If you like audiobooks and have some long summer travel ahead of you, we’ve put together a recommendation list with the help of the folks at Libro.fm: SBTB’s Summer Travel Audiobook Recs! We’ve got nonfiction, romance (of course) of many subgenres, plus science fiction, fantasy, YA, and mysteries. I particularly liked Marple, the anthology of twelve new mysteries about Miss Marple, all narrated by different experts like Adjoa Andoh, Alex Kingston, and Alison Steadman. But whatever you’re … Continue reading Summer Travel Audiobook Recs at Libro.fm! →
In this week’s podcast episode, we’re looking at the book reviews for the April 2006 issue of Romantic Times, aka RT Book Club. Every time we do one of these recaps, the masthead has a 65% chance of being different. It keeps us on our toes! Special and massive thanks to Kay Layton Sisk for sending me this issue! You can also find all the RTRW content at our category page for Romantic Times Rewind. And, … Continue reading Romantic Times Rewind: April 2006 Reviews →
Cozy up with six Regency and Victorian stories from six beloved, bestselling authors—Jennifer Ashley, Kerrigan Byrne, Darcy Burke, Christi Caldwell, Tanya Anne Crosby and Erica Ridley. A Rogue Meets a Scandalous Lady by Jennifer Ashley David Fleming, Hart Mackenzie’s right-hand man, seeks refuge with his vicar friend in Shropshire, only to find that the vicar’s beautiful niece, Sophie, is seeking refuge as well. Tongues are wagging all over London about Sophie, and she finds that … Continue reading Dukes for Dessert →
Welcome to Part II of our Heaving Bosoms Crossover! Some of our most popular episodes in our archive are our crossovers with Heaving Bosoms, and we have a new one for you! If you tuned in to , you’ll know that we are discussing and recapping The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley. Originally published in 2009, this book inspired So Much Discussion when it was first published. You can find part one … Continue reading 550. Heaving Bosoms Crossover, Part II: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie →
From six beloved writers—Jennifer Ashley, Anna Bradley, Grace Burrowes, Kerrigan Byrne, Christi Caldwell and Tanya Anne Crosby—come six Christmas stories that will warm up your holiday, and put a twinkle in your eyes. A First-Footer for Lady Jane by Jennifer Ashley When Grandfather MacDonald predicts Lady Jane will marry this year’s First-Footer–the first guest into the house on Hogmanay—she dismisses the notion. Her childhood sweetheart is fighting on the Peninsula, and she can’t imagine marrying anyone … Continue reading Duke the Halls →
I’ve written many times about how bad I am at keeping up with serialized stories. Episodic television (especially shows that continue on in perpetuity) and long-running book series have been very difficult for me to keep up with. This is partially because my memory is so weird that I will forget whole entire groups of characters but remember tiny moments of a character pulling burned fabric roses out of his pocket or something. Whenever I … Continue reading So Maybe I Was Wrong About Me and Book Series →
Time again for one of the most challenging recommendation features we have: READY, SET, GO! Here are the rules: We pick a specific sub-genre, trope, or type of romance, and we have to make ONE recommendation for that type. And no more than two sentences as to why. Just One. And our theme this month? It’s Thanksgiving in the US today, a complicated day that in the beforetimes might have been filled with complicated family … Continue reading Ready Set Go: Best Food P0rn Romance →
We are closing out September with our second Whatcha Reading of the month! So ready for spooky season already. Carrie: In War and Peace, Russia and France are lining up to fight each other and bickering amongst the leaders is dull. Accurately dull, and appropriately scathing, but I am bored. I just finished Mexican Gothic and it was WONDERFUL. Claudia: I’m almost caught up with the Kat Holloway Mysteries series by Jennifer Ashley and also … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? September 2020, Part Two →
Time again for our most eeeeevil recommendation feature we have: READY, SET, GO! Here are the rules: We pick a specific sub-genre, trope, or type of romance, and we have to make ONE recommendation for that type. And no more than two sentences as to why. Except this month, we’re giving you a break – you get two! We’re looking for books that you’d pair together as a book version of a double feature. What … Continue reading Ready Set Go: Romance Double Feature! →
A DUKE FOR ALL SEASONS! What’s better than a dashing duke? A dozen of them! In this case, a baker’s dozen—thirteen of your favorite historical romance authors have come together to bring you more than a dozen tantalizing novellas, with one per month, for a year’s worth of never-before-released romances. January – Duke in Winter by Alyssa Alexander — When the highwayman demanded that the Duke of Highrow stand and deliver, he didn’t know she … Continue reading Dukes by the Dozen →
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This HaBO was sent in by Wizard Karate, who is hoping to find this historical romance: I’m copy-pasting a request I posted on r/romancebooks yesterday and someone suggested I should try this site. The book I can’t remember is an historical romance I read a couple of years ago… So the plot goes something like this: Heroine is married to an evil man (duh) but she feels attracted to their mansion’s gardener, the hero of … Continue reading HaBO: Historical Heroine in Love with the Gardener →
