Amanda has discovered some hidden gems during her first year of home ownership.
This HaBO is from Maggie, who wants to find a book from a few decades ago: I have been looking for this book for years and no amount of googling has managed to unearth it so I thought I would turn to the experts as a last shot. I am fairly certain it was by an English author and from the 80’s. The heroine is an English girl who is half Italian (I think her … Continue reading HaBO: Heroine Falls into Venetian Canal
Bedmates by Nichole Chase is $1.99! I talked about this book in October 2016’s Hide Your Wallet and it’s an enemies to friends to lovers romance. Readers say this romance is definitely on the sweeter side of new adult, so if you’re looking for a lot of angst, this book isn’t for you.
This HaBO comes to us from Lex, who is searching for a contemporary romance or chick lit novel: I recently remembered a book I read on holiday around 7/8 years ago (around 2010?) but I can’t think of anything beyond the cover and a few plot details – I can’t even ask my mum (who also read it) because I was reading it in secret! I remember that the cover was a light blue/green, and … Continue reading HaBO: Blonde Cover Model in a Purple Dress
The past month has been kind of rough in terms of the number of books I’ve DNF’d. I’ve put down two brand-new historicals in a week, so while I wasn’t thrilled with The Laird Takes a Bride, I was determined to power through it just to finish something. The problem with The Laird Takes a Bride is that it’s an incredibly uneven novel. The first half of the book is frustrating, and while it improved considerably by … Continue reading The Laird Takes a Bride by Lisa Berne
Cinder by Marissa Meyer is $2.99! It’s a Kindle Daily Deal today and is being price-matched. This is the first book in the Lunar Chronicles series. Set in New Beijing, a fictional world of the future, Cinder is influenced by several fairy tales, so if you’re a sucker for retellings, you may want to give this is a try. The first book does end on a cliffhanger, but the next one is on sale! The original, scifi setting really shines according to readers, though the “plot twists” are a little predictable. It has a 4.1-star rating on GoodReads.
The elevator pitch for this book is “Pacific Rim meets a K-Drama” which is basically the greatest elevator pitch ever. I saw it on Twitter and one clicked so hard I think I sprained my thumb and my phone said “OW!” In the year 2199, there’s been a series of global wars that united the Korean peninsula and upended the global map. Because a population of a country at war is a population that is … Continue reading Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh
It’s time for Cover Snark, where we take a look at some unsettling covers in an effort to make your Mondays a little better! From Delight: I don’t know if this particular…oddity, has been featured before but I received it in a newsletter and I just couldn’t deal. I couldn’t. His face is green. He looks like he tried a weird shade of foundation that he failed to blend. And why is he looking at … Continue reading Cover Snark: The Next Marvel Superhero
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo is $2.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble! A YA fantasy romance filled with Russian elements, Elyse just mentioned this on our 200th podcast episode. It’s the first book in Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy. While readers loved the engaging characters and interesting storyline, most felt the author was in the habit of telling rather than showing. It has a 4-star rating on GR. Has anyone read this?
If you are pining for 1980s tribute fare like Stranger Things, and you love books that focus on friendships between women, and you can tolerate some gross content, then I highly recommend My Best Friend’s Exorcism. It is not a romance, but it does have a great, though platonic, love story between two teenage girls who battle occult forces in 1988. And yes, the paperback cover is a perfect facsimile of a beat-up VHS tape. … Continue reading My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
At the end of the summer, of my best friends went to Colonial Williamsburg for some teacher something something retreat something thing. That’s not important. What is important is that she picked up the cookbook of recipes from the Raleigh Tavern Bakery, and as I flipped through it, I happened on a recipe for Sally Lunns. Now wait a second, says I. Isn’t that the name of those Bath Buns that are, like, super well … Continue reading RedHeadedGirl’s Historical Kitchen: Sally Lunns
