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Archiving the May 2021 Book Releases

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MAY 2021!!!

The Watcher Girl: A Thriller by Minka Kent – May 1st 2021 Spring Fling (Dating Season Book 1) by Laurelin Paige – May 3rd 2021 Edge Of Fear (Arrow’s Edge MC Book 4) by Freya Barker – May 3rd 2021 That Summer: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner – May 4th 2021 The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel by Laura Dave – May 4th 2021 Rattlesnake Road (A Small Town Mystery Romance) by Amanda McKinney – May 4th 2021 Find You First: A Novel by Linwood Barclay – May 4th 2021 Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir – May 4th 2021 Cursed Luck by Kelley Armstrong – May 4th 2021 Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard – May 4th 2021 The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang – May 4th 2021 The Newcomer: A Novel by Mary Kay Andrew – May 4th 2021 The Insiders by Tijan – May 4th 2021 Shadowed Steel (An Heirs of Chicagoland Novel Book 3) by Chloe Neil – May 4th 2021 The Princess Purge: A young adult dystopian romance by Cordelia K Castel – May 6th 2021 The Final Twist (A Colter Shaw Novel) by Jeffery Deaver – May 11th 2021

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Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 05-31-2021

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EARLY BIRDS!!! As usual, I’m still working on today’s list so keep checking back as the list will probably double in size. 😉 ALSO HOLY MOLY for tomorrow’s book releases. It’s going to be an awesome new release list!

THREE THINGS:

1.) I cooked a bunch of things for the first time in months!! Salt & vinegar chicken wings (thanks to bev for making me aware they exist because YUMMMMM!!), air-fried chicken thighs (they’re huge!), bolognese sauce and zoodles to eat with it. And of course everything I need for my favorite Cesar salads. read more

Lucinda Riley – The Seven Sisters Series Reading Order

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The Missing Sister (book #7 in this series) IS LIVE & to celebrate, the author, Lucinda Riley and her publisher (The Blue Box Press) are today’s newsletter sponsors, and we’re celebrating with a giveaway!

The author also had a special message about another book to come in the series that she wasn’t expecting! She said:

Hello everyone, I promised you a big announcement tonight, and here it is:

I started writing Book 7 with every intention of telling both Merope’s story and Pa Salt’s story too. And then half-way through I actually realised that there was no way I could actually fit and do justice to both stories in one book. read more

Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 05-28-2021

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Happy Friday & I hope everyone has a peaceful Memorial Day weekend. 😀 My weekend will be a very calm one (I’ll be in homebody mode) so I’ll be reading and cooking (and probably gardening) the entire time. Organizing my closet AND my blog too!! Oh boy do I need to organize. 😉 Maybe I’ll finally TikTok too. *eeeeeeep*

As usual, today’s list is a work in progress so I’ll be adding a ton more throughout the day, so keep checking back to see what else we found.

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Reader Question – The historical romance book where she arrives at her wedding in a black dress with coins sewn all over it…

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Renee is looking for this one! And YAY Renee!! Thank you so much for your sweet comment. It made my day!! 😀

This question has a pretty remarkable description, so I have NO doubt our historical romance aficionados here will recognize it.

She asks:

Hi!

Thank you so much for your website! i go to it a lot!!! And i tell my friends about it as well.

I am trying to remember a certain historical romance that has a scene where the young woman who was chosen to marry the Earl, arrived to her wedding wearing a black dress with coins sewed all over it (she felt that she was chosen simply for her money). read more