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November is quickly coming to a close. Here’s what we’re reading right now:
Elyse: I’m reading Christmas Fling by Lindsay Kelk. ( A | BN | K | AB )
Sarah: I have been reading The Hearth Witch’s Guide to Magic & Murder by Kiri Callaghan which is part murder mystery, part family drama, part fantasy quest – there’s been skulking in graveyards, magical tea, weird as murders, and fae cats. It’s got everything!
Alas, my TBR grows longer because as I record the Holiday Wishes episodes, my TBR gets more and more robust. What a terrible problem to have!
Shana: I was gifted several early 2000s large print Harlequins from a library book sale. I just read the first, Taming the Notorious Sicilian by Michelle Smart. ( A | BN | K | AB )
Sarah: Okay hang on – who does that cover photo look like? It’s like part Tom Holland with the nose and jaw of…
Sexy Squidward?
Shana: 1990s Chris O’Donnell?
It’s a mafia romance with a pediatrician heroine with a strong Not-Like-Other-Girls vibe. Looking at the cover, I don’t think it’s obvious which one of them is the notorious Sicilian though.Sarah: YES 90s O’Donnell is very right.
Wait, the pediatrician is in the mob? Is this like those alien nanny books where the aliens need child care? The mafia needs a pediatrician?
OH HE is in the mafia. WOW I was like, dang, a heroine who is a mobbed up doctor? That’s new! LOLOL @ ME.
Shana: I would have enjoyed a mafia pediatrician MUCH MORE than one who kept trying to convince the mafia don to just call the police for help. Police love helping out organized criminals, you know.
Sarah: Oh sure all the time, yeah.
Amanda: I’m reading Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage, the first book since using my new TBR game board. I really like the characters and wowee the sex scenes are hot. However, part of the central conflict is the whole “best friend’s younger sister” which isn’t my bag at all. While the main characters talk about it and the heroine isn’t as hung up on the issue as the hero (and thinks the brother in questions is a bit of a nosy jackass), it does play a large role in their relationship.
Sarah: I’ve said before this is a conflict that always baffles me. In some situations, where the best friend sees the siblings’ family as their family, and doesn’t want to potentially compromise that, I get it. That seems like emotional security. But most of the time, I’m thinking, if you don’t want your best friend dating your sibling, wtf kind of friends do you have, and what kind of person are you?Amanda: I think it’s more of the brother is a judgmental asshole and has always been overprotective. Like it’s clear he also thinks his sister’s BFF is a bad influence/troublemaker. And the hero is pretty upfront that “I like you and I don’t want this to be a secret,” but the heroine is working through some bigger things right now (coming back home after a traumatic injury on the barrel racing circuit). The brother has a future romance with the BFF, so I’m curious if his personality will be redeemed at some point.
I would LOVE if this sort of conflict is resolved with them telling the brother and him being like “oh cool, I love both of you and am happy for you both” given that there is still the injury part of the storyline to work through. But we’ll see!
Whatcha reading right now? Let us know in the comments!
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We Solve Murders by Richard Osman is $1.99! This came out last September, but I wouldn’t be surprised if library holds were still pretty long. Maybe snap this up if you impatience is winning out.
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve…
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private security officer, she doesn’t stay still long enough for habits or routines. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job…
Then a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a lethal enemy?
Swordcrossed by Freya Marske is $2.99! Many of us were very excited for this release. Sarah also had Marske on the podcast to talk about it.
High heat. Low stakes. Sharp steel.
The cozy, low stakes of Legends & Lattes meets the scorching bodyguard fantasy of Jennifer L. Armentrout’s From Blood and Ash in this enemies-to-lovers romance where, yes, the swords do cross.
A LitHub most anticipated book of 2024
Mattinesh Jay, dutiful heir to his struggling family business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his arranged marriage. Sword-challenge at the ceremony could destroy all hope of restoring his family’s wealth, something that Matti has been trying—and failing—to do for the past ten years.
What he can afford, unfortunately, is part-time con artist and full-time charming menace Luca Piere.
Luca, for his part, is trying to reinvent himself in a new city. All he wants to do is make some easy money and try to forget the crime he committed in his hometown. He didn’t plan on being blackmailed into giving sword lessons to a chronically responsible—and inconveniently handsome—wool merchant like Matti.
However, neither Matti’s business troubles nor Luca himself are quite what they seem. As the days count down to Matti’s wedding, the two of them become entangled in the intrigue and sabotage that have brought Matti’s house to the brink of ruin. And when Luca’s secrets threaten to drive a blade through their growing alliance, both Matti and Luca will have to answer the how many lies are you prepared to strip away, when the truth could mean losing everything you want?
“There’s nothing in fantasy or queer romance that Marske can’t do.”—Sarah Rees Brennan
A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire by Sarah Hawley is $1.99! This is book three in the Glimmer Falls series. For me, this series was too twee for my liking. What are your thoughts?
Ben Rosewood never meant to be bound to a vampire succubus, especially one as sexy-yet-terrifying as Eleanora Bettencourt-Devereux, but he has to admit there are some fang-tastic perks….
Werewolf Ben Rosewood is happy with his life. One hundred percent. Everything is fine. His business, Ben’s Plant Emporium, is thriving, and he’s even expanding the shop. His anxiety disorder is…well, it’s been better, but that comes with the territory of running a business and having beastly urges every full moon, right? As for romance—who has the time? Though his family is desperate to see him settled, Ben is fine approaching forty as a single werewolf. But after drunkenly bidding on and winning a supposedly-possessed crystal on eBay one night, he finds himself face-to-face with a beautiful but angry vampire.
Eleanora Bettencourt-Devereux is a rare breed—a vampire succubus born from two elite European bloodlines during medieval times. But thanks to an evil witch, she’s been stuck in a crystal since she was thirty, forced to obey orders from the possessor of the rock. Eleanora’s been dreaming of breaking the spell and severing the witch’s head for centuries. But did this witch really sell her to someone new, and for only ninety-nine cents?
Eleanora would claw this werewolf’s heart out and eat it, if only the binding spell would allow her to. But Eleanora and Ben soon realize they can help each other with both vengeful and less hostile needs. And why not have a little fun along the way?
The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers is $2.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and I gave this one a C. As Jenny in the comments of my review described it, this is a book that is mainly aesthetic and vibes. Summers’s sophomore novel just came out and I’m excited for it.
Slip into a lush world of magic, stardust, and monsters in this spellbinding contemporary fantasy from debut author Georgia Summers.
For centuries, the Everlys have seen their best and brightest disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a purpose no one understands. Their tormentor, a woman named Penelope, never ages, never grows sick – and never forgives a debt.
Violet Everly was a child when her mother left on a stormy night, determined to break the curse. When Marianne never returns, Penelope issues an ultimatum: Violet has ten years to find her mother, or she will take her place. Violet is the last of the Everly line, the last to suffer. Unless she can break the curse first.
Her hunt leads her into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods and monsters bent on revenge. And into the path of Penelope’s quiet assistant, Aleksander, who she knows cannot be trusted – and yet to whom she finds herself undeniably drawn.
With her time running out, Violet will travel the edges of the world to find Marianne and the key to the city of stardust, where the Everly story began.
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