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This HaBO is from Amy and she’s looking for this fantasy novel: I’ve read this fantasy book but I just can’t remember it’s name. It’s the first book in a trilogy, too. The book stars a woman who’s a painter. She pained six people, including herself, to save the world. She is the seer and her romantic partner is a guy who can shoot lighting. Baffled, but believed it is a sign that she should … Continue reading HaBO: Heroine Paints People Destined to Save the World →
RECOMMENDED: A Queen from the North by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese is $2.99! This book was recently recommended to Redheadedgirl and she loved it, giving it a B+ grade:
I liked this a LOT. I liked the world building, and I liked Amelia. I liked how her initial reaction to Arthur’s proposal that they consider this level of political marriage was, “So… I’d be the first Yorkist to sit the throne since Richard III and I could actually create positive change for my people? I can’t say NO, can I? Of course I’ll think about it.”
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Help A Bitch Out - SOLVED!
This HaBO comes to us from Cindy, who hopes to find this particular romance: It’s historical. The main character is a witch. She isn’t very good at being a witch. She is Irish, I think. She casts a spell and is transported to someplace else. I don’t remember where. In the meantime, there is a duke who needs to find a wife and his friends tell him to marry the first woman he looks at … Continue reading HaBO: Climax Produces a Shower of Flowers →
I want to sit down with Michael W. Twitty and talk food with him for about a million hours. Twitty is a food historian who specializes in American antebellum slave cookery – what slaves were cooking and eating during the period of American Slavery from 1619 to 1865. He is especially interested in the evolution of slave cookery to “Southern Cooking” and how the introduction of food and techniques from Africa through the forced migration … Continue reading The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty →
READER RECOMMENDED: The Vixen and the Vet by Katy Regnery is $2.99 at Amazon! This contemporary romance was previously nominated for a RITA® in the Long Contemporary category and is a Beauty & the Beast retelling. During the RITA® Reader Challenge, Reader Erica gave the book a B:
I really did enjoy the hell out of this book. I really did. I loved Asher. I liked Savannah, I felt like she and I would be buddies. I was rooting for them together and I fully believe in this happily-ever-after (*cough* even though it happens too quickly *cough*), and I’m sure out there in this fictional world, they are together and doing good things. This was not a magic hoo-ha cures your PTSD story, and for that I am grateful.
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The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember is a f/f retelling of The Little Mermaid wherein the little mermaid falls in love with a Viking shield maiden. I bet a whole bunch of you just one-clicked, didn’t you? It works really amazingly as a feminist retelling of a beloved fairytale, and it’s rich in detail about what mermaid life would be like, but purely as a romance, the heroines spend too much time apart to be … Continue reading The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember →
This edition of Cover Awe is all about acceptable abs and man-titty! What covers get it right for us? Here are a handful of some A+ examples! Sarah: I really like this because he’s big and strong but also has chest hair and no discernible ab pattern. He broadcasts a different kind of strength – which fit the character. Amanda: YOU PROMISED CHEST HAIR AND I SEE NONE! Sarah: Right here: Sarah: I may be … Continue reading Cover Awe: Manchests →
RECOMMENDED: The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and it’s being price-matched! Kearsley is a wonderfully evocative writer, blending historical, paranormal, mystery and romance into rich and absorbing books. However, others felt this isn’t one of Kearsley’s strongest works. Have you read this one?
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We’re utilizing the Lightning Reviews a little differently this week and introducing the Smart Bitch Pull List, which consists of nothing but comic reviews. Typically, these are single issues and would be incredibly difficult to write a lengthy, standard review for. We hope you enjoy these three and we hope to have some more in the future!
Based on a Russian novella, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, this movie takes a bunch of tropes that we know and love in Romancelandia, turns them inside out, and then takes them to a (semi) logical conclusion. We are familiar with the coupling that starts off with the bride essentially being bought because she comes with a chunk of land, and we’ve seen heroines married to someone who’s got a weird dominant vibe. What we don’t … Continue reading Movie Review: Lady Macbeth →
Princess Princess is an adorable graphic novel for children and adults. You can read the whole thing in about ten minutes so it’s like a little chocolate truffle. This is the story of two princesses, Sadie and Amira. Amira travels the land performing heroic deeds with the help of her unicorn, Cookie. She rescues Sadie from a tower with help from Cookie and Sadie’s very small dragon, Oliver. In the course of the story, the … Continue reading Princess Princess Ever After by Katie O’Neill →
