Valentine’s Day falls on a Wednesday this year. Regardless of if you’re spending it with someone or just treating yourself with love, we at the Pink Palace hope you have a wonderful day! … Big thank you to Kerri who commented on podcast episode 283, which discussed bisexual characters in romance. Kerri manages a database at Library Thing for bisexual characters and there is even a section for romance fiction. Thanks again, Kerri! … Goodreads … Continue reading Links: Lucy Parker, Puppies, & Romance →
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is $2.99! I know Carrie really loves this book (and the entire series, I believe). It’s also a Hugo Award winner! Readers really loved the scifi world building, though some admitted wanting more action in the first book of the Imperial Radch series. This book is a Kindle Daily Deal of scifi and thrillers. Other books included in the deal are The Fifth Season, New York 2140, and more!
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Tempest by Beverly Jenkins is a mail order bride historical romance that’s light on internal conflict but heavy on awesome heroines and world-building. If you want a romance that doesn’t have a ton of emotional angst, but does have a heroine who accidentally (kind of) shoots her intended the first time she meets him, this is all your catnip. It’s also the third book in the Old West series, but can easily be read as a … Continue reading Tempest by Beverly Jenkins →
Some of your have been very interested in the Audible Romance Package and we have a wonderful and thoughtful guest review from Reader Aidee Campa. Aidee has previously made an appearance on the site with her guest review of Ilona Andrews’ Hidden Legacy series! … I have the basic Audible membership, which means I pay $15 a month for one credit. I have personal experience working on audio projects—I’ve used them instead of complex visual … Continue reading Guest Review: Audible’s Romance Package →
This HaBO is from Lauren, who is trying to find a romance that’s lost in her Kindle collection: I’m trying to remember the name/author of a book that I’ve only read a review of, but would like to read. Sadly, I’m also fairly sure that I own it, but I apparently have 1200 books on my Kindle account and it seems impractical to go through all of them. I believe the book came out a … Continue reading HaBO: Homeless Musician Hero →
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis is $1.99! This is a YA, fairy tale-inspired book and it’s the first in the Woodcutter Sisters series. Carrie reviewed the book previously and gave it a B+:
There’s a lot of mutual saving in this book and interestingly they mostly work together to save other people, not each other. I like this couple, I like the story, and I’m even more excited to read the next book, Hero. Each story is supposed to work as a stand alone with a shared work and some shared characters, so I’m excited. I don’t think this book is perfect (it’s really busy and rushed) and I don’t think it’s for everyone (melodrama) but I do think that Alethea has earned her tiara.
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This HaBO comes from Jeannette, who is looking for this fantasy romance. Content warning for self-harm: I read this not long ago, within the last year, but I just can’t find it on my Kindle and I want to re-read it and recommend it. It was a M/M romance in a sword & sorcery setting. It opens with a scholar with a severe case of PTSD (to the point of cutting himself) living alone in … Continue reading HaBO: Sword & Sorcery Style Gay Romance →
I could be watching the Olympics right now, you guys. I could be reading The Princess Trap. I could be updating a fucking Excel spreadsheet for funsies. I could be, but I’m not. I’m watching The Bachelor so you don’t have to. That’s how much I love The Bitchery. For the record, this season’s “hunk,” Arie, is so boring that I’ve adopted a new strategy where I pre-nap the episode. That’s right, I come home, shove … Continue reading Elyse Watches The Bachelor, Episode 7: The Sloth →
As part of our continued efforts to transcribe all the episodes of the podcast in the archives, we have a new transcript: episode 10, from September 2011. Big thanks to Garlic Knitter and to our podcast Patreon supporters who are making this project possible!
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RECOMMENDED: Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen is $2.99! This author became an auto-buy for me after I read this book as a part of a GoodReads reading challenge. I would liken this book to women’s fiction with a magical realism slant. It’s heartwarming and beautiful and has a 4-star rating on GR. I even wrote a Keeper Shelf squee for it; that’s how much I love this book.
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This is described in the cover copy as an “Elizabethan romp” which…is sort of true. It’s a little less rompy than the blurb implies, but it’s full of delightful research tidbits. It’s also a second chance romance (sort of) of two people who figure out that life together is better than life apart, and that sex can be fun. Frances and Henry have been married for ten years, and they have several children together, but … Continue reading Courtly Pleasures by Erin Kane Spock →
