July is the hottest month of the year here, so I'm ready to grab a book and cool down. Andrea's in the opposite hemisphere, so she's probably ready to warm up with a book. Books are good for whatever your temperature needs are.
Onward, to new books!
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The Flatshare is a charming romance that happens to be part of the new crop of romance novels being packaged as women's fiction. On the cover, O'Leary is referred to as "the new Jojo Moyes," but if you've read both, you won't think that. No one dies at the end, for example. It's closed door, like Moyes, so maybe that's what they were thinking?
Today's a special day - we get to share JN Welsh's brand new cover and the synopsis of In Rhythm, second in her Back on Top series set in the world of EDM!
Paranormal and fantasy romance fans, this one is for you! We are one of five blogs working with Sourcebooks Casa to share the five types of magical beasts featured in Kingdom of Exiles, a fantasy romance out tomorrow from Mayxm M. Martineau.
Little reviews of The Unhoneymooners, Fluffy, and One Fine Duke.
We are big fans of Bawdy Bookworms, a site and subscription box service that matches romance novels with sexual pleasure products. So when Thien-Kim Lam asked if we'd like to announce their summer romance novel pick, we jumped at the chance! Scroll down a bit for ordering info.
Although the book deals heavily with grief and strained family relationships, Don't Date Rosa Santos is a feel-good summer romance that made me smile. Reminiscent of Jane the Virgin, Rosa's Cuban-American family consists of her, her mother, and her grandmother. (More on this later.) They live in a multicultural small town in coastal Florida that feels a bit like Gilmore Girls' Stars Hollow... but not so white.
Just like last year, we're celebrating Pride and summer by giving queer recommendations for The Ripped Bodice's Summer Romance Bingo!
A few notes:
Some of the categories we stretched a wee bit.
We've tried to leave off the books we recommended last year.
Some of these we haven't read and are planning to read them for our own bingo cards, but we've tried to eliminate those with problematic rep and/or give content warnings below.
Meet Cute is one of those books with a cute cartoon cover that disguises some serious subject matter within. I'm starting to get used to these, but it still throws me if I don't carefully read the blurb. In the prologue, we meet Daxton and Kailyn, both attending law school together. The title refers to their first and second meetings, in which Kailyn walks right through Daxton's frisbee game and then spills coffee all over herself when trying to get into the seat next to him in class, the only seat available. Oh, and Daxton just happens to be the star of Kailyn's favorite teen drama of all time, so she fangirls and then is horribly embarassed. (He's essentially Dawson from Dawson's Creek.)
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