I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) Finding A Purple Unicorn by Sean Michael ([#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) 3/Starting Over). This MM single dads [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) is by far my favorite of 2024 so far. It was fun & [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) it went by fast. TW for custody argument, ex drama, & a neglectful parent (not a main character). Also some bdsm/spanking references. No need to read the first 2 [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books). 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3OUXqdU](https://amzn.to/3OUXqdU)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) A Masquerade With a Marquess ([#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) 8/Lords of Temptation). The blurb is a little off - the MMC does marry the FMC knowing she's blind, but also for all the wrong reasons. TW for jealousy and paternal abuse. I may follow up with more from the series, not sure yet. [#regency](https://romancelandia.club/tags/regency) [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3wdlrX7](https://amzn.to/3wdlrX7)
I re-[#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) as [#audiobook](https://romancelandia.club/tags/audiobook) Four In Hand by Stephanie Laurens. This [#regency](https://romancelandia.club/tags/regency) [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) has very little sex in it & a lot of flirting. It follows 4 sisters in one shorter [#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) - it was one of her earliest [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books). I like this type of writing but I know it's out of date. [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [#romancebooks](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancebooks) [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3Ot9hQk](https://amzn.to/3Ot9hQk)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) Twins for the Wild Orc by Michele Mills (Sweet Monster Treats). If Mills wrote it, I'm probably going to ❤️ it, & I did (even orcs). Besides the title trope of unplanned babies, the [#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) is a reunion [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) meant for [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) at Halloween. Short & charming. [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [#romancebooks](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancebooks) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/49eUXCZ](https://amzn.to/49eUXCZ)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) via [#audiobook](https://romancelandia.club/tags/audiobook) Love and Other Wild Things by Molly Harper ([#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) 2/Mystic extra. Bayou). Bear shifter Zed falls in love (first) with a commitment-phobic energy witch. This [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) is in the Audible Premium Plus catalog, so I didn't pay extra. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3Hcuvh8](https://amzn.to/3Hcuvh8)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) Seeing Blind by Poppy Dale. This M/M 🏳️🌈 [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) from 2021 has one MC with a severe case of prosopagnosia (face blindness). It's charming. TW for homophonic parent, secrets, dating apps, & online relationships. [#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3Hfhqna](https://amzn.to/3Hfhqna)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) as [#audiobook](https://romancelandia.club/tags/audiobook) The Witness by Nora Roberts. Despite the hundreds of [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) she’s written, I’m a 48yo Roberts virgin; she’s always been the [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/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](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [@romancelandia](https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia) [https://amzn.to/3RDvDjU](https://amzn.to/3RDvDjU)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) Gnome Sweet Gnome by Elva Birch ([#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) 2/Lawn Ornament Shifters) today because rn it’s [#free](https://romancelandia.club/tags/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](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance). Get ready for a jewel thief owl shifter to meet her mate as a Norwegian gnome factory owner. [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3NlwpzF](https://amzn.to/3NlwpzF)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) Claimed by the Barbarian Warlords by Charmaine Ross ([#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/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](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [#romancebooks](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancebooks) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/47O0TTb](https://amzn.to/47O0TTb)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) Snowed In With A Dragon by Sara Ivy Hill. This Christmas [#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/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](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) to be perfectly socially acceptable. Hill does honor consent. [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [#romancebooks](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancebooks) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3GC9M6e](https://amzn.to/3GC9M6e)
ElleSabine 11mo ago • 100%
@ALostInquirer not yet. Since it’s a one day sale, I only went through the list and added them to my library today - haven’t read them yet. But, as a generalization, I have loved other books by Sara Ivy Hill and Elin Wyn, and I’m likely to read their books in this list first.
If you read sci fi [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance), today’s your day. 30 free [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) (electronic) on Dec 7: [https://books.bookfunnel.com/scifiromlovers/ouixfnbg9x](https://books.bookfunnel.com/scifiromlovers/ouixfnbg9x) [\#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) [@romancelandia](https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks)
I’ve [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) as an [#audiobook](https://romancelandia.club/tags/audiobook) Lucifer by DB Reynolds ([#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) 11/Vampires In America). Said this before & will say it again, one of my favorite series & one of my favorite [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) in the series. But start at the beginning, or at least with Jabril. [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3uuY1v](https://amzn.to/3uuY1v)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) When She’s Shy by Ruby Dixon (Sept 2023). This short [#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) from the Risdaverse is a 52 pg F/F delight. Please don’t let that scare you off if you are a straight cis person. This is the first time I know of that Dixon has openly written lgbt main characters, one of which clearly has an anxiety disorder. Read it! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#romancebooks](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancebooks) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [@romancelandia](https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia) [https://amzn.to/47pNekZ](https://amzn.to/47pNekZ)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) Trouble For My Troll by Honey Phillips last night as a bedtime [#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book). This standalone [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) from the Fairhaven Falls world is a small-town monster [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) about a troll who isn’t very troll-like tbh. But I liked it. [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#romancebooks](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancebooks) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3SVrhpg](https://amzn.to/3SVrhpg)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) as [#audiobook](https://romancelandia.club/tags/audiobook) Darkness Dawns by Dianne Duvall ([#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) 1/Immortal Guardians). This is a [#repeat](https://romancelandia.club/tags/repeat) series for me. Paranormal vampire hunters fall in love & save the world, one book at a time. [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3R5EZVy](https://amzn.to/3R5EZVy)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) as [#audiobook](https://romancelandia.club/tags/audiobook) Band Sinister by KJ Charles (2018). This 🏳️🌈 M/M historical [#regencyromance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/regencyromance) is mis-titled, but otherwise is charming. It was in the Audible Premium Plus catalog, so I didn’t pay anything extra for it. [#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3QYT4Ux](https://amzn.to/3QYT4Ux)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) Christian by DB Reynolds ([#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) 10/Vampires In America). This is one of my favorite [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) in one of my favorite series. That’s all. I’m willing to listen to the [#audiobook](https://romancelandia.club/tags/audiobook) a lot more than I actually do. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [#romancebooks](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancebooks) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/3Qw3F7S](https://amzn.to/3Qw3F7S)
I stayed up Way Too Late last night [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) Little Dove by Layla Frost. There are a couple of 🚩TWs in this casino owner [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) - he abducts her before her 18th birthday and murders her deadbeat father. But he doesn’t touch her or ask her to call him Daddy until she’s 18 (barely). No age play, he’s just a straight up obsessive control freak. I loved it and may buy the audiobook later. [#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) [#romancebooks](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancebooks) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/40APL96](https://amzn.to/40APL96)
I [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) Lauren’s Barbarian by Ruby Dixon ([#book](https://romancelandia.club/tags/book) 1/Icehome - an Ice Planet Barbarians spin-off) as an [#audiobook](https://romancelandia.club/tags/audiobook). I meant to buy Willa’s Beast so I was surprised when I started listening, but it’s Ruby Dixon, so I couldn’t go wrong! In this installment, Lauren gets separated from the group, ends up in a deserted island, and resonates to a blue 4-armed alien who she can’t speak to. [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#romancebooks](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancebooks) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [https://amzn.to/47r2k9A](https://amzn.to/47r2k9A)
ElleSabine 12mo ago • 100%
@hendric @romancebooks @bookstodon @herhandsmyhands note — Somerville was also one of the first English speakers to drop Newtonian physics and use modern mathematics (ie “the calculus”) instead.
ElleSabine 12mo ago • 100%
@hendric @romancebooks @bookstodon @herhandsmyhands it’s a fictional historical romance, so it’s science as understood in 1831: mostly astronomy, physics, & the first concepts of Babbage’s analytical engine. But primarily it’s a fictionalized account of Mary Somerville translating the Marquis de Laplace's “Mécanique Céleste” as “The Mechanism of the Heavens” -if she’d been gay, single, & 23yo. (She was 51yo, married twice, & a mother by 1831.) #historyofscience
ElleSabine 12mo ago • 100%
@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks I’m actually something interesting that is shadow-banned on the big Amaz and I’m so looking forward to sharing about it!
I first [#read](https://romancelandia.club/tags/read) The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite in Feb 2020 when I had a mystery virus that put me to bed for a week. I can only plead illness for giving it only 4⭐️ in GR. This week, I bought the [#audiobook](https://romancelandia.club/tags/audiobook). I’ve now revised to a perfect 5⭐️ - a perfect F/F [#historicalromance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/historicalromance). In addition to the [#romance](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romance), it dives into access & equity debates of women’s & 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ rights. [@romancebooks](https://lemm.ee/c/romancebooks) [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [#books](https://romancelandia.club/tags/books) [#reading](https://romancelandia.club/tags/reading) [#romancelandia](https://romancelandia.club/tags/romancelandia) [https://amzn.to/3Sn3z50](https://amzn.to/3Sn3z50)
ElleSabine 1y ago • 100%
@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks I’m still reading Executive Orders by Tom Clancy - the audiobook is a monster 56 hrs long. And a book I’m not sure how to describe yet - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston. The blurb is a bit inadequate for this one, and I’m only 30% in.
ElleSabine 1y ago • 100%
@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks
Executive Orders by Tom Clancy, which is also very uncomfortable in the current world, for different reasons than the Henry book!
ElleSabine 1y ago • 100%
@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks
Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper (biography sort of)
and
Silent Vows by Jill Ramsower (romance)
ElleSabine 1y ago • 100%
@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks oh I just finished this and will post about it soon!