What I’m reading (or have already read!) and recommend this month.
That Selfsame Metal
Brittany N. Williams
As soon as I read the premise, I was deeply in. What if the woman in charge of weapons and stage fighting for Shakespeare’s company also had magic that let her control metal? And what if it was also a book about the African diaspora and class and race in Elizabethan England? Oh, and what if there were real fae?
The main character in this was charming and I really enjoyed how all of the relationships developed, not to mention the villains were genuinely scary.
Egotistical Puckboy
Eden Finley and Saxon James
A while back, I asked for hockey book recs. I was experiencing a craving, and boy did Eden Finley and Saxon James deliver. This book has everything I love about hockey. Over-sized personalities, passionate guys who have gooey centers, and really, really hot sex.
This is an opposites attract with a side of Darcy level Pride and Prejudice misunderstanding. I read/listened to it all in one day and then wanted to immediately start it again.
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
If you’re looking for noir, you can’t go wrong with the classic greats. My husband and I were going through a noir phase with movies and I wanted to read some classic books and see if they held up the way they do in my memory.
This is a classic noir complete with a hard-as-nails protagonist who is fine cracking a dozen eggs to made a very egg-shell-filled omelette. I enjoyed it a lot, even though I did wince at how one dimensional the women were.