It’s July! And new books are on their way bookstores and e-readers! We have almost twenty books that we’re excited to get our hands on and start reading. But here are some other books that might be on your current TBR list: Trust by Kylie Scott is a standalone YA romance with some darker elements. Sara Beth Durst’s follow-up, The Reluctant Queen comes out. Julie Ann Walker continues her Black Knights Inc. series with Fuel for Fire . Accidental Sire by Molly … Continue reading July’s New Releases →
This guest review comes from Suzanne! In addition to raising two valkyries and tending a growing menagerie, Suzanne reads and reviews romance and comics in Southern New Hampshire. She’s just launched a site devoted to romance comics and looks forward to sharing it with you all! … Here’s the thing about pain in fiction: the more realistic the writing, the more it hurts to read. Tiffany Reisz is a master of realistic dialogue and her … Continue reading Guest Review: The Night Mark by Tiffany Reisz →
RECOMMENDED: Passenger by Alexandra Bracken is 99c This is a time travel, YA romance and Elyse loved it. She gave it an A grade, but warns of a big cliffhanger. However, the next book just came out!
I loved this book. I loved it so hard my teeth hurt. I could have used a little more historical detail in Cambodia and Damascus (Paris is kind of a pass-through), but so much action was happening there wasn’t a ton of time for it. Part of the reason this book is so unputdownable is that it never stops for the reader to catch her breath. Once Nick and Etta’s quest gets rolling, it’s a great big chase scene throughout history will no pauses.
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RECOMMENDED: Bossypants by Tina Fey is $2.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and is being price-matched, yay! I loved, loved, loved this book. More than I loved Yes, Please by Amy Poehler. It’s very funny and Fey makes it seem almost effortless. I have a hardcopy of this book and I refuse to lend it out from fear I’ll never get it back.
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While your book budget may have gotten a small break last month, this month is about to do some serious damage. We’ve picked over twenty (twenty!) books that we’re really excited about reading. However, we also know there are some major books coming out this June that are on many readers’ radar: Nalini Signh’s new addition to her Psy-Changeling series, Allegiance of Honor The final book in Kristen Callihan’s Darkest London series, Forevermore Book nine in Naomi Novik’s … Continue reading June’s New Releases →
RECOMMENDED: The Siren by Tiffany Reisz is on sale for $1.99. Elyse loves Reisz’s writing and gave this book an A when she reviewed, saying:
The Siren is surprisingly light on sex, but heavy on kink, and it’s the most detailed look into S&M I’ve ever read. It’s also sharp and smart, and incredibly well-written. I normally don’t read a lot of books about S&M because generally I don’t like reading about people in pain. I like steamy contemporaries that feature some spanking or submission (like Rush by Maya Banks) but hardcore pain is typically not my thing. I really liked this book, though. It was like a potato chip book for me. I couldn’t stop at The Siren. I read The Angel ( A | BN | K | ARe) and The Prince ( A | BN | K | ARe ) immediately after in one big bleary-eyed kink fest. I stopped reading at 3 a.m. because I loved the characters.
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RECOMMENDED: The Siren by Tiffany Reisz is on sale for $1.99. Elyse loves Reisz’s writing and gave this book an A when she reviewed, saying:
The Siren is surprisingly light on sex, but heavy on kink, and it’s the most detailed look into S&M I’ve ever read. It’s also sharp and smart, and incredibly well-written. I normally don’t read a lot of books about S&M because generally I don’t like reading about people in pain. I like steamy contemporaries that feature some spanking or submission (like Rush by Maya Banks) but hardcore pain is typically not my thing. I really liked this book, though. It was like a potato chip book for me. I couldn’t stop at The Siren. I read The Angel ( A | BN | K | ARe ) and The Prince ( A | BN | K | ARe ) immediately after in one big bleary-eyed kink fest. I stopped reading at 3 a.m. because I loved the characters.
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The Saint is in the middle of Reisz’s series, Original Sinners, and is billed as the prequel. I haven’t read the books before this one, so I read this as a newbie to the series, and as an amateur to the themes in the book. As an introduction to her world, it was frustrating at times to only get the surface of the story or miss the nuances of a picture. But it was doable, although … Continue reading The Saint by Tiffany Reisz →
She’d never make it to Chicago alive. Not unless she got some coffee. Stat. Friends, if I had read those first lines before I signed up for this, I never would have reviewed this book. Nothing screams twee-I’m-a-special-snowflake-reader-fill-in than coffee pandering. Maybe I’m grumpy because I’m not a coffee drinker. I wanted to like this more than I did. I LOVE gothic novels and their melodramatic creepy goodness. But this read more like a contemporary … Continue reading The Headmaster by Tiffany Reisz →
After I finished this novella, I had a hard time deciding whether or not I liked the ending. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it wasn’t so much the ending itself that bothered me (I had been really invested in this couple getting their HEA, after all) but rather the choice the heroine had to make in order to facilitate said HEA. Since it is impossible to describe this without … Continue reading The Headmaster by Tiffany Reisz →
The Saint by Tiffany Reisz is $1.99! This is an erotic romance and acts as a prequel series to her Original Sinners series. I’m not sure if it’s better to read these before Original Sinners (this “prequel series” technically was published after the first series), or after to augment your knowledge of the characters. I adored reading The Siren ( A | BN | K | G | AB | Au ) and Elyse gave the book a great review, so I won’t turn down more of Nora and Søren. Any other fans of the series in the Bitchery?
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