Author: Sarina Bowen

Review: The Understatement of the Year by Sarina Bowen

Review: The Understatement of the Year by Sarina Bowen

This is the third book in the Ivy Years series and the blurb (that I got off of Goodreads) does a bang up job of explaining what the book is about that I’m going to jump right into my thoughts on the book. This was my very first m/m book. It’s not my usual thing but […]

Joint Review: Falling from the Sky by Sarina Bowen

Joint Review: Falling from the Sky by Sarina Bowen

Warning: This review contains spoilers!  Holly: I think the blurb outlines the story pretty well, so there’s no need to recap. I’ve been in a weird contemporary funk lately, so I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to read this book when I started it. I’m really glad I gave it at try, […]

Review: The Year We Fell Down by Sarina Bowen

Review: The Year We Fell Down by Sarina Bowen

Corey, the heroine, is confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. She wasn’t whiny or filled with self-pity, but she did ruminate about her situation and changed circumstances a lot. I thought her attitude was a good one, but her internal dialogue rang true. I felt the same about Hartley. His broken […]

Joint Review: Blonde Date by Sarina Bowen

Joint Review: Blonde Date by Sarina Bowen

Rowena: Holly and I challenged ourselves to do more joint reviews, one review a month this year and in true Holly and Rowena fashion, we fell behind. So this month, you get two reviews from us. The first review we did was The Year We Hid Away by Sarina Bowen and it was a book […]

Joint Review: The Year We Hid Away by Sarina Bowen

Joint Review: The Year We Hid Away by Sarina Bowen

Holly: Like most high school grads, Scarlet is excited to leave home and start college. But unlike most others, she’s doing it under an assumed name with the cloud of her father’s alleged sins hanging over her. What did you think of Scarlet and the things she was dealing with? Rowena:  Scarlet…I really liked her. I […]