Welcome back to Cover Awe! The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks Cover design by Donna Sinisgalli Noetzel Amanda: I love how simple and thought the design is with the train border and smoke turning into the title. Sarah: That border is So NEAT. Lara: I’m loving those rich colours too. Sarah: I love these collections of covers. So many pretty details to look at. The simplicity still says so much about … Continue reading Cover Awe: Color Combos →
Death at Morning House is a YA that’s part historical mystery, part haunted house story. I enjoyed it, but I kept getting pulled out of the story because it seemed wildly implausible to me that the kids in the book were as unsupervised as they were. In the present day, Marlowe Wexler is struggling with teenage awkwardness and realizing her own queer identity. When the book opens, she’s house-sitting for a friend of the family … Continue reading Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson →
Happy Tuesday! I wasn’t lying when I said the first week of August was bursting with new releases. We have over a dozen that we’re excited for or might be on your radar. I can’t remember the last time a week had that many selections from us! Are any of these on your TBR pile? What books are you most excited for? Let us know in the comments!
RECOMMENDED: An Unexpected Peril by Deanna Raybourn is $1.99! This is the sixth book in the Veronica Speedwell series and Sarah gave it a B+ in a Lightning Review:
An Unexpected Peril was, as expected, perfect vacation reading.
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An Ex for Christmas by Lauren Layne is $1.99! This is a friends to lovers romance with a hint of some holiday cheer. Readers definitely think this has Hallmark movie potential. I will warn that this romance is from the heroine’s POV and other readers wished to know what the hero was thinking at some points.
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RECOMMENDED: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang is $1.99! I’m not sure this has ever been on sale, so grab this one while you can. We had a wonderful guest squee of this and it was my favorite read of 2018:
I truly loved this book. Loved. It made me feel like a champagne bubble – all fizzy and light. When I think of all the magical feelings romance gives its readers, I will forever think of this book.
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Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson is $2.99! This book released in January and I bought it in a huge YA book haul, though I haven’t gotten to read it yet. Readers love the mystery and the setting, but warn that the ending feels like a cliffhanger. Have you read it?
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Lighting the Flames by Sarah Wendell is 99c at Amazon and $2.99 elsewhere! This is a Hanukkah romance written by our very own fearless leader. You can read an excerpt here, as well as get a peek behind the romance’s inception. We’ve heard it’s a pretty sweet book, not that we’re biased!
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Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson is $1.99! This book released in January and I bought it in a huge YA book haul, though I haven’t gotten to read it yet. It’s also a Kindle Daily Deal and is being price-matched. Readers love the mystery and the setting, but warn that the ending feels like a cliffhanger.
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Welcome to Book Beat! Think of Book Beat as Hide Your Wallet, Part Two! In Hide Your Wallet, we talk about books coming out in a particular month that we really want to read. But there’s more to good books than just new releases! Book Beat aims to highlight other books that we may hear about through friends, social media, or other sources. We could see a gorgeous ad! Or find a new-to-us author on … Continue reading Book Beat: Lesbian Space Romance, Mystery, & More →
