It’s time! Time for the most expensive and enjoyable thread of the month, where I ask you what you’re reading, you tell me, and then I buy books. It’s a predictable and yet irresistible pattern.
Right now, I’m experimenting with Scribd, thanks to the three-month free trial from Harlequin (which was supposed to expire but my code worked on 6 November, so yay, and thanks to whoever didn’t turn the coupon code off). You may recall that Elyse really disliked Scribd’s search features and availability, while Angela James had some really complimentary things to say about the service during a recent podcast interview.
I talk in my workshop about the reviews about how disparate reviews that are in opposition to one another both work to entice third party curiosity. In other words, the A-squee review and the F-rage review are equally powerful on their own, but they are doubly so when together because I, and many other readers like me, want to see where my own opinion falls on that spectrum. So, I signed up for Scribd and dude. I have been reading the shit out of that thing.
One of the aspects Angie talked about in the interview was the depth of backlist from both Harlequin and HarperCollins – which also includes a bunch of fantasy and sci fi titles from the Dorchester catalog which HarperCollins acquired a long time ago. So, in my math-flexible brain (by which I mean, I can’t remember numbers so doing math is like silly putty for me), the idea of paying $9 and then deep diving into the ball pit of that much backlist, especially when there are so many books I’ve been curious about, is very enticing indeed. Within a few minutes after signing up (I gave myself 15 minutes on a timer because I had a lot to do that day), I’d filled my library with many books I’d been curious about reading but hadn’t gotten around to purchasing or borrowing, plus books I’d read but didn’t know where my copy was.
Amanda: Is it that time already?! I’m doing a readathon this weekend, I’ll just snag the two I’m most excited about:
Elyse: This has nothing to do with reading. They releases photos from the new season of the Mentalist.
Carrie: *looks at pictures* Nothing. you’re fine.
Shopping note:
After a recent Whatcha Reading? discussion, Lisa M emailed me to ask if I could link the books mentioned in the comments to the various retailers to make shopping a little easier. I wish I could! But alas, that isn’t possible.
However, I can drop some retailer links for you right here, so that if you feel like shopping, you can select your preferred retailer. Some of these links are affiliate-enabled, and the site receives a percentage commission from purchases made, so if you use them, many thanks. If you don’t want to us them, no worries, mate! (And if your preferred retailer isn’t here, let me know and I’ll add it for you if I can!)
Omens by Kelley Armstrong: Part mystery, part urban fantasy. What do you do when you find out you’re adopted and your birth parents are jailed serial killers? It’s taken me awhile to warm up to this. The plot is good, but I didn’t like the heroine initially. She’s gotten better, and the hero is surprisingly ok. I HATED Chance in Bitten, but so far, I have no desire to make a rug out of Gabriel. That’s always a good sign 🙂 It’s first person POV, and at 50%, we’ve had no romance beyond a mild thought of ‘he’s pretty hot. Oh well’ on Liv’s part.
I’m reading The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. I like it a lot.
I recently read Minette Walters’ A Dreadful Murder, which is very short and also the only thing she’s published in the last seven years or so (although it looks like she’ll have a new book out next year!). She is one of my favorite crime authors and even though this one was different, since it’s based on a real unsolved murder from 1908 (so not a very satisfying ending), I did enjoy it. It’s also a Quick Reads book (shorter books designed to be easy to read) and I was impressed by how well she wrote in that format. So it’s a different Walters, but still very much a Walters.
After The Night Watch I’ll be starting my first Lois McMaster Bujold – Shards of Honour. It’s an Old School Wednesdays pick at The Book Smugglers.
Oh and I was just checking Courtney Milan’s website (as you do) and she has a contemporary new adult romance out in January. Oh. My. God. I’m having a cup of tea now, to calm down a bit.
My favorite authors have been out to play.
Peter Hamilton’s Beyond the Abyss continues his Commonwealth Universe story of doing something about the void. Our 1000 year old hero goes there only to find a world ruled by a despot and under external attack. He also has minions and acquires other players (including a 17 year old as a bride to get control of her family’s estate; which could have been creepy but wasn’t) that he sets loose to get a revolution going for his own purpose of going after the threat.
I just finished Joanne Bourne’s Rogue Spy which is so beautifully written. The sex scene are simply compelling. I wanted more of the Fluffy Aunts found the interactions with Hawker and Doyle wonderful and satisfying.
On deck is Anna Campbell’s Her Christmas Earl and Mary Baglogh’s Only Enchanting.
I find myself going back to Jo Beverley’s Rogue Series because they were on sale. Arrggh, I have so many others on my Kindle, including a couple of straight historicals rather than historical romance.
@Miranda, I’m really liking the Cainsville series. The slow build of the relationship is kind of frustrating, but I keep reading anyway!
I just finished Firebug by Lish McBride, which is set in the same world as her Hold Me Closer, Necromancer and Necromancing the Stone. They’re really fun snarky YA urban fantasy; good for fans of Buffy.
I’m currently reading The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher, aka Ursula Vernon; it’s in the vein of old fairy tales, but very self-aware and with a bit of snark (and a hedgehog!)(can you tell I like the snark)
Also about to start The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes because a) I’m a Jennifer Lynn Barnes fangirl after the Raised by Wolves series, b) it’s a nominee for next year’s Arkansas Teen Book Award, and I’m a YA librarian in Arkansas, and c) I’ve been seeing fanart all over Tumblr and I want to know what’s up
I’m hoping to read Snow Falling on Bluegrass by Molly Harper and Too Friendly to Date by Nicole Helm.
I read the first of Zoe Archer’s Nemesis Unlimited books, Sweet Revenge. I really liked the story and characters. It would’ve been an A book for me, until I picked up on a repeated phrase to describe the kissing (something starting with “open mouths”) that had been used pretty much word for word earlier. It’s a pet peeve (repeated phrases, over use of the same word, weird author ticks), purely my own hang up, but once I notice it in any book it bugs me to no end. Knocked it down to a B for me. I have the other two books in the series and am still looking forward to them.
I then read Meljean Brooks’ Riveted, and, wow, you can just pick up her books and immediately be absorbed into the world. It’s crazy. Loved, loved, loved this book.
Just started The Girls of Atomic City which just sounded so fascinating when Sarah was talking about it on the podcast.
Recently finished Rachel Bach’s Paradox trilogy (Fortune’s Pawn, Honor’s Knight, Heaven’s Queen). Great sci-fi space opera with a strong romance running through it. Love the heroine Deviana, who kicks butt in a major way.
Just finished Josh Lanyon’s Fair Play. Hard to equal my love of the first book, Fair Game, but I was not disappointed. Elliot and Tucker are still adults with adult problems, and capable of working them out by talking. Also, the mystery involving Elliot’s dad kept me guessing.
Currently reading Joanna Bourne’s Rogue Spy. It has reminding me how much I enjoy Bourne’s wiriting style. Plus, multiple catnips: spies and Regency.
Christmas Alpha by Carole Mortimer. It’s the first in a self published series. She’s been one of my favorite Harlequin authors and I can’t wait to read a book with this warning from her:
Author’s Note: The novellas and full-length novels in the ALPHA series have sexier situations and more adult language than my other books.
Hajar’s Hidden Legacy by Maisy Yates – gave it 5 stars. Finally found a contemporary romance author that I like! Yay!
Sanctuary for a Lady by Naomi Rawlings (Harlequin Love Inspired Historical) was set in the Terror years of the French Revolution. Great book!
Too Hot for TV by Cheris Hodges was also a great contemporary romance book.
A Most Peculiar Circumstance by Jen Turano – great (Christian inspirational) historical romance about a suffragette and a government agent.
I am working on Never Forget Me by Marguerite Kaye, which is three short stories set during WWI. So far, so good.
November has been a really good month for reading for me.
Finished Valour and Vanity by Mary Robinette Kowal yesterday. Turns out the Regency man deals with financial/emotional stress the same way modern man does: grunting and impotency. And they’re in Italy. Sigh. With nuns and Byron. Loving this series.
Currently reading The Given, the final book in Vicki Pettersson’s Celestial Blues trilogy, hence the late start this morning. I’ll be sad to say good-bye to busted angel P.I. Griff and rockabilly reporter Kit, but really interested to see how this winds up. I feel there will be Kleenex involved. Copious amounts of Kleenex. I could be wrong, but I’m arming up regardless.
Next will be either Anna Lee Huber’s A Grave Matter (GoodReads First Reads score! Nothing beats a free book by an author you like.) or Mary Wickes: I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before, being a biography of one of my favorite character actresses. Google her, you’ll know the face.
Unless the GBPL coughs up a copy of Rouge Spy, in which case, all bets are off, and no housekeeping will be done.
Last week I had it all planned. I was going to hit B&N and get either Abracadaver by Laura Resnick or Reap the wind by Karen Chance. Whichever one I didn’t get last week I’d get this week, which would tide me over until I could get my hands on Ysabeau Wilce’s Prophecies, libels & dreams: stories. But NOOOOOO. Abracadaver has been pushed back to 11/25, and Reap the wind will be released ????? Amazon says November 2016! The author says that’s not right, but she didn’t know either. The only good news is that G.A. Aiken’s newest has been moved up to 11/25, so in a week and a half I will have a bunch of books to read, but not right now. Damnit! I have been re-reading Georgette Heyer (The Toll-gate and The Masqueraders) and a very good nonfiction about the Bach, the solo cello suites, and Pablo Casals.
Between SBTB recommendations and lucky choices this has been an exceptionally good reading month.
I read Truly by Ruthie Knox which I enjoyed even more than expected. Although I quite dislike the cover — who are those people and why are they on the front of my book?
Then I read Someone Else’s Love Story, which had such an air of sweetness about it. I hardheadedly didn’t believe Shandi on page 2 or 3 “…I had landed bang in the middle of a love story … it wasn’t – it isn’t – it could never be my own” which disbelief served to make the unfolding of the story a greater pleasure. Do you ever want to just savor a book after you’ve finished? I wasn’t ready for another book for a day or so.
Ashley Gardner had a free or 99 cent book available, and as I read it, I was pulled into her world to the extent that I bought and read through the series on subsequent evenings, regretting when I reached the end. Those of you who enjoy Regency and are tired of ballroom scenes may enjoy this series — IF you read mysteries. Yeah. There is a romance in here, but it took 5 or 6 books to develop.
Currently I am reading (for the first time) Jo Beverley’s Rogue series. Amazon and Fantastic Fiction have a difference of opinion as to series order, so I wised up (when I started using FF, few if any authors had websites) and went to Ms Beverley’s site. I am having a great time with this series. I admire the creative – and some risky – story lines, as many others have noted before me.
Along the way, I read Carolyn Jewel’s Scandal. Well, I was scandalized. There is an event the story that I neither expect or appreciate in a romance. I considered if it was necessary to the resolution and in my opinion it was not. I was so excised I complained to DH about authors who break faith with their readers. I found SB Sarah’s review of the book which put things into a different perspective, and calmed down.
I’ve been on a Christmas novella binge so far this month. My favorites so far have been Her Holiday Man by Shannon Stacey, Hero’s Homecoming by Rebecca Crowley, and Winter Fusion by Anna Hackett. I also enjoyed the Jingle Spells anthology (Naughty or Nice? by Vicki Lewis Thompson and His First Noelle by Kira Sinclair were my favorites).
Planning to start Tempting the Player by Kat Latham today.
@Frida: WHATTTTTTT *bounces over to Courtney Milan’s website* Wow. Ok, I will be needing that book. Can’t wait to see what CM does with a new romance genre.
I’m on deadline, which is…why I’m reading book recommendation threads? Shhh. I got the Sinners on Tour book bundle a day or two ago (thanks for the deal link, Sarah!) and started the first book last night. I haven’t had much of an attention span–see: deadline–so I’ve also been reading a lot of novellas. I just finished and loved At The Billionaire’s Wedding, a contemp anthology by Miranda Neville, Caroline Linden, Katharine Ashe, and Maya Rodale. I’m a fan of all four authors’ historicals, and their contemporary novellas were really charming.
Hi, long-time lurker, first time poster.
I’m new to the whole romance novel thing and have been reading my way through Shana Galen’s Misadventures in Matrimony series. It’s a Regency Historical about four cynical women who vowed to never marry as kids and ten years later are finding true love. I highly recommend the series if you haven’t read it already and I’ve only read two books in the series so far.
Good Groom Hunting(number 2 in the series: On the trail of fortune . . .
Adventurous Josephine Hale is determined to live up to her scandalous heritage. With half of a crumbling treasure map that belonged to her grandfather, the legendary pirate, in her possession, the bold and beautiful lady is half-way to a fortune. Unfortunately, the remainder of the map belongs to Stephen Doubleday, Earl of Westman, her family’s sworn enemy—and Josie will do anything to get her hands on it . . . even if it means seducing the handsome rogue.
And a passion beyond dreams
Utterly destitute, Stephen never dreamed a fairy tale about pirate’s treasure would turn out to be true—bringing him a possible fortune and a passionate lover. But will joining in this wild, impetuous beauty’s perilous undertaking be the biggest mistake of his life? Or will it lead Stephen and Josie to a treasure far more precious than pirate gold—a fiery and forever love?
Blackthorn’s Bride (number 3 in the series}:For better or for worse
Tired of being wooed for her dowry, Lady Madeleine Castleigh has given up on finding true love. But on her way to elope with a boring but honorable philanthropist, her carriage is seized by a nobleman on the run. Maddie is alarmed, especially when she catches sight of Jack Martingale, Marquess of Blackthorne, exactly the sort of wickedly attractive man she’s sworn to avoid.
Chased by a powerful duke with revenge on his mind and a private army in tow, Jack has no choice but to confiscate Madeleine’s carriage. He promises to take his leave once they arrive at the wedding in Gretna Green, but he doesn’t count on his growing desire for the blue-eyed beauty. When the unexpected appearance of Maddie’s father and the mistakes of a drunken priest alter everyone’s plans, Maddie is furious—until she discovers that Blackthorne’s kisses arouse a passion in her she’d long ago stopped praying for.
The series is a great mix of adventure, action and romance and like a good romance novel series(from what I’m learning) doesn’t necessarily have to be read in order.
I’m currently trying to make it through the anthology At the Billionaire’s wedding but I keep stopping every time someone makes a really misinformed reference to technology. No Caroline Linden, people do not base their friendships off reminiscing about playing Halo (one does not “rock Master Chief”). Also, I remembered why I don’t like reading contemporary romance because this book is whiter than a Kappa Alpha Fourth of July party. I usually don’t mind, but it’s a goddamn anthology about a billionaire who works in tech industry and there’s not even like an asian programmer? Idk, I haven’t read the entire thing though so I’m not sure why I’m so angry. Although I would like to note that this month they just announced a Blizzard video game that is more diverse than this book. A video game! On the flip side the stories that I have read are well plotted and written.
I’m also working my way through Javier Marias’s The Infatuations, which is not a romance but extremely lovely and I highly recommend it. (It’s kind of a literary mystery novel.)
A Hundred Pieces of Me by Lucy Dillon. Just lovely.
This month I read and loved all of Bettie Sharpe’s novellas and Jane Litte’s Agony/Ecstasy anthology.
Just read Elle Kennedy’s After Midnight and it was great! I’m going back and rereading the others in the series now.
I’m currently reading Chaste by Lydia Michaels part of the McCollough mountain (there are six books about an Irish American family (set in contemporary PA US).
Some good ones this month. Currently reading “Griots and Griottes” by Thomas A. Hale, about the complex role of griots in West African society. Just finished “Magic Moments: Stories from Latin America”, by Olga Loya; I love folktales, although I bet these tellings work better in the author’s performances than on the page; contained a good story about a woman outwitting Death, “Tía Miseria”.
Also read “Wild Child” by Molly O’Keefe. That was really well done and satisfying (I wrote about it at length here). This site got me to read “The Ghost Bride” by Yangsze Choo, which is YA fantasy with a smidge of paranormal romance. By far the best thing about it is the truly creepy depiction of afterlife and spirits. It’s set in Chinese Malaya in the late 19th century and the author put a lot of thought into depicting the culture. The last third of the book went in a direction I wasn’t expecting (and which, in purely romance terms, I don’t know if I like), but on further thought makes sense with the heroine’s relation to the culture around her, and choices she makes. Sorry if that’s vague but avoiding spoilers.
Now, I have to go buy “Flight of Magpies”. Irresistible…
Recently finished Teresa Medeiros Some Like It Wild which was just…le sigh. Loved it! Currently reading Barbara Bretton Guilty Pleasures which is one of those glitzy ‘successful woman with a secret baby who grows up thinking mommy abandoned her so seeks revenge’ books. Loving the epic melodrama muchly!
I am reading Burn for Me and then I am not sure what I will read. Maybe finish Betrayal in Death or Cary Elwes book about The Princes Bride
Just finished “Nice Dragons Finish Last” by Rachel Aaron (first book in her new Heartstrikers series – waiting impatiently for the second book due out in early 2015 (I hope!)) on the heels of finishing her Honor’s Knight (writing as Rachel Bach).
Trying to finish up reading some library books due today: “A Place Beyond Courage” by Elizabeth Chadwick” and “Supersurvivors: the surprising link between suffering and success” by David Feldman and Lee David Kravetz (about resilience after trauma).
AND, thanks to Elyse’s lovely knitting patterns, I’ve started knitting and am returning several knitting books checked out from the library. Love looking at the projects and seeing what I’ll be able to knit next year, after I get more experience.
Just finished The Perilous Sea, second in a YA series by Sherry Thomas. I really enjoyed both books; really like her style. This second book had a very interesting flashback/magical amnesia plot. It worked for me.
I am impatiently awaiting a couple books by Courtney Milan – library holds – but in the meantime I am rereading Robin McKinley’s Beauty. With a tween reader, I pick up a lot of YA books lately.
I just finished Mary Balogh’s “The Escape” which I thoroughly enjoyed just as I did with the other books in that series. Now I’m reading a bunch of other books including the riveting non-fiction “Mr. Selden’s Map of China”.
I just finished Joanna Bourne’s Rogue Spy. It was fantastic and I have such a great book hangover. Her books are all keepers for me. Ilona Andrews’ Magic Rises and Magic Breakd are next on my list. I am also listening to Nicolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett while I am knitting cowls to give as gifts this Christmas (thanks Elyse). I have tried to read it several times, but have never made it past the first few chapters (I love the Lymond Chronicles). The audio version is working much better for me.
I think my favorite recent reads were a couple mm historicals. Make Do And Mend by Adam Fitzroy is set in Wales during WWII and is a lovely slow build romance between a wounded Naval officer and a conscientious objector. And Think of England by KJ Charles – a romantic mystery set at a decadent house party in Edwardian England. It has a pretty high body count, but I was riveted. One of the heroes is a wounded vet of the Boehr War and reads like a smarter version of Bertie Wooster and I imagined the other hero as a nicer, Jewish version of Oscar Wilde.
I also enjoyed His Road Home by Anna Richland.
Also, Charm City by Mason Dixon – contemporary ff set in Baltimore – romance between an undercover cop and underground fighter/ enforcer for a drug lord.
Just finished Sleigh Ride by Heidi Cullinan – which I liked but didn’t love.
I did not get a whole lot of reading done this past month, but I loved “What a Wallflower Wants” and also thoroughly recommend Maggie Robinson’s “The Unsuitable Secretary”. It’s an Edwardian era Cinderella story with the most adorable virgin beta hero ever, who has touches of Lord Peter Wimsey and Bertie Wooster, and a zaftig Cinderella. The love scenes manage to be both sexy and funny.
I’m now in the middle of “Only Enchanting”. My TBR list includes A Bollywood Affair, Rogue Spy, My Notorious Life(fiction based on a real life 19th century New York midwife/abortionist), and All My Puny Sorrows, which is fiction about 2 sisters. One is outwardly successful(wealthy, glamorous,, happily married, great career) but depressed and suicidal. The other is outwardly a total mess, divorce, broke, single mom, but determined to save her sister.
Whoa, I did not see @cleo’s comment before posted mine. Back to back Bertie Woosters!
I’m reading the Maiden Lane series by Elizabeth Hoyt. They are simply amazing!!! Actually, I listened to the ones narrated by Ashford McNab, and her narration was spot on (to me). The way she writes the 18th century is sublime. I always feel spoiled when I discover a new series that I love.
I’ve been having a great reading streak this month! In preparation for new releases, I recently finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, which is as amazing as people said it is, even if the world takes awhile to get used to. I also read Gail Carriger’s Curtsies and Conspiracies, which was just as delightful as the first in the series.
And woah! It looks like Carriger has a new adult series within the Parasol Protectorate world, Prudence (The Custard Protocol, coming out in March!
And I just finished Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. I don’t know what I was expecting, but lawyers battling gods was not it. Liked it though, great worldbuilding.
Now I’m reading My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne. Her writing is just beautiful.
Up next, The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters!
I just finished an ARC of Vision in Silver (out March 2015) by Anne Bishop, the third book in her Others series. I loved all three books, and the author’s website says there will be two more books – yay!!!
As a huge fan of “Think of England” (though not having read “An Unsuitable Secretary”) I have to chip in on that. Cleo, I don’t understand your first comparison — Bertie (whatever his positive qualities — mainly total lack of malice I think) doesn’t have a drop of “Viking” in him, the recurring metaphor for Capt. Curtis. Yes, at the beginning of the book Curtis is a rather bemused observer of the goings-on at a country house, like Bertie often is, but the resemblance ends there. Your likening Daniel to Oscar Wilde is more apt. (Remember that Wilde was Irish, for having an ethnic background that might make him an outsider — a caustic observer — in English society.)
I have Saving Grace by Norah Wilson waiting for me, b/c I liked Guarding Suzannah from a boxed set so much.
I’m not letting myself buy Rogue Spy/Joanna Bourne until I have 40 decent pages of the next book written. So this thread is very distressing because I want to read it NOW and I was trying to forget how much I want to read it NOW until I came here.
I just finished these library books: A Birder’s West Indies; Piracy & Plunder: A Murderous Business; Forts and Fortresses (=not very helpful); The Forts of Old San Juan (beautiful Natl Park Handbook) and OMG THE AWESOME How to Speak Pirate: A Treasure Chest of Seafaring Slang by Geordie Telfer which I think I will have to buy for myself because that was the best of the research lot. How many books offer convenient translation charts like this:
“Me bottom wind knows no limits” = I am troubled by chronic flatulence.
or
“He’s a long-necked goose.” = He’s well-endowed.
So mostly reading research right now. Some good, some okay.
Jerry Lee Lewis’s lyrics to “Chantilly Lace” just took on a whole new meaning:
“Like a big eyed girl to make me act so funny make me spend my money
Make me feel real loose like a long necked goose
Oh baby that’s what I like”
I am currently reading A Bollywood Affair for Tuesday’s chat. Recommended the book today to a friend who enjoys the whole Bollywood scene. Before that, it was Oh, Naughty Night by Leslie Kelly, which covered Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas in one holiday Harlequin and was naughty. I read it to remedy my Regency book hangover after rereading The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie by Jennifer Ashley and reading Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh. I especially loved the pacing of Flavian’s story. Next up is Season for Desire and Season for Scandal by Theresa Romain. Now, I’m thinking I may have to put Joanna Bourne’s Rogue Spy in the TBR pile….
I have just finished “Burn for Me”, the new Ilona Andrews, and it was great. I have also been reading my way through Molly O’Keefe’s backlist, mostly Super Romances.
Also enjoying the Kat Latham London Legends series.
The problem with reading SBTB, Dear Author, et al is that I have an incredibly well curated TBR list. Almost everything on it is good. Which means I don’t have a prayer of getting through it. I’m trying to tick romance authors I haven’t read off my list before I read a particular author obsessively. This does not work because there are always new authors to try and so many that are really really good.
I am currently reading Lord of Scoundrels, my first (and possibly best?) Loretta Chase. I read Truly, my first Ruthie Knox. I’ll be reading more of her. Wicked Intentions. Ok this is where the plan fell down: I’ve read three of Hoyt’s Maiden Lane series in the past six weeks. And I just bought a third.
I read Frozen by Meljean Brook. I’d read the Iron Duke which I liked but… maybe I don’t like steampunk? But I knew there was something there. I loved Frozen. Like LOVED. I had to stop myself from re-reading it immediately. It also makes me think I might like her Guardians series more than the Iron Seas. Also, dying to read her “barbarian romance” in the Night Shift anthology.
And last but not least I finally finished Annihilation. This book is brilliant. I highly recommend it. That said, it’s so creepy I only read it during the day, in the open with a lot of people around. Really good.
Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews was wonderful. Better than wonderful.
I’m finishing up The Future Falls, the last book of The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff. It’s so good, I’m going back to re-read the first two.
I loved Charming and Daring by Elliot James so much I bought then in audiobook.
I just realized all of these books have elements of both romance and humor. It’s my favorite combination.