Glimpses Of My Books

Let's start off by saying that both these books need to come with heavy trigger warnings. If you have problems with just about anything that can be seen as 'wrong' or 'off putting', and I do mean anything  walk away. These books are not for you. Tillie Cole does not shy away from the dark and disturbing. Specially in the first book. She was a new author to me with Raphael  and I absolutely loved the book. I have already purchased an older title by her. I have been very much into dark romance lately and to find one that is so dark it can be uncomfortable to read, intense, creative, and yet also heartwarming and touching is not easy. Raphael has more darkness and intensity than Jegudiel, not the character, but the book as a whole. Overall I liked Raphael a smidge more, but that is not to say Diel's book wasn't great, it was. This series is about brothers by pain and hate. These man have been through hell and back and there is no way you are not going to feel f...

People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry I was not going to write a review for this one, but I would like to think I am fair with my reviews. And in order to be fair, one needs to share reviews for books they did not love as well as reviews for books they loved.  Although I will forever rave about Emily Henry's previous book,  Beach Read - it was amazing! I cannot tell you that I loved or even liked People We Meet on Vocation . I think the book has a great premise and it was written well, but it just didn't feel like a romance book to me. And the slow burn was so slow I got bored... It reads more like women lit and that is just not my thing although I know it is a favorite subgenre for many. I also thought that once some romance finally happened it didn't work. These two main characters are best friends, true best friends. They feel more like siblings than lovers. The chemistry was there but not in a romantic way. So again, more women lit than romance. This could have been ...