Robbie Finch and her found family of fellow lady criminals are weathering tyranny from a theocratic patriarchal rule. Their resistance movement is interrupted when they get word that her niece is in trouble. Disguising themselves as penitents on a religious pilgrimage to a powerful enemy city, the ladies set out on a rescue mission. Along…
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow: Book Review
Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices of her own. What if Mary Bennet’s life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized…
Obsessed with The Other Bennet Sister? These Books Are Your Next Read
So you’ve just finished watching The Other Bennet Sister on BBC, and now you’re wandering around in a full-on Regency daze, mentally redecorating your home with candelabras and wondering if you could pull off an empire-waist gown. We get it. Completely. The Other Bennet Sister has officially given Mary Bennet her moment—and what a moment…
Sapphic Historical Romance Books With Scandal, Secrets, and Slow Burn
If you’re currently spiraling while waiting for Francesca and Michaela’s Bridgerton season to finally drop — hi, hello, you are so in the right place. Because instead of rewatching the same longing glances for the fifteenth time (no judgment, truly), you could be diving headfirst into sapphic historical romance that hits just as hard on…
Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa: Book Review
From O. Henry Award winner and two-time Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don’t even know her true name. “I live in a world of Susans. I…
New Sports Romance Releases: January to March 2026 Roundup
If there’s one thing we’re not doing in 2026, it’s pretending sports romance isn’t absolutely dominating our TBRs. Because between January and March? The authors said: what if we gave you tension, forced proximity, morally questionable decisions, and emotionally unavailable athletes who absolutely crumble for one person? And honestly… bless them for that. This year…
A Murder in Marylebone by Emily Sullivan: ARC Book Review
Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! After over a decade away, widowed mother of two Minnie Harper has left sunny Greece and returned to her native England at the turn of the 20th century—just as a cloud of suspicion…
Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence: ARC Book Review
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in the first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of the Library Trilogy and the Broken Empire…
Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman: ARC Book Review
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon…
New Worlds Await: February 2026 Sci Fi and Fantasy Releases to Watch
If your reading mood swings wildly between spaceships, sorcery, strange gods, and “wow, that escalated quickly,” you are absolutely in the right place! February is shaping up to be an absolutely stacked month for speculative ficiton, and these February 2026 sci fi and fantasy releases are ready to spice up your TBR! Whether you’re craving…
