#book reccs
I received an eARC from Netgalley in exchange for a honest review
Dorian and Cash are best friends, roommates, and coworkers. Despite their significant differences - Dorian is a vampire and Cash is a human who hunts monsters - they’ve grown to care about each and they make a good team, hunting down killer monsters at the behest of the Devereux Police Department. However, their easy camaraderie is upset when their friendship veers from platonic to romantic. Add to the mix a serial killer with a taste for human flesh, and Dorian and Cash’s careful balancing act is thrown for a loop as both men struggle to decide if they should make a move and risk their current status quo or remain in the friend zone.
Leather and Lace presents two compelling main characters and fleshes out their relationship through well timed narrative flashbacks. Dorian and Cash are polar opposites, with Dorian coming from a past filled with betrayal and upheaval, and Cash from a nurturing family of female hunters. Dorian has flair and loves to wear makeup and crop tops, masking his deeper issues and severe anxiety. Cash maintains an easy going demeanor but is searching for someone who appreciates all of him, including his deep love of Stevie Nicks and karaoke.
At its heart, Leather and Lace is about the relationship between Cash and Dorian but it also has a gruesome serial killer plot and an intriguing urban fantasy world populated by humans and supernatural creatures like vampires, werewolves, and shifters of all types. This book will definitely appeal to fans of shows like Supernatural and urban fantasy book series like White Trash Warlock and the Mercy Thompson series.
Random things I loved in the series: Dorian’s emotional support Chihuahua (her name is Dominique and Dorian dresses her in very cute sweaters and sparkly collars), the way supernatural creatures have evolved (vampires eat food and go out in the sun), Cash is Mexican-American, southern setting, werebadgers, all the soft karaoke moments, Dorian looks like a waif but is fulling capable of holding his man down!, the slow dance, the fact that the author openly acknowledges that Dorian and Cash are inspired by Cas and Dean. I’m really looking forward to the next book!
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Sophie Mackintosh’s début novel, “The Water Cure,” is sometimes grouped with the new crop of feminist dystopias, but it doesn’t much resemble them in that it constructs not a world but a bubble within a world—in other words, a family. The story, which concerns three sisters brought up in fear and isolation, is a sort of twisted fairy tale about toxic masculinity.
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August 1st,
Book mail is the best kind of mail! And a fantastic way to start the month.
Can anyone recommend me a fantasy wlw book where the main character is super feminine and the love interest in the opposite? Or anything with that vibe
since the response was so very fast and generous with the last one- anybody has any good short stories collections to recommend? bit weird is fine with me, diverse would be fantastic
We feel a chill in the air…could be the wind…could be the ghosts of forgotten books in your #TBR pile. What’s a little more books to add to the stack? Follow along with I scream YA as we countdown to Halloween with our most spine-tingling book recs! Follow us on all the socials so you don’t miss a thing!
For now, take a sneak peek of all the titles we have in store:
MARY, WILL I DIE?
It starts innocently enough. Four kids - three girls, one boy - are at one of their houses, playing games. One of them has read about “Bloody Mary” and the idea that if you look into a mirror and say her name thirteen times, she will show you the future. Some legends say she’ll show you your one true love or a skull to mark your death within five years. Others say that conjuring Bloody Mary will bring her into your world. Start reading Mary, Will I Die?
THE SCORPIO RACES
Some race to win. Others race to survive.It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. Start reading The Scorpio Races!
THE BURIED
Ten years ago, disaster struck the remote town of Indigo Falls. A horrific event drove the residents underground, into shelters that keep them safe from the danger on the surface. No one speaks about what happened that fateful day, but even the youngest still remember the fear and, most of all, the searing pain when sunlight touched their skin. Start reading The Buried!
IMPOSTORS
Deception. Risk. Betrayal. Redemption. Master storyteller Scott Westerfeld is at the top of his game, and back to his most famous realm of Uglies. Start reading the Impostors series!
THE GREAT DESTROYERS
Jo Linden was born into a world where wars are won with giant mechanical soldiers and the nuclear bomb was never invented. Yet the Cold War still rages, and international rivalries between democracy and communism are now fought at the Pax Games, an Olympic-style competition that pits young pilots of mechas against each other. Start reading The Great Destroyers!
BLUEBIRD
In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Start reading Bluebird!
POISONED
Once upon a time, a girl named Sophie rode into the forest with the queen’s huntsman. Her lips were the color of ripe cherries, her skin as soft as new-fallen snow, her hair as dark as midnight. When they stopped to rest, the huntsman took out his knife … and took Sophie’s heart. Start reading Poisoned!
STEPSISTER
Isabelle should be blissfully happy-she’s about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn’t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince’s heart. She’s the ugly stepsister who cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella’s shoe … which is now filling with blood. Start reading Stepsister!
THE LOOP
Life inside The Loop––the futuristic death row for teens under 18––is one long repetitive purgatory. Start reading The Loop!
INTERVIEW WITH A VIXEN (ARCHIE HORROR BOOK 2)
Everyone knows the characters from Riverdale: popular Archie Andrews, sophisticated Veronica Lodge, girl-next-door Betty Cooper, and angsty Jughead Jones. But this is not the Riverdale you know and love. Something twisted has awoken in the town with pep.
YOU & ME AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Hannah Ashton wakes up to silence. The entire city around her is empty, except for one other person: Leo Sterling. Stuck with only each other, they explore a world with no parents, no friends, and no school and realize that they can be themselves instead of playing the parts everyone expects of them. Start reading You & Me at the End of the World!
CITY OF GHOSTS
Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn’t like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead … and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost. So things are already pretty strange. Start reading City of Ghosts!
THE HONEYS
Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline’s radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who’d grown tragically distant. Preorder now!
THE WITCHERY
With the Haunting Season approaching, Wolves will soon rise from the swamp to kill and the humans and witches must work together to survive the yearly onslaught. And the stakes couldn’t be higher as two boys from the Hammersmitt School prepare to make their first sacrifices to the witches in exchange for protection. Preorder now!
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