Amanda has discovered some hidden gems during her first year of home ownership.
RECOMMENDED: Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep is $1.99! Elyse read this one and gave it a B+:
Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep is the first book in a fantasy series that features a badass female gladiator on a quest to reclaim the throne from her murderous cousin. It’s tremendous fun, although it wraps up quickly.
The Ladies Rewrite the Rules is a “proper,” traditional Regency novel that reminds me of something I might have read years ago from a category line. The heat level stops at smooching and we don’t get a ton of angst or conflict. If you’re looking for a more modern voice (like Sarah MacLean vs Georgette Heyer) this isn’t the book for you. Maxwell Dean is a second son who publishes a booklet identifying wealthy widows … Continue reading The Ladies Rewrite the Rules by Suzanne Allain
This Rec League comes from our SBTB Patreon Discord, from user LyricLorelei: Does anyone have any good time loop story recs? Or things with showing multiple options/versions of life choices? Amanda: There were a bunch of great recs in the Discord, but I thought opening it up to the larger community would be even better. We had a Rec League on Dual Timelines that may have some overlap here. Elyse: Yes! The Darkness Outside Us … Continue reading The Rec League: Time Loops
Welcome back to Wednesday Links! The Boston area had its first real snowfall! Yay! My only complaint is that most of it happened overnight, so I couldn’t cuddle up on the couch with my heated blanket and look wistfully out the window as the snow fell. Aw well, maybe next time. I moved to Boston from Florida over a decade ago and the snow still feels so magical to me. The same with mountains. Austria … Continue reading Links: Bread, Reading Recs, & More
Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne is $1.99! We featured this on a previous Hide Your Wallet. Payne has another contemporary, Jane Austen retelling out next month: Sex, Lies and Sensibility.
Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend is a funny, sweet variation on The Parent Trap. The plot is simple but the characters and their activities are uniformly delightful. This was a fun historical f/f romance with serious stakes that kept me wildly entertained until the last page. It’s the first in the Mischief and Matchmaking series. The plot, as I said, is super simple: Beth, who doesn’t want to get married, has one season … Continue reading Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma Alban
Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen is $3.99! Aarya mentioned this one a previous Hide Your Wallet and was tempted by the main characters being enemies in the matchmaking industry.
This HaBO comes from Lucy, who wants to find this historical romance: It almost sounds like I’m combining West Ravenel (The Ravenels series by Lisa Kleypas) and Benedict Chapman (Rescued from Ruin series by Elisa Braden), but medieval: She is the heiress or conquered prize of a castle or keep that has fallen to ruin after losing most residents to a or “The” plague. She’s independent and really good at running the place even with … Continue reading HaBO: Medieval, Post-Plague Romance
Lies and Other Love Languages by Sonali Dev is $1.99 at Amazon! This is more women’s fiction than contemporary romance, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some romantic elements in here.
Welcome back to Cover Snark! From Dena: My mom is on an alien book kick and showed us this cover. Between the title and the cover, we were all cracking up. He’s SO BLUE. The horns don’t poke out of the hat, they just kind of are shoved in there, apparently. Sarah: First, the listing title must accompany the book: Whisked Away by the Alien: A Curvy Girl Hannukah Sci Fi Alien Romance Second, setting … Continue reading Cover Snark: Aliens Don’t Know the Difference Between a Spoon & a Whisk
