I love JK Rowling of course, so I had to give this a try. It's the second of her "for-adult" books I've tried to read, and the first that I've actually finished. "A Casual Vacancy" was so full of profanity and vulgarity that I stopped at the very beginning. "The Cuckoo's Calling" is a bit sneakier, ...
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I don't read all that much straight romance, so instead of listing my favorite clean romance reads of 2018, I'm going to broaden it to encompass all those I can remember. Most of these are classics and historical romance, because quite frankly, it's VERY hard to find clean contemporary romance... ...
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Another sweet romance by Heather Moore. This one is a loose Cinderella story: Jane, a beautiful but low income woman who owns her own cleaning business, meets Cameron, the son of one of the wealthiest families in town. Cameron's nasty fiancee Crystal (stepsisters, anyone?) hires Jane to clean his ...
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I almost stopped reading Scythe toward the beginning because the concept is so grim, but I'm so glad I stuck with it! Here's the concept: in a post-mortality world, everyone has every need provided for. There is no crime, and no disease: any predisposition to disease is handled by nanites, which I ...
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These aren't necessarily books that were published in 2018, they're just *my* top 10 favorite clean YA reads of 2018, in order of enjoyment. (I reserve the right to add to this list before the end of the year!) 1) The Sweet Evil Trilogy (plus one) I can't gush enough about the Sweet Evil ...
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This is a sweet, clean romance that doesn't get (too) cheesy -- which already sets it head and shoulders above most that I try to read! It follows Alicia, a girl in her late 20s who moves back home to help her psychologically disturbed mother. There she reencounters Jeff, her childhood best friend ...
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