Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma (If Shakespeare was an Auntie #1)

Summary from Goodreads: Dating Dr. Dil features a love-phobic TV doctor who must convince a love-obsessed homebody they are destined to be together. 

Kareena Mann dreams of having a love story like her parents, but she prefers restoring her classic car to swiping right on dating apps. When her father announces he’s selling her mother’s home, Kareena makes a deal with him: he’ll gift her the house if she can get engaged in four months. Her search for her soulmate becomes impossible when her argument with Dr. Prem Verma, host of The Dr. Dil Show, goes viral. Now the only man in her life is the one she doesn’t want.

Dr. Prem Verma is dedicated to building a local community health center, but he needs to get donors with deep pockets. The Dr. Dil Show was doing just that, until his argument with Kareena went viral, and he’s left short changed. That’s when Kareena’s meddling aunties presented him with a solution: convince Kareena he’s her soulmate and they’ll fund his clinic.  

Even though they have conflicting views on love-matches and arranged-matches, the more time Prem spends with Kareena, the more he begins to believe she’s the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with. But for Prem and Kareena to find their happily ever after, they must admit that hate has turned into fate.

In the years since her mother died, Kareena Mann has been very slowly restoring both her mother’s beloved car and the house she grew up in. However, on Kareena’s birthday her father announces that he’s selling the house and moving to a retirement community. Now that her younger sister Bindu is getting married, there’s really no reason to keep the house. This was NOT the plan they agreed on. Kareena manages to talk her father into making a deal: if she gets engaged in four months – when her sister’s wedding celebration gets rolling – he will give her the house. (This whole morning conversation felt very Sixteen Candles when the movie opens and everyone has forgotten Samantha’s birthday.) So Kareena meets up with a friend later to have a few drinks and fume about the situation. And she sees a super-hot guy. And they start flirting, which turns to making out in an office…and then the guy PEACES OUT when his phone rings leaving Kareena stuck with her sweater vest caught on her earring and over her face. The next morning, when she’s good and hung over, she has to accompany her social media influencer (and math professor, I mean, get it Bindu, even if you are seriously the brattiest younger sister) to the taping of a local desi talk show, The Dr. Dil Show. As the show gets rolling and the topic of love comes up – during which the host who is a cardiologist says that love is bad for your heart and he doesn’t believe in it – Kareena realizes that this “host” Dr. Prem Verma is the same jerkwad who left her stranded the night before. So Kareena reads him the riot act about being a dog and they proceed to have one hell of a verbal smackdown. This wouldn’t be so bad – the show records to tape – except that Bindu has been streaming the recording live to her YouTube because Social Media Influencer.

Everyone loses control of the narrative. Prem loses financial backing for his dream project, a South Asian-centered community health center. Kareena looks like a shrew and has a snowball’s chance in hell of finding an actual nice guy to fall in love and marry her in four months now (for real – many chapters open with her messages with various shitty dudes on Shaadi.com and other dating sites). But Aunties to the Rescue: Kareena’s four aunties decide that Prem would be Kareena’s ideal match. If he can win Kareena – who is firmly in the “will marry for love or nothing” camp vs Prem’s “love causes cardiac damage” camp – the aunties will help get his funding back.

Kareena wants none of this. Even Prem’s suggestion that they fake date for four months until she gets the house isn’t a plan she can stomach. But Prem keeps showing up, trying to convince Kareena that he might make a great plan B. Despite all their verbal fireworks, he starts to admire and like this woman who wears sweater vests, stores peppermint coffee creamer in the freezer so she can have it year round, does her own DIY and restoration work on her car, and takes none of his bullshit. As verbal fireworks turn to a tentative friendship then to steamy sexytimes (A+, no notes), Kareena starts to think Prem might be capable of love after all. Prem has some secrets, though. And then it all falls apart.

LOVED IT! A great adaptation of a Shakespeare play (Taming of the Shrew) that could go sideways if too much of the original plot is kept sacred – I loved how you could see a little bit of Kate’s final monologue in there at the end but flipped and shared by both Prem and Kareena. (If you haven’t read Taming, or have but aren’t that familiar with it, don’t worry, you’ll be fine.) I loved their competitiveness, the pani puri eating contest, the TSwift love, and their wonderful circle of friends (lol, when his buddies show up for their weekly beer and dinner night and Prem has to keep them in the hall because Kareena is over). [Side note: you may have read in various reviews that Prem calls his dick “Charlie.” However, he calls it Charlie to himself only, he doesn’t tell Kareena his dick has a name nor does he ask her to call it Charlie. We are given a reason in the text for why he thinks this way. So this is fine to me. I mean, considering that I am not a person in possession of a penis I have no direct knowledge of this practice. Maybe some people do name their junk. *shrug* But it seems a number of reviewers are extremely weirded out by this. Don’t listen to the haters.]

The aunties are great, with the added bonus that they’re all named for other desi romance authors. I’m pretty sure one of the other books in the series will be a Much Ado About Nothing adaptation ❤

Dating Dr. Dil came out on Tuesday! (Copies are going fast, thanks to the power of the clock app)

Dear FTC: I read a digital galley from the publisher via Edelweiss.

First Comes Like by Alisha Rai (Modern Love #3)

Alisha Rai, author of The Right Swipe and Girl Gone Viral, returns with a story about finding love in all the wrong inboxes.

Makeup expert and influencer Jia Ahmed has her eye on the prize: conquering the internet today, the entire beauty world tomorrow, and finally, finally proving herself to her big opinionated family. She has little time for love, and even less time for the men in her private messages. Until the day a certain international superstar slips into her DMs…

Jia quickly falls for Dev Naik’s poetic texts. When they’re finally in the same place and time, she figures she’s simply got to meet the man who’s seduced her with his words. One wrinkle: he has no idea who she is. 

The son of a powerful Bollywood family, Dev is accustomed to stalkers, but a strange woman who accuses him of wooing her online, well, that’s a new one. It should be easy to write Jia off…but the words she claims he sent her are a little too familiar. 

Between the catfishing mystery and an unfortunate photo leak, Dev and Jia quickly find themselves in the same public relations pickle. The solution: some friendly fake dating to help with his fresh start in Hollywood and dazzle her family. It doesn’t take long for them to both start wondering, though: can a romance-turned-fauxmance ever turn back into a romance?

First Comes Like a very sweet, low-stakes/low-boil romance between a beauty influencer (heyo, catching up with Sadia’s sister Jia finally) and an Indian TV star – who meet because someone used his IG to catfish her. However, it wasn’t him so he has no idea who he is. So their meet-cute is a little rocky (and then Dev awkward’s up the “can I make this up to you” scene, ahhh, so dorkily awkward) then they’re seen being friendly by the media, so then they have to fake date (!!!!!!) which leads to something more…. (there’s almost “only one bed” at some point, hahaha). Both Dev and Jia are dealing with transition points in their lives. Jia has reached the point where she needs to pivot from being seen as just an influencer to creating and promoting beauty products for people with brown skin. Dev is dealing with the grief of losing his brother – and becoming the guardian to a tween niece – as well as moving to American television and all the macro- and micro-aggressions within the industry.

This romance zigs where you think it might zag. Dev and Jia are both extremely practical, responsible characters, almost ruthlessly so, so the drama happens where you think it might not happen which was delightful. It’s also very welcome to see a heroine with a religious practice and faith that is a) respected implicitly (and explicitly) by her love interest and b) is just woven seamlessly into her character. The secondary characters – Dev’s niece and uncle Luna and Adil, his grandma Shweta, Jia’s parents and sister (I NEED A BOOK FOR AYESHA THANKS), as well as appearances by previous series heroines Rhiannon and Katrina – are wonderful.

With all the “World Is On Fire” mess of 2020, this book will be a sweet balm for everyone in 2021 and also shows one way authors can deal with the pandemic. Alisha alludes to the COVID19 outbreak not by name, but by noting that both Jia and her older sister Noor, and so many others, were sick for so long last year.

Content warning that racism is experienced on-page by both main characters and that Dev is dealing with the fallout from his brother’s death.

First Comes Like is out today!

Dear FTC: I read a digital galley of this book from the publisher via Edelweiss.

Big Bad Wolf by Suleikha Snyder (Third Shift #1)

Summary from Goodreads: They call him a monster. More wolf than man―more dangerous than any predator.
They have no idea.

Joe Peluso has blood on his hands. He took out the mobsters responsible for killing his foster brother, and that one act of vigilante justice has earned him countless enemies in New York’s supernatural-controlled underworld. He knows that shifters like him deserve the worst. Darkness. Pain. Solitude. But meeting Neha makes him feel human for the first time in forever.

Lawyer and psychologist Neha Ahluwalia knows Joe is guilty, but she’s determined to help him craft a solid defense…even if she can’t defend her own obsession. Just one look from the wolf shifter makes her skin burn hot and her pulse race. When a payback hit goes wrong, Neha’s forced to make a choice: help Joe escape or leave him to his fate. Before long they’re on the run from the monsters who want him dead, from their own traitorous hearts, and from an attraction that threatens to destroy them.

4.5 stars for Big Bad Wolf, the first book in Suleikha Snyder’s new series about super-powered characters set in a post-Trump surveillance state. I maybe would have liked more “romance” in between the danger-banging between Neha and Joe (although given Joe’s life, he probably has to learn that as he goes so it might be a toss up). I love how effortlessly diverse Suleikha’s characters are, even the side characters. She just slips in little bits into description or dialog that fleshes them out without stopping the narrative. This is also one of the rare books to nail the nail-bitingly, unstable, and nauseating reality of the political situation of the last four years….only this just has supernatural creatures doing romantic suspense in it, too.

Big Bad Wolf is out now! (Content warning for racism)

Dear FTC: I read a digital galley from the publisher via Edelweiss.

Serving Pleasure by Alisha Rai (Pleasure #2)

Summary from Goodreads: Hungry for a touch…

Rana Malik is over being her family’s resident black sheep. She’s on a mission: ditch the casual hook-ups, revamp her bad-girl image, and fall in love with a proper Mr. Right even her conservative mama can’t find fault with. Not on the menu? The beautiful, brooding Mr. Right Now who lives next door, and all the ways he whets her appetite.

Starving for love…

Artist Micah Hale had it all–women, success, friends and family–until his world changed in a single act of senseless violence. Now struggling to conceal his scars and get his life and career back on track, he knows he has nothing to offer a woman except his body. He’s not looking for love…but he can’t control his craving for the sexy bombshell voyeur he’s caught looking at him.

Just one bite. Their attraction boils over, and their defenses are stripped off along with their clothes. They promise they’ll walk away if it gets too hot. But it’s hard to do the right thing…when being wrong feels so good.

I had Serving Pleasure hanging around the Nook for a while so I picked it up since it’s the next Fated Mates readalong. Rana and Micah are fantastic characters, each trying to figure out their lives in different ways. Rana is trying so desperately to turn herself into a different “good” girl for her mother’s approval, despite the fact that she’s an incredibly capable adult who kept the family restaurant going when her father died. And Micah, oh man. He’s struggling so much with how to regain his life and independence after being attacked by a model’s jealous boyfriend. I really liked their sex deal – “we’re only here for the sex don’t you dare fall in love with me” – part of this erotic romance (Alisha drops us right in the middle of their voyeristic relationship from the get-go). Because of course, falling in love is what happens.

Alisha gives us some fantastic scenes with Rana’s sisters as well – sibling relationships is something she’s always done so well and she doesn’t skimp here. Devi gets some page time here, which is really nice since the end of her book left a few things unsaid with her sisters after the big climactic scene where the sisters realize that Devi is in a committed ménage (if you haven’t read Glutton for Pleasure, go do that, fyi it’s two brothers, although the “swords” do not cross).

Small content warning: Micah’s assault happens a while before the book starts, but he does relate the event on page and has some psychological trauma as a result of the attack.

Dear FTC: I bought a copy of this on my Nook.

The Legal Affair by Nisha Sharma (The Singh Family #2)

Summary from Goodreads:

Rajneet Hothi built her empire with sweat, blood, and information. She knows everything there is to know about Ajay Singh, the future CEO of Bharat, Inc., as well as how crucial he is in securing her future. But she didn’t expect the passion that burst between them the first time they went head-to-head. She’d never felt anything like it before, especially during her marriage to her soon-to-be-ex-husband. When her company is blamed for her ex’s dirty dealings with Bharat, she’s forced to prove that Ajay is no match for her in the art of business or seduction.

Ajay shouldn’t trust Raj or her company. He’s on the verge of losing everything his family has worked to achieve, but he can’t stop thinking about the breathtaking way Raj opens her mind, body and heart to him. Throwing his infamous caution to the wind, he tempts the gorgeous CEO into his bedroom and boardroom. He soon realizes he wants Raj by his side and he’s willing to fight the people he’s always protected to be with her.

When Raj and Ajay discover the source behind Bharat’s leak, they must trust each other and work together to defy the odds and save the Singh legacy. 

I have been WAITING for the followup to Nisha Sharma’s The Takeover Effect. *eeeeeeeee*

Small spoiler: The opening chapter of The Legal Affair hangs on whether you remember what happened in the “foiling the hostile takeover of Bharat by this REAL trash company who got inside help from garbage family members” denouement of The Takeover Effect. So while you can read The Legal Affair without having read Takeover, however, go read Takeover because HAWT lawyers doing lawyer stuff and also having bananas-hot sex. You’re welcome.

Beginning aside, once I refreshed my memory Legal hits hot, fast, and hard. Raj’s company is in the information business; she was the one who provided the information about what was happening during the Bharat takeover. Ajay is set to take over Bharat as CEO from his father when the Board makes its formal vote to approve his appointment at their next meeting. However, a movement inside the Board, seemingly caused by an IP leak that traces back to Raj’s company and her garbage soon-to-be-ex-husband, calls into question Ajay’s ability to lead the company. Relationships within the Singh family start to fray under the stress while Raj faces the risk of her past coming to light if she fights her ex. What no one expected was for Ajay and Raj to have incredible chemistry in the boardroom as well as the bedroom…and for them to become an almost unstoppable force together.

Despite the heady Manhattan setting and feel that the characters are self-made business royalty, the books in the Singh Trilogy are also very much about the family relationships. The relationships that support us, but can also hurt us at the same time. Sharma expertly uses these webs to underpin the plot. If corporate espionage and arguments about intellectual property rights get you going plus incredible hot-but-tender sexual chemistry – and one very, very adorable tiny Chihuahua puppy who will melt your heart – get yourself a copy of The Legal Affair. (Did I mention it was hot? Ajay and Raj are serious dirty talkers. Also, I would totally watch a Netflix series adaptation of these books and we don’t even have book 3 yet!)

The Legal Affair is out August 18 from Avon Impulse!

Dear FTC: I read a digital galley of this book from the publisher via Edelweiss.

Don’t Read the Comments by Eric Smith

Divya Sharma is a queen. Or she is when she’s playing Reclaim the Sun, the year’s hottest online game. Divya—better known as popular streaming gamer D1V—regularly leads her #AngstArmada on quests through the game’s vast and gorgeous virtual universe. But for Divya, this is more than just a game. Out in the real world, she’s trading her rising-star status for sponsorships to help her struggling single mom pay the rent.

Gaming is basically Aaron Jericho’s entire life. Much to his mother’s frustration, Aaron has zero interest in becoming a doctor like her, and spends his free time writing games for a local developer. At least he can escape into Reclaim the Sun—and with a trillion worlds to explore, disappearing should be easy. But to his surprise, he somehow ends up on the same remote planet as celebrity gamer D1V.

At home, Divya and Aaron grapple with their problems alone, but in the game, they have each other to face infinite new worlds…and the growing legion of trolls populating them. Soon the virtual harassment seeps into reality when a group called the Vox Populi begin launching real-world doxxing campaigns, threatening Aaron’s dreams and Divya’s actual life. The online trolls think they can drive her out of the game, but everything and everyone Divya cares about is on the line…

And she isn’t going down without a fight.

I’ve followed Eric Smith’s career for a while so I was really tickled to see Don’t Read the Comments (which originally had a different title) out in the world. Took me a bit to read the galley – because life – but I plopped down last night and read the whole thing start to finish. This is a really great YA fiction about a professional gamer girl who is targeted by an organized troll squad (why the industry even entertains these bozos is beyond me) because she’s female and brown who meets a non-pro gamer boy who wants to write stories for video games and runs into problems with an indie game-maker who takes advantage of him. Divya and Aaron have really cute chat interactions but also great interactions with their IRL friends, Rebekah and Ryan. They also have some real-world problems to deal with as teens. Divya’s dad has walked out on her and her mom and it’s her sponsorships and sale of gaming gear she’s been comped that are helping pay the bills. Aaron’s parents are really pushing for him to be pre-med to take over the family practice and low-key threatening to not pay for college if he doesn’t follow that path. The one thing I wish this book did was have Divya and Aaron bonding a bit more over non-gaming stuff, because I feel like the parents and how the teens deal with the parent stuff isn’t quite as developed as the gaming plot. It’s a minor thing because the rest of the book is really good.

Eric very explicitly lays out the problems of sexual harassment, racism, abuse, trolling, doxxing, toxic dudes, IP and copyright infringement, and gatekeeping which are rampant in the industry. There are some really scary moments – such as when Divya’s mom is attacked by trolls at her place of work – and some bros pull the “I was nice to you why won’t you put out” at a pizza parlor. There’s also some description of Rebekah’s previous assault that happened before the book opens, but is used by the trolls to terrorize her. So just a brief content warning that Eric doesn’t soft-ball the scary bits, he just doesn’t describe them graphically.

Now, I’m not a gamer – the last actual video game I played was Myst III…or IV? Which one was Riven? on a PC running Windows 98, I’m an Old, lol – so it took me a little bit to adjust to the descriptions of in-game play for the MMORPG that Divya streams on the “Glitch” platform. But I got into it after a while and Angst Armada that has Divya’s back really sounds like fun, so don’t worry if you’re not a gamer. And, not gonna lie, I did a little squeal when Desi Geek Girls – a rad podcast run by Preeti Chhibber and Swapna Krishna – got name-checked late in the book.

Now I’m going to have a minor spoiler here, so if you want to stop reading here, heyo, Don’t Read the Comments is out now, you can buy it! Thanks for reading!

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OK. The resolutions to the troll plot and trash game developer plot are both well-done (although if we actually got to see some real fallout for the bad actors in those plots in the form of lost jobs, lost investors, etc that would have been A+ but overall, yes, good plot climaxes). However, in the falling action of the book Divya decides to stop gaming professionally. She gives up her sponsorships, sells a lot of her gear, and so on so she and her mom are good for the financial short-term. And that made me a little sad. That even though she stood up to the trolls and “won,” the fun that she and Rebekah had with the Angst Armada has been ruined – what the trolls couldn’t stand was that Divya was engaging to fans because she had fun playing the game and made sure that others were having fun, too, and god forbid people love something unironically – and she and Rebekah are really going to have to rebuild their security and their peace-of-mind. It’s a very real-world outcome to this story. Don’t Read the Comments is not a fantasy where the Bad Guys are caught, Divya finds a Cute Guy, and every thing magically returns to normal like it had before the trolls and the doxxing. We are left with an “everyone is doing OK for now” where everyone is processing their trauma and doing their best. I think it really takes some bravery to write an ending like this, where it is not completely satisfying, because we readers do so want good things for characters we root for. And we root so hard for Divya and Aaron to dominate the bad guys so completely that they have to use dial-up to get on the Internet for the rest of their lives. So hats off to Eric for taking the risk with this ending. (And yes, I’m making a hat joke because he’s rarely without his flat cap, haha.)

Don’t Read the Comments has been out since January, you can pick it up wherever books are sold.

Dear FTC: I read a galley of this book we got at my store from the publisher.

The Lure of the Moonflower by Lauren Willig (Pink Carnation #12)

Summary from Goodreads:
In the final Pink Carnation novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, Napoleon has occupied Lisbon, and Jane Wooliston, aka the Pink Carnation, teams up with a rogue agent to protect the escaped Queen of Portugal.

Portugal, December 1807. Jack Reid, the British agent known as the Moonflower (formerly the French agent known as the Moonflower), has been stationed in Portugal and is awaiting his new contact. He does not expect to be paired with a woman—especially not the legendary Pink Carnation.

All of Portugal believes that the royal family departed for Brazil just before the French troops marched into Lisbon. Only the English government knows that mad seventy-three-year-old Queen Maria was spirited away by a group of loyalists determined to rally a resistance. But as the French garrison scours the countryside, it’s only a matter of time before she’s found and taken.

It’s up to Jane to find her first and ensure her safety. But she has no knowledge of Portugal or the language. Though she is loath to admit it, she needs the Moonflower. Operating alone has taught her to respect her own limitations. But she knows better than to show weakness around the Moonflower—an agent with a reputation for brilliance, a tendency toward insubordination, and a history of going rogue.

I reached the point in this COVID-19 zoo where I had to read my “break glass in case of emergency” book: The Lure of the Moonflower by Lauren Willig, the final book in the Pink Carnation series. I was introduced to this series waaaay back in 2006 by my sister-in-law Kristen (I was reading The Thirteenth Tale and she was reading Pink 1, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, and we kept sneaking looks at each other’s books 😂) and since then had happily devoured each book as it came out. My favorites are books 3 and 7 (Geoff/Letty and Turnip/Arabella forever 💖💖). But when book 12 came out, the final book, the actual Pink Carnation’s story, I couldn’t read it. I bought it on release day but could not make myself open it. It was the last book, and Lauren wasn’t committed to ever write any more. So it sat and stared at me from the top of my Pink Carnation stack for five years.

So I guess we can thank the coronavirus because last night I sat down in my reading chair, looked over at my Pink Carnation stack, and just picked it up. I read almost the whole thing straight through. It’s good and sweet and brings back a lot of familiar characters and lines up nicely with my James Bond rewatch (only less misogyny and more flowery French spies). And now it’s done. Guess I’ll go re-read Turnip’s book now.

Dear FTC: I read my own damn copy of this book.

Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai (Modern Love #2)

Summary from Goodreads:
In Alisha Rai’s second novel in her Modern Love series, a live-tweet event goes viral for a camera-shy ex-model, shoving her into the spotlight—and into the arms of the bodyguard she’d been pining for.

OMG! Wouldn’t it be adorable if he’s her soulmate???

I don’t see any wedding rings [eyes emoji]

Breaking: #CafeBae and #CuteCafeGirl went to the bathroom AT THE SAME TIME!!!

One minute, Katrina King’s enjoying an innocent conversation with a hot guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire episode with a romantic meet-cute spin and #CafeBae is the new hashtag-du-jour. The problem? Katrina craves a low-profile life, and going viral threatens the peaceful world she’s painstakingly built. Besides, #CafeBae isn’t the man she’s hungry for…

He’s got a [peach emoji] to die for.

With the internet on the hunt for the identity of #CuteCafeGirl, Jas Singh, bodyguard, friend, and possessor of the most beautiful eyebrows Katrina’s ever seen, comes to the rescue and whisks her away to his family’s home. Alone in a remote setting with the object of her affections? It’s a recipe for romance. But after a long dating dry spell, Katrina isn’t sure she can trust her instincts when it comes to love—even if Jas’ every look says he wants to be more than just her bodyguard…

Welcome to The Bodyguard: Extreme Pining Edition.

Seriously, this book needs a Whitney Houston soundtrack.

Girl Gone Viral is a very (very) slow-burn romance with much mutual pining between a woman with severe anxiety/panic disorder (with maybe a little agoraphobia/PTSD) and her bodyguard/head of security (who is ex-military and definitely has PTSD). So much pining. All the pining – and that possibly awkward she’s-been-his-boss-for-years thing. Kat and Jas are two of the nicest, sweetest cinnamon-rolliest people (even though Jas could probably break you in half) who totally deserve each other. What I really liked in this book is that Rai gave them each some personal issues that couldn’t be solved by talking about their feelings and tackling the #cafebae issue. Kat has an awful, awful dad while an incident from Jas’s military past comes back to haunt him. That makes their romance very true-to-life. You don’t get to deal with one issue at a time, you have to juggle it all at once, the good and the bad.

Now, if you’ve read a lot of Rai’s previous books, Girl Gone Viral has a much lower “steam” level by comparison. No sexytimes until about 60% through the book and even those are much less in-depth, shall we say. It fits with Kat and Jas, though. They’re sweet and thoughtful and very private characters. They are not Livy and Nicholas from Hate to Want You, secretly hooking up once a year for ten years and having raw, can’t-get-you-out-of-my-system sex, or even Jackson and Sadia from Wrong to Need You who are also “extreme pining edition” but real dirty-talkers. If you like shagging early and often in your romances, be prepared this one’s going to be mild.

Girl Gone Viral is out today!

Dear FTC: I read a digital galley of this book from the publisher via Edelweiss.