monday mini’s...

Just a couple today - I didn't have a chance to read much this past week and I hope to have a full review up for Alex & Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz on Wednesday.

AND I only ONE more book left from my April TBR pile to read so that's exciting! It's the little things in a blogger's life that makes us happy. lol

 Black Widow: Red Vengeance (Black Widow #2) by Margaret Stohl


The Avengers’ iconic master spy is back, and she’s seeing red.
Emotions are dangerous, which is why the graduates of Moscow’s famed spy school the Red Room are taught to keep their enemies close and their loved ones at a distance. Black Widow and Red Widow, also known as Natasha Romanov and Ava Orlova, forgot that lesson once, and they won’t forget it again. ~ Goodreads

Source: ARC provided by the publisher via ALA16

My thoughts: I hadn’t realized that this was the second book in a series. I figured it would be ok and easy to catch up to speed anyway but I was wrong. It’s clear some big stuff went down in book #1 Forever Red, and as someone unfamiliar with BW and S.H.I.E.L.D, I wasn’t able to fill in the missing pieces so I DNF’d this one. I do hope to pick up the first book at some point and come back to it. It in no way reflects the quaility of writing in this case.


 Danced Close (Portland Heat #6) by Annabeth Albert ~ Goodreads

Source: Purchased

My thoughts: I love, love, love Albert’s M/M romances and Danced Close was no exception. Todd is a recovering addict, living with his mother trying to believe that he’s worth this second chance at life. While Kendall is a wedding planner, identifies as a Genderqueer man with a femme style that often leaves him facing ridicule and preconcieved notions when it comes to boyfriends.  It’s a really quiet kind of story. No big drama or angst – just two men learning that they are deserving of love and taking that leap to believe in each other. They were both so sweet and thoughtful to each other that I felt all warm and squishy inside reading this one.