Today the potted trees and summer furniture on the neighboring balconies were coated with an inch or two of velvety snow. This one, by refreshing contrast, faced a wall of tall, arched casement windows looking onto mostly sky and a distant cityscape punctuated by the city’s numerous church towers. If it had been in the States, the long, upholstered couch with its plethora of throw pillows would have sat smack-dab in front of a flat-screen TV.

She had taken the bottle and glasses and resituated herself on the living room sofa. “I’m putting your very nice suitcase in my room,” a breathless Adrianna said as soon as she closed the apartment door behind her. Hearing the buzzer, Adrianna had reluctantly thrown on a robe and slippers and run down the three flights, leaving Charlotte still leaning on the counter to contemplate what came next. The car arrived with the luggage while they were still flirting and deliberating in the kitchen, the cava as yet unpoured. Thus, this book is recommended.Īfter the jump, an excerpt from the book followed by the “publisher details”, including book description, author bio and contact links, and a link to buy the book. Fans of the romance genre generally should enjoy this one, fans of FF romances in particular will probably thoroughly enjoy this one, and it does indeed dive into areas not frequented, particularly academia and art professors.

But still, on the whole this is a mostly solid book, and thus it is *only* a singular star deducted. My standard is this: If you reverse the and keep everything else absolutely identical, would anyone cry foul? I believe this book fails that test in its characterization of its singular straight white male character, and thus the star deduction. The preachy politics, and in particular the blatant racism, is the reason for the star deduction here. Also falls into the trap of describing both women as very buxom, which is a bit of a cop-out to my mind designed to get those of us with… “active imaginations”… more into the book. Not for the “clean” / “sweet” crowd, as others have noted there is a fair amount of sex in the first four chapters alone. It starts out as a “forced” (ish) proximity before turning into a bridge-the-gap, all revolving around two female academics at different points in their careers. Interesting FF Romance Brought Down By Preachy Politics And Blatant Racism. For this blog tour we’re looking at Meet Me In Madrid by Verity Lowell.

For this blog tour we’re looking at an interesting FF romance that dives into some areas not usually seen in romance novels, but which does have a couple of major flaws.

Verity lowell