Tag: Neurodivergent

Lola’s Ramblings: Top 9 Books with Neurodivergent Characters of 2025

For today’s post I want to share my favorite books of 2025 with neurodivergent characters. I included books that include a main or important side character that are neurodivergent. And I actually have quite the variety of neurodivergence in this post, which was fun to see how many different types of neurodivergent characters I read about this year. I am linking this one up with Books of My Heart their top ten list posts. My Top 9 Books with Neurodivergent Characters of 2025 Storm and Sea by Tereza Kane One of the main characters in this book is dyslexic and […]

Posted December 30, 2025 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 10 Comments

Review: Princesses & Pastries by Laura Greenwood

Princesses & Pastries (Falhaven Castle #1) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: A returning baker means that Princess Evie can spend even more time making pastries. Princess Evie loves nothing more than to head down to the castle’s kitchens to bake alongside her miniature dragon, and now she’s trying to perfect a complicated pastry. When her best friend returns after five years away from Falhaven Castle, Evie realises she might have the answer to her baking problems. But after being apart for so long, things have changed […]

Posted December 19, 2025 by Lola in Sunday Post / 3 Comments

Review: Not a Free Ion by Elinor Wilder

Not A Free Ion (Claw Ridge Wildland Shifter Firefighters #0.5) by Elinor Wilder My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Romanse Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: She’s a brilliant research biologist whose mind sees patterns in fire-adapted ecosystems. She has never fit anywhere after she lost her person but never stopped searching. He’s a federal K9 search-and-rescue specialist with alpha wolf in his blood and a German Shepherd K9 partner. Without a pack, without a permanent address, and without the most important shifter sense of scent. She never stopped loving him. He never stopped wearing the soft jacket […]

Posted December 3, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: How to Have a Killer Time in D.C. by Sam Lumley

How to Have a Killer Time in D.C. (Oliver Popp’s Travel Guides to Murder #1) by Sam Lumley My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/m Blurb: A young, gay, autistic travel writer takes a head-spinning detour when murder and romance unbalance his well-planned life and career in this fun, quirky debut mystery . . . For twenty-four-year-old Oliver Popp, autism is just another fact of life. As long as Oliver sticks to a comfortable itinerary planned well in advance, he gets by just fine as a staff writer for Offbeat Traveler magazine. But […]

Posted June 18, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 6 Comments

Review: Poisoned Primrose by Dahlia Donovan

Poisoned Primrose (Motts Cold Case Mystery #1) by Dahlia Donovan My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Meet Motts and the quirky cast of characters in her world. Poisoned Primrose is a quintessential cosy British mystery and an all-round fun story to throw yourself into. Autistic, asexual, and almost forty, Pineapple “Motts” Mottley flees London with her cat and turtle to a quaint cottage in Cornwall. She craves the peace of life in a small village. The dead body buried in her garden isn’t quite what she had in mind, though. Unable […]

Posted February 28, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: A Fatal Autumnal Stew by Dahlia Donovan

A Fatal Autumnal Stew (The Skeleton Crew #2) by Dahlia Donovan My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: gf/f Blurb: Welcome back to the Skeleton Crew. Keep your knitting needles sharp and have a strong brew in hand for their next adventure. Life for gender-fluid, autistic vampire Hyde Snodgrass has never been better. Her cosy village bookshop is thriving as is their new relationship with witch and taco bus owner, Teresa Vega. Autumn is in full magical tilt in their corner of the Scottish Highlands. Everything is beautifully perfect right up until a […]

Posted December 13, 2024 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review, Romance / 6 Comments

Review: Deadly Crush by Maddie Day

Deadly Crush (Cece Barton Mystery #2) by Maddie Day My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: It’s the beginning of a new year, and for widowed single mom and recent L.A. transplant to California wine country, Cece Barton, that means green hillsides, flowing streams from winter rains, pruned vineyards—and a murder to solve . . . After a mostly stress-free Christmas with her college-age daughter, and despite enjoying a current budding romance with fellow newcomer, Benjamin Cohen, it’s time for Cece to focus on Vino y Vida, the Colinas wine bar she […]

Posted November 27, 2024 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments