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“I Have Just Resolved A Crime Via Twitter!”

Post author By Jamie Canaves
Post date June 7, 2018

Hello mystery fans! Hope you have a good book to read this weekend!

From Book Riot and Around the Internet

The Best Mystery Audiobooks for Road Trips

7 Books About Cults That Demonstrate How Dangerous Groupthink Really Is

Sponsored By The Shimmer by Carsten Stroud, from MIRA Books

A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Redding and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and the driver of the SUV fleeing. Redding stays on the hunt, driven by the trace memory that he knows that running woman.

Redding and his partner chase a seductive serial killer who can ride ‘The Shimmer’ across decades. The stakes turn brutal when Jack, whose wife and child died in a crash the previous year, faces a terrible choice: help catch the killer, or change time itself and try to save his wife and child.

Catapult has a monthly column that explores out of print African-American authors and last month the spotlight was on Charlotte Carter and her noir novel Rhode Island Red. (While the paperback/hardcover are out of print you can still read it in ebook.)

Giveaway: Book Riot is giving away $500 to the bookstore of your choice! Enter here you lucky people!

News and Adaptations

Here’s the official trailer for the adaptation of The Girl in the Spider’s Web, which will be in theaters November 9th.

Rea Frey’s Not Her Daughter, releasing in August, has sold its film and television rights. The novel is “The story of a child kidnapped away from a mother who isn’t sure she wants her back.” Well now I’ve got to read it to find out why…

Kelley Armstong’s popular Canadian Rockton crime thriller trilogy has sold TV rights to Temple Street Productions (Orphan Black and Queer As Folk). If you like to read the books first: City of the Lost; A Darkness Absolute; This Fallen Prey.

The Lambda Literary Awards were announced and here are the crime winners: The Fact of A Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (Review); Night Drop by Marshall Thornton; Huntress by A.E. Radley.

After Hulu decided not to go forward with its adaptation series of Joe Hill’s crime graphic novel Locke & Key, it seems Netflix has swooped in and is locking in that deal. But it won’t be the Hulu series– apparently Netflix’s deal is for the rights and there will be redevelopment and recasting. Guess we’ll have to stay tuned.

Not an adaptation but if you’ve been wanting more Gillian Flynn in your life she co-wrote the upcoming thriller Windows with Steve McQueen. Watch the trailer here.

The BBC’s fantastic Killing Eve (adapted from Luke Jennings’ Codename Villanelle) will stream later this year on Hulu.

True Crime

California judge unsealed suspected Golden State Killer’s search and arrest warrants.

An editor from The Staircase apparently fell for the doc’s subject and I swear Twitter always gives me the news I don’t want to know. Here’s the thread.

And in fake news: The Twitter Crime Mystery that Gripped Spain “Police! I have just resolved a crime via Twitter! You need to deal with it immediately,” wrote a Spanish social media user going by the name of Mr Brightside on Saturday afternoon.

Kindle Deals

cover image: zoomed in on half of a japanese woman's face as tear rolls down her face Penance by Kanae Minato, Philip Gabriel (translation) is $2.99! (Dark, character driven crime novel: full review)

All three books in Marcia Clark’s (yes, that one) Samantha Brinkman series are each $1.99: Blood Defense; Moral Defense; Snap Judgement. (review)

Currently Reading:

I really enjoyed William Shaw’s procedural The Birdwatcher (review) and had wanted more of one of the side characters. And my wish was granted with Salt Lane which follows DS Cupidi as the main character. So far it’s really scratching my itch for a good procedural.

After Blackout I was left with wanting more cults so I’m making my way through Cult X which has the bonus for fans of university lectures as it also goes into religious/philosophical/scientific lectures.

And I’ve been craving more YA mysteries lately so I started, and am really enjoying, Marisha Pessl’s Neverworld Wake. It has a super strong voice from the beginning.

Browse all the books recommended in Unusual Suspects previous newsletters on this shelf. And here’s an Unusual Suspects Pinterest board.

Until next time, keep investigating! And in the meantime come talk books with me on Twitter, Instagram, and Litsy–you can find me under Jamie Canaves.

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The Amazon, Alzheimer’s and More New Books of June

Post author By Kim Ukura
Post date June 7, 2018

Hello, fellow humans! I decided to devote this first newsletter of June to a selection of the great new books that came out this week. These hardly even scratch the surface, but feature the Amazon jungle, refugees, Alzheimer’s disease, and British nobility.

Sponsored by Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson. Published by Holt Paperbacks.

From graffiti gangs and Grand Theft Auto to sugar daddies, Schopenhauer, and a deadly game of Russian roulette, Chelsea Hodson probes her desires in these essays to examine where the physical and proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy, intimacy, and bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking, linking, and sharing. This tender and jarring collection is relevant to anyone who’s ever searched for what the self is worth.

But before we get into the newsletter, a quick reminder that Book Riot is giving away $500 to the bookstore of your choice. Think of all the books you could get with $500 – probably every one mentioned in this newsletter, plus more. Enter here!

Third Bank of the River by Chris Feliciano Arnold – This book is a history of the Amazon River, “from the arrival of the first Spanish flotilla to the drones that are now mapping unexplored parts of the forest.” It’s also an exploration of the conflict between the isolated tribes that live along the river, and the modern businesses and criminals who want to use the land and resources. I’ve read a lot of historical nonfiction about this area, but nothing contemporary, so I’m very curious.

Goodbye, Sweet Girl by Kelly Sundberg – In this memoir, Sundberg chronicles her marriage, tracing it from a love story to a terrifying look at domestic abuse. She writes about why she stayed in a violent relationship, the stories she told herself about their life together, how her childhood in an isolated Idaho town contributed to her feelings on marriage, and how she eventually left her husband. I am not sure I will be able to read this one, but it sounds really moving and important.

The Boy on the Beach by Tima Kurdi – Ever since I finished Exit West by Mohsin Hamid I’ve been keeping my eyes open for books about refugees and the refugee crisis to help me learn about it more. This memoir is about the family of Alan Kurdi, a Syrian boy who drowned while fleeing the country and, in death, became a symbol for the entire crisis. Tima Kurdi, living in Vancouver at the time, recognized her nephew and the journey he was trying to make. In this book she recounts her own emigration from Syria and her work as an advocate for the displaced.

Somebody I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell – This is another one I may or may not be brave enough to actually read. In 2014, when she was just 58 years old, Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. In this memoir, she writes about her mental decline, her advocacy for people with this disease, and her efforts to “outwit” her Alzheimer’s as long as possible. Again, tough but important.

Sick by Porochista Khakpour – This book has been on many, many most-anticipated book lists, but it snuck up on me a little bit. For most of her adult life, Khakpour has been sick, but struggled to get a diagnosis for her condition. Feeling ill contributed to mental health problems and drug addictions, and cost her a lot of money, until she finally was diagnosed with Lyme’s disease. This book is about all of that, and the ways that the medical system fails to adequately address female illness.

Homelands by Alfredo Corchado – Corchado came to the United States from Mexico in 1987, and soon made a close group of friends at a local Mexican restaurant. Over the next 30 years, the friends meet regularly, “coming together of their shared Mexican roots and their love of tequila.” This book is a collection of their stories, told alongside the larger narrative of the last great Mexican migration during the 1970s and 1980s. This book seems particularly relevant in our current political climate.

Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth – When I saw the first movie trailer for BlacKkKlansman, I did not realize it was based on a book! This memoir is about the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, who poses as a white man and is invited to join the Ku Klux Klan. Since he obviously can’t go to meetings himself, he partners with a white police officer to infiltrate the KKK and sabotage the organization from within.

Those Wild Wyndhams by Claudia Renton – British aristocrats! I am still on a British bender thanks to the Royal Wedding, so of course this one caught my eye. This book is a “dazzling portrait of one of England’s grandest, noblest families,” focusing on four sisters who were “confidantes to British prime ministers, poets, writers, and artists, their lives entwined with the most celebrated and scandalous figures of the day.” In my head, this is sort of like rich, British, Little Women, but that could be totally off.

And with that, I’m out! You can find me on Twitter @kimthedork, and co-hosting the For Real podcast here at Book Riot. Happy reading!

Swords and Spaceships

Swords and Spaceships Jun 8

Post author By Jenn Northington
Post date June 7, 2018

Happy Friday, aliens and archivists! Today I’ve got reviews of The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt and The Book of M by Peng Shepherd, plus some film news, SF in translation, YA picks, and more.

This newsletter is sponsored by Epic Reads and The Bird and the Blade by Megan Bannen.

When the kingdom is conquered by enemy forces, Jinghua she finds herself a conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his father.

While on the run, Jinghua’s feelings for Khalaf begin to evolve into an impossible love. But Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, who requires all potential suitors to solve three impossible riddles to win her hand. If they fail, they die.

With Khalaf’s life and kingdom at stake, Jinghua must reconcile her past with her feelings for Khalaf . . . even if it means losing him to the girl who’d sooner take his life than his heart.

Craving some feminist YA fantasy? Us too, and these have all been released in 2018!

Thinking about sci-fi in translation is something Dale Knickerbocker (editor of the Lingua Cosmica anthology) has done a lot of, and I love this interview with him.

A film historian sat down and ranked Star Wars by screen time for women, and the results are not surprising, but very telling. It is deeply sad that all of the prequels underperform everything except for A New Hope. Not because I care for the prequels (I do not!) but because we clearly lost ground there.

In exciting film news, Cat Valente’s Space Opera is getting an adaptation! I cannot wait to hear how they interpret the music from the book.

And of course, I could not pass up this Patronus quiz. I got a Komodo dragon which is miles more exciting than whatever I got on Pottermore (clearly, since I don’t even remember).

How about some ebook deals? Molly Tanzer’s queer rewrite of The Picture of Dorian Grey, Creatures of Will and Temper, is on sale for $2.99. The first book in Michelle Sagara’s Elantra series, Cast in Shadow, which I’ve recommended several times on various podcasts, is on sale for $1.99! And Zoo City, by personal favorite Lauren Beukes, is $2.99. Enjoy!

And now, reviews!

The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt

Take some Firefly and Aliens, mix with a dash of Douglas Adams and Lovecraft, then make it queer and racially diverse, and you’ve got something like The Wrong Stars. I found it thanks to this excellent Twitter thread, which exploded my library holds list, and I am so grateful to the OP for it!

The White Raven’s motley crew are a little bit mercenaries, a little bit salvage, and a little bit freighters; they patrol the edges of the solar system, taking what jobs they can get. They’re doing pretty well when they stumble across a wreck of a 500-year-old spaceship and discover it has a survivor on board, in cryo-sleep. A lot of things don’t add up about this (what is the craft doing where it is? How did it survive for so long? How did it not get found earlier?), and things only get more complicated when they wake up the survivor. The story she tells about an alien encounter doesn’t jive with the established relationships humanity has with the alien race they call the Liars. In the process of trying to find out what really happened to her, they stumble upon a galactic conspiracy that changes everything.

This book takes a ton of my favorite tropes and mashes them all together with glee and skill. Found family; alien encounters; wormhole travel; space stations; the complications of galactic law enforcement; AI; and a ticking clock race to the finish — I literally could not ask for more. Pratt gives all his characters and his galactic civilizations depth, his action sequences are page-turners, and the tone stays light-hearted (and sometimes even meta) despite the high stakes. I don’t use the word “rollicking” often, but it applies here. The sequel should be out this fall, and I will be awaiting it with the grabbiest of grabby-hands.

The Book of M by Peng Shepherd

Set in a version of our world where people’s memories are disappearing along with their shadows, The Book of M asks big questions about identity and love, and provides a road trip through a shattered America along the way. It is, hands down, one of my favorite books of 2018 so far.

Max and Ory have been holed up in a hotel ever since the epidemic started. No one knows how or why it spreads, but people around the world are losing their shadows, then their memories, and then dying. It’s not just memories of friends and families; eventually, the shadowless forget to eat, or how to breathe. So far the couple is managing fine — until the day Max’s shadow disappears. Ory comes back from a supply-gathering trip to find her gone, and heads off in search of her. Meanwhile Naz — an Olympic-bound archer who is forced on the run with her sister — is just trying to stay alive. Her journey from her apartment in Boston to DC gives us a close-up view of the crumbling urban spaces of the Northeast. As Max, Ory, and Naz’s stories begin to overlap and intersect, there is hope, terror, and magic aplenty.

I white-knuckled my way through the last few chapters of this plot, both because of the final battle sequence (it’s a doozy) and the final puzzle piece of character interactions. Then I cried, and had to just sit on the couch for a bit to put myself back together again. Shepherd has written a beautiful, thoughtful, and engrossing debut, and I can’t wait to see what she does next.

And that’s a wrap! You can find all of the books recommended in this newsletter on a handy Goodreads shelf. If you’re interested in more science fiction and fantasy talk, you can catch me and my co-host Sharifah on the SFF Yeah! podcast. For many many more book recommendations you can find me on the Get Booked podcast with the inimitable Amanda.

Happy Pride this month and all months!,
Jenn

Today In Books

U.S. Poetry Readers Have Almost Doubled: Today in Books

Post author By Sharifah Williams
Post date June 7, 2018

This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman from HMH.

Poetry Readers In The U.S. Have Almost Doubled

New research by the National Endowment for the Arts has shown that poetry readers in the U.S. have almost doubled in the past five years. People ages 18–24 and African American, Asian American, and other non-white readers make up the largest increase in poetry readership. The increase has been attributed to a number of factors including social media, and the pursuit of insight and comfort during challenging times.

Watch The Girl In The Spider’s Web Trailer

The newest installment of the Lisbeth Salander movies–or, rather, the Millenium series adaptations–has a trailer. The film adaptation of The Girl in the Spider’s Web (the fourth book in the series–this one written by David Lagercrantz, not Stieg Larsson) does not include a bunch of spoilers, according to director and co-writer Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe). Claire Foy (The Crown) plays Salander, and Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason (Borg vs. McEnroe) plays Blomkvist.

When You Just Can’t Wait For That Library Book

I mean, I get impatient waiting for books to become available, but a Hong Kong librarian took reader’s anticipation to a new level. The librarian in question has been arrested for allegedly stealing patrons’ personal information. The reason? She wanted to expedite the return of loaned out books she wanted to read. By reporting their cards stolen and changing their passwords, the librarian compelled patrons to return their books immediately. Yeesh.

Don’t forget we’re giving away $500 to the bookstore of your choice! Enter here!

Giveaways

Win a Copy of THE BURNING GIRL by Claire Messud!

Post author By Jeff O'Neal
Post date June 7, 2018

We have 10 copies of Claire Messud’s The Burning Girl to give away to 10 Riot readers!

Here’s what it’s all about:

Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace. But as the girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship. The Burning Girl is a complex examination of the stories we tell ourselves about youth and friendship, and straddles, expertly, childhood’s imaginary worlds and painful adult reality―crafting a true, immediate portrait of female adolescence. A New York Times bestseller and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the cover image below:

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Post author By Natalia Heroux
Post date June 7, 2018

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Hawkman, by Jane Rosenberg LaForge

Set against the shattering events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an imaginative American schoolteacher and a homeless Irish musician survive bloodshed, poverty, and sickness only to be thrown together in an English village. Hiding from the world in a small cottage, reality shatters their serenity, and they must face the parochial community. Unbeknownst to everyone, a legend is in the making—one of courage and resilience, even as outside forces threaten to tear them apart.

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Post author By Devin Service
Post date June 7, 2018

Today’s The Stack is sponsored by CubHouse, an imprint of Lion Forge.

The Wormworld Saga Vol. 1: The Journey Begins

Written and Illustrated by Daniel Lieske

This gorgeous fantasy epic follows Jonas, a young boy from our human world, who stumbles into an alternate universe through a painting in his grandmother’s attic. When the portal closes behind him Jonas must find another way home and begins a journey through this strange and mesmerizing land. Along the way he meets Raya, who becomes his guardian in the new world. But there are many things Raya is not telling Jonas, and this world is not peaceful.

Volume one is in stores now!

Today In Books

Haruki Murakami Will Host Radio Show: Today in Books

Post author By Maria Cristina Garcia Lynch
Post date June 6, 2018

This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by Visible Empire by Hannah Pittard.

Women’s Prize for Fiction

Kamila Shamsie has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction in recognition of her seventh novel, Home Fire. Rioter Deepali Agarwal writes that this retelling of Sophocles’ Antigone “follows the lives of orphans Isma and her twin siblings Aneeka and Parvaiz after Parvaiz joins the media arm of the Islamic State.”

Netflix’s Running Total: 39 Reasons

We’re getting a third season of “13 Reasons Why,” the controversial adaptation of a YA book by a controversial author. The series started streaming in March of 2017 and has featured suicide, sexual assault, and a school shooting plot.

Haruki Murakami Is Very Haruki Murakami

The prolific Japanese novelist will host “Murakami Radio—Run and Songs” on August 5. He’ll be sharing selections from his personal music collection with a focus on the tunes he likes to listen to as he trains for ultramarathons. Nobody is surprised and everybody is delighted.

Audiobooks

Audiobook Recommendations for Your Road Trip

Post author By Amanda Nelson
Post date June 6, 2018

Hello, audiobook listeners! Amanda Nelson here filling in for Katie while she’s on a summer break. Lots of you are probably in the middle of planning a summer road trip, and want to stock up on audiobooks to listen to while you drive. I’ve got a few links to help you out, with recommendations and how-tos:

Sponsored by THE EMPEROR OF SHOES by Spencer Wis

A transfixing story about an expatriate and his burgeoning relationship with a seamstress intent on inspiring political change.

Alex Cohen, a 26-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his father runs a shoe factory. Alex reluctantly assumes the helm of the company, and quickly comes to a grim realization: employees are exploited, and his own father is engaging in bribes to protect the bottom line.

Then Alex meets a seamstress named Ivy, who is secretly sowing dissonance among her fellow laborers. Will Alex remain loyal to his father and his heritage? Or will the sparks of revolution ignite?

The Best Mystery Audiobooks for Your Road Trip–I’ve long since held that mysteries are the best genre of audiobook for road trips: they’re usually ten hours or under, and engaging enough to keep you awake and distracted from the monotony of the highway. There are some excellent recs in that post!

Speaking of mysteries for your road trip, take a listen to an excerpt of the audiobook of Ruth Ware’s latest, The Death of Mrs. Westaway, or to this excerpt of Jessica Knoll’s latest, The Favorite Sister.

So you have a few ideas for what you want to listen to, but audiobooks are out of your price range? Load up your phone with a few free ones, all from your public library via Overdrive. Here’s how.

Mysteries aren’t your thing? Or maybe your drive is over ten hours and you need a real chunker to get you through? Use this as an opportunity to listen to some of those big history audiobooks you’ve been meaning to get to.

For the YA lovers around here: five YA audiobooks with multiple narrators (this is a great audiobook feature for those of us who get a little drowsy with just one narrator).

That’s it for now! Happy listening!

Amanda

Kissing Books

Queer Romances for Pride Month

Post author By Jessica Pryde
Post date June 6, 2018

Well lovers. It’s been a week. Things have happened, and outsiders have been confused by romance twitter talking about judges and hearing transcripts.

News and Useful Links

Since we last talked, we were waiting on a hearing in which a judge would hear a request for injunction against authors wishing to use “cocky” in titles moving forward. The injunction wasn’t granted, and the transcript (thanks, Courtney Milan!) is quite the read.

We’re giving away $500 to spend at the bookstore of your choice! Click here, or on the image below to enter:

RWA (Romance Writers of America) has put out a comprehensive statement about all the diversity issues they’ve been looking into this year, and I’m looking forward to seeing where they go from here. (They also have a statement on their efforts during the continuing ridiculousness that is cockygate.)

The Lambda Literary Awards were recently announced, and winners included one of my faves of this year, Yolanda Wallace’s Tailor-Made.

There’s been some weirdness going on with Kindle Unlimited that I don’t completely get, but Tessa Dare has a good thread about book stuffing, the biggest thing affecting KU and reviews. Amazon has also put some interesting restrictions on reviews so that you can’t post more than five unverified purchase reviews—meaning people who get ARCs from authors (bloggers and other regular reviewers) AND people who don’t reach a certain point in KU books will be limited in their capabilities to review on Amazon. I don’t do that anyway, but I can see this impacting readers and authors to a pretty good extent.

It may be June now, but can we look back on the magic that was #rombklove and remember it when we need it?

Deals

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne is 1.99. If you haven’t gotten to it yet, now is as good a time as ever.

Sarah Morgan’s Sleepless in Manhattan is 1.99 as well. If you’re looking for a series to try out, that’s got plenty of books to enjoy.

Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees is romance adjacent, but I know a lot of romance lovers who love it too. And it’s 2.99 right now.

Imaginary Men by Anjali Banerjee is 2.99 too!

Over on Book Riot

Need some military romance? Here are 50 for you to try?

We’re down for more choose-your-own-adventure romance.

I prefer experiencing the whole book at once, but if you like reading excerpts, here’s how to find them.

Trisha and I did some talking.

And of course, we’re still having that giveaway! 500 bucks, on us!

Recs!

It’s National Pride Month, and while I read queer romance all the time, I’m making an effort to try to read books by new queer authors (and I’m making a concerted effort to read only queer books this month). Looking for a place to start? Here are a couple I’ve read or am reading so far.

A Seditious Affair
KJ Charles

I started reading this book on my phone while I was in line waiting to pick up a Stocksund chair at Ikea, and perhaps that was why I stopped reading 10 percent in and took months to return to it. It’s got some heft; even as an ebook I could feel the weight of everything happening, all the layers. But once I was done I could see how it might end up on enough people’s favorite list to end up on All About Romance’s top ten of all time list. This book is intense, and emotional, and I wasn’t sure I knew where my heart was when I turned the last page. It wasn’t in my throat, or my stomach, as it had been for the final pages. It had just stopped beating, in need of rest, I guess. But damn, this book.

The second book in the Society of Gentlemen series, this books takes place at the end of the Regency and centers Silas and Dominic, who only know each other as “The Tory” and “The Brute” when they meet on Wednesdays at a clandestine location. They only find out for certain who the other is when Dominic arrives with his Home Office colleagues to raid Silas’s bookshop in search of evidence that Silas is the seditionist writer Jack Cade.

I know.

So there’s a lot to unpack here, including the fact that they have spent the past year using Wednesdays not only to get some kinky loving, but also to talk about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So yeah. Feels. On to the next, A Gentleman’s Position, which features two people I did not enjoy hanging out with until pretty much the end.

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It’s a bit early in the month, so I’m still working on it, but here are some I’m currently reading or will be reading:

Love Bi the Way by Bhaavna Arora (that cover, tho!)

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (published as YA but I would consider it crossover, as the protagonist is in college)

Syncopation by Anna Zabo

Month of Sundays by Yolanda Wallace

Gays of Our Lives by Kris Ripper (and maybe The Butch and the Beautiful, the second Queers of La Vista book)

21 Questions by Mason Dixon (pen name of Yolanda Wallace)

Pansies by Alexis Hall (which I have out from the library, so I had better get on that)

Jordan’s Pryde by Giovanna Reaves (did you hear me talking about this book in the RT episode of When In Romance? It was so weird but I took it as a sign.)

Sated by Rebekah Weatherspoon

We’ll see what happens.

New and Upcoming Releases

Shatterproof by Xen (rerelease/rewrite)

What Happens in Summer by Caridad Pineiro

The One You Can’t Forget by Roni Loren

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Huang

The Bashful Bride by Vanessa Riley

Inside Darkness by Hudson Lin (June 11)

The Varlet and the Voyeur by Penny Reid and LH Cosway (June 11)

Switch and Bait by Ricki Schultz (June 12)

As usual, catch me on Twitter @jessisreading or Instagram @jess_is_reading, or send me an email at jessica@riotnewmedia.com if you’ve got feedback or just want to say hi!