A Story Those Short on Time and Needing Fun
Please, can we get more short n' steamies like Lyonne Riley?
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I’m on the road this week like a bunch of Americans, but I have the best ARC to share for such a time crunch.
Reviews From This Past Week
Tempting the Ogre’s Heart
Release Date: September 1, 2023
Content Notes
Size Difference
Tusks
Found Family
Sacrifice to the Monster
Language Barrier
Forced Proximity
After reading and having such a lovely time with Lyonne Riley’s Stealing the Troll’s Heart, I had to grab a last-minute opportunity to get an ARC for Tempting the Ogre’s Heart.
In the search for a short and satisfying Monster Romance book, Tempting the Ogre’s Heart by Lyonne Riley will check those boxes. It is fast, it is steamy, and yet it has a whole story to settle into.
I’m honestly going to read more Riley after this. I already followed her on her Tumblr and signed up willingly for this ARC. In more mature Romance spaces like Contemporary, writers have forged entire careers out of short books like what Riley is doing. Reading stuff like Tempting the Ogre’s Heart makes me feel like I’m getting on the ground floor of an area of Monster Romance that is just getting started.
ARC provided and voluntarily reviewed.
To Be Read
Because I’m not amazing at scheduling my own reading, I have to switch up The Salt Road with the Perished Woods series. Also, hooooooly shit.
Housekeeping
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