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We have a super special edition of Cover Snark! On this week’s podcast, we did a live snarking of a couple covers. We also wanted to extend to option to snark to the rest of the reviewers. Elyse: I’m getting a Flowers in the Attic vibe from the first one Tara: Where are that zookeeper’s clothes? Shana: That dude has a hedgehog on his … Continue reading Cover Snark: Bonus Edition
Lisa from Shrewsbury sent us an email and two contenders for Cover Snark – so we did Cover Snark live! Check the show notes for a link to the covers, and tell us what you notice first! Happy belated birthday Lisa! Thank you for the wild thumbs and the shifter bonanza! Are you ready for the covers Lisa sent us? I hope so! If you liked this episode, let me know! In the comments, via … Continue reading 511. Cover Snark Live: Long Thumbs and Shifter Mayhem with Amanda
RECOMMENDED: London Celebrities Collection by Lucy Parker is $2.99! Thank you to everyone who let us know about this one. This set collections 3 contemporary romances. Sarah loves this series and you can catch her reviews here:
This Rec League comes from longtime commenter, Kris Bock on Shana’s Greener Pastures review. Thanks, Kris! “It’s built for bedtime reading; sweet enough to give you happy dreams, and quiet enough to let you fall asleep easily.” I feel like this could be a whole marketable category of books. Sarah: Mmmm sleepytime books. A Psalm for the Wild Built, though it has some emotional moments, is very soothing for bedtime reading. I also often re-read … Continue reading The Rec League: Bedtime Books
Welcome back to Wednesday Links! How have you all been?! The allergies have finally hit. They’ve hit so hard that I was in tears because of the sinus pressure and spent most of Monday night in a dark room with a compress over my eyes, breathing out of my mouth, listening to podcasts. My partner stepped in to cook dinner and be a lovely caretaker that night. They were very supportive of my wallowing. We’re … Continue reading Links: Emma Thompson, Our Flag Means Death, & More
Island Affair by Priscilla Oliveras is 99c! Oliveras was part of my contemporary romance panel for a previous Bookstore Romance Day, and she was a damn delight. Trigger warning for this one as I believe the heroine is in recovery for disordered eating.
Crystal Anne With An E comes to us from a sunny clime, though she is an indoor cat that prefers to remain pale. She is an autism consultant by day, and recently completed a degree in information science, mostly because she could and it was fun. She likes to read (obviously), watch TV while cross-stitching something geeky, play video games, beg her plants not to die in the hell heat of summer, and walk while … Continue reading Star Wars: The Fallen Star by Claudia Gray
RECOMMENDED: Rebel by Beverly Jenkins is $1.99! Claudia wrote a guest review for this one before coming onboard. She gave it a B+:
One of the greatest joys of reading this book was seeing Val reconnecting with her inner hellion, and starting to believe she too could experience a great love.
This HaBO comes from Aly, who is hoping to find this romance: I cross-posted this on r/whatsthatbook as well but I’m just hoping to find an answer! I remember reading this book while I was in junior high or high school, so about 2008-2012. I don’t believe it was terribly old at that time but I can’t be sure because my friend and I used to borrow from her grandma’s romance stash. Her grandma worked … Continue reading HaBO: He Carves Her Nativity Figurines
Wild and Wicked Things is a fantasy novel of magic and mayhem on fictional Crow Island, where a group of young people throw endless, Gatsby-esque parties in the aftermath of WWI and practice illegal magic. I loved the imagery and the portrayal of the English side of the Lost Generation – the parties are equally beautiful and hollow, tainted by grief and cynicism. However, I found the book to be maddeningly repetitive and the characters … Continue reading Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle is $2.99! This contemporary romance was featured in a previous Hide Your Wallet by both Aarya and Catherine. I’ve heard good things about this one from fellow romance readers, though some did find the barbs the leads throw at one another to be particularly mean at times.
