Happy Saturday! Here’s what we’re reading right now as May winds down:
Lara: Candice Proctor released only seven historical romances and I’m on my second already. The books are phenomenal and have given me a great deal of food for thought.
Elyse: I just read There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone. ( A | BN | K | AB ) It follows five Atlanta families who make up part of the increasing number of homeless (the author uses homeless not unhoused) in America who also work full time or more than full time. It’s a really eye opening book, especially when you learn that these families (usually depending on predatory extended stay motels or sleeping in their cars or crashing on friends couches) don’t actually contribute to the people officially counted as homeless. It’s a hard book to read but really important.
Sarah: I finished Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood ( A | BN | K | AB ) and I actually factually laughed aloud and also cried.
And I just started I Think We Should Kill Other People, ( A | BN | K | AB ) which is starting off zany.
Whatcha reading? Let us know in the comments!
I’ve recently read a couple of romances featuring fake dating, which is not a trope I’m fond of but it’s hard to escape these days. Lynn Painter’s The Love Wager was fun as an audiobook but the characters were kind of underdeveloped and their relationship relied too much on banter chemistry.
Julie Kriss’ You Give Me That Feeling has a much better reason for the fake dating and a more convincing connection between the famous-but-down-to-earth characters but it still felt a bit too easy in the end. Her books don’t ever seem to be very angsty but I would have liked a bit more struggle for the HEA in this one.
Also read A Deadly Episode, the latest Anthony Horowitz mystery featuring himself as the Dr Watson character to fictional detective Daniel Hawthorne’s Holmes. Better than the previous couple in this series, very well plotted and thoroughly enjoyable.