It’s Thursday, and oh my god has this been a week for books. Also this week includes Earth Day, Arbor Day, and World Book Day, so read a book, but save the trees. Or something.
Sponsored by The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker, published by Carina Press.
In which experienced West End actress Freddy Carlton, who’s been on the stage since childhood, takes on an Austen-inspired play, scandal at a country estate, an enthusiastic search for a passion outside of acting…and the (some people might say icy*) heart of London’s most feared theatre critic. *if those people were being nice
Over on Book Riot
We all know that romance novel protagonists have the coolest jobs and hobbies. Here are some that are still available.
Being a bookseller is tough. Don’t do it to yourselves.
The books Heather’s talking about aren’t romance, but we all know what it’s like to learn from fiction.
My When in Romance cohost Trisha is spending most of this year on the road. Here’s how she packed her books.
Speaking of When in Romance, we talked about alottabooks on this week’s episode. What would you add to our various lists?
Deals
Jackie Lau’s He’s Not My Boyfriend is 99 cents right now. If you haven’t checked out her books, it’s as good as any to drop into…and she does the combination of self-discovery, family shenanigans, and sexy romance so very well.
Writing Her In by Holley Trent came out a month ago. Have you had the chance to check it out? If not, it’s 3.99 right now. An author and her cover model hook up…but it’s his wife that really intrigues her. I know, right?
New Books!
My goodness, this has been a heck of a week for books. I’ve read one of the more high profile ones, but can’t wait to talk about some of the others that have come out or are coming out in the next couple of days.
Fumbled
Alexa Martin
The second book in the Playbook series (following Intercepted), this book drew me with the cover. I know a lot of people don’t like the illustrated covers that Berkley in particular are doing, but hot damn. Look at it.
Three years (give or take) after Marley takes on the Lady Mustangs, Poppy is working at a deluxe lounge where the waitresses wear corsets and stilettos and very athletic dancers hang from silks. She avoids football players like the plague, and dumps a whole VIP tray on the exact man she’d been hoping never to run into in Denver. But when he follows her and convinces her to go out with him, for old time’s sake, she lets drop the Big Secret: she has a son, and he’s TK’s. Let’s just say, things from there don’t go as planned.
The first book had a few continuity issues that I was able to easily get over, and this one had its flaws as well. But that doesn’t matter when you’re so involved in the story, in Poppy, in the relationships that are building, in the horrible things you know are going to happen, that you just can’t look away. I legit finished this book in three sittings, two of which were on workdays.
Now that I’ve finished that one, there are a few more new releases I’m looking forward to getting my hands on:
Royal Intentions by Janae Keyes
Junk Mail by Kendall Ryan
Play it Again by Aidan Wayne
Beauty and the Professor by Skye Warren
New Orleans Rush by Kelly Siskind
The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker
The Doctor’s Secret by Heidi Cullinan
The Wright Collection by Christina C. Jones
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