I admit it. I’m totally in love with the subscription box concept. Whether it’s pet treats for Chester or cool nerd stuff for my husband, it’s such a fun surprise to see what we’ll get every month. I just hadn’t found the perfect book-focused one until Ever After Box. See, I’m a romance reader. I’m
Best Reads, January 2016
At the end of last year I got a little jealous of everyone doing their Best of 2015 posts. I read a lot and I don’t always review what I read. Plus I’ve never really kept track of books I like best except for a handful of perennial favorites. So I thought this year I
Iron & Velvet Bleeding Cupcakes
Iron & Velvet, the first book in the Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator series, is an f/f urban fantasy and a campy romp of a book. The cast is large, the mystery quite plotty and the dry, noirish witticisms utterly hilarious. While done up Sam Spade style, what Iron & Velvet most reminds me of is
2016 TBR Challenge: Darling Infidel by Violet Winspear
Don’t forget, just a few more days to enter to win an ebook copy of Hard Knocks by Ruby Lang. Check out my review for more details on this steaming contemporary about a neurosurgeon and a hockey player. It’s January, which means that the TBR Challenge theme is shorts: novellas, short stories, category romances, etc.
24 in 48 Readathon Quick Reviews
Have you ever tried to read for 24 out of 48 hours in a single weekend? It’s not as easy as I assumed it would be! This is the second time I’ve participated in the 24 in 48 Readathon and I haven’t yet managed to hit the 24 hour mark. I managed 18 this time,
Hard Knocks Artisanal Pop Tarts + A Giveaway
I love finding funny, smart, new-to-me romance writers and Ruby Lang definitely fits the bill. The second book in the Practice Perfect series, Hard Knocks is about a neurologist coping with parental illness and an aging hockey player working though a vocational crisis. It doesn’t appear to matter whether these are read out of order.
The King’s Man Rack of Lamb and Roasted Yellow Turnips
The King’s Man by Elizabeth Kingston had me raving for a week. I listened to the audio during a car trip over the holidays and when we got home from our drive, my husband and I invented errands so we could keep listening. It’s that good. The fact that the narration is done by Nicholas
A Seditious Affair Christmas Pudding
A Seditious Affair by KJ Charles is one of the best books I’ve read all year. The romance, the politics, the history, everything combines to a near-perfect whole. It’s not a stand-alone and readers who skip A Fashionable Indulgence, the first in the Society of Gentlemen series, will miss quite a lot as much of
A Holiday Collaboration with Binge on Books
Every Christmas, I bake a fairly epic number of cookies. I give them as gifts, bring them to parties and, uh, eat them. So when Judith from Binge on Books asked if I wanted to a holiday collaboration of some sort, I said, “SURE!” It’s up today with photos of all the cookies I baked
Hazelnut and Whiskey-Chocolate Ganache Sandwich Cookies
So. Hazelnut & Whiskey-Chocolate Ganache Sandwich Cookies. Doesn’t that sound AH-MAZING? That’s because it is! Every year I bake for the holidays–a bunch of cookies that stay pretty standard from year-to-year and a couple of experiments. And lemme tell you, this experiment is the best one ever. I sent a few of the first batch