Happy Wednesday! Is anyone else ready for this week to be over? I’m already exhausted from it. Also thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes and happy belated birthday to those who celebrated their own! We’re warming up here in New England and I already miss the fall weather. I feel like spring is probably the hardest for me to dress for in terms of managing layers and rainy weather. I also look much … Continue reading Links: Podcasts, Kickstarters, & More →
The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec is $1.99! Carrie gave this one an A:
I was constantly surprised – sometimes delighted by a surprising event and sometimes heartbroken. The prose was stunning and the protagonist someone I wanted to spend all my time with.
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The Birds of California is a celebrity romance which is totally my jam, but there was a big problem with the book’s ending. Specifically we learn about a trauma the heroine has survived at the very end of the novel, which gave me as a reader no time to process that trauma (even if the heroine already had). There’s no way to review this without being spoilery, so I’ve put more specifics in the spoiler … Continue reading The Birds of California by Katie Cotugno →
RECOMMENDED: The Return by Rachel Harrison is $2.99! Carrie gave this spooky book a B+:
This a scary story because scary things happen (chases and gore and jump scares, oh my!) but it’s a powerful story because it’s really about friendship, truth, and grief. There’s so much powerful emotional and universal truth behind the body horror, and so much woven in commentary on everything from how patriarchy damages women, to how women bond for survival even as they judge one another, to how our college selves change after college ends.
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Help A Bitch Out - SOLVED!
This HaBO comes from Laura, who is looking for this historical romance: I recently (a year ago maybe?) read a book. It was part of a series and I completely lost the name or author. This is what I remember: It is a Regency romance. The heroine fakes her death to escape from her abusive husband (an old lady helps her) and then she creates a group of people that help other abused women escape. … Continue reading HaBO: Historical Where She Fakes Her Own Death →
RECOMMENDED: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots is $1.99! Sarah reviewed this one and gave it an A:
In reading and then re-reading this book, I’ve discovered so many more layers, hidden parallels, and very clever dissections of the fictional world of the characters and of the actual reality that this book resides within. Hench is delicious in its anger and ferocity, chilling in its deadpan snark and arctic clarity of analysis and assessment, and meticulous in its nuance. It’s a villainously wonderful good time.
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While I wouldn’t call Spear a romance novel specifically, it is an amazing, detailed historical novel that includes a f/f romance. This book retells the Percival legend from the King Arthur mythos as a feminist queer fantasy story set in sixth-century Britain with elements of Welsh mythology. Nicola Griffith is known for her meticulous research, as seen in her novel Hild as well as in this story. This research lends Spear a grounded feel that … Continue reading Spear by Nicola Griffith →
Hey y’all! Ready for some Cover Snark? Amanda: …how did he get even half of that shirt on Sarah: Is the dragon’s choice dry clean only? Amanda: maybe he’s stuck and realizes he’s made a terrible mistake Elyse: I’m more concerned about those spikes on his wings. He’s gonna fuck up the paint in every hallway he walks through Knocking pictures of nana and grandpa off the wall…that live, laugh, love sign just crashing to … Continue reading Cover Snark: Mostly Dragons →
RECOMMENDED: Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur is $1.99! Though the book copy mentions both Pride & Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary, though our reviewers mention it’s more like the former than the latter. Aarya and Tara reviewed this one together and gave it an A-:
Tara: This book is so freaking cute, it should be illegal. And luckily, Aarya agrees with me, so we’re talking about it together!
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Hey there! Are we all ready for recommendations? For some background, I talk about books a lot. I love being about to match people with books they’ll enjoy and get to do that on a daily basis. Lately, several of my recommendations have had some sort of mystery or thriller element. Have you given out some awesome book recs? Have you gotten any?
