Amanda has discovered some hidden gems during her first year of home ownership.
New Rec League is on deck! This one is right up my alley and I can’t wait to see what the Bitchery suggests. Big thanks to Mara for sending us this request: I just finished Tamara Morgan’s Stealing Mr. Right, and while I loved it, it left me a little frustrated. I loved the hero and heroine, but I didn’t love how the hero seemed to always be one step ahead. It reminded me of … Continue reading The Rec League: Outsmarted Alphas
It’s 2018! And boy howdy, it’s already gotten pretty weird. But, let’s just hope it’s all a little hiccup and that the year morphs from an awkward caterpillar to the beautiful, kickass butterfly it was destined to be! … Tired of Star Wars stuff yet? That was a trick question because obviously the answer is no. The Real McGee at Tumblr has reimagined Star Wars characters in the Regency era. What I wouldn’t give to … Continue reading Links: More Star Wars, Athlete Heroines, & More
In His Hands by Adriana Anders is $1.99! This is book three in the Blank Canvas series and I highly recommend the entire series. The books are on the darker side (content warning themes of abuse, isolation, violence), but Anders does a great job with slow burn romances. And, if you want all of the books, the first and second book are 99c each!
Reading Roomies was a bizarre experience. I had two reactions simultaneously. One was great enjoyment in a lovely romance with great characters and dialogue and a comforting fairy tale atmosphere. The other was of pure, blinding rage brought on by the political and social issues that currently crowd my brain. The clearest way to describe these two reviews, which are at odds with one another, is to imagine viewing them through a zoom lens. For … Continue reading Roomies by Christina Lauren
This HaBO request comes from Stacey and is looking for a time travel romance: I’m trying to remember a book I read a few years ago, probably in early 2000. All I can remember is the heroine time travels from an Old West town to when it was alive. She meets the hero who has a kid; a daughter I think. I remember a porch swing scene. I think she was visiting the ghost town, … Continue reading HaBO: Old West Time Travel
RECOMMENDED: Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai is $1.99! Big thank you to everyone who let us know about this sale. This angsty contemporary romance has been recommended on several podcast episodes and received an A grade from Redheadedgirl:
This is the book that I was most excited to get at RT. When people saw that it was out in the wild, the most inhuman noises were made, and it was worth all of those noises.
ALL OF THEM.
So much angst. So much pathos. EVERYTHING HAPPENS SO MUCH.
This HaBO request is from Katie Lynn, who is looking for a historical romance read on her Kindle: I am looking for a historical novel, set in England. The hero is known as a rake, but in actuality he is pretending to ruin women to help them get out of arranged marriages. I think this was a point of contention between the hero and the heroine, as the heroine believes the hero’s rakish behavior until … Continue reading HaBO: Hero “Ruins” Women to Escape Arranged Marriages
It’s a new year, and time for a new season of The Bachelor. This season features a past Bachelorette loser: Arie Luyendyk, Jr. Arie is a racecar driver and describes this season as his most “important race yet.” IT’S NOT A RACE, ARIE, IT’S A JOURNEY! Once again I contend that this show is not really about “the Bachelor” but about amazing women forming friendships while traveling and drinking and spending ABC’s money. And I’m 100% here … Continue reading Elyse Watches The Bachelor – Episode One: Four Laurens
RECOMMENDED: The Unleashing by Shelly Laurenston is $1.99! Sarah squeed about this so hard at a previous RT and she really loves the entire series. And she did a little drive by squee during a review for the second book, The Undoing:
Feared Viking blacksmith (of sorts) in the Raven clan has a massive crush on a former Marine who is reborn as a Crow. (Bonus: Ravens giving him shit about his crush, and his ability to admit easily that he really likes her: ALL the thumbs, all of them up.)
We’ve got romances and we’d like to share them! What do you get if you win? A box full of books! And we have five boxes to give away! We can promise they are new, unread, and printed on paper. We can also promise there will be at least five books, possibly more, in the box. There may be a mix of formats and sub-genres, but most if not all will be romance or with … Continue reading New Year, New Books? A Grab Bag Giveaway
