Do you love Romance Books? Do you need som eone to hear your passionate rants about the angsty love interest? Kiss an d Tell is the book club for you!
\nWhether it is enemies-to-lovers\, historical fic\, fae &\; fantasy set\, we cover any and all types of r omance! Join us the 1st Saturdays of the Month at 1:30PM for some juicy bo ok reviews.
\nMarch 7th: Love Triangle\, \;The Foxglove King\n
When Lore was thirteen\, she escaped a cult in the catacombs be neath the city of Dellaire. And in the ten years since\, she's lived by on e rule: don't let them find you. Easier said than done\, when her death ma gic ties her to the city. Mortem\, the magic born from death\, is a high-p riced and illicit commodity in Dellaire\, and Lore's job running poisons k eeps her \;in food\, shelter\, and relative security. But when a run g oes wrong and Lore's power is revealed\, she's taken by the Presque Mort\, a group of warrior-monks sanctioned to use Mortem working for the Sainted King. Lore fully expects a pyre\, but King August has a different plan. E ntire villages on the outskirts of the country have been dying overnight\, seemingly at random. Lore can either use her magic to find out what's hap pening and who in the King's court is responsible\, or die. Lore is thrust into the Sainted King's glittering court\, where no one can be believed a nd even fewer can be trusted. Guarded by Gabriel\, a duke-turned-monk\, an d continually running up against Bastian\, August's ne'er-do-well heir\, L ore tangles in politics\, religion\, and forbidden romance as she attempts to navigate a debauched and opulent society. But the life she left behind in the catacombs is catching up with her. And even as Lore makes her way through the Sainted court above\, they might be drawing closer than she th inks.
\nApril 4th: Marriage of Convenience\, \;
Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam " West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She al so thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tosse d\, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later\, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford profe ssor. He may be one of \;four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate\, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his f amily built from the ground up. He is interested\, however\, in his one-hu ndred-million-dollar inheritance. There's just one catch. Due to an antiqu ated clause in his grandfather's will\, Liam won't see a penny until he's been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he's in the hom e stretch\, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse\ , and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he's afraid to introd uce to his one-percenter parents - his unpolished\, not-so-ex-wife. But in the presence of his family\, Liam's fears quickly shift from whether the feisty\, foul-mouthed\, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his su rprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the p rice tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.
\nMay 2nd: Historical\, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
\nIn the early 1900s\, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore\, where she discovers dark fae ma gic\, friendship\, and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at ma ny things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology\, the study of faeries . She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the&n bsp\;world's first encylopedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party -- much less get in vited to one. And she prefers the company of her books\, her dog Shadow\, and the Fair Folk to that of friends or lovers. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hransvik\, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arri val: the dashing and insufferably handsome Wendell Bambleby\, who manages to charm the townsfolk\, get in the middle of her research\, and utterly c onfound and frustrate Emily. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncove ring the secrets of the Hidden Ones -- the most elusive of all faeries -- lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town\, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby\, and what does he really want? To find the answer\, she'll have to unlock the greatest myste ry of all -- her own heart.
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