Romance

Biology Lessons by Melissa Kantor

Five Reasons to Read Biology Lessons

Unwanted Teen Pregnancy

Strong, Supportive Female Friendships

Reproductive Rights

Body Autonomy

Timely and Realistic

Synopsis:

Biology Lessons is a heartfelt and profound YA contemporary young adult novel about the strength and importance of female friendship in a time when bodily autonomy is outlawed, from acclaimed author Melissa Kantor. It came out on January 14, 2025.

Grace Williams has her future all mapped out. A high school senior in her beloved state of Texas, Grace plans to move to New York after graduation to study at Barnard College, and maybe, someday, win a Nobel Prize in biology. When she’s asked to tutor Jack Nelson, the star baseball player who’s flunking bio, she thinks it’ll be just another activity to list on her college application.

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January 15, 2025 1

The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan

I really enjoyed this quick and easy contemporary read. Annie and Amanda are best friends with big plans to take L.A. by storm and become famous actresses. Their relationship is amazing. They just get each other. Their inside jokes and short cuts are the epitome of friends that have known each other most of their lives. Amanda loves Annie, but Annie is in love with Amanda. Not that she’s been brave enough to tell her, of course. When a tragedy occurs Annie flees town on her own and assumes a new identity as Cass.

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January 12, 2025 0

Royal Heirs Academy by Lindsey Duga

This is a good YA dark academia book that pits four teenagers against each other to become the heir to the King’s throne. Three of them are the royal grandchildren of the King who were sent away & raised by guardians out of the public eye. The fourth is a teenager that won a scholarship to the elite academy they are all sent to that is infamous for breeding the world’s next generation of leaders – and liars.

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January 9, 2025 0

Beard in Hiding (Winston Brothers #4.5) by Penny Reid

4.5 stars

I absolutely LOVE the Winston Brothers series, so when I saw this book set in the same world focused on two side characters, I couldn’t wait to read it. This book is about Jason “Repo” Doe, the finance guy for the Iron Wraith motorcycle club that the brother’s abusive father belongs to, and Diane Donner, Jennifer “the banana cake queen’s” mother and owner of the local lodge and bakery. Diane is divorced from her despicable husband and has decided to take back her power. She strolls into the Iron Wraith’s dive bar looking to talk Repo into a one-night stand. Who knew that one night wouldn’t be enough for either of them?

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December 31, 2024 0

The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch

This was a really cute mm romance that gave me Romeo and Juliet vibes. In this book, Santa is not warm and fuzzy, but rather an insincere power-hungry dictator determined to strip power from all holidays for Christmas alone. The Christmas heir, Prince Coal, who did not want to be the heir, is initially clueless about the darker side of the holiday. He starts to sense that all is not as it seems when he discovers that the hot Halloween Prince he’d been flirting with, Hex, was being held at the Christmas court as a hostage. Once Coal learns the extent of his father’s tactics, he is determined to find a way for all holidays to work together for the benefit of all.

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December 15, 2024 0

Hot Mic, Cold Ice by Tela V.

This is a fun, flirty, steamy contemporary hockey romance. The book started off a bit slow, but once the characters started to interact more it picked up. Ziggy starts a new job as an on-air hockey reporter, but she’s never done it before. It starts off rocky, especially when hot-shot goalie Elliot humiliates her during her first sportscast. What starts off as animosity quickly turns to lust as the two secretly hook up. Both of their careers improve as they continue their clandestine affair, but things get complicated when real feelings start to creep in.

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December 15, 2024 0

A Cruel Thirst by Angela Montoya

Book Tour Feature

Today I’m happy to be a part of @tbrbeyondtours & @angelamontoya_author book tour for A Cruel Thirst by Angela Montoya. It’s a Young Adult Fantasy book that comes out on December 17, 2024. It sounds so good. I can’t wait to read it.

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December 15, 2024 1

The Duchess Takes it All by Michelle McLean

This is a cute, funny historical fiction romance that kept me laughing and turning pages until I finished. Tamsin’s father is a merchant, so she’s not a “blue blood”. She married a (much older) Duke and her station was immediately elevated, but the ton shunned her, even more so after her husband dies. Christian is a royal from Germany that was appointed co-guardian of Tamsin’s son. You can imagine how “thrilled” Tamsin is to learn this. She likes being able to finally make her own decisions, manage her own money and the estate, and most importantly, her son. Tamsin is determined to drive Christian back to Germany and out of her, and her son’s, life.

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December 1, 2024 0

The Side Project by Laurel Osterkamp

This is a great story about family, secrets, friendships, and second chances. The main characters have gone through a lot in the past and have their walls up. After joining together to be partners for their writing class, which they keep secret from Rylee’s best friend and Carson’s sister, they embark on a secret “no-strings attached” fling meant to last just until their class ends. The couple has a lot of chemistry so it’s no surprised that things get complicated when they develop real feelings for each other.

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December 1, 2024 0