C.M. Nascosta

Grace has a job she loves, a community she adores, and plenty of friends . . . but her lack of bedroom action has left this event planner too horny to think.

When one ill-advised night at the bar leads to her giving an exhibitionistic show to an unknown presence outside her bedroom window, she thinks she’s hit a new low. When her voyeur turns out to be a nebbishly charming mothman, Grace needs to decide if she can trust her body — and her heart — with this garnet-eyed stranger before he show more flys out of her life for good.

Sweet Berries is a monster/human romance featuring high heat and a lot of heart, with a guaranteed HEA. It is the second book in the Cambric Creek Steamy Sweet Monster Romance series

Review: Okay, this series is really becoming one of my favorites. I love how the characters are so sweet and there is hardly any angst in this one.

I kinda like that - no angst, no exes coming into the picture to ruin things, and no other obstacles standing in between. This is what I like some of my romances to be. The male lead is sweet, nerdy, clumsy, and awkward. He has never dated before and Grace is his first. Grace, on the other hand, has gone through a divorce and trying to make it out in this place. She is always horny but she wants no strings attached. After all, who would, especially after a messy divorce? When these two come together, the sparks fly and now Grace has her chance to find someone to love.

The romance is slow and there is no insta-love. I honestly loathed that. I hate how romance stories never give either the female lead or male lead a chance to develop before they fall in love and always the romance feels either too quick or it feels too forced. This one did not give me that sort of vibe. Merrik and Grace were sweet and the romance between them was hot, spicy, and believable. I liked that. I liked how the romance between them was there along with the need for sexual gratification. I need more romances like this.

Seriously, looking forward to the next book in this series. show less

Well color me surprised, I am nearly never a romance reader. It's not because I'm a prude, it's just not my thing. But I'm on a mission to read the most unusual things on the shelves of my library of employment, and this is certainly unusual.

And I liked it.

The book is well written, the characters are likable, they like EACHOTHER, and they are pretty darn good at communicating! The world building is fun! I got a good sense of what Cambric Creek is like with out it detracting from the story show more itself. The reason for the milking farm is pretty dull and logical. Which is a compliment! I won't spoil it, but the reveal made me go, OH well that makes sense.

Outside of the interspecies erotica, it's cute and fluffy and didn't activate my astounding second hand embarrassment!

(I'm sure by now you have a sense of why I'm not a romance reader.)

About the erotica, it's all safe, sane and consensual! If you have no issues with *ahem* size differences, it's not as shocking and weird as a lot of the internet made it sound like it would be.

It's dirty, it's sweet, it's fun. Don't let the internet scare you! show less

Road trip audiobook!

Having grown up on a dairy farm this title caught my attention when it popped up in my Goodreads feed a few years back. While I did put it in my want-to-read, I never felt a need to actually seek it out. But with a long lonely afternoon of cruising I-80 across Pennsylvania and Ohio before me, it suddenly seemed like an interesting way to spice up the drive.

Turns out, this story is not about the sort of milking I did twice a day with 300 cows several summers in a row. show more Instead it is about the sort of semen collection that happens with pedigreed bulls in upscale breeding programs that my father had no interest in pursuing with his herd of Wisconsin holsteins.

Also, instead of bulls, the protagonist here -- stumbling about for a job when her art historian master's degree doesn't result in employment -- finds herself in a role that blurs lab technician and sex worker as she helps stimulate the minotaurs who make . . . deposits . . . for which a pharmaceutical company pays handsomely as their semen is a key ingredient in this fantasy world's version of Viagra. While she is able to be detached about the manual manipulation she provides for the most part, one penis -- and the minotaur attached -- starts to fascinate her.

The first part is cheesy fun, and while the second half gets a bit repetitive and offers little drama for keeping the romance from proceeding in a straight line, I was still happy to have such a huge change a pace in the midst of all the celebrity memoirs I was streaming during my drive. show less

I kept seeing this book on different social media sites, along with other similar looking "monster" books. I don't know why I chose this one first, maybe because I have a thing for werewolves and minotaur's are close? I dunno but I'm so happy I picked up this book.

I expected a dumb over the top barely readable romance book, like a joke romance book. (Think Chuck Tingle) What I got was a sweet little romance that was FAR, FAR too short. I loved the FMC and the MMC. They were adorable and cute show more and just so fucking wholesome. The spice was great, the details were interesting considering the subject matter and honestly the spice felt like it balanced with the overall plot really well. This 100% didn't feel like a book that was all spice and a thread of a plot to move between the sex scenes. It felt really balanced

I gave this a 5/5 mostly because it was exactly what I needed right this moment and I loved it. I can easily see me reading this again. I also hardly ever by physical copies of books unless I love the cover or the book and I will be buying a physical of this to put on a display shelf.

The bad:
That said, there were some spots in the book where the scene had changed and I didn't realize until a few paragraphs later and then had to go back and reread. The FMC does a lot of reflecting on events in the middle of a thing, which is fine, but there's a specific moment where like the location/time had changed and there was no break to indicate that. I WILL SAY, that might be because I'm reading a digital copy with a big letter size (bad eyes) and sometimes that formats books weird. show less