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Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews is 99c at Amazon! It’s a Kindle Daily Deal and isn’t being price-matched. We featured this on sale two months ago, so if you missed out then, grab it now! This is the first book in a new series by Andrews and features a hero who was a bit of a villain in the Kate Daniels series.
Salty, Bitter Sweet is more of a coming-of-age story than a romance, although romance plays a large part. This story involves a self-absorbed and privileged narrator and is told in first-person-present-tense. It also involves food, women learning to support each other in a male-dominated field, and a multicultural group of characters. Also a dog. So . . . kind of a mixed bag. Our story revolves around Isabella Fields, an American seventeen-year old who has … Continue reading Salty, Bitter, Sweet by Mayra Cuevas
This HaBO comes from Luz, who is looking for this historical romance: This is a historical romance book that I read before the year 2012. It starts off with the hero and heroine in love, young and engaged. (19/21 years of age) They are already having sexual encounters. They have a place they meet up at on his estate. Heroine goes there waiting for him, but then a worker from the estate comes on to … Continue reading HaBO: Closet Scene & a Scheming Mom
The Darkling Bride by Laura Andersen is $1.99! This is a Gothic mystery set in Ireland with ghosts and crumbling estates. Elyse read this one and wound up giving it a C. She loved the plot setup, but was iffy on its execution.
This HaBO is from Susan, who is trying to remember this historical romance: I’ve been racking my brain trying to remember a historical romance I read about five years ago. The hero was a duke or earl and he (I think) was inheriting an estate that required him, for some reason, to marry this girl. She was the daughter or granddaughter of the gentleman who had died and left the estate to this duke/earl. The … Continue reading HaBO: Black Pearl Necklace Faux Pas
Content warning: Lockdown situation at a high school, emotionally absent/neglectful parents. Also, the main characters are professional athletes and talk/think about food and nutrition in a way that might be triggering for people with eating disorders. The thing that happens when you follow certain romance authors on Twitter for a while is that you find yourself slowly becoming obsessed with figure skating. This is a rather disappointing obsession to have in Australia, where the ISU … Continue reading Every Reason We Shouldn’t by Sara Fujimara
RECOMMENDED: Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton is $2.99! Carrie gave this one an A-, but warns it’s definitely not a romance. Definitely skim her review to see if this book is right for you:
This book broke my heart but it also made me so happy.
After Poppy’s beautiful “That Moment When…” post, A Handy Guide for Choosing Your Institute of Magical Education, LiteraryCharlie’s Angels, and Eleanor Oliphant Wasn’t Completely Fine, and Neither Are Many of Us art essays, we are so excited to have another post from her! Poppy is a long-time fan of SBTB and loves cats, books and coffee, in that order. She illustrates The Loo Cats, an imaginative series starring her rescue cats in the most fantastical, improbable … Continue reading Poppy Post: Awesome Non-Human Sidekicks in Books
RECOMMENDED: The Governess Game by Tessa Dare is $3.99! This is the second book in the Girl Meets Duke series. Elyse gave this one a perfect grade, an A:
It’s one of the best, if not the best, book I’ve read this year and it was worth all the hours I spent reading that should have been spent sleeping.
After reading a slew of perfectly adequate but largely forgettable romances lately, reading The Lord I Left was a nice, trope-tastic surprise. Granted, I’d sign up for pretty much any story featuring a snowy road trip, but I got a lot more than that by the end of this book. Henry Evesham, Methodist preacher, former editor of a “evangelical news rag,” and a Lord Lieutenant tasked with investigating London’s sex trade, is saying his goodbyes … Continue reading The Lord I Left by Scarlett Peckham
