Posts by: Rudi

Rudi

Rudi is a romance reader and radio broadcaster who owns The Most Awesome Shoes in the Universe. She is the audio producer of the Book Thingo podcast.

21 August 201730 December 2017

Hold Me by Courtney Milan

*Keepers, Contemporary romance, LGBTI, Reviews, Romance, Young adult fiction

Duelling review. Whether you’re looking for a hate-to-love romance, a semi-epistolary romance, or simply a romance with a seriously amazing heroine and somewhat arseholish hero (who does eventually work out ... Read more

6 January 20175 January 2017

Everything I Left Unsaid by M. O’Keefe (Everything I Left Unsaid, #1)

Contemporary romance, Reviews, Romance

If you love your romance novels dark and a little dirty, M. O’Keefe has you covered. But fuck cliffhanger endings.

2 December 201625 November 2016

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas (Lady Sherlock, #1)

Crime & mystery, Reviews

Intriguing characters who don’t reach the heights they could have. I suspect the second book will be amazing. Also: not a romance.

28 November 201630 November 2017

First Star I See Tonight by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Chicago Stars, #8)

Contemporary romance, Romance

A mix of noble purposes combined with TERRIBLE framing. The most interesting aspects of character are hopelessly diminished by inconsistent and, at times, offensive portrayals of women and race.

9 November 20169 November 2016

Fit by Rebekah Weatherspoon (Fit Trilogy, #1)

Contemporary romance, Romance

Doesn’t quite hit the intensity it could have, but I was needing this exact novella in my life.

17 October 20168 October 2016

The Angel’s Share by J.R. Ward (Bourbon Kings, #2)

General fiction, Reviews

What if this isn’t a family saga at all? What if it’s a critique on toxic masculinity, and it’s chronicling the mental and emotional deterioration of modern men deeply entrenched ... Read more

12 October 20165 October 2016

Apprentice In Death by J. D. Robb (In Death, #43)

Crime & mystery, Reviews, Romantic elements

An average J. D. Robb instalment is still a pretty great book and a reliable comfort read.

14 September 201615 September 2016

Sexy In Stilettos by Nana Malone (In Stilettos, #1)

Contemporary romance, Reviews, Romance

List maker heroine (with Christian Louboutin shoes) meets rolling stone hero. Together they’re all fireworks.

5 September 20164 September 2016

When Michael Met Mina by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Reviews, Romantic elements, Teen fiction, Young adult fiction

Deeply political and wonderfully nuanced, this might well be the Looking For Alibrandi for Australia’s current generation of teens.

22 August 20164 September 2016

The One by Danielle Allen

Contemporary romance, Reviews, Romance

A massive cheese-fest from start to finish, except that it breaks the golden rule of reality dating shows: Never trash talk the women who participate.