Amanda has discovered some hidden gems during her first year of home ownership.
Welcome back! We’re quickly approaching thirty editions of Get Rec’d! I can’t believe it! This was all Sarah’s idea. I’ve been so warmed by the responses and seeing your comments about books you’ve picked up through the site or books you really want to recommend and shout about. Please keep ’em coming! As usual, have you gotten any good book recs lately? Reading anything great that you want the community to know about?
We are wrapping up October, which means it’s our second Whatcha Reading of the month! Carrie: I just finished The Brightest Star in Paris and I loved it despite feeling like it was at least two different books smooshed together! Shana: I’ve read so many good books lately, hopefully I can continue this trend. Right now I’m reading You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. I started it ages ago … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? October 2022, Part Two
The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert is $2.49 at Amazon! I love these sort of old school covers with monsters. I believe the designer has also redid the cover for Morning Glory Milking Farm, which has been recommended in the comments before.
The Spare Man is most frequently described as The Thin Man in space, and the cover copy does a better job of summarizing than I could: Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between the Moon and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and the festering chowderheads who run security have the audacity to arrest her … Continue reading The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
One weekend, Alisha Rai got married. Then, two weeks later, her new book came out. So let’s talk about all the things! We cover her wedding, the parties, and how part of her wedding was at a celebrity’s mansion (but we had no idea until the end). And of course, we talk about her newest book, Partners in Crime. We discuss portraying mental health struggles and coping mechanisms, as well as sequel bait, and writing … Continue reading 533. Partners in Crime: The Book and the Wedding with Alisha Rai
RECOMMENDED: Opening Up by Lauren Dane is 99c! I love the covers of this entire series. This is the first book in the Ink & Chrome erotic contemporary series. Elyse gave the book an A-:
This book was incredibly sexy and often very funny. It made me duck out on the coworker I was traveling with: “I’d love to go to TGI Fridays with you, but PJ and Asa have a new leather cane they’ve been dying to try out and also I need to know how his weenus piercing feels without a condom, so I’m gonna just head up to my room, ‘kay, thanks.”
I made a bit a snafu at SBTB HQ and asked about a Rec League that we already ran (last September to be exact). But interestingly, we had some different suggestions than the previous time, so why not run it again and include some new, updated titles or ones we may have missed the first time. You can peep the original Rec League request from author Maria Vale here! Sarah: It has been far too … Continue reading The Rec League: More Environmentalists
Welcome back, everyone! How are we all doing? I can feel the seasonal depression kicking in, so I had a whole day over the weekend to just really chill. My partner handled all the decision-making for the day, got me settled in a blanket nest on the couch, and surprised me with a copy of Luigi’s Mansion 3 on the Switch. Anyone else feeling the SAD pangs yet? … Sarah shared this link with me and now … Continue reading Links: Recommendations, Nalini Singh, & More
Love in Color by Bolu Babalola is $1.99! This was a previous Hide Your Wallet mention and is a collection of short romances that reimagine myths and folklore. Have you picked this one up? One of my friends says it’s a quick read.
This guest review is from Aidee. Aidee recently graduated from law school, where romance novels provided a much needed break from reading court opinions. She started reading romance in high school, but isn’t quite sure which was her first romance read—Jean M. Auel, Fern Michaels, or something that she has completely forgotten by now. She loves reading, writing, chocolate, tea, and listening to music, although not necessarily in that order. The books she keeps thinking … Continue reading Guest Review: Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews
