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Open Thread for Readers for April 2020

[image error]Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general?

NEW RELEASES: Week of March 24, 2020

Hello! Sorry I am so late with this. I was finishing a big project this week. Youre all staying safe and home, right? There are lots of book sales so head to your favorite ebook retailer and take a look.

Contemporary
Not According to Plan by A.M. Madden: $ 3.99
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Contemporary
Perfect Distraction by Allison Ashley: $ 3.99
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Contemporary
Attracting Aubrey by Avery Flynn: $ 3.99
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REVIEW: A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn

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Dear Ms. Raybourn:

This is the fifth book in the Veronica Speedwell mystery series; Ive read and reviewed the first four books. Big spoilers for the series appear below, so be forewarned.

Veronica and her partner in crime (-solving) and love interest Stoker are recovering, physically and emotionally, from the events of book four when this story opens. Stoker still has stitches from a stab wound to his arm, and both of them are grappling with the fact that they essentially admitted their love...

Open Library is now a National Emergency Library

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I got an email today about the Open Library. They are now suspending all wait lists and increasing the amount of loans to 10 at a time. This is available worldwide.

To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nations...

REVIEW: Jayne’s Reading List

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The Fox & the Little Tanuki, Vol. 1 by Mi Tagawa

Long ago, the gods granted a few special animals great powers but not all those animals used their magical abilities for good!

Senzou the Fox Spirit in particular grew too brash and arrogant, abusing his strength until the gods imprisoned him for his bad behavior. Three hundred years later, hes finally been released, but only on one condition he cant have his any of his abilities back until he successfully helps a tanuki cub named Manpachi...

REVIEW: Saddled by Lyn Gala

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I have read the vast majority of your published works and I did come to expect BDSM in some way, shape or form to feature in your contemporary works.

So I was not as surprised by BDSM in this book per se, as I was surprised by rather intense pony play. Now when I reread the blurb (because yeah, I bought the book second after I saw it on Amazon), I realize that I should not have been surprised. The blurb tells you about what kind of play our characters engage in very clearly. I...

REVIEW: The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren

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a delightfully charming love story about what happens when two assistants tasked with keeping a rocky relationship from explosion start to feel sparks of their own.

Carey Duncan has worked for home remodeling and design gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp for nearly a decade. A country girl at heart, Carey started in their first store at sixteen, andmore than anyone would suspecthas helped them build an empire. With a new show and a book about to launch, the Tripps are on the verge of...

REVIEW: That Special Someone by Chaya T. Hirsch

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Orthodox Jew Adina Reid isnt having much luck in the dating department. Whether tracking mud into a guys car or tripping over her feet, she cant seem to get past a second date. As if thats not bad enough, she accidentally spills grape soda on her coworker, Yehoshua Markus. Horrified, she assumes he would be put off by her, too. But oddly, Yehoshua smiles and is completely okay with it. In fact, her clumsiness seems to attract him. Its not long before they go out on a date.

Adina has a hard...

REVIEW: The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

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As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus.

Amidst the chaos, Cal meets sensitive and mysterious Leon, another Astrokid, and finds himself falling head over heelsfast. As the frenzy around the mission grows, so does their connection. But...

REVIEW: For the Win by Kelly Jamieson

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Dear Kelly Jamieson:

This is the fourth book in the Wynn Hockey series, a fact I was unaware of when I started reading it. I read the first two books, and when I saw that For the Win was available for review, I snapped it up. It was only after I started reading that I realized Id missed book three in the series, which apparently came out late last year. Luckily, Im not a stickler for reading in order.

Harrison Wyatt is 26 years years old, which in most contexts is still pretty young (at...