Hide Your Wallet is back! This is where we discuss all of the new releases we are so ready to buy this month. While we’ve picked our favorites down below, here are a few other options you might have preordered or put on hold at your library: Sarah MacLean begins a new series with Wicked and the Wallflower . Another new series kicks off with The Start of Something Good by Jennifer Probst . A Thousand Beginnings and Endings is … Continue reading June’s New Releases →
This week I’m chatting with author Lucy Parker, who wrote some of my recent favorite contemporary romances (you might have heard me talk about Act Like It once or twice?). She’s just signed a new contract for new books in this series, so of course I ask for details. I also came to this interview armed with questions from the Patreon community, and their questions are terrific. We also talk a lot about her newest … Continue reading 301. Making Up Stories With Theatrical Inspiration : An Interview with Lucy Parker →
Elyse: I recently DNF’d a slew of books due to totally repulsive behavior on the hero’s part, so of course I ranted at Sarah about it. Sarah: And I’m always here for ranting about books. Squeeing, too, but also ranting. Elyse: I’m so tired of the sex-entitled hero who sees every person to whom he might be attracted as a potential location for his peen. You know the guy I’m talking about, right? Sarah: Yup. … Continue reading We Are Not Here For Boner Led Heroes →
The Widows of Malabar Hill is a mystery set in Bombay, India in 1921. It’s not a romance. Romance does not go well for the main characters. However, it’s a very good female-centered historical mystery. The story takes place before Independence and before Partition, during a period when the Indian independence movement was gaining traction. The sense of rapid social change on many levels pervades the novel. The story follows two plotlines. In 1921, Perveen, … Continue reading The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey →
Happy Hump Day! It’s Wednesday and that’s the day where we talk about good things on the internet. My brain is all over the place since I’m getting ready to attend Book Expo America and BookCon in New York this weekend. … Love the horror genre and want to read more diverse voices in horror? Then check out this Kickstarter for Malaise, a horror anthology. I’ve had great luck backing books on Kickstarter and have … Continue reading Links: Plus-Size Fashion, Anne Boleyn, & More →
RECOMMENDED: The Thing About Love by Julie James is $1.99! Big thank you to everyone who let us know about this sale. Sarah loved this one and gave it an A-:
I spent one weekend reading The Thing About Love, and it was so enjoyable and so much fun that knowing that I still had more of it to read left me in the best mood. It lifted my entire weekend, and when people ask me about it, I grin and wave my hands around and make Good Book Noise® (and then those people probably regret asking me).
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NB: If you’re in the market for a fun contemporary romance, check out this guest review of Feud by Sally Kilpatrick! Kilpatrick hails from the rural South and still remembers the magic of the Book Mobile. While she’ll read anything from eighteenth century literature to the back of cereal boxes, she has a special place in her heart for romance. That love affair began when she graduated from Nancy Drew to filching her mother’s Harlequins … Continue reading Guest Review: Feud by Phyllis Bourne →
This HaBO comes from Christine, who is looking for a romantic suspense series. Content warning for the descriptions below: This has been driving me crazy this week! Here’s what I remember: I read these two books, which are part of a multi-book series about women connected to a forensic science lab in the Midwest (I think). I read them in ebook format within the last five years, I would guess. In the first book, the … Continue reading HaBO: Forensic Lab Series in the Midwest →
RECOMMENDED: A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn is $2.99! This is a historical mystery and Sarah really enjoyed it. She also immediately read the second one (which is also on sale!) after finishing the first. Here’s what she said:
I read A Curious Beginning with an I-cannot-put-this-down enthusiasm and devoured it very quickly. I relished both the characters and the mystery. The Veronica Speedwell series is excellent and intelligent fun, and while the second isn’t quite as satisfying as the first, I heartily recommend them both.
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Help A Bitch Out - SOLVED!
This HaBO request is from Mari and she’s looking for this contemporary romance: I remember so many details about this book; it’s driving me crazy, especially as a librarian, that I can’t find it. It’s a contemporary set in Alaska. The hero is sent there by his brother (who I think works for a private security firm) to stay with a reclusive woman. I think she’s a veteran and knows the brother. She’s inventive about … Continue reading HaBO: Hero Stays with Reclusive Heroine in Alaska →
