I wasn’t planning to write another one of these posts so soon, but it’s a fun and easy one I can get out before I go away. Plus, I still have Kindle Unlimited for a while, so why not write another one of these?
Role Playing by Cathy Yardley
This book is actually pretty high up on my general to be read. I’ve been desperately looking for books about gaming in all forms; table top, video etc. As someone that consumes a lot of video games, both playing them and watching YouTube playthroughs, I want more gaming books in my life.
I love that this book has slightly older characters that love gaming and it’s also a romance. I feel like the romance market is full of people in their 20s, so it’s a nice change. I’m getting to the point now that I’m older than the main characters in most romance books, which is really weird.
Synopsis: Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a deal―he’ll be more social if she does the same―she can’t refuse. She joins a new online gaming guild led by a friendly healer named Otter. So that nobody gets the wrong idea, she calls herself Bogwitch.
Otter is Aiden, a fifty-year-old optimist using the guild as an emotional outlet from his family drama caring for his aging mother while his brother plays house with Aiden’s ex-fiancée.
Bogwitch and Otter become fast virtual friends, but there’s a catch. Bogwitch thinks Otter is a college student. Otter assumes Bogwitch is an octogenarian.
When they finally meet face to face―after a rocky, shocking start―the unlikely pair of sunshine and stormy personalities grow tentatively closer. But Maggie’s previous relationships have left her bitter, and Aiden’s got a complicated past of his own.
Everything’s easier online. Can they make it work in real life?
Bound by Dragons by Alisha Klapheke
I mentioned this book in a covers post recently and it reminded me that I never continued reading this series of standalone fantasy novels. I quite enjoyed the first two I read and I’m always up for a slightly shorter read, especially recently. Short books are carrying this blog right now. I’m away a lot at the moment with hardly any down time to read, so I’m going days without picking up a book – other than maybe one chapter to keep my Kindle reading streak alive.
Synopsis: This grumpy/sunshine fantasy romance about a feisty peasant and a dragon-riding Fae knight will keep you up until dawn! I was born to ride dragons and no one can steal my fate… All half-Fae Tahlia ever wanted was to become a Mist Knight, a dragon riding warrior defending the kingdom’s wild north coast. Sadly, she never had the right blood, the right ancestors, the right anything. But when an opportunity to take her employer’s place arises, she’s willing to risk death by fire and sneak into the tournament that will name the next Mist Knight. Second in command of the Mist Knights, full-blooded Fae noble Marius prides himself on living a strictly disciplined life. He has his Wed the commander’s daughter. Rise to his father-in-law’s role when the time is right. But he never saw Tahlia coming… Tahlia is determined to burn her way into the Mist Knights’ world and take that handsome Marius along for the ride.
*This is an upper YA/NA novel with mature situations and language. Though this book stands on its own, you will get more Tahlia and Marius in books coming up, and the heat level will rise with each book. Bound by Dragons is the fifth book in the Starry Kingdoms of the Fae Collection. These books are all standalones written by your favorite fantasy authors and are the perfect read for your summer vacation. Prepare to be swept away into magical worlds with tropes you obsess over and swoon-worthy romance.
Dear Quinn by Danielle Keil
You can pretty much guarantee if I have Kindle Unlimited, I’m going to read at least one of the Love Notes books. They’re such easy, fun reads that you really can’t fault them. Well you can, I have in the past. But you do know you’re in for a sweet romance that doesn’t need to be taken too seriously.
Synopsis: Everyone at Ryder High knows what it means to have a teal envelope taped to their locker on the first day of the month.
Quinn Maguire has her sights set on one thing, and one thing softball.
After a disaster last season left her injured, she’s determined to come back better than ever and prove herself.
Her plans are slightly altered when she gets a teal envelope on her locker. She won’t let it distract her from her plans, though. If it does, she’ll quit the secret admirer game before she loses softball.
But when her admirer sends her on a chase across town to find geocaches, she’s confused. None of the clues make sense to her.
And days before her first game, she finds herself back where she was last year—on the bench.
Now Quinn needs to figure out what is actually most important to her– softball or the people in her life who love her?
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