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Peace, Love, and Romance Novels (In 2021)

This is it, folks! I hope everyone who celebrates is having the kind of Christmas Eve they wanted and those who don’t are having a good Thursday (and that whatever weirdness that’s been happening because of the planets is finally subsiding). Next time you get a Kissing Books email from Book Riot Romance, it’ll be in the hands of the awesome PN Hinton, and I am so looking forward to seeing what she does with the place.

Let’s do this.

Over on Book Riot

You probably already know about the romances that are included in this list, but it’s always nice to see awesome romance included on lists of great historical fiction.

What does your Goodreads say about you

I wrote about fat positivity and offered up some recommendations for that task on next year’s Read Harder Challenge.  

Do you need reading prompts for 2021? Here are some to start with.

Have you read Brigid Kemmerer?

Check out this list of playlists to listen to while reading! I might have to try a few of these.   

Deals

The Worth Saga Box Set 1: In the West by Courtney Milan

If you haven’t yet read The Worth Saga, or just want a digital collection of all of them, you can get two full length books and three amazing novellas (plus a bonus short story!) for 4.99! This set is subtitled “In the West” and includes six stories about the Worth family and their extended family and friends: Once Upon a Marquess and After The Wedding are the full-length novels directly about the Worths, then you get Judith’s friend Daisy in Her Every Wish, Adrian’s ancestor in The Pursuit Of… and the delightful Mrs. Martin from After the Wedding on her own adventures. (And young Theresa Worth gets some page time, too.) Over a thousand pages for less than five bucks. You definitely want this. 

Bonus deal: If you haven’t read Rebekah Weatherspoon’s Wrapped you are definitely in for something wonderful. That holiday novella and the books in the Fit trilogy are all 99 cents through the rest of the year. 

New Books

It’s a quiet week, but we’ve still got some books to talk about, whether they’ve dropped out of nowhere or I missed them the first time around. 

The Longest Night by EE Ottoman

After years of regularly writing to each other, two men find themselves together at Yuletide. But even though they know almost everything about each other, their new situation is awkward at best. Their attraction, however, is pushing them towards each other as their time together continues.

Say Hello, Kiss Goodbye by Jacqueline Middleton

After a messy divorce, Leia leaves New York for London. Ready to dive into a fashion career and avoid love at all costs, she isn’t ready for Tarquin Balfour to show up. A man looking for love and commitment, he just wants someone to see past his money and into his heart. And you know how it goes from there.

Falling For You by Té Russ

Harrison is grieving for the loss of a grandfather he’d only recently gotten to know. When he visits the family orchard to be with the family, Fallon literally falls into his arms. The second-in-command at the orchard, and the man’s protege, Fallon is grieving hard for the man who helped her realize her own path. The pair find some solace in each other, and in the orchard during the beautiful Massachusetts Autumn.

The Christmas Chevalier by Meg Mardell

Alvy Lexington has moved far, far away (at last as far as one can be and live in the same city). As a member of a wealthy London family, he would prefer to be able to live in an area where he wouldn’t be recognized and called a name he’d prefer not to be called. But when he meets an old friend who needs a place to stay and work to do, all of that work and caution go out of the window.

And there are a few more new releases I look forward to checking out, too!

Holiday Wish by Leila E. Hart

The Office Party by Whitney G.

To Marry a Madden by Sherelle Green

All I Want for Christmas: An Anthology by Lucy Eden and friends

Christmas Nibbles: A Steamy Paranormal Romance Christmas Anthology


While I won’t be writing Kissing Books anymore, you can still find me Twitter @jessisreading or Instagram @jess_is_reading, and you can still reach me at wheninromance@bookriot.com! It has been an amazing pleasure writing this little newsletter for romance readers over the past four years, and I look forward to reading it on Mondays and Thursdays alongside the rest of you 😀

May 2021 bring us what we all want: rest and sanity. And romance. Novels.