https://jonathanmckay.com/tags/romance/Recent content in Romance on Jonathan McKayHugoen-usSat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-origin-of-species/Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-origin-of-species/This book will make you smarter. Regardless of evolution's implications in biology, its implications for politics and economics make this book worthhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-rising-thunder-honor-harrington-%2313/Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-rising-thunder-honor-harrington-%2313/Exposition Ascendant With a lower overall rating than previous and subsequent entries, Rising Thunder seemed like a throwaway installment. It isn’t. Byhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/pretender/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/pretender/<b>Re-org-er</b> Want to see how power al-Sharaa drove in victory to Damascus, or how a CEO reclaims a stalled culture transformation? Skip thehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/fourth-wing-the-empyrean-%231/Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/fourth-wing-the-empyrean-%231/For the first few chapters, I thought the gaps in character and world building were intentional. But after the romance went from clumsy to 21st centuryhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/carrie-soto-is-back/Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/carrie-soto-is-back/Inner Fictional Game of Tennis It's hard to exist on Goodreads without seeing Taylor Jenkins Reid. Reid takes the pacing of a blockbuster, and substituteshttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet-wayfarers-%231/Sun, 26 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet-wayfarers-%231/Snackable ‘misfits in space’ book with a more modern take on gender and sex but the rest of sci-fi tropes intact. I’ve just read this story one too manyhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/leviathan-falls-the-expanse-%239/Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/leviathan-falls-the-expanse-%239/Leviathan Deflates She was reaching for supernatural answers, when memory and mundanity were enough. Frankly disappointing. Tiamat's Wrath had managed tohttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/oryx-and-crake-maddaddam-%231/Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/oryx-and-crake-maddaddam-%231/18th book of 2021: How the world ends. It’s not difficult to envision childhood trauma and sexual frustration as the shaper of global catastrophe. Afterhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/i-am-number-four-lorien-legacies-%231/Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/i-am-number-four-lorien-legacies-%231/Yes I read this book - don't judge me. OK judge me. I read it 6 months ago and I'm really having a hard time remembering anything interesting orhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-host-the-host-%231/Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-host-the-host-%231/I couldn't help be reminded of the Animorphs series that I read in elementary school. Too many aspects were the same, if only expanded to fill the 600