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Hide Your Wallet

Hide Your Wallet: January 7th Release Week!

It’s our first Hide Your Wallet of 2025! Sound the trumpets and throw the confetti. It’s a petite start to the month but then it really picks up. Is it the same for you? What books are you excited to get your hands on this week? Is 2025 looking like a good year for your TBR pile? Let us know in the comments!

Contemporary Romance Color of the Year: Green?

Contemporary Romance Color of the Year with six swatches in green, peach, fuchsia, lavender, blue and yellow

I’ve decided to take a really good look at the Contemporary Romance Colors that are most prevalent on covers this year and attempt to identify what is the CR-COTY, the Contemporary Romance Color of the Year.  Sidenote: did you know I’m not technically supposed to name things? I’m not good at it. If “CR-COTY” is making your eyelids twitch, I am also responsible for the name DABWAHA, the bracket tournament of romance we used to … Continue reading Contemporary Romance Color of the Year: Green?

Books On Sale

Road Trips, Historical Romances, & More

Books on Sale: Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron & More

RECOMMENDED: Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron is $2.49! This was mentioned on a previous podcast and a previous Whatcha Reading. The second book of Aaron’s we’ve featured this week and the comments had good things to say about Aaron’s storytelling. Sarah loved this book:

Nice Dragons Finish Last is fast-moving fantasy adventure with outstanding worldbuilding. It’s an experience to read.

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Witches, a Classic, & More

Books on Sale: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters & More

RECOMMENDED: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters is $3.99 at Amazon! This is book one in The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series, which I remember Sarah enjoying. Here’s what she said:

This book and the next few books of the series got me through the scariest parts of early Quarantimes.

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Books On Sale

Wolves, Billionaires, & More

Books on Sale: Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron & More

RECOMMENDED: Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron is $2.99! Kiki reviewed this one and gave it an A-:

I cannot emphasize enough how hungry this book will make you.

Accidentally Engaged might be my top pick for “don’t read while hungry.” Between our heroine Reena’s bread baking (there’s rye, there’s challah, there’s an ongoing battle with a sourdough starter) and her Indian and East African cooking, I was craving a feast pretty much the whole time I was reading this book.

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Books On Sale

Some of Today’s Kindle Daily Deals

Books on Sale: Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater & More

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater is $2.99! This is book one in the Regency Faerie Tales series and subsequent books in the series were listed in latest Hide Your Wallet. There’s another YA vs. Adult debate for this one as well. I believe there is no sexual content in this one.

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