).
And more Adriana Herrera to read! Hooray!
Total Creative Control
JOANNA CHAMBERS & SALLY MALCOLM
This was delightul! A grumpy head writer of a hit TV show and the sunshine PA who's a huge fanboy and develops a major crush on his demanding, rude, oblivious boss.
I'm a fan of both authors and have read several of their books, but this is (I think) the first book they've written together. They clearly had such fun writing it and I loved reading every moment of it.
And the PA writes fanfic on the side, which ends up being important to the plot. I similarly started writing by writing fanfic (and I still read it!) and I loved the snippets of the PA's fanfic we get in the book.