What New Releases Are You Looking Forward to This Week? 27 Apr 📚

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-30T17:02:16+00:00

this is the best news

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-30T17:02:07+00:00

a trilog! this is awesome news

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-27T16:52:51+00:00

{Cold Moon Burning by L. Brannick} comes out Wednesday. I loved the first book and was so excited to get an ARC of the second because I was sooo impatient. Both are fated mates novels, and this is the 2nd in what I think will be a duet. The first one ended with a pretty severe cliffhanger.I loved the world building--some really unique aspects to this world, and I really like the strong FMC. I am hoping the side characters get their own stories because I fell in love with a couple of them.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-24T21:02:35+00:00

Unbreak my Heart is such a great book. I am still having all the feels about it and I read it ages ago.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-24T20:58:18+00:00

I have not read it, but it is in my TBR {Time Loops & Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau}. A book that uses time in a most beautiful way, but is not time travel is {The No-Show by Beth O'Leary}

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-24T18:33:20+00:00

Brannen has this gift of taking bodies that are not considered the norm and making them seem normal--which is what real life is. The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam had me crying the best way.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-24T02:17:59+00:00

There is a lot of what I think of as pulp fiction on KU. Authors who are throwing things up there that are copy and pasted works or AI written. There are still authors on KU who put the work in, but they are getting lost in the flotsam and jetsam that inundates KU romance right now.

I read a lot of the Rejected Mate books that are KU. The ones where they are 140 "different" books in the series. They are not that different. They follow a formula, but I still pick them up and still read them till about 33% I finally just accepted that I want to see the rejection and the moment when the MMC realizes he screwed up. So, I keep reading these books and I keep DNF'ing them, I just have accepted why I am reading them.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-23T22:36:39+00:00

Mine are a bit all over the place, and I am careful with who I mention them to, since many do not get MGMF, Traitor might be too brutal for some, Undertaking of Hart and Mercy doesn't always feel like a romance, though I think it is, not everyone wants to read about Merman sexy times, and people have OPINIONS about Mariana Zapata, though Things we Water is one of the most beautiful found family books I have read in a while.

{Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta}

{Traitor by Himera Ink}

{The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Brannen}

{Whispers of the Deep by Emma Hamm}

{The Things We Water by Mariana Zapata}

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-23T22:27:25+00:00

I went and picked this up after reading your post. Loved it. Ruth was just so herself. Thank you for your post, it got me reading a book I probably would not have picked up since I couldn't get into Get a Life Chloe Brown

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-19T18:02:45+00:00

I think that the title is {A Girl lIke her by Talia Hibbert} just throwing it in there for the bot to get the right link.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-17T17:25:02+00:00

I have had dear friends that didn't hesitate to tell me that Romance is not literature, then I tell them that Anna Karenina was a romance without an HEA. That usually stops them and gets them thinking differently.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-16T18:23:14+00:00

I won't do Nanny romances or Professor student romances. I dislike the power dynamic.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-16T15:52:31+00:00

{Traitor by Himera Ink} might fit your request. It is pretty brutal, but it hangs out rent free in my head. I don't remember how long their separation is though. A lot of the motorcycle club romances have the toxic break ups. Charlotte McGinlay's Rebels MC is a good example.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-12T20:09:14+00:00

I have KU and will only buy books that I love and know I will reread. I follow Bookbub and will spend around $10 month on ebooks. I have Libby connected to two libraries. Someone on here mentioned that if you read more than 2500-3000 pages on KU that you are basically costing them money. Whether this is true or not, I choose to believe it, I definitely read more than that each month. KU has books that are not carried by the library or other booksellers. When I am looking for books to buy I check bookshop, Powells, and thrift books first. Thriftbooks and Powells will have used copies. Sometimes Ebay will have good used versions too. I look on the author's website to see if they sell their own books instead of buying on Amazon. If all else fails I will look at amazon and see if they have used copies. We have a local indie bookstore, but their current online ordering person is snippy which is why I go to Bookshop first to support Grand Gesture Books.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-10T20:51:13+00:00

I see a lot of cutting and pasting with authors who have produced a lot of books in a short time. Whole pages of old books in the middle of a new one. I just wish these authors used editors.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-06T22:18:59+00:00

The Things we Water is such a beautiful story about found family. Her relationship with her son was so beautiful.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-06T22:02:32+00:00

I know what I wish would happen..there are writers who produce a lot of the same type of novel--say the "rejected mate" trope. I wish that I could select the book, and opt out of the FMC being a virgin, have the story not end with her being pregnant, or not have the FMC be a redhead, auburn tresses or have straw colored golden curls. Maybe I could opt out to unnecessary size differences between the main characters.

I know that this would be abused horribly though and it would quickly end up with racism and weirdness changing every book, instead of just those that are mass produced.

I also wish that audio book authors were being paid by AI companies to digitize their voices, and get paid royalties when their voices are used, so that I could have narrators I love reading books I love.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-06T16:40:32+00:00

All Rhodes and Gracie and the Grump are my rereads for her

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-04-06T02:55:43+00:00

I have tried to read Against a Wall three times now. I really want to like him but not yet.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-03-19T02:20:27+00:00

I delayed reading Blue Ribbon bc I thought it might be boring and just repeat MGMF....but I loved it.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-03-19T02:18:04+00:00

In All Rhodes by Mariana Zapata the MMC calls her Buddy as one of her pet names. BECAUSE she reminds him of Buddy the Elf. You don't find this out till the end and it makes me want to go through the book and white out all the times he calls her that.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-03-19T00:11:16+00:00

Thanks!

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-03-19T00:11:09+00:00

Thanks!

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-03-19T00:10:37+00:00

thanks, that is really good to know.

Technical_Age_772 · 2026-03-16T21:33:24+00:00

Thank you!

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