🔥 Our September '24 book picks are here
Nothing like a little revenge with our romance
Okay so maybe a little revenge would be the understatement of the year, since the payback in these (pretty popular!) books has never been this sweet.
The wildly captivating fantasy romance book has a truly driven-by-vengeance main character who will stop at nothing to avenge those she loves, all the while boasting some of the sharpest banter and an even more passionate internal monologue. With dragons and magic (including a top tier one horse dragon moment and the sweetest inanimate object turned beloved pet), this high stakes read will have you falling not only for the angsty enemy king but also for this world as a whole (and every one of its moons).
The hilarious and heartfelt contemporary romance book takes these main characters from brokenhearted roommates (their exes dumped them to get together (!!!)) to fake dating (aka revenge in this instance) to best friends (with benefits) to oh so much more. With truly swoon-worthy moments, an extremely tactile MMC (he’s seriously always touching her), and a cast of supporting characters that’ll have you angling for an invite to their next get together, this read is truly the epitome of turning lemons into the sweetest lavender lemonade. PS. While most of our book boxes contain a paperback book, we couldn't resist doing a hardback so we could feature this book!
Are you ready for it? (The book picks, that issss🐍)
Our September Fantasy Romance pick:
When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
The Creators did not expect their beloved dragons to sail skyward upon their end. To curl into balls just beyond gravity’s grip, littering the sky with tombstones. With moons.
They certainly did not expect them to FALL.
As an assassin for the rebellion group Fíur du Ath, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and never get caught. When a rival bounty hunter turns her world upside down, blood spills, hearts break, and Raeve finds herself imprisoned by the Guild of Nobles—a group of powerful fae who turn her into a political statement.
Crushed by the loss of his great love, Kaan Vaegor took the head of a king and donned his melted crown. Now on a tireless quest to quell the never-ebbing ache in his chest, he is lured by a clue into the capitol’s high-security prison where he stumbles upon the imprisoned Raeve …
Echoes of the past race between them.
There’s more to their story than meets the eye, but some truths are too poisonous to swallow.
You can expect:
- dragons & magic
- "Such pretty promises."
- forbidden romance
Content warnings:
- blood and gore
- death and violence
- torture
- implied threat of sexual assault/sexual predator
- cruelty toward a creature/abuse
- abduction of an adult (implied, off page and post-recounting)
- death in childbirth (implied, off page)
- abduction/trafficking of minors (implied, off page)
- miscarriage (implied for a secondary character, off page)
- sexually explicit content
- If there is a particular content theme that is triggering for you, we suggest doing additional research on the title to ensure your mental health.
Our September Contemporary Romance pick:
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.
Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.
Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?
But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?
You can expect:
- opposites attract
- "The sounds you make."
- found family
Content warnings:
- anxiety
- depression
- emotional infidelity
- grief and loss
- mental health issues
- parental death (past, mentioned)
- sexual content (on-screen)
- sexual harassment
- substance abuse
- suicide ideation
- toxic relationships (familial)
- trauma
- explicit sexual content
- If there is a particular content theme that is triggering for you, we suggest doing additional research on the title to ensure your mental health.
