Help A Bitch Out - SOLVED!
This HaBO request is from Elizabeth, who wants to find this historical romance: I’m looking for a historical romance where the heroine has seizures. The hero’s brother had seizures and died. She is a poor relation living with a cousin who abuses her. She meets the hero in a park before he has to go to Paris. They write to each other while he’s gone. He calls her ‘little wren’. When he comes back he … Continue reading HaBO: Heroine is Prone to Seizures →
Duke Darcy’s Castle by Syrie James is $1.99! This is the third Dare to Defy historical romance and I believe we snarked on this a little bit. I haven’t heard James’s books talked about a lot here. Have you read any?
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Help A Bitch Out - SOLVED!
This HaBO comes from J. who wants to find this romance: I’m looking for a romance where the heroine has amnesia. The heroine wakes up in hospital, not knowing last year of her life (during which she met and married the hero), though remembers everything else. The hero is there in the hospital when she wakes up from a car crash, which is being investigated as suspicious. The heroine’s best friend has had a baby … Continue reading HaBO: Second Chance Amnesia Romance →
Jade City by Fonda Lee is $2.99! This adult fantasy novel incredibly violent, according to reviews. But readers loved the world building and threads of mythology weaved into the story. To be honest, the book sounds intense and awesome, and a great follow up if you just watched Shangi Chi.
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I’m doing a new project on the podcast and I’m very excited about it. Starting 15 October 2021, I’ll be recapping the first twenty Sweet Dreams Romances on the podcast. Remember them? They’re vintage YA Romances, and to my knowledge they aren’t available digitally. Big heaping thanks to local used bookstores for helping me with this project! I have some vivid memories of scenes inside these novels, and some equally vivid memories of where I … Continue reading The Sweet Dreams Romance Recap Project →
Hey all! It’s been such a long time since we’ve done a grab bag giveaway and you all deserve some boxes of books. That’s right! I said boxes! Right now, we have six (6) boxes of relatively new releases to give out! The books included are new, finished copies, unread, and printed on paper. We can also promise there will be at least five books, possibly more, in each box. Each box will have a … Continue reading Restful Reading Grab Bag Giveaway! →
How Sweet It Is by Dylann Newton is $1.99! I believe this was Newton’s debut and it release relatively recently. It’s an opposites attract romance between a horror writer and a wedding planner. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this one!
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Welcome to Lightning Reviews! For the uninitiated, this is where we run smaller, more bite-sized reviews of books, usually as a pair or trio. I think the subject line here pretty much says it all. We have a book with mermaids and a book with dragons being reviews. Both are queer and magical.
After the Dragons is a subtle, tender love story set in a near-future Beijing in which dragons are as real as the climate change which has brought drought to the city. Eli, the biracial son of two professors, has come to Beijing as an exchange student, wanting to learn more about the city that his grandmother loved too much to leave, even when faced with a terminal diagnosis. Kai has received the same diagnosis as … Continue reading After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang →
How can it be that it has taken me this long to discover Thirsty Mermaids, the graphic novel by Kat Leyh? This bawdy, body positive, inclusive story is my new favorite, and I’ve been reading a lot of mermaid stuff recently so that’s saying a LOT. When mermaids Pearl, Tooth, and Eez decide to use magic to become human, they only plan to be human for long enough to get some booze. But once Eez … Continue reading Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh →
The Queen’s Bargain by Anne Bishop is $1.99! This book was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet and is part of the Black Jewels series. I didn’t keep up with the series as a whole, so I’m unsure how this fits in. I think it focuses on secondary characters now, but correct me I’m wrong?
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