Happy #DecRecs 17, my friends! Today's recommendation is 'Scales and Sensibility', by Stephanie Burgis, a delightful regency romp with magic, imposters, romance, and of course dragons. Incontinent dragons.
An Unexpected Attachment is now half price in the Smashwords Winter Sale!
Get your m/m, android/human soft boys falling in love here!
Since androids gained equal rights, Thomas has been seeking out new experiences and sensations. He'd like to try sex, but he wasn't built with the parts.Two months ago, he bought them, but he doesn't want to try them alone...
I #read as #audiobook The Witness by Nora Roberts. Despite the hundreds of #books she’s written, I’m a 48yo Roberts virgin; she’s always been the #romance of my mother & MIL’s generation. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I love good plots that don’t rely on dramatic breakups & makeups. While very white & not written specifically with this diagnosis of the FMC, she very much seemed to me as high-functioning autistic. #reading@romancebooks@romancelandia https://amzn.to/3RDvDjU
I #read Gnome Sweet Gnome by Elva Birch (#book 2/Lawn Ornament Shifters) today because rn it’s #free (not sure how long that will last), and because the cover & title made me laugh. This shorter-length Christmas story takes rom-com almost to absurd #romance. Get ready for a jewel thief owl shifter to meet her mate as a Norwegian gnome factory owner. #reading#books#romancelandia@romancebooks https://amzn.to/3NlwpzF
#RomanceReviews 4: I'm going with a palate cleanser of an actual #romance this time: Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert. I listened to the previous book in the series and it was sweet, hilarious, and British (they chose the narrator well).
I'm expecting this to be a straight, interracial romance with at least one neurodivergent character.
The trees of the forest shiver and shake.
Their long limbs tremble from the next quake.
White is the color of my nightgown
As I stand and shiver with a frown.
A shadow emerges from the trees.
I hope it is not him, pretty please.
My body moves forward against my will.
I grab a thick tree and try to hold still.
I dig my feet into the packed snow,
But I must go where the wind might blow.
@bookstodon My #review of Paladin's Faith (Saint of Steel #4) by T. Kingfisher is now live! Kingfisher knocks it out of the park once again in this continuation of one of the best #romantasy series currently available.
My specfic winged romance, Grounded, is on sale in the US at the special price of 99c until 11 Dec! Check out your favourite US ebook site to see why reviews called it "a sweet, empowering tale of renewal" and "one of the best paranormal romances I've read".
I #read Claimed by the Barbarian Warlords by Charmaine Ross (#book 1/Stolen Planet). I think it’s great when FMCs assert & fight for their own agency, but the burden of assholery behavior that provokes the fight for independence often rests on the MMC(s) in that plot line. This is the case for this story. I wanted to kick the alien warlords for being dumbasses for 75% of the book. #reading#books#romance#romancelandia#romancebooks@romancebooks https://amzn.to/47O0TTb
I #read Snowed In With A Dragon by Sara Ivy Hill. This Christmas #book of a sweet stalkerish dragon who waits for his girl until her boyfriend cheats on her is a little red-flaggy if you want your #romance to be perfectly socially acceptable. Hill does honor consent. #reading#books#romancelandia#romancebooks@romancebooks
Voice recognition mistake of the day: "Lizard spots on cats fled."
Or rather, Liz's thoughts on cats fled.
From my current ms. in the Sweet Romance series featuring the workers and customers at a small-town cat café @bookstodon#Romance#catsofmastodon https://sendfox.com/KrisBock
The wait is finally over. My gay romance/gaylit short story collection Love & Limitations has arrived, just in time for the holidays (with three holiday stories too):
I #read via #audiobook When She’s Ready by Ruby Dixon. The audiobook is both When She’s Ready and When She’s Lonely. Both are very pro-consent post-slavery human-alien #romance. I find these Risdaverse #books entertaining & mostly safe, more so than her other series. (I ❤️Ruby even when it’s scary.) #reading#book#romancelandia@romancebooks
WSReady: https://amzn.to/416lwHF
WSLonely: https://amzn.to/47Dz4g6
I want to add something to this post about the 2nd #book in this #audiobook compilation: When She’s Lonely by Ruby Dixon. The FMC in this story has significant hearing loss that impacts her daily quality of life. If you look for stories of MCs with disabilities, and like or at least accept human-alien #romance & sex, I recommend this. I recommend it anyway, but especially if this is in your areas of interest. #sciencefiction#disability@romancebooks@romancelandia