Coming Soon – The Romances We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in August 2021
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Whether you’re vacationing or staycationing, we’ve got another bumper crop of new books for you to consider packing into your suitcase (or loading onto your eReader!). Drop by and tell us about the books you’re most excited about getting stuck into over the coming weeks.
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Will anyone be reviewing the Sarah Ferguson novel?
Yes! It will run on the publication day!
Yep. Look for it next week.
I’ll join the “can’t wait for Role Model” club! I’ve preordered the audio. I’ve been meaning to read Adriana Anders’ Whiteout, so I’m looking forward to a review of Uncharted. I’m also interested in Rachel Grant’s Dangerous Ground. I’m reading through the V&V series, grabbing one when I’m not sure what I’m in the mood for, so I’m interested the new crop coming out in August. I didn’t love the only book by Marley Valentine I’ve read, but I’ll give this one a try, especially since these have all been available on KU so far.
I loved Whiteout. I have Uncharted on my TBR–clearly I need to get on that!
I loved Whiteout too! It made my top ten list for 2020. I’m looking forward to this next one too.
I just finished the Grant – it’s good, but a bit different to her previous books, as it’s the first in a (I want so say 3 part?) series which is going to feature the same couple.
I’m probably going to give the Marley Valentine a try – I liked Without You but hated Devilish, so this one could be the casting vote!
I liked the story in Without You, but I thought the prose was heavy-handed. I felt Valentine did a lot of telling us about the grief instead of just letting the story show how everyone was doing. It bogged down for me. I also thought the mother was a poorly fleshed out character whose motivations were never really explored.
I look forward to your review of the Grant book.
I don’t read/listen to a lot of NA, but I’m coming to think that the things you describe – heavy-handed, flowery language and so much woe-is-me navel gazing – are typical of the genre. Or of some books in the genre anyway.
I’m with WendyF on her Lucy Parker BATTLE ROYAL thoughts. The cover isn’t anything that ties with her previous great books. And spare me the cupcake/bakery/sugar/chocolate plots. I’ve rushed out before but I’ll delay on this one until after the review.
I think it’s safe to say we loved it. ;)
I am so over the cartoon cover thing – in fact, I never liked them all that much in the first place, and I’m just as likely to be put off by one as I am to think “oooh, yes I want to read that!” Honestly, I set little store by the cover these days. But I can assure you that the Parker is so much more than what you might infer is promised by the cover.
Thanks, Caz and Dabney for the teeny mini-reviews in your replies….I’m in.
So Good to read that! Cooking competition is so not my thing, I was very much on the fence for this book. And it is expensive. But your hints encourage me :-) thx
Not a lot on my August tbr, but August 10 is going to be a real red letter day!
Maisey Yates’s latest HP, BRIDE FOR THE LOST KING, releases August 1. This is the second book in her Heirs of Liri duet. I enjoyed the first book (HIS MAJESTY’S FORBIDDEN TEMPTATION) and look forward to the new book which involves a prince who was kidnapped as a child, now reappearing as a grown man and needing a fake fiancée to smooth his image.
August 10 is a banner day for my tbr with new books from three of my favorite writers in three of my favorite series:
Rachel Reid releases ROLE MODEL, the fifth book in her Game Changers m/m hockey series. This book is about a closeted player and the out-and-proud social media manager for the team to which he’s recently been traded. That sounds you hear is me squeeing!
M. O’Keefe (that’s Molly O’Keefe’s “dark romance” pen name) releases UNTAMED, the third and final book in her Dark Hearts trilogy (which is itself part of the large multi-author Midnight Dynasty series). In UNTAMED, a young woman, newly married to an inscrutable man, returns to her hometown to uncover the truth about what happened to her late first husband.
Annika Martin’s JUST NOT THAT INTO BILLIONAIRES is the sixth book in her Billionaires in Manhattan series of rom-coms-with-serious-centers. This one is billed as “friends-to-enemies-to-lovers”—and, if you’re familiar with the series, it’s Francine & Benny’s story.
The publication date for Ella James’s WRATH was moved from July 28 to August 27. This is part of James’s Sinful Secrets series and is a dark m/m romance between stepbrothers.
And my girl Kati Wilde’s latest shifter romance, SHERIFF’S BAD BEAR, is scheduled for August 31. As usual with Kati’s publication dates, I follow the old Russian proverb, “Hope for the best, expect the worse.” BEAR is the follow-up to TEACHER’S PET WOLF (the heroes of the two books are shifters & brothers; the heroines are sisters). In BEAR, the heroine is a local sheriff, the hero has been crushing on her for a long time. Can’t wait…but I may have to (lol).
I’ve got three of these on preorder:
I’m very much looking forward to Role Model by Rachel Reid and meeting some of the characters from previous books again. I’m planning the umpteenth reread of this series as soon as I’ve finished the book I’m currently reading.
Codirection by Gregory Ashe is the final book in this set of Borealis books so I’m hoping for an upbeat ending! North and Shaw (and us!) seem to have been through the wringer many times………………….. but I can’t stop coming back for more! I saw on another thread that Caz has said that Hazard and Somerset are coming back in September – yay, for having the doorstep bombshell mystery solved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But what I would really like is the next episode of Auggie and Theo’s story. Do you know if there are any plans for an email serialisation, Caz?
My other preorder is Lucy Parker’s Battle Royal as I have enjoyed all her previous books. I have to say though, if I hadn’t read her backlist, I don’t think that either the blurb or the cover would have attracted me to this one.
There are a few others there that look interesting, but I’ll wait for the reviews.
I’m reminded that Whiteout by Adriana Anders is still on my TBR, which I’d better read before buying this new one!
I guess Georgie Hall has reached Menopause age with Woman of a Certain Rage. I enjoyed her books back in the 1990s, writing as Fiona Walker. Snap Happy was hilarious.
And seeing one of those books, I really hope that we’re not in for a summer of toe-sucking references………………………………
Role Model is terrific – watch this space for my review :)
The next H&S is October, and we’re also getting a sequel to Stray Fears at the end of Oct. I believe books 3&4 of Theo & Auggie are planned for 2022, after the new H&S series is finished. I’m not sure about the serialisation, but I think it’s very likely.
Oh gosh, I thought Stray Fears was a standalone (but linked to a book by another author). I liked the MCs in it.
It was… but Greg has this habit of not being able to let go of characters he likes! (And lucky us that he doesn’t – H&S was originally going to be a one off!)There will be audio for SF as well, hopefully around the same time. It’s a new-ish narrator, but he’s really good.
I’m most looking forward to Role Model by Rachel Reid but also Julie Anne Long and Helen Hoang’s books. You have 2 listed but Amazon lists 5 more in the Vino & Veritas series coming out on August 12th – I have been liking this series overall, although some have been better than others.
Yes, there are 5 new V&Vs, but I just picked the ones I was most interested in! (We don’t have the space to include every new release each month.) It’s been a good series overall, with a couple of standouts and a couple of weak spots; I’ve read some and listened to some – the audios have some excellent narrators so are worth checking out, too
With so many books being released over such a short period of time from Sarina Bowen’s Heart Eyes Press imprint (whether m/f or m/m), I am noticing a certain sameness to the premises. At first it was someone’s car just happened to break down in front of the Busy Bean or Vino & Veritas—and there’s always a job available there with a smoking-hot & conveniently-single coworker. Now we have yet another iteration of “I thought I was straight until I got a gay roommate.” I’m not saying the books are bad or the premises don’t work, but I am saying that Heart Eyes Press might have wanted to space out their releases a little more.
I agree with that – it’s a lot of books (18 in the V&V series) in six months, and having a little more daylight between them all wouldn’t have been a bad idea.
I’ve viewed the V&V books as sort of low angst reads for relaxing, especially since they are available on KU. I haven’t read any of the other series yet, mainly because most of the authors (except Sarah Mayberry) are unknown to me and I’m not willing to spend $4 on them with so much else available.
I agree about the pacing of the releases and the sameness of some of the V&V plot lines. But honestly, it’s not just the spin off series. I recognize similar plots from the True North series and other books by Sarina Bowen. The few books I’ve read by Lauren Blakely felt the same way,in hat they were all similar. I guess that is also part of the appeal. You know what you’re getting and if you enjoy the style, then it’s almost a sure thing. There are definitely authors I feel that way about. I pretty much know what to expect from Lily Morton for example, but that doesn’t keep me from enjoying her books. :-)
Thank you for pointing out that the V&V books are on KU. I’m definitely more likely to try a new-to-me author (such as Leslie McAdam) if the book is on KU. I’m adding UNDONE to my tbr.
That makes sense and thanks for letting me know! I’m not familiar with most of the authors of the V&V series. I started it because it had several authors I did know and enjoy (Jay Hogan, Annabeth Albert, Eden Finley). Reading the series has been a good way to find authors new to me.