Welcome back to Whatcha Reading! Here’s how we’re capping off this month: Sneezy: I’ve been rereading Only Hope. It’s still ongoing, and I’m VERY much not a thriller person, but something about some Will Kill You cinnamon rolls is making my brain happy right now. Lara: I’ve been so lucky with books lately. So many good ones! At the moment, I am knee deep in And Then There Was the One by Martha Waters. It’s … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? September 2025, Part Two →
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong is $2.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! This is a YA (bordering on NA possibly?) historical fantasy with Romeo & Juliet, star crossed lovers vibes. I also loved the setting of 1920s Shanghai.
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It is with a lot of listener and reader encouragement that I’m writing this out, so thank you to everyone who said, “Yes, write the thing.” You might be thinking, given that we are rather familiar with plagiarism going back to 2008 (!) with our adventures with Cassie Edwards’ books, that I would know what to do if it maybe happened to me. And, honestly, I’m used to being cited in roundabout ways. Sometimes editors … Continue reading What to Do If You Think You’ve Been Plagiarised →
Alexandra Vasti is back, because her new historical romance Ladies in Hating is out this week! We are going to talk about: Good angsty yearning When a character is their love interest’s bitch eating crackers Lesbians in history! Erotic Victorian fiction Side trips include historical publishing houses, how nothing in romance is new, and how a lot of our current erotica, including that book where someone schtupps a door, is connected to books with the … Continue reading 686. Ladies in Hating and Yearning with Alexandra Vasti →
RECOMMENDED: It Had to Be You by Eliza Jane Brazier is $1.99! Elyse gave this an A grade:
It Had to be You also has a lot of morbid humor, which I think is necessary to lighten up the mood when dealing with this kind of subject matter. It’s a wry look at the absurdity of two broken people jet-setting across Europe while having sex and maybe trying to kill each other (not really trying) and falling in love
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We wanted to thank you all for another summer of bingo! We had over 150 submissions this year, with many of you getting five bingos. That’s a hell of a lot of reading. Everyone who achieved a bingo will be receiving a 2025 SBTB Summer Romance Bingo sticker in the mail. We also are giving away three boxes of books. The winners are: Felicity Jillian B. Amy R. We have plans to do an “unhinged” … Continue reading Thanks for Playing the 2025 SBTB Summer Romance Bingo! →
RECOMMENDED: Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan is $2.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! It was recommended by both Bree Bridges and Sarah in the Rrrrromantasy panel Sarah moderated, by Courtney Milan in the SBTB podcast episode, and in a Rec League on Pure Escapism.
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Starling House by Alix E. Harrow is $2.99! Sarah and I mentioned this in Hide Your Wallet. I think I wound up grabbing it in audio, but am notoriously bad at whittling down my audiobook library.
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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is $2.99! know Carrie really loves this book (and the entire series, I believe). It’s also a Hugo Award winner! Readers really loved the scifi world building, though some admitted wanting more action in the first book of the Imperial Radch series
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Y’all, Twilight is upon us. Born the same year as this here website, Twilight is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary October 7. (Note: I still have SBTB 20th Anniversary stickers, if you’d like one! They’re free!) The celebrations will be in various quarters: The movie is back in theaters for a limited engagement, after teasing the re-release on Instagram. A limited number of theaters will be screening the five Twilight movies, one film per night for five nights, … Continue reading Sparkly Lego® Twilight →
