Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review! What's new, everyone? Contemporary romance author Jayci Lee has just come out with Booked on a Feeling, her standalone follow-up to A Sweet Mess and The Dating Dare (while characters from the previous books do … Continue reading My 2 Cents on Booked on a Feeling by Jayci Lee
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My 2 Cents on From the Jump by Lacie Waldon
Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group Putnam for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review! What's new, everyone? In today's world, have you ever felt like you're trying to fit into the world and appeal to others by absorbing all kinds of advice from books, commercials, experts, blogs, podcasts, and … Continue reading My 2 Cents on From the Jump by Lacie Waldon
#57 – Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly (with Bruce and Renee of The Novel Queers)
Tune in as Bruce and Renee (The Novel Queers) join 2CC for Pride Month 2022, during which queer content will be featured throughout the June. For the first episode, the hosts kick things off by breaking down Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly. Having been published just back in January, this contemporary romance revolves … Continue reading #57 – Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly (with Bruce and Renee of The Novel Queers)
Off the Cuff #2 | A Colleen Hoover Discussion (with Saba/@saidsabaaa)
Finally, 2CC is back from its unplanned hiatus! The situation looked rocky for a while, what with the dead computer and the initially malfunctioning replacement computer (I blame the Mercury Retrograde), but everything is in working order now. Here’s a new episode in the bonus 2CC series Off the Cuff, which Arthur recorded two weeks … Continue reading Off the Cuff #2 | A Colleen Hoover Discussion (with Saba/@saidsabaaa)
My 2 Cents on See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Thank you to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review! What’s new, everyone? Over a year after my review for Rachel Lynn Solomon’s fake-dating and enemies-to-lovers contemporary romance The Ex Talk, she’s now releasing the YA (although it really should be categorized as New … Continue reading My 2 Cents on See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
2 Cents Critic Podcast – The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas (with Torry of Ready to Be Petty)
Tune in as Torry (Ready to Be Petty) visits the show to cover The Spanish Love Deception, the 2021 contemporary romance by debut author Elena Armas. Having originally been self-published by Armas and won the Goodsreads Choice Award for Best Debut Novel of 2021, TSLD’s enemies-to-lovers/grumpy x sunshine/fake dating/slow burn love story between engineering coworkers … Continue reading 2 Cents Critic Podcast – The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas (with Torry of Ready to Be Petty)
2 Cents Critic Podcast – It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Tune in for Arthur’s breakdown of It Happened One Summer, the Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com novel by Tessa Bailey (Fix Her Up, Window Shopping). On top of giving his thoughts on the opposites-attract romance between high-maintenance Instagram socialite Piper Bellinger and grumpy fishing captain Brendan Taggert, Arthur draws numerous correlations between It Happened One Summer and … Continue reading 2 Cents Critic Podcast – It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
2 Cents Critic Podcast – Interview with Author Lacie Waldon (The Layover)
Today’s guest is author Lacie Waldon, whose debut novel, The Layover, is a vacation rom-com that mixes The Hating Game with The Unhoneymooners. In this episode, you’ll hear Arthur and Lacie cover subjects like her background as a flight attendant, her upcoming book From the Jump (which will be published on July 19, 2022), being a … Continue reading 2 Cents Critic Podcast – Interview with Author Lacie Waldon (The Layover)
My 2 Cents on the Top Ten Books of 2021
What’s new, everyone? As of this writing, 2021 is just one day away from its official conclusion! Plenty of notable events have unfolded over the past year: the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Bennifer getting back together, the premiere of the Disney+ MCU shows, Paul Rudd being named People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, the numerous COVID variants that … Continue reading My 2 Cents on the Top Ten Books of 2021
2 Cents Critic Podcast – It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Tune in for Arthur’s opinions on It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, author of numerous books like November 9, Ugly Love, and Verity. Following 23-year-old protagonist Lily Bloom as she falls in love with neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid, Hoover’s 2016 New Adult contemporary romance is an empathetic and heart-wrenching navigation of the cycle of domestic … Continue reading 2 Cents Critic Podcast – It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
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