Sarah: Bookish shirts ahoy! Today (Thursday 26 April) there are two adorable bookish tees at TeeFury on sale, plus I have a 25% Flash Sale coupon. Ready!
25FLASH gets you 25% off your order!
And check out these shirts:
Sorry I’m Booked by TaylorRoss1 is $12 today, $18 for premium mens fabrics.
Let’s All Go to the Library by Beware_1984 is $12 today, $18 for premium mens fabrics.
You can add the 25FLASH coupon at checkout. Yay bookish shirts and coupons, too!
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The Ones Who Got Away
RECOMMENDED: The Ones Who Got Away by Roni Loren is $3.99! This romance came out in January and I really enjoyed it and its portrayal of people living with trauma. I gave it a B+, but as it deals with victims of gun violence, I completely understand why readers may want to avoid it.
If the subject matter doesn’t scare you off and your catnip is friends to lovers, slow burn-y goodness, The Ones Who Got Away is highly worth the read.
It’s been twelve years since tragedy struck the senior class of Long Acre High School. Only a few students survived that fateful night—a group the media dubbed The Ones Who Got Away.
Liv Arias thought she’d never return to Long Acre—until a documentary brings her and the other survivors back home. Suddenly her old flame, Finn Dorsey, is closer than ever, and their attraction is still white-hot. When a searing kiss reignites their passion, Liv realizes this rough-around-the-edges cop might be exactly what she needs…
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Mask of Shadows
Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller is $3.99! Every month, I host an “any book club” at my local bookstore. Essentially, a group of us meet up and talk about what we’ve read the last month. It’s like an in-person Whatcha Reading. Last weekend was our meeting and two of our members were talking about this book and its amazing genderfluid protagonist. However, some of the chief complaints about the book is the pacing.
I Needed to Win.
They Needed to Die.Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and get closer to the upper-class—and the nobles who destroyed their home.
When Sal steals a flyer for an audition to become a member of The Left Hand—the Queen’s personal assassins, named after the rings she wears—Sal jumps at the chance to infiltrate the court and get revenge.
But the audition is a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal apothecaries, and vicious ex-soldiers. A childhood as a common criminal hardly prepared Sal for the trials. And as Sal succeeds in the competition, and wins the heart of Elise, an intriguing scribe at court, they start to dream of a new life and a different future, but one that Sal can have only if they survive.
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Deadly Testimony
Deadly Testimony by Piper J. Drake is $3.99! This is the second book in the Safeguard series and is a romantic suspense. Drake writes some great competence porn and it seems the heroine is the bodyguard in this one. Not sure if it was mentioned in our recent Bodyguard Heroine Rec League. Also, if you’re looking to round out the series, all three books are available for $3.99 each.
The stakes have never been higher as an elite team member must outwit a dangerous killer and save the man she’s sworn to protect. The second installment of the exhilarating Safeguard series from Piper J. Drake.
Kyle Yeun didn’t start out bad and he doesn’t intend to end his life while on the wrong side of the law, either. His testimony to his former employer’s environmental misdeeds has earned him a protection detail compliments of the US government. But due to a dark international conspiracy Kyle was unaware of, his former employers have made ending his life a top priority. Realizing he needs more protection than the US Marshals can provide, he turns to Safeguard after seeing the beautiful, deadly Lizzy Scott in action.
One look at Kyle, and sniper Lizzy Scott knows this isn’t going to be an easy protection job. He’s arrogant, irritating and almost irresistible. Instead of being put off by her hardened attitude, Kyle seems to thrive off the challenge. And she’s slowly giving in to his charms.
After narrowly escaping the latest assassination attempt, Lizzy starts taking dangerous risks to keep him safe. But the last thing Kyle wants is another life ruined because of his actions. He found his redemption in Lizzy’s arms and he’ll risk everything to make sure they both make it out alive. As will she, even if it means walking away from him to keep him safe.
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Highland Conquest
Highland Conquest by Alyson McLayne is $3.99! This is the second book in The Sons of Gregor MacLeod and I read and liked the first book in the series. Readers like the heroine, who disguises herself as a boy. They also said this book can be read as a standalone. However, some felt part of the book’s conflict was solved rather quickly.
HE WAS LOOKING FOR VENGEANCE
Laird Lachlan MacKay never planned on leading his clan, but when his older brother was murdered, he was left with no choice. His vow to avenge his brother has led him to the MacPherson clan—and their bewitching healer, Amber.INSTEAD HE FOUND HER
Amber MacPherson is desperate. Dressed as a boy to escape her clan’s treacherous leader, she runs right into Lachlan—who orders her detained. At first she causes him nothing but frustration, especially when she blackmails him into helping her clan. But when she’s threatened by the same man who murdered his brother, Lachlan will do whatever it takes to keep her safe—and by his side.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Interestingly the paperback version of the Roni Loren is showing up as only $2.97 when I check.
This one is on sale too, and I really loved it! A Star to Steer Her By, by Beth Anne Miller, is 99 cents. It’s a New Adult romance with a heroine doing a semester at sea hoping to get over her fear of the ocean after a scuba injury and her forbidden romance with a Scottish deckhand, who is the captain’s son. A Star to Steer Her By https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XBYZFXF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_COG4AbWQ75EW5
All I can say is that I’d like to come to your bookstore, Amanda, for your “any book club”.
I’m reading the Roni Loren book right now and really enjoying it! I think she writes very respectfully, yet realistically, about gun violence and school shootings, and the many reactions people can have to those events. Finn and Liv have great banter a lot of the time, and Liv has made a “found family” type of friendship with some of her female classmates (who will be heroines in following books).
Nope. No. No way. There is just nothing romantic about gun violence in schools, and that fact that it could be normalized enough to constitute a backstory for a romance freaks me right the hell out. Other countries don’t really have this phenomenon, and the idea that a writer would write, to quote Claire “respectfully, yet realistically, about gun violence and school shootings” brings home the fact that this is becoming the new normal in the United States. Just a thing that people have to deal with, like war and drug problems and blah, blah blah. I’m not from the US and I am just so horrified that for lack of political will to stop it children are being killed in their schools. I think it would be a rage trigger, and rage is really unromantic for me.
There’s a fairly long list of profoundly unromantic things that are frequently used as backdrop for romance novels, and it’s interesting how much variation there is as to which things are dealbreakers for which people. Personally, I’m uncomfortable reading anything around WWI set in Europe, anything set in the American South prior to the Civil War, or anything involving slaves or terminal illness, and I’m wary of anything involving pirates.
No one should ever have to waste their leisure reading on books that raise their blood pressure and/or stress levels, but I for one would much prefer that people write about these things, respectfully, than pretend it isn’t happening. The thing with school shootings is… that is the new normal in the US, and if we refuse to accept the extent of the problem, it will stay that way. There are a lot of people who would like to change this, who are trying to change it, but it’s not going to be easy, and until and unless that happens, this is going to continue to be reality for a lot of people. Americans need to be grappling with this reality right now, and fiction (art in general) is one of the tools that people use to work through major societal issues.
That doesn’t mean everyone should have to read romance novels about school shooting survivors, obviously, but I think having sensitive, respectful treatments of difficult issues in fiction available is important. (I think romance has something very special to offer here, actually, because romance novels say “these people who have been through difficult experience X still deserve a happy ending,” and I want mass shooting survivors to have good things. They’ve been through so much.)