Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell is a creepy yet charming monster-slaying fantasy romance, told from the monster’s perspective. While the idea of humanizing the creature isn’t entirely new, this take feels fresh, featuring an amorphous shapeshifter trying to pass among humans and unexpectedly finding companionship. That twist alone hooked me.
Have you ever found yourself going to a bar to escape life, buying a really hot woman a drink and the hooking up with her in her car? Only to later find out that said hot woman was your best friend’s mother? Oh, you’ve never done that?
Go Luck Yourself by Sara Raasch follows in the steps of it’s predecessor with its cozy, Hallmark-y setup. It has that quirky royal premise, small-town charm, and an enemies-to-lovers romance. I was here for it
Have you ever dreamt of being the assistant for a world famous actress and then that world famous actress falling in love with you? I know I have more than once!
Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch is exactly what the title promises. You get a cozy holiday romance with a little bit of our favorite little spooky holiday vibe mixed in.
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake is every bit a queer coming out story as it is an enemies-to-lovers romance, and it works beautifully on both levels. As the second entry in the Bright Falls series, it builds on the world we already know while giving us a character I honestly wasn’t expecting to enjoy this much.
Picture this: You finally move into the perfect house with your new husband, except it’s haunted…by his ex-wife… and everyone gaslights you about it. The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas takes the classic haunted house trope and drapes it in the rich texture of a gothic nightmare set in post-independence Mexico.
Taking well-known concepts and stories and breathing new life into them is a concept that I absolutely rock with and Silvia Moreno-Garcia shows a great a talent for it in The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake feels like watching a sapphic Hallmark movie, but more human and with a sharper edge. The titular main character fits the cookie-cutter “big city girl” trope.
A book about reading books? What’s not to love?
Bookshops & Bonedust, the cozy prequel to Legends & Lattes captures everything that makes Travis Baldree’s world so endearing