Hello! It’s Ely from Earl Grey Books back again for my monthly guest post. If you’ve been a follower of Angel for a while you’ve probably realised that she loves the romance genre a lot—she then passed that onto me. I’m much more selective in my romance reading, so I thought it might be fun today to share some sub-genres of romance I haven’t really tried before.
MC
I know Angel has been reading a few of these more recently, but I’m pretty sure it’s not going to be for me. I think read one maybe four or five years ago, and didn’t really enjoy though that was before I really read any romance. I’m not really much of a contemporary romance reader, apart from the occasional ice hockey read.
Music/Celebrity
Again, I did read Maybe Someday a really long time ago and loved it at the time, but I just don’t think this genre would be for me either. I don’t know why that is, because I do like YA contemporaries that go with that sort of thing. All this being said I do have a few that I’d like to try, like the Hush Note series from Sarina Bowen, Devney Perry and Rebecca Yarros, and the London Celebrities series from Lucy Parker.
Time Travel
Outlander is the extent of my experience with time travel romance. I have to admit though that I liked the TV series more than the first book, but that’s a whole other discussion. I do really want to try more of ten genre—I have an ebook copy of Love Beyond Time by Bethany Claire that I should definitely get to at some point soon.
Fantasy
Apparently, the theme here is having read one book in each genre before? So why not throw in a fantasy romance too. Like time travel, I do think I’d enjoy this. I love fantasy, I love romance—it would make sense that I’d love both, right? I would love some recommendations if anyone has any.
That’s my post for this month. I’ll see you all in November!
As bookworms we’ve all thought about what our dream libraries would look like, right? Maybe it’s floor to ceiling bookshelves and one of those cool ladders a la Belle, or maybe it’s perfect rainbow shelves or something else entirely. Today I thought I’d share which authors I’d definitely want in my dream library.
Agatha Christie
If you know me at all, you’d know that I’m a huge Agatha Christie fan. I’m definitely on my way to owning all of her books, but it’s still a little way away yet. She could probably have an entire bookshelf to herself.
Rick Riordan
I’m much, much closer to owning all of Riordan’s books. I’m only missing the Trials of Apollo series at the moment. He already has an entire cube to himself on my shelf, but he’s definitely going to need another.
Sabrina Jeffries
As my current favourite historical romance author, Sabrina Jeffries is also well on her way to having a shelf of her own. I have to be honest, if I was going for wall-to-wall shelves then I’d happily fill an entirely separate room of just historical romance.
Alice Oseman
I have loved Alice Oseman since Solitaire so while I already own all of her books, I’d happily give her a shelf to herself just so I can look at it and sob every day.
Daphne du Maurier
I couldn’t make this post and not mention du Maurier. Again, I own a lot of her books already but she deserves her own shelf. Maybe an old bookshelf, tucked away in a nook in my library just to capture the dark, slightly creepy vibe of her books.
So those are just five authors I’d have in my dream library. Who would you have in yours? You can check out more from me at Earl Grey books.
Hi, everyone! It’s me, Ely from Earl Grey Books back with my monthly guest post! I have to admit that I had bigger plans for this post, but I kind of ran out of time to do what I wanted. So instead, we’re doing my original idea on a smaller scale.
Anyway, I’ve been following along with Angel’s romance recommendations post and I thought it’d be fun to read some of them. So in preparation for today’s post, I read two them and now I’m going to share with you what I thought.
Full Measures by Rebecca Yarros
I don’t know what I was expecting from this one other than for it to completely rip out my heart. Angel made me read The Last Letter earlier this year and that destroyed me, and this one was just another book of me sobbing from start to finish. On a more serious note, I like Yarros’ love interests a lot—they feel genuine and I very rarely want to throttle them or scream at the protagonist to run. That doesn’t happen a lot for me in contemporary romances, so this one gets my tick of approval.
Him by Elle Kennedy and Sabrina Bowen
This is very different from the sort of romance I usually read. While I’ve read a few ice hockey/sports romance in the past (mostly from Kennedy and Bowen), I’ve never read an m/m romance before. I’ve read adult and YA m/m stories before, but never anything just romance. While I didn’t love this, I did really like it and both Wes and Jamie. It was just missing a little something for me. I don’t know what that something is, but I just know it wasn’t there.
So it’s a little bit of a shorter post today, but I hope you all enjoyed it anyway. I’ll see you all next month!
