Coming Soon: The Romances We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in January 2021
We’re introducing a new look for our monthly Coming Soon posts, but the essentials haven’t changed; the AAR team has looked through various lists of forthcoming releases and picked those we think are most likely to provide us with good quality reads over the next few weeks.
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Michelle Diener has a new fantasy book coming on January 12 – The Turncoat King. I really enjoyed her Class 5 series (scifi). This may be worth a look? Beginning of the blurb at Amazon:
A thirst for revenge . . . Ava is committed to vengeance against the man responsible for the death of her parents. The same man, the Queen’s Herald, kept her prisoner for two years, until she escaped with Luc, a warlord bent on vengeance just as fierce as her own. He’s forged a powerful army of people from all through the region, called the Rising Wave, to march on the Kassian royal family and smash its corrupt power under the weight of their anger. But for Luc, just as for Ava, his true motive is a lot more personal.
I just discovered that one of my favorite writers, Molly O’Keefe, has a new book, STOLEN HEARTS, dropping January 12. The blurb doesn’t give much away, but she’s publishing this one as M. O’Keefe, which tells me the story is probably on the darker side.
I’m looking forward to Sarina Bowen’s Roommate. I really liked her MM romances Him and Us and enjoy the close proximity/roommate trope.
I’m also looking forward to Ever After Always by Chloe Liese. The first two books in her Bergman Brothers series (Only When It’s Us and Always Only You) were excellent. Both had main characters with disabilities and the books were well written and interesting. Ever After Always is about the married sister in the family who has grown apart from her husband. We met both of them in the previous books and I liked them. I haven’t read a good marriage-in-crisis story in a while.
Other books I am looking forward to in January:
The Fourth Time Charm by Maya Hughes – a NA friends-to-lovers story, 4th in the Fulton U series
Not My Match by Ilsa Madden-Mills – 2nd in the Game Changers series. I really liked book the first book (Not My Romeo) about a football player and a librarian. This one is about one of the football teammates.
Playground Games by Lily Morton – yes, Wendy F, me too!
A Vow So Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer – 3rd book/conclusion of her YA fantasy series called The Cursebreakers. The first book A Curse So Dark and Lonely was a take on the Beauty and the Beast myth and both it and the second book A Heart So Fierce and Broken are just fantastic.
Playground Games is glorious – I read it this afternoon!
Thanks for letting me know Playground Games was now available. I didn’t realize it starred Doug from Charlie Sunshine and that Charlie would have a cameo! I read it today and loved it!
I’m pretty sure West End Girls is not new. It may be new to the U.S or a reprint but I know I have seen that title in her works before…
Yes, it came out in the UK in 2012 – this looks like a new edition. The problem is – as with the Higgins – they’re never marked as new editions or reissues so unless were familiar with the title, sometimes they slip through.
The new format is very clunky on my tablet. Once I click through to Amazon, I can’t return to AAR without closing both Amazon and Safari and starting over.
I’m not sure why that is – the images are linked and formed in exactly the same way as they were in the old format – all that’s changed is the omission of the text. And the links are set up to open in a new tab – which works for me (in Chrome. Did the image links in older posts work for you?
It’s likely how I’ve set up Safari, as I don’t get new tabs. will be checking out settings
As to the old format, I used the text to decide if I wanted to buy. Now I have to click through to Amazon just to get text. I will be checking out far fewer books as a consequence.
I changed Safari settings to display the Tabs bar, now I can go back to AAR from Amazon. Thanks
Great, I’m glad you’ve found a way that works for you :)
I have enjoyed the Megan Crane Special Ops series and have this one pre ordered!
I like Megan Crane (aka, Caitlin Crews), but those Special Ops books are pricey and they never seem to go on sale. $7.99 is a high price for an ebook, imho.
When you look at the price is many mystery and suspense titles though, 7.99 is at the lower end of the price bracket. Many historical mysteries, for example, are$12-13 these days.
Hmm, the new format works well on my tablet, but not on my laptop in Firefox where I just get a row of boxes instead of the covers.
I’m looking forward to The Same End. I’ll wait for the reviews of all the others!
Also, Lily Morton is releasing a novella called Playground Games between 1st and 10th January. It’s part of the ‘Winter Wonderland Story Giveaway’, with details via her Newsletter.
That’s a Firefox setting you can change. It’s blocking pictures with links, concerned about a fairly unlikely security breach.
Try it in Safari or Google. It should work!
I’m having the same problem as Wendy F, but with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. I checked my internet security settings, and I am already set to “show all photos.” Any thoughts on this?
If you are running an anti-virus protection program, they are routinely overly broad. I’d look at your privacy settings.
Thanks, Dabney. It worked. If anyone else is having problems on this platform, try switching security from “strict” or “balanced” to “basic” to see the pictures. :)
Okay, I’ve sorted it by disabling Privacy Badger for this site. Not a clue what it is, but it works!
The pickings are relatively slim for me this January. In part because one of the books I was eagerly anticipating—CD Reiss’s TAKE ME, which had been scheduled for January 12 (and, based on the sample that was included at the end of Reiss’s CROWNE RULES, is going to be incredibly dark)—has been moved…all the way to December 25, 2021!
January 1 will bring the latest from Caitlin Crews, my favorite HP author. This one is a sheikh romance, CHOSEN FOR HIS DESERT THRONE.
Katee Robert begins a new series, Sabine Valley, with ABEL, which drops on January 5. Like Robert’s Wicked Villains series, Sabine Valley seems to be a mashup of contemporary romance tropes along with historical, mythic, and pop-culture elements—not to mention lots of hot-hot-hot sexytimes. In the Sabine Valley series, seven brothers return to the place where they were once betrayed (I’m assuming they’ll be a book for each brother). ABEL features the oldest brother and includes an MMF romance. I’m really looking forward to this one because Robert did MMF exceptionally well in her Twisted Hearts series and, especially, in THE BEAST.
Maisey Yates, despite a backlist of well over 100 books, was one of my “discoveries” of 2020. Her characters have common sense and maturity, even when they find themselves tangled in angsty emotional situations. Yates’s latest book for Harlequin Desire, THE RANCHER’S WAGER, arrives on January 12. It’s an antagonists-to-lovers story about rival ranch owners and what happens when one wins the services of the other as a “ranch hand” in a poker game. Oh, does that sound like pure DiscoDollyDeb catnip!
The next book in Zoe York’s Kinkaids of Pine Harbour series, FIERCE AT HEART, drops on January 26. This features a marriage of convenience between two military veterans—the twist being the heroine (who is older than the hero) was once the hero’s commanding officer. That should be all kinds of sexy fun!
Clicking on the image takes me to American Amazon. Is that the intention? Thanks.
It should take you to your local Amazon; we have one of those plugins that is supposed to “localise” links.
If you buy a book, it should direct you to your site.
I somehow missed the Sarina Bowen one and now I’m bouncing. She’s such a one click for me.
I’m waiting for the audio on that one – Teddy Hamilton is one of my go-to narrators :)
The new format’s nice. Easy to use. The longer blurbs are good though I miss seeing who’s chosen what.
There’s lots of buzz around Big Bad Wolf. I’ll be curious to see what readers think of it.
Me too, I’m also curious what *I’ll* think of it. It could be something I love with my whole being or I don’t make it past the second chapter. Curious.
Charlie Adhara’s series is called Big Bad Wolf – that’s where my brain goes whenever I see that title!
The Higgins is an older book–it’s one of my favorites of hers. I do wish they wouldn’t do this, however. It’s confusing to readers. And why would anyone buy this one for six bucks when you could get it for 0.99?
I noticed that when I was compiling the list – when I searched at Amazon both editions came up separately (as though they were separate books). Shall I take it off this list?
Well, since we’ve discussed it and I think it’s misleading to readers we should leave it here.
But, readers, don’t buy it! If you haven’t read it, buy the old one!
Our Darkest Night sounds good. I look forward to a review.