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Wrapped Up in You
Wrapped Up In You by Jill Shalvis is $1.99! This is the eighth book in the Heartbreaker Bay contemporary romance series. It’s also a small town holiday romance. Shalvis is an autobuy for a lot of readers and I know Elyse has had good experiences with her holiday romances specifically.
It’s love. Trust me.
After a lifetime on the move, Ivy Snow is an expert in all things temporary—schools, friends, and way too many Mr. Wrongs. Now that she owns a successful taco truck in San Francisco and an apartment to call home, Ivy’s reinvented life is on solid ground. And she’s guarded against anything that can rock it. Like the realities of a past she’s worked hard to cover up. And especially Kel O’Donnell. Too hot not to set off alarms, he screams temporary. If only his whispers weren’t so delightfully naughty and irresistible.
Kel, an Idaho sheriff and ranch owner, is on vacay, but Ivy’s a spicy reason to give his short-terms plans a second thought. Best of all, she’s a tonic for his untrusting heart, burned once and still in repair. But when Ivy’s past intrudes on a perfect romance, Kel fears that everything she’s told him has been a perfect lie. Now, if only Ivy’s willing to share, Kel will fight for a true love story.
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Digging Up Love
Digging Up Love by Chandra Blumberg is 99c at Amazon! This looks like a cute romance between a baker and a paleontologist. Have you read this one? It came out earlier this year in January.
From debut author Chandra Blumberg comes a playful, heartfelt romance about chasing your dreams and finding love in the process.
Alisha Blake works her magic in the kitchen, creating delectable desserts for her grandfather’s restaurant in rural Illinois. Though Alisha relishes the close relationship she has with her family, she can’t help but dream about opening a cookie shop in Chicago. She may be a small-town baker, but Alisha has big ambitions.
Then a dinosaur bone turns up in her grandparents’ backyard. When paleontologist Quentin Harris arrives to see the discovery for himself, he’s hoping that the fossil will distract him from a recent painful breakup. Instead, he finds Alisha—and sparks fly. The big-city academic and the hometown baker seem destined for a happily ever after.
But Alisha is scared to fall in love. And Quentin’s trying to make a name for himself in a competitive field, which gets even more complicated when the press shows up at the dig site. For love to prevail, the two may have to put old bones aside—and focus on the future.
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Truthwitch
Truthwitch by Susan Dennard is $2.99! This is the first book in the The Witchlands series and it’s YA fantasy with some romantic elements in later books (not sure if there is any in this first installment). This series has been on my TBR pile for a long time, but it keeps getting passed over for other things.
On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a “witchery”, a magical skill that sets them apart from others.
In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble—as two desperate young women know all too well.
Safiya is a Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lie. It’s a powerful magic that many would kill to have on their side, especially amongst the nobility to which Safi was born. So Safi must keep her gift hidden, lest she be used as a pawn in the struggle between empires.
Iseult, a Threadwitch, can see the invisible ties that bind and entangle the lives around her—but she cannot see the bonds that touch her own heart. Her unlikely friendship with Safi has taken her from life as an outcast into one of reckless adventure, where she is a cool, wary balance to Safi’s hotheaded impulsiveness.
Safi and Iseult just want to be free to live their own lives, but war is coming to the Witchlands. With the help of the cunning Prince Merik (a Windwitch and ship’s captain) and the hindrance of a Bloodwitch bent on revenge, the friends must fight emperors, princes, and mercenaries alike, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on a Truthwitch.
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The Long Game
The Long Game by Rachel Reid is $1.99! This is the sixth book in the Game Changers series. I know it was highly anticipated. Shana had a thoughtful review and was ultimately disappointed by it. I know there was an engaging discussion in comments when it went up.
To the world they are rivals, but to each other they are everything.
Ten years.
That’s how long Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been seeing each other. How long they’ve been keeping their relationship a secret. From friends, from family…from the league. If Shane wants to stay at the top of his game, what he and Ilya share has to remain secret. He loves Ilya, but what if going public ruins everything?
Ilya is sick of secrets. Shane has gotten so good at hiding his feelings, sometimes Ilya questions if they even exist. The closeness, the intimacy, even the risk that would come with being open about their relationship…Ilya wants it all.
It’s time for them to decide what’s most important—hockey or love.
It’s time to make a call.
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Enough people have raved about ‘The Long Game’ that I’m going for it even though I’m a little bit over hockey romances. 🙂
I read both ‘Heated Rivalry’ and ‘The Long Game’ after seeing the review and the discussion in the comments. I liked the second book much better. It was less episodic than the first one and Ilya’s storyline was heartbreaking. Shane’s a bit of an idiot for a good part of it.
I was in the camp of people disappointed by The Long Game. She broke my trust as an author so I’m pretty much pretending that book doesn’t exist so I can still appreciate Heated Rivalry for what it is.
Wings of retribution by Sara king is free today on kindle
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Count me in the “loved THE LONG GAME” camp–it’s one of my favorite books of 2022. That being said, it absolutely cannot be read as a standalone. At the very least, read HEATED RIVALRY first, and for an optimum experience, I would recommend reading ROLE MODEL after that because some of its timeline runs parallel to that of THE LONG GAME.
I really like the Witchlands series! There are several ongoing romantic subplots, but the central relationship in this series is the friendship between the two female leads.
I loved Digging Up Love. It felt very fresh to me when I read it. I enjoyed the premise of this dinosaur bone being discovered in someone’s backyard.
I wouldn’t necessarily say that I felt “The Long Game” broke my trust in Rachel Reid (Lord, did I love Role Model (Harris and Troy)), but it was very imbalanced in the relationship dynamics.
Content warning/mild spoiler: disordered eating/potential fatphobia. I think there was a bigger storyline about Ilya’s depression leading to comfort eating and deconditioning that was supposed to counterpoint Shane’s disordered eating – showing how they were both suffering the strain in different ways. I’m guessing that she took a lot of it out because it ended up in a fatphobic space, but it does end up reading weirdly, and it may trip some folks up.
As a bi/queer woman, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the pitfalls that women writing MLM run into. And I think Shana’s point about the forced outing is part of the larger issue of folks writing these stories without the same intuitive understanding of the pressures and fears of the demographic that are writing about. (Not saying in any way that there aren’t great m/m stories written by women – don’t come at me KJ Charles fans!) Just that there is more shading to queer love than an exchange of parts.