This HaBO is from Jill-Marie, who wants to track down this romance: Please, bitches, you’re my only hope! This book has to be from the 1980s, was most likely a Harlequin or Silhouette. Main theme: Quiet/shy/etc. heroine is pressed into switching places with her model cousin (??), who has a contract to do (racy, for the time) PR photos with a football team (real football, not what’s popular here in the US, LOL), but can’t/doesn’t … Continue reading HaBO: She Switches Identities with Her Model Cousin →
Welcome back! We’re quickly approaching the end of the month. There are a couple books with historical settings (romance, fantasy, and horror). Of course, there are also always contemporaries on the list. Which new releases are you excited for? Let us know in the comments!
The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava is $2.99! Carrie read this one and gave it a B-:
Overall, this is a fun screwball comedy. I really enjoyed the representation of a Chickasaw woman and the barriers she faces to improving her life. As exasperated as I constantly was with Ember, I wanted her to thrive as the smart, hard-working woman that she clearly is, and for the most part I was happy with how her story was resolved.
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This is my first Bad Decisions Book Club of 2025. Sleep became a distant memory with this book. For context, I have a newborn. I had the opportunity to sleep, but chose not to because this book was much more important. It is also the start of a series and it’s a series I’m now very excited about! Euphemia Flite was raised in a school for girls on the outskirts of Victorian London. Her origins … Continue reading Rules for Ruin by Mimi Matthews →
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- My Season of Scandal by Julie Anne Long Amazon | B&N | Kobo
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Book Beat aims to highlight other books that we may hear about through friends, social media, or other sources. We could see a gorgeous ad! Or find a new-to-us author on a list of underrated romances! Think of Book Beat as Teen Beat or Tiger Beat, but for books. And no staples to open to get the fold-out poster.
IT’S HERE! IT’S HERE! Today is the premiere of the first two episodes of Murderbot on Apple+. Which I had to subscribe to again because I was increasingly delighted with every trailer, interview, clip, and still I saw during the promo period. The first two episodes arrive today, May 16, and then one per week until July 11. I’m really excited about the weekly episodes, because I am not good at Big Gulp Watching where … Continue reading Shall We Discuss Murderbot? →
The Lie and the Lady by Kate Noble is $1.99! This is the second book in the Winner Takes All series, but it can be read as a standalone. Some readers were on the fence about the heroine’s fortune-hunting personality, but others suggest being patient with the book and the characters will eventually win you over. Have you read this one?
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Discovering Nicola is the third installment in the series and it can be read as a standalone. I know this because I didn’t read the first book, Meeting Millie, and I have perimenopause brain, so I don’t remember any of the finer details of Tempting Olivia, even though it was one of my top reads of 2024. The story starts months after Geeta Sachdeva’s left her husband, because she was desperately lonely as an empty … Continue reading Discovering Nicola by Clare Ashton →
