Casee
I’ve been on a rereading kick lately. I reread Sweet Dreams by Kristen Ashley & am now rereading Knight. I finished Darkness Dawns by Dianne Duvall and really enjoyed it. I’m currently reading Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews. I’ve never been a huge Catalina fan, but she is more tolerable in this book than the previous books.
Holly
I finished listening to A Rendezvous with Yesterday by Dianne Duvall and finished reading Three Dog Knight by Annabel Chase. I then went on to listen to Lost Heart by Robin D. Owens, a Celta novella, which was just okay. The romance was rather rushed, but I did like the overall storyline. I re-read White Hot and Wildfire by Ilona Andrews. After that I re-read a bunch of Ilona Andrews and Nalini Singh short stories and freebies. I DNF’d A Laird for All Time by Angeline Fortin, a new-to-me author. It’s a time travel romance and neither the circumstances behind the time-travel nor the motivations of the characters made any sense. I also re-read Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh.
I am currently reading Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews, Deadly Knight by Annabel Chase and I’m listening to The Wedding by Julie Garwood.
I just finished Rachel Reid’s THE LONG GAME, the sixth & final book in her Game Changers series of m/m hockey romances. This book gives Shane & Ilya from HEATED RIVALRY their HEA. It’s a wonderful book—definitely my favorite book of 2022 so far—but I don’t think you can read it as a stand-alone: you have to read HEATED RIVALRY first, and I’d also recommend reading the fifth book, ROLE MODEL, because Ilya is a major supporting character and part of the timelines of the two books run parallel. Highly recommended.
Over the past week ~
— enjoyed The Firstborn: A Regency Romance by Quenby Olson, but I preferred her newer book. Unlike Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide (to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons) this book had no dragons.
— reread with pleasure Blood Money: An Alice Worth Novella by Lisa Edmonds. This is a prequel to a series I enjoy.
— enjoyed The Wizard’s Butler by Nathan Lowell; as you might surmise from the title, this was fantasy and specifically slice of life fantasy. It was a fun mellow read.
— also reread with pleasure Half Share and Full Share both by Nathan Lowell. These were by the same author as the above but were slice of life space opera.
— enjoyed rereading Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid which is a contemporary male/male romance featuring rival hockey players. I did this in anticipation of reading The Long Game.
— enjoyed Dark Class (Class 5 Series) by Michelle Diener which is a new book in a favorite science fiction romance series. This series is best read in order.
Note: the first book in the series, Dark Horse, is currently FREE to US Kindle readers.
— enjoyed the male/male fantasy The Necromancer’s Light (Radiance Book 1) by Tavia Lark.
I read a lot this week. Nothing horrible. Some of the highlights are: Kait Nolan’s Misfit Inn series (I do want to read her Men of Misfit Inn series as well, but that’s in the future); I also read her Mixed Up With a Marie and Second Chance Summer both books are tied in to the Misfit Inn series. There were 2 new releases I read this week and loved as well: Grace Burrowes’ latest Never A Duke and Caroline Linden’s All the Duke I Need. I need Caroline Linden’s final epilogue now since All the Duke I Need ended well, but with questions of what happens next