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Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez is $3.99! Tropes for this one include forced proximity and some no strings attached elements. There are several Jimenez titles on sale right now, so feel free to poke around and snag one you might be missing.
This guest review comes from Lisa! A longtime romance aficionado and frequent commenter to SBTB, Lisa is a queer Latine critic with a sharp tongue and lots of opinions. She frequently reviews at All About Romance and Women Write About Comics, where she’s on staff, and you can catch her at @thatbouviergirl on Twitter. There, she shares good reviews, bracing industry opinions and thoughtful commentary when she’s not on her grind looking for the next … Continue reading The Librarian of a Lyon by Linda Rae Sande
Welcome back, all! For this round of recs, I have a couple atmospheric reads for the fall and spooky season. Plus, there’s some non-fiction and something for all the crocheters out there. Any recommendations you’d like to pass along? Leave them in the comments!
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This month our Kickass Woman in History is a Canadian woman named Carrie Best. Carrie Best was the founder of The Clarion, the first Black-owned newspaper in Nova Scotia that was written and distributed specifically for Black readers.* Best used her platform to advance civil rights for Black people in Nova Scotia, and her work made Best an important leader in advocating for Black Canadians. Carrie Mae Best was born Carrie Prevoe in 1903. She … Continue reading Kickass Women in History: Carrie Best
Princeweaver by Elian J. Morgan is $1.99! I mentioned this on Get Rec’d for fans of Winter’s Orbit or A Taste of Gold and Iron.
OOOPS Did you see this yesterday? I’m sorry I teased you into thinking it was Friday one day early! But now it’s actually Friday — hooray! (My apologies. This is how you know I’m not AI. I think AI knows what day it is!) … I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are a lot of videos lately? Like, so many. And as someone whose first social media was text-based and not video-based, I … Continue reading Friday Videos Love Wedge Drama
Adib Khorram’s new book, Isn’t He Romantic, is out this week, so of course I wanted to ask many questions about it. This is the third in a trilogy about three queer Iranian American friends, and our conversation touches on some of the themes of the book, such as aging and ageism in the gay community, reclaiming fun games from your youth, and about trends in m/m romance currently.
Verity and the Forbidden Suitor by J.J. McAvoy is $1.99! This is book two in the DuBells series and Shana gave it a B-:
Verity and the Forbidden Suitor is not a stand alone book, y’all. I started reading and immediately flailed in a sea of characters that I might have cared about if I’d read the first book in the series. I was annoyed, but the book eventually settled down into an unabashedly romantic, and slightly gothic, story set in a racially mixed nobility reminiscent of Bridgerton.
This guest review is from Crystal Anne! Crystal Anne with An E comes to us from a sunny clime, but prefers to remain a pale indoor cat. She enjoys reading, cross-stitching something nerdy, going to see live music, and playing video games. She works as an autism consultant by day, got a degree in information science for fun, and currently serves on her local library advisory board, which she’s written about twice for SBTB . … Continue reading Star Wars: Eyes Like Stars by Ashley Poston
