If you’re new to Hide Your Wallet, this is where we list new releases we’re pretty excited for in the coming month.
Each reviewer has a book maximum (five per person), but we’ve separated HYW into two parts. The first HYW of the month will cover books that release from the 1st to the 14th. The second HYW will cover books released from the 15th to the end of the month.
We also think this will help us feature books from smaller publishers who don’t have buy links up as quickly as the big five.
As always, if we missed any books that you’re particularly looking forward to, tell us all about them in the comments.
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My Date with a Wendigo
Author: Genevieve McCluer
Released: March 10, 2020 by Bold Strokes Books
Genre: LGBTQIA, Paranormal, RomanceElizabeth Rosseau and Abigail Lester were best friends. At twenty-one, they confess their feelings for each other before leaving for winter break. It should have been a love story, only Abigail never came back.
Six years later, Elizabeth contacts her one last time, and to her surprise, Abigail answers. Their chemistry is undeniable, but Abigail is hesitant to see her in person. She was in an accident that left her a monster, a wendigo. Now she’s in a support group for other inhuman cannibals and is mostly convinced that she could avoid eating Elizabeth, but Abigail doesn’t trust herself, and even more, she’s terrified that if Elizabeth finds out the truth, she’ll never want to see her again.
They want nothing more than to be together, but they belong to different worlds, different lives, and different food groups.
Shana: This friends to lovers f/f shifter romance sounds like campy fun. Who doesn’t want to fall for a creature with a taste for human flesh? I adore the tagline: “they belong to different worlds, different lives, and different food groups.”
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Secret Heir Seduction
Author: Reese Ryan
Released: March 1, 2020 by Harlequin Desire
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romance
Series: Texas Cattleman's Club: Inheritance #4Can he tell her the truth… this time?
Will he risk everything for a reunion?Will she give him the chance?
Discovering he’s a long-lost heir isn’t the only surprise awaiting Darius Taylor-Pratt in Royal, Texas. He’s next door to his ex after five long years. Darius broke off his red-hot relationship with designer Audra Covington without explanation. He still has regrets…and truths he’s hiding. Rekindling their flame may cost him…especially when new secrets surface to threaten their second shot at seduction.
Aarya: I like Reese Ryan’s books but I’m a little hesitant about a connected series with multiple authors. Sometimes there are weird unnecessary tangents about other couples, usually to interest the reader into reading the rest of the series. Still, Ryan’s voice is fun so I’ll try it.
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Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Author: Charlie Adhara
Released: March 2, 2020 by Carina Press
Genre: LGBTQIA, Paranormal, Romance
Series: Big Bad Wolf #4Agent Cooper Dayton and his partner, Oliver Park, are going undercover—at a retreat for couples who need counselling. They do say the best cover story is one that’s close to the truth…
Agent Cooper Dayton is almost relieved to get a phone call from his former boss at the Bureau of Special Investigations. It means a temporary reprieve from tensions created by house hunting with Oliver Park, his partner both in work and in life. Living together in a forever home is exactly what Cooper wants. He’s just not keen on working out the details.
With a former alpha werewolf missing, Cooper and Park are loaned to the BSI to conduct the search at a secluded mountain retreat. The agents will travel to the resort undercover…as a couple in need of counseling.
The resort is picturesque, the grounds are stunning and the staff members are all suspicious as hell.
With a long list of suspects and danger lurking around every cabin, Cooper should be focusing on the case. But he’s always been anxious about the power dynamics in his relationship with Park, and participating in the couples’ activities at the retreat brings it all to the surface. A storm is brewing, though, and Cooper and Park must rush to solve the case before the weather turns. Or before any more guests—or the agents themselves—end up dead.
Follow Agents Dayton and Park’s romance from the beginning. Read the first book in the Big Bad Wolf series, The Wolf at the Door, available now from Carina Press!
Aarya: I’ve recommended this series many times on SBTB. I am so excited to return to Park and Cooper. The series follows the same couple but the romantic arc is central in each book.
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Be Not Far From Me
Author: Mindy McGinnis
Released: March 3, 2020 by Katherine Tegen Books
Genre: Young AdultHatchet meets Wild in this harrowing YA survival story about a teenage girl’s attempt to endure the impossible, from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Female of the Species, Mindy McGinnis.
The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhead than a roof.
So when she goes hiking in the Smokies with her friends for a night of partying, the falling dark and creaking trees are second nature to her. But people are not tame either. And when Ashley catches her boyfriend with another girl, drunken rage sends her running into the night, stopped only by a nasty fall into a ravine.
Morning brings the realization that she’s alone—and far off trail. Lost in undisturbed forest and with nothing but the clothes on her back, Ashley must figure out how to survive with the red streak of infection creeping up her leg.
Amanda: After reading, reviewing, and crying about The Female of the Species, I will read anything McGinnis writes.
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Bone Crier’s Moon
Author: Kathryn Purdie
Released: March 3, 2020 by Katherine Tegen Books
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult
Series: Bone Grace #1Bone Criers have a sacred duty. They alone can keep the dead from preying on the living. But their power to ferry the spirits of the dead into goddess Elara’s Night Heavens or Tyrus’s Underworld comes from sacrifice. The gods demand a promise of dedication. And that promise comes at the cost of the Bone Criers’ one true love.
Ailesse has been prepared since birth to become the matriarch of the Bone Criers, a mysterious famille of women who use strengths drawn from animal bones to ferry dead souls. But first she must complete her rite of passage and kill the boy she’s also destined to love.
Bastien’s father was slain by a Bone Crier and he’s been seeking revenge ever since. Yet when he finally captures one, his vengeance will have to wait. Ailesse’s ritual has begun and now their fates are entwined—in life and in death.
Sabine has never had the stomach for the Bone Criers’ work. But when her best friend Ailesse is taken captive, Sabine will do whatever it takes to save her, even if it means defying their traditions—and their matriarch—to break the bond between Ailesse and Bastien. Before they all die.
Ellen: (chanting) CREEPY! BONE! MAGIC! CREEPY! BONE! MAGIC!
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House of Earth and Blood
Author: Sarah Maas
Released: March 3, 2020 by Bloomsbury
Genre: Fantasy/Fairy Tale Romance, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Series: Crescent City #1#1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas launches her brand-new CRESCENT CITY series with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance.
Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion—otherwise known as Crescent City— has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city—and Bryce’s world.
Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful oblivion in the city’s most notorious nightclubs. But when the murderer attacks again, Bryce finds herself dragged into the investigation and paired with an infamous Fallen angel whose own brutal past haunts his every step.
Hunt Athalar, personal assassin for the Archangels, wants nothing to do with Bryce Quinlan, despite being ordered to protect her. She stands for everything he once rebelled against and seems more interested in partying than solving the murder, no matter how close to home it might hit. But Hunt soon realizes there’s far more to Bryce than meets the eye—and that he’s going to have to find a way to work with her if they want to solve this case.
As Bryce and Hunt race to untangle the mystery, they have no way of knowing the threads they tug ripple through the underbelly of the city, across warring continents, and down to the darkest levels of Hel, where things that have been sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir…
With unforgettable characters and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom—and the power of love.
Amanda: Maas’ first adult debut! SO EXCITED.
Ellen: I find Maas’ work to be totally engrossing if a little OTT so I’m pretty excited for this doorstopper of a book.
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Once Upon a Sunset
Author: Tif Marcelo
Released: March 3, 2020 by Gallery Books
Genre: Chick Lit, Contemporary Romance, Literary Fiction, Romance, Women's FictionThe author of The Key to Happily Ever After—“a true gem filled with heart, laughs, and a cast of delightful characters” (Nina Bocci, USA TODAY bestselling author)—returns with a heartwarming and charming novel about a woman who travels to the Philippines to reconnect with her long-lost family…and manages to find herself along the way.
Diana Gallagher-Cary is at a tipping point. As a Washington, DC, OB/GYN at a prestigious hospital, she uses her career to distract herself from her grief over her granny’s death and her breakup from her long-term boyfriend after her free-spirited mother moves in with her. But when she makes a medical decision that disparages the hospital, she is forced to go on a short sabbatical.
Never one to wallow, Diana decides to use the break to put order in her life, when her mother, Margo, stumbles upon a box of letters from her grandfather, Antonio Cruz, to her grandmother from the 1940s. The two women always believed that Antonio died in World War II, but the letters reveal otherwise. When they learn that he lived through the war, and that they have surviving relatives in the Philippines, Diana becomes determined to connect with the family that she never knew existed, though Margo refuses to face her history. But Diana pushes on, and heads on a once-in-a-lifetime trip that challenges her identity, family history, and her idea of romantic love that could change her life forever.
Infused with Tif Marcelo’s signature “sexy, adorable, and heartfelt” (Kate Meader, USA TODAY bestselling author) voice, Once Upon a Sunset is a moving and lyrical celebration of love, family, and second chances.
Aarya: Whenever I read women’s fic, I enjoy mother-daughter centric books the most (the romancey ones never have enough romance for my taste, so I prefer other relationships to be centered).
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Postcolonial Love Poem
Author: Natalie Diaz
Released: March 3, 2020 by Graywolf Press
Genre: PoetryNatalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award
Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.
Maya: Collection of poems by Natalie Diaz, a indigenous Latinx woman who tries to illuminate love’s possibilities within the politicized and contested body of a woman of color living in the politicized and contested landscapes of the US. I mean, does this do anything for you, because I’m over here living in my devastation:
“All this time / I thought my mother said, Wait, / as in Give them a little more time / to know your worth, / when really, she said, Weight, / meaning heft, preparing me / for the yoke of myself, / the beast of my country’s burdens, / which is less worse than / my country’s plow. Yes, / when my mother said, / They don’t love you like I love you, / she meant, / Natalie, that doesn’t mean / you aren’t good.”
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When We Were Magic
Author: Sarah Gailey
Released: March 3, 2020 by Simon Pulse
Genre: LGBTQIA, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young AdultA moving, darkly funny novel about four teens whose magic goes wildly awry from Magic for Liars author Sarah Gailey, who Chuck Wendig calls an “author to watch.”
Keeping your magic a secret is hard. Being in love with your best friend is harder.
Alexis has always been able to rely on two things: her best friends, and the magic powers they all share. Their secret is what brought them together, and their love for each other is unshakeable—even when that love is complicated. Complicated by problems like jealousy, or insecurity, or lust. Or love.
That unshakeable, complicated love is one of the only things that doesn’t change on prom night.
When accidental magic goes sideways and a boy winds up dead, Alexis and her friends come together to try to right a terrible wrong. Their first attempt fails—and their second attempt fails even harder. Left with the remains of their failed spells and more consequences than anyone could have predicted, each of them must find a way to live with their part of the story.
Amanda: Gailey is quickly becoming a favorite and I’m here for any and all ensemble witch casts.
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The Winter Duke
Author: Claire Eliza Bartlett
Released: March 3, 2020 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: LGBTQIA, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young AdultShe survived the curse. Now she must survive the throne.
All Ekata wants is to stay alive–and the chance to prove herself as a scholar. Once Ekata’s brother is finally named heir to the dukedom of Kylma Above, there will be nothing to keep her at home with her murderous family. Not her books or her experiments, not her family’s icy castle atop a frozen lake, not even the tantalizingly close Kylma Below, a mesmerizing underwater kingdom that provides her family with magic. But just as escape is within reach, her parents and twelve siblings fall under a strange sleeping sickness, and no one can find a cure.
In the space of a single night, Ekata inherits the title of duke, her brother’s captivating warrior bride, and ever-encroaching challengers from without–and within–her ministry. Nothing has prepared Ekata for diplomacy, for war, for love…or for a crown she has never wanted. If Kylma Above is to survive, Ekata must seize her family’s magic and power. And if Ekata is to survive, she must quickly decide how she will wield them both.
The Winter Duke is an enchanted tale of intrigue by Claire Eliza Bartlett, author of the acclaimed feminist fantasy We Rule the Night.
Amanda: A young woman unexpectedly becomes heir and “inherits her brother’s warrior bride.”
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A Phoenix First Must Burn
Author: Patrice Caldwell
Released: March 10, 2020 by Viking Books for Young Readers
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young AdultSixteen tales by bestselling and award-winning authors that explore the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and magic.
Evoking Beyoncé’s Lemonade for a teen audience, these authors who are truly Octavia Butler’s heirs, have woven worlds to create a stunning narrative that centers Black women and gender nonconforming individuals. A Phoenix First Must Burn will take you on a journey from folktales retold to futuristic societies and everything in between. Filled with stories of love and betrayal, strength and resistance, this collection contains an array of complex and true-to-life characters in which you cannot help but see yourself reflected. Witches and scientists, sisters and lovers, priestesses and rebels: the heroines of A Phoenix First Must Burn shine brightly. You will never forget them.
Maya: Carrie and I are working on a review for this! Wonderful collection of SFF where the main characters are Black women, girls, and gender nonconforming folx. It’s chock full of work by extremely dope and fairly well known AOCs and has definitely led me to adding some new books to my TBR pile!
Carrie: #OwnVoices YA short story SFF anthology about Black women. Maya and I could not stop typing at each other about it. Tears, horror, action, fat mermaids – it has it all.
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Femme Tales
Author: Anne Shade
Released: March 10, 2020 by Bold Strokes Books
Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, RomanceBeast: Former hip-hop artist Ebony “The Beast” Trent has wrapped her persona around herself like a protective wall of bitterness. Belinda Jansen is confident, intelligent, sexy, and―to Ebony’s fascination―not the least bit intimidated by Ebony’s beastly demeanor. Can Beauty truly tame The Beast?
Awaken: Local celebrity chef Chayse Carmichael has achieved a level of success she’d only imagined while learning to cook. But when free-spirited Georgia peach Serena Frasier walks into her restaurant, Chayse realizes that success doesn’t always bring happiness if you don’t have someone special to share it with. Does love at first sight truly exist?
Stiletto: Music mogul Cass Phillips barely has a moment to sleep, let alone build a relationship. But an unexpected encounter with shoe designer Faith Shaw leads her to believe that maybe fairy tales do come true. Can true love really conquer all?
Six women find themselves in their own real-life fairy tales, when true love finds them in the most unexpected ways.
Tara: Three f/f novellas rewriting fairy tales, about black women, and written by a black woman. I’m really excited to check out this one.
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Knight of the Ice: Volume 1
Author: Yayoi Ogawa
Released: March 10, 2020 by Kodansha
Genre: Manga
Series: Knight of the Ice #1A rom-com manga on ice, perfect for fans of Princess Jellyfish and Wotakoi. Kokoro is the talk of the figure-skating world, winning trophies and hearts. But little do they know… he’s actually a huge nerd! From the beloved creator of You’re My Pet (Tramps Like Us).
Chitose is a serious young woman, working for the health magazine SASSO. Or at least, she would be, if she wasn’t constantly getting distracted by her childhood friend, international figure skating star Kokoro Kijinami! In the public eye and on the ice, Kokoro is a gallant, flawless knight, but behind his glittery costumes and breathtaking spins lies a secret: he’s actually a hopeless romantic otaku, who can only land his quad jumps when Chitose is on hand to recite a spell from his favorite magical girl anime!
Ellen: “A rom-com manga on ice”?! Was this manga created in a lab for me specifically??
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Love Hard
Author: Nalini Singh
Released: March 10, 2020 by TKA Distribution
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romance
Series: Hard Play #3New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh brings you the next sizzling story in her Hard Play contemporary romance series…
Jacob Esera, star rugby player and young single father, has worked hard to create a joyous life for his six-year-old daughter. After the death of his childhood sweetheart soon after their daughter’s birth, all Jake wants is safety and stability. No risks. No wild chances. And especially no Juliet Nelisi, former classmate, scandal magnet, and a woman who is a thorn in his side.
As a lonely teenager, Juliet embraced her bad-girl reputation as a shield against loneliness and rejection. Years later, having kicked a cheating sports-star ex to the curb, she has a prestigious job and loyal friends—and wants nothing to do with sportsmen. The last thing she expects is the fire that ignites between her and the stuffed-shirt golden boy who once loved her best friend.
Straitlaced Jacob Esera versus wild-at-heart Juliet Nelisi? Place your bets.
Maya: I haven’t spent as much time with Nalini Singh’s contemporaries as I have with her PNR books, so I’m looking forward to checking this one out!
Lara: I’m in a major reading slump at the moment and Nalini Singh will be the one to bounce me out of it.
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The Queen’s Bargain
Author: Anne Bishop
Released: March 10, 2020 by Ace
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Series: Black Jewels #10POWER HAS A PRICE. SO DOES LOVE.
Return to the dark, sensual, and powerful world of the Black Jewels in this long-awaited new story in the New York Times bestselling fantasy saga
After a youthful mistake, Lord Dillon’s reputation is in tatters,
leaving him vulnerable to aristo girls looking for a bit of fun. To
restore his reputation and honor, he needs a handfast—a one-year contract of marriage. He sets his sights on Jillian, a young Eyrien witch from Ebon Rih, who he believes has only a flimsy connection to the noble society that spurned him. Unfortunately for Dillon, he is unaware of Jillian’s true connections until he finds himself facing Lucivar Yaslana, the volatile Warlord Prince of Ebon Rih.Meanwhile, Surreal SaDiablo’s marriage is crumbling. Daemon Sadi, the Warlord Prince of Dhemlan, recognizes there is something wrong between him and Surreal, but he doesn’t realize that his attempt to suppress his own nature in order to spare his wife is causing his mind to splinter. To save Daemon, and the Realm of Kaeleer if he breaks, help must be sought from someone who no longer exists in any of the Realms—the only
Queen powerful enough to control Daemon Sadi. The Queen known as Witch.As Jillian rides the winds of first love with Dillon, Daemon and Surreal struggle to survive the wounds of a marriage turned stormy—and Lucivar has to find a way to keep everyone in his family safe…even from each other.
Aarya: Am I still passionately angry at Black Jewels for [redacted unforgivable plot point]? Yes. Did I swear to never reread the books for as long as I live? Yes. Will I probably give in and devour this new installment? Also yes. I may be terrible at sustaining reading boycotts, but I know myself very well.
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To the Moon and Back
Author: Melissa Brayden
Released: March 10, 2020 by Bold Strokes Books
Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, RomanceLauren Prescott had dreamed of being an actress since she was cast as Wendy in her middle school production of Peter Pan. Yes, her nightgown snagged and brought the set tumbling down, but she was hooked. After years of unsuccessful auditions, performing just wasn’t in the cards. Instead, Lauren established herself as a successful stage manager at the esteemed McAllister Theater. Unfortunately, the resident director has cast celebrity Carly Daniel: headstrong, entitled, and always late. So why is their chemistry turning her the hell on?
After partying her way through her twenties and ruining a successful film career, Carly Daniel has to take whatever she can get. If schlepping it onstage will raise her star again, she’ll listen to her pesky agent. Added bonus: the uptight stage manager is a sexy distraction.
When Carly’s costar is sidelined, Lauren must decide whether renewing a long-forgotten dream will jeopardize what she has percolating with Carly. Is the limelight big enough for two?
Tara: I mean, it’s Melissa Brayden, so I have to read it. I also love the premise, with a stage director and actress in a play getting together.
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Undercover Bromance
Author: Lyssa Kay Adams
Released: March 10, 2020 by Berkley
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romance
Series: Bromance Book Club #2Braden Mack thinks reading romance novels makes him an expert in love, but he’ll soon discover that real life is better than fiction.
Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a sous chef at Nashville’s hottest restaurant. Too bad the celebrity chef owner is less than charming behind kitchen doors. After she catches him harassing a young hostess, she confronts him and gets fired. Liv vows revenge, but she’ll need assistance to take on the powerful chef.
Unfortunately, that means turning to Braden Mack. When Liv’s blackballed from the restaurant scene, the charismatic nightclub entrepreneur offers to help expose her ex-boss, but she is suspicious of his motives. He’ll need to call in reinforcements: the Bromance Book Club.
Inspired by the romantic suspense novel they’re reading, the book club assists Liv in setting up a sting operation to take down the chef. But they’re just as eager to help Mack figure out the way to Liv’s heart… even though she’s determined to squelch the sparks between them before she gets burned.
Aarya: I really loved Adams’ voice in The Bromance Book Club despite some other critique. The MCs were secondary characters in the first book and I adored Liv. I like that the series is continuing the theme of reading a fictional romance novel (this one is romantic suspense!).
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Whiter
Author: Nikki Khanna
Released: March 10, 2020 by NYU Press
Genre: NonfictionHeartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled “too dark” to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards
“I have a vivid memory of standing in my grandmother’s kitchen, where, by the table, she closely watched me as I played. When I finally looked up to ask why she was staring, her expression changed from that of intent observer to one of guilt and shame. . . . ‘My anak (dear child), ‘ she began, ‘you are so beautiful. It is a shame that you are so dark. No Filipino man will ever want to marry you.'”-“Shade of Brown,” Noelle Marie Falcis
How does skin color impact the lives of Asian American women? In Whiter, thirty Asian American women provide first-hand accounts of their experiences with colorism in this collection of powerful, accessible, and brutally honest essays, edited by Nikki Khanna.
Featuring contributors of many ages, nationalities, and professions, this compelling collection covers a wide range of topics, including light-skin privilege, aspirational whiteness, and anti-blackness. From skin-whitening creams to cosmetic surgery, Whiter amplifies the diverse voices of Asian American women who continue to bravely challenge the power of skin color in their own lives.
Sneezy: Stories from a wide group of Asian Americans, sharing how colourism affects them. The blurb is promising many different layers and nuances, so I’m really looking forward to it!!
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I have the following books on my March list:
Molly O’Keefe’s HOME TO RIVERVIEW INN, the third and final book in an angsty (and soooo good) trilogy about three brothers (one just reunited with his siblings after 30 years) and their lives and loves at the title inn.
Julianna Keyes’s BENCH PLAYER, sequel to her TEAM PLAYER, focuses on a baseball player who has previously been in prison and the woman who runs the team’s PR Department.
Sybil Bartel’s HARD SIN—another third and final book in a trilogy—this one about a former Army Ranger out for revenge against the man who led the religious cult in which he was raised and the man who was the father of his late wife.
Clare Connelly’s LOVING THE ENEMY—the next in her Montebellos series about a family of Italian-Greek siblings and cousins. This one is a second-chance romance between a couple whose relationship crumbled years before because of misunderstandings. I love Connelly’s angsty style (she writes for Harlequin Presents and Dare, but I don’t think the Montebello books are published through Harlequin).
Skye Warren, one of my “dark romance” favorites, has a new book scheduled for March: MATING THEORY. The hero is the man the heroine didn’t choose in the Trust Fund duet, so it will be interesting to see how he gets over his heartbreak.
Then I’m really intrigued by MINE, the first book in a new series by Natasha Knight and A. Zavarelli. Knight is another of my favorite “dark romance” writers and I’ve liked some of Zavarelli’s books (especially TAP LEFT and her Boston Underworld series). This appears to be a secret baby romance involving a crime/mafia family.
After the aforementioned new Molly O’Keefe and Nalini Singh, the most wanted book on my list has March 10 circled on the calendar. A Murderous Relation, the latest Veronica Speedwell mystery, will be calling my name all day while I’m at work. I already have tappy feet just thinking about it.
As usual, everything else on my list is coming at the end of the month.
Let’s see. I know I have preorders sitting out there on House of Earth and Blood and Undercover Bromance. I also have one sitting out there on The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski (I greatly enjoyed her Winner’s Curse series), Crush the King by Jennifer Estep, and Badger To the Bone by Shelly Laurenston (Hufflepuffs represent, my dudes). Kind of a light month for me, actually. I also have Captain Marvel: Cosmic CAT-astrophe! but that’s for the daughter and I’m looking forward to waving it at her tauntingly on Tuesday. It’s fun to mess with her.
Besides the above listed books of which the Charlie Adharra has been pre-ordered I also have my eye on Docile by K.M. Szpara and a Grease movie (but Queer) retelling called Only, Mostly Devestated by Sophie Gonzales.
@DiscoDollyDeb & Donna Marie
Just wanted to mention that Home to Riverview Inn appears to be the same book as Worth Fighting For which was published by Harlequin in 2006, third in The Mitchells of Riverview Inn series. I don’t dispute the quality of the series, but there may be others like me who bought the whole series on sale at Harlequin a few years ago or when it was new. Nothing worse than realizing you’ve spent money on something you already own.
@PamG: O’Keefe did say in the introduction to the first book, WEDDING AT THE RIVERVIEW INN, that it was a reworking of AND BABY MAKES THREE that she published through Harlequin’s Super Romance in 2006. I didn’t read the original, so I’m not sure how significant the “reworking” is. I didn’t realize the other two books in the series were also reworkings of previously-published titles. I just downloaded the third book (HOME TO THE RIVERVIEW INN) this morning and it’s all sorts of angsty, antagonists-to-lovers goodness—but I agree, it would be disheartening to pay again for a book with essentially the same storyline of one you’ve already read.
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