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Fast Five: Speechless

Jun3

Speechless for Devyn Sinclair was yet another 5 star read for me. It is an Omegaverse RH romance and is the  third (and final?) book in the Clarity Coast series.

And I just caught that her name is Trinity, it’s a group of three female friends, and three books. It takes me a while but I get there lol

Here’s how my rating system works:

5 star: stays with me. Might reread right away, definitely no books for a while

4 star: Really good, will reread at some point

3 star: Good book, may or may not reread

I don’t do 2 or 1 star reviews because I don’t finish the book.

Ok– here’s the fast five on why Speechless left me Speechless!

  1. The romance was chefs kiss good– while they obviously will be together, there’s still family drama, navigating pack relations, learning to trust the other person/people.
  2. The angst! Poor Trinity has some trauma from childhood, and it just rips your heart open.
  3. Diabetes representation. Trinity has diabetes, and it has been shown throughout the series
  4. There’s also action in the article she’s researching.
  5. The friendship. While the romance is front and center, Isolde and Ocean (her besties and heroines of books 1 & 2) are interwoven in a realistic way. They show up and show out. And while their men are in the picture, they are in the back ground– their story has already been told.

The storytelling is so layered, and I both laughed and cried. Do yourself a favor and read the book!

Fast Five for  the 42nd

Feb11

Today is the 42nd day of 2026. I also completed reading my 42nd book of the year, Maya Alden’s new release, Love is in the Air. Here’s my fast Five take on it:

  1. I really appreciate that while Alden writes a grovel novel, they aren’t all the same formula. There are some authors that you know when you hix X percentage, Y will happen. Sometimes the betrayal is early, sometimes late.
  2. A perfect Valentine snack of a book. Even opens on Valentine’s Day in Paris!  Although I’m single, this fit the romance of the holiday perfectly. (I’ll be off to a Gal-entines day with my sister on the day)
  3. OW drama without cheating! Not even the hint of it in this one. The OW drama all came from his ex wife.
  4. I didn’t like how the translations of French and Spanish terms was handled. There was a little list at the end of the chapter. In a previous book, with the Italian language, it was easier to tell what was being said through context clues. I ended up using the Kindle to translate what I needed to.
  5. Even though her books are available on KU, I started pre-ordering them. Why? Because I get them much quicker. Release day was today, but it was in my Kindle at 11pm last night (oh the struggle was real!). The last one I waited for KU on, I didn’t see available until 2 or 3 am (I was awake because of something else).

I really wish there was a way to get on a list to beta read for an author. In Truth and Tinsel there were two inconsistencies, and in this one there was one.l regarding where the heroine, Tara lived. I’d have to reread it to pinpoint why, but at first I thought she was from and lived in Los Angeles. Them it comes to light that she was living in Philadelphia. That kind of threw me… And then even more when she went home to LA and her family, got fired from her job in Philly and NEVER WENT TO GET HER STUFF. Where did it go? She thought she was going back. Was it in storage? Subletting her place? Where’d her stuff go? Tiny detail, but with the confusion before, it starts that thread that I keep pulling at. I’m done with ARC reading, they just want sound bites for promotion on platforms I won’t use. But Beta reading? For Maya Alden? Oh my gosh, I’d love that. But I am not going to win any points by bringing up the little things that bug me with an author. Sigh

What have you been reading? Have any favorite new authors?

Fast Five Goal Catch Up

Sep29

Oh my goodness! It’s been a minute!  But summer is well and truly over, and it’s time to knuckle under again 😳 Heres a really quick update on the goals I had for this year:

  1. Reading goal has been crushed three months early according to Good Reads. I don’t know why this irritates me– but it does. I have days of re-reading old favorites, but I don’t count them. So I think the goal was appropriate, just… I feel let down that the goal was accomplished early instead of closer to the end time.
  2. ARCs are still a thing I love. I’m happy to report that I’ll have 2 upcoming for you. One, I’ve already read and am just collecting my thoughts. The other I’m awaiting with bated breath.
  3. Writing has been different (see below). I haven’t been writing as much, as my writing buddy and I seem to have taken the summer off. The poem a day is so far behind and I’m not sure if I want to resume it or not.
  4. I still doodle around with my fiction. I say I have several stories that I keep hopping around in, but they are all built in the same world so I’m not sure how good or bad that is. I’m having fun and that counts..
  5. I have been keeping up with writing for the Ladies of Horror Picture Prompt. You should go and read some of these amazing stories and poems! If you’re more of an audio type person, there are reading in YouTube done by the lovely Elaine Pascale, The Godmother of Horror here

Ta for now, my lovelies! Let me know if I got the links wrong and I’ll get them long form lol