NB: This week, we’re taking a look back at 2024. We’ve got a week of best-of posts to share, with reviews, cover snark, sales, and more. We hope you enjoy revisiting our archives, and most of all, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday and a happy new year – with all the very best of reading. … We’re counting down the best of our 2024 reviews, which I’m sure you’re all curious about. … Continue reading Best of Reviews 2024, Part Two →

Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey is $1.99! This is book two in the Bellinger Sisters series and is a friends to lovers romance. Are you a fan of this series?
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Tonight is Christmas Day and the first night of Hanukkah. Get ready, we’re going into the new year with candles and jelly donuts and latkes and it’s going to be a party! Traditionally, I do giveaways for each night of Hanukkah, but this year, I want to do something different: care packages! Yup, we’re sending you a care package just in time for the beginning of 2025. First: my Hanukkah wishes for you tonight and for … Continue reading Hanukkah 2024: Care Packages! →
NB: This week, we’re taking a look back at 2024. We’ve got a week of best-of posts to share, with reviews, cover snark, sales, and more. We hope you enjoy revisiting our archives, and most of all, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday and a happy new year – with all the very best of reading. … We’re counting down the best of our 2024 reviews, which I’m sure you’re all curious about. … Continue reading Best of Reviews 2024, Part One →

RECOMMENDED: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert is $1.99! Kiki really loved this one and gave it an A:
Get a Life, Chloe Brown saw my expectations’ proffered hand and kissed it gently, and then proceeded to charm their pants off. In a tent. With s’mores. (Not with s’mores, because s’mores apparently are not a thing in the UK.) This metaphor got away from me, but you get the idea. This book is outstanding.
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NB: This week, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite and our most popular pieces of writing this year. We’ve got a week of best-of posts to share, with reviews, cover snark, and more. We hope you enjoy revisiting our archives, and most of all, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday and a happy new year – with all the very best of reading. … Since we feature other things … Continue reading Best of Posts 2024 →

RECCOMENDED: The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman is $1.99! Lara previously squeed about this one:
Honestly, writing this review has been so challenging, because I just want to scream ‘nuance’, ‘depth’ and ‘originality’.
Oh, and most of all, ‘Please read it so I can talk to you about it!’
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This guest review comes from Lisa! A longtime romance aficionado and frequent commenter to SBTB, Lisa is a queer Latine critic with a sharp tongue and lots of opinions. She frequently reviews at All About Romance and Women Write About Comics, where she’s on staff, and you can catch her at _@thatbouviergirl on Twitter. There, she shares good reviews, bracing industry opinions and thoughtful commentary when she’s not on her grind looking for the next … Continue reading The Nightmare Before Kissmas →
NB: This week, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite and our most popular pieces of writing this year. We’ve got a week of best-of posts to share, with reviews, cover snark, and more. We hope you enjoy revisiting our archives, and most of all, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday and a happy new year – with all the very best of reading. … Say hello to the top … Continue reading Cover Snark: Best of 2024 →

Welcome back, everyone! We have reached eighty editions of Get Rec’d! Can you believe it? This is the last one before the new year and leans more toward non-fiction. I feel like this is the place where I get to pass along all the non-romance recommendations I keep in my back pocket. Did you get any good recommendations lately? Do you have a favorite recommendation of the year?