Happy Valentine’s Day! If your loves are human, I hope you’re able to celebrate in in whatever way works for you. If your loves are four-legged and furry, I hope they don’t leave you too many presents of the ‘unfortunate’ kind. With cats that either means they’ve caught prey FOR YOU, or they’ve left a hairball and neither are anything their human wants.
If you’re against this whole Valentine’s idea but you like fanfiction, tomorrow is Evil Author Day and there will be a whole bunch of new, interesting but most likely incomplete (that’s the evil part) stories to look at in the collection on Archive of Our Own tomorrow. In the meantime, you can check out the current archives while getting through today.
I thought about doing a romance-themed Stack, or just pink and red Stack, but it wasn’t working out at all. Still, there a few romances in this stack, so they’ll just have to be highlighted, won’t they?
The two really pretty covers in this Stack are Cleopatra, which is not a romance, along with The Foursome and The Lies that Summon the Night which are, at least sorta/kinda. As the song said, “two out of three ain’t bad”.
A lot of the books in this particular stack are actually about love gone wrong in one way or another, but Cherry Baby, Ghalen, and Once and Again are stories where love, not always of the romantic sort, does eventually come ’round right. Mostly. Probably. The proof, as always, is in the reading.
Got anything interesting – or Valentine-y – in your stack this week?
For Review:
The Anniversary by Alex Finlay
Caller Unknown by Gillian McAllister
The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell
Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi
Cruelty Free by Caroline Glenn
The Exes by Leodora Darlington
The Foursome by Christina Baker Kline
Ghalen by Walter Mosley
The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean
The Girls Trip by Ally Condie
The Hospital at the End of the World by Justin C. Key
Lake Effect by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Last One Out by Jane Harper
The Lies that Summon the Night by Tessonja Odette
Missing Sister by Joshilyn Jackson
The New Neighbors by Claire Douglas
Once and Again by Rebecca Serle
Only Spell Deep by Ava Morgyn
Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman
You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado
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I do actually have a Valentine book in my stack this week, I won it in a giveaway 🙂 Have a great week!
I’ve vowed that I’m going to read a romance over the weekend, because it just seems like the thing to do. Have a terrific week!
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Oooh this is a great haul! I love a great mystery read – there are a few on here I would love to check out!
Love has gone a lot more wrong in this haul than right. But c’est la vie. I hope you found some good reads in the stack. Have a great weekend!
Marlene Harris recently posted..Stacking the Shelves (692): Valentines Day Edition
What a great book haul! I’m spending Valentine’s Day with my pup and my family this year—we’re all just enjoying a quiet, chill day together.
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Happy Valentine’s Day! 🙂
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Great group of books. I have Missing Sister to review. Looks good. Caller Unknown sounds like a good one too. Hope you enjoy your books. Have a great week!
I’m very interested in Cleopatra and The Lies that Summon the Night as well! I don’t have anything particularly Valentine-y in my stack but there’s a lot of SFF and some children’s lit 🙂