The Universe Provides a Fake Boyfriend: How to Fall in Love When It’s Most Inconvenient

September 3, 2023 by ajcwrites ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Hello, readers! I’m back with another book review. Thank you to those of you who have started receiving updates for my posts, it means a lot! Please follow for more fun!

Anyways, let’s get to today’s book recommendation: Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert.

Hibbert has knocked it out of the park on this one, yet again. I’ve made it my mission to finish the entire Brown Sisters series and tell you all about them on this blog.

This is the story of Dani Brown, an aggressively driven PhD student coming up on the event that will make or break her career. Dani is whip-smart, drop-dead sexy, and entirely opposed to romantic commitment. Men and women have flown in and out of her orbit like satellites, and nothing ever sticks. And that’s how Dani (a shameless heartbreaker) likes it.

Dani asks the universe to provide her with her next fuck buddy, and to her delight, it takes the form of an enormous, sensitive, and delectable ex rugby player– Zafir Ansari.

However, what’s the catch to delighting in this delicious gift from the universe?

She’s falling for him.

Yes, Dani Brown’s commitment to staying uncommitted is tested when Zafir asks her to be his fake girlfriend after a pic of Zafir holding Dani after saving her from a broken elevator goes completely viral. #DrRugBae begins to circulation online and people can’t get enough of them. He asks for her help in the hopes that the attention they’re getting will help TackleIt, his rugby nonprofit for young men.

This book is so cute. Zafir is actually one of my all-time favorite male leads in a romance novel. He’s a lover of romance books (same), fiercely protective, and you can’t help but cheer him on as he forges a new path for himself after the tragic death of his father and brother. With Dani’s love and fantastic breasts (her words, not mine) he just might be able to move on.

I highly recommend this one, I’ll be reading and reviewing the last book in the series, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, as soon as I can.

You can get a copy of Take a Hint, Dani Brown here or you can make your daily trip down to your local library. (What do you mean, you don’t go daily? What’s the matter with you? Get down there now!)

Until next time! Thanks for reading.

Red Hot: How to Get a Life 101

August 18, 2023August 18, 2023 by ajcwrites ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Hello, hello! I have so many great books to tell you about, and today’s book is Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert.

Let me start by saying that this book has made me a forever fangirl of Hibbert’s. It’s sweet and sexy and it kept me busy for about three days. I can’t think of a better way to procrastinate writing my own romance book, frankly.

So, let’s get into it.

Serious and ultimately misunderstood, Chloe Brown doesn’t have a life. Or, at least, she doesn’t have the life she wants. She usually prefers to stay in her apartment due to the chronic pain she experiences from living with fibromyalgia. Chloe supports herself by being a freelance web designer and she also has the safety net of her well-off family if shit really hits the fan.

Chloe is a creature of habit. When she deviates from her daily routine by attempting to rescue a cat that she thinks is stuck in a tree, she’s ultimately saved by her building super, Red. Her super cute, paints with his shirt off and window open at night building super.

Chloe and Red’s relationship is already tinged with tension because of Chloe’s wealth and general standoffish personality. However, despite his best efforts, Red is drawn to who Chloe might be under her prickly exterior, and so he allows Chloe to employ him in her plan to complete her list of ‘get a life’ activities. In exchange, she promises him a website that he can display his art on.

The push and pull between them as they accidentally deviate from their plans and end up toying with the possibility of forever will leave you squirming in your seat. Hibbert does a fantastic job of building up tortuous sexual tension.

It’s hot, cute, and I was sad to see it go when I finished the book. Oh, and one last thing!

Red is such a believable, irresistible, and fresh character. Hibbert pushes against society’s expectations of men as it relates to trauma and obliterates the macho man narrative.

This is the first in the Brown Sisters series, and I will be reading and reviewing the other two books soon.

You can get a copy of Get a Life, Chloe Brown here or you can visit your local library, an institution we must protect until the end of time.

Thanks for reading, until next time!

Being On the Outside While Being on the Inside

December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 by ajcwrites ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Hello, readers! I wish I had a better name to call you all…

Anyways, I recently finished this whirlwind of a novel and I want to tell you about it!

The Startup Wife centers around a brilliant web designer, Asha. Asha goes into business with her new age husband Cyrus and Cyrus’ lifelong friend, Jules.

The three of them go from having hopeful discussions about what it would be like to offer our tech laden society an alternative to religion to potentially disrupting everything we think we know about community and faith.

In their mission to do so, they end up making a huge impact– but is that a good thing? The reader questions if the outcome of their dive into Silicon Valley is good for Asha, the brains of the operation, and Cyrus, the inspiration for and hopeful answer to the question: What is faith?

The Startup Wife does an excellent job of playing out the needling dread that comes with being gaslighted and shining a light on what its like to be a woman of color in tech, amongst a sea of white faces.

I encourage you to take a look at this shockingly relatable novel (Tahmima Anam does a wonderful job of employing realistic, casual humor throughout the book, which brings a lightness to some of its darker parts).

You can grab a digital copy here or you can chat up your local librarian.

See you next read!

Wild Bitches in Suburbia

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 by ajcwrites ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Hello, readers! I’m going to be posting a lot of reviews about some indie reads I found, but first I have to tell you about Nightbitch, the novel that’s kept me company over the last few days.

First of all, I have to give you a massive trigger warning due to a couple of violent scenes in the book, but don’t worry, that can sometimes be the best part.

Put simply, Nightbitch is the story of an unnamed narrator that the reader only knows as Nightbitch.

Nightbitch is a new mother that’s lost herself to suburbia, toddler reading times, and the inward battle she faces from dealing with the selective incompetence of her husband. Once an artist, she struggles to connect with her creative spirit again.

With the help of the revelation that Nightbitch very well could be a dog walking around in human skin, Yoder carves an insane story out of the silent fury of housewives around the world.

However, Nightbitch’s journey into rediscovering her creative spark turns into an infuriating look into motherhood that you can’t pull your eyes away from.

All at once, you’ll notice:

You’re scared for Nightbitch
You’re rooting for Nightbitch

And lastly, some of you are Nightbitch.

You can pick up a digital copy of Nightbitch here.

First Up!

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 by ajcwrites ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Thanks for coming to my blog! ajcreads is a book review blog and author page for me, ajc! I’ve read so many books so far this year, but I want to get my recommendations out into the world as soon as possible. Let’s dive into my first must read- Siri, who am I?

This one kept me busy for about two days. First of all, Tschida does a great job of including the stereotypical millennial short attention span into the pacing of the novel. This novel doesn’t have any dead points, its very fast paced which complements the chaotic plot.

Without spoiling too much, the main character, Mia, wakes up in the hospital with severe amnesia and she has no clue who she is. The only path to recovering her life is in the contacts in her phone. Mia puts the story of what she thinks is an ideal life together and goes on several adventures to make sense of how she ended up in the hospital.

This book is hilarious in a way, and a quick and laid back read. You can find it here.