Which April releases have you read? Of those, which
ones do you recommend? Which ones are you most looking forward to reading? Tell
us and one lucky commenter will win a random book from my prize stash!
Until May, happy reading!
Historical
Bite Me, Your Grace –
Brooklyn Ann (Paranormal)
Secrets of a Runaway Bride
– Valerie Bowman
Darius – Grace Burrowes
At the Highlander’s Mercy
– Terri Brisbin
And the Miss Ran Away from
the Rake – Elizabeth Boyle
A Man for Glory – Carolyn
Davidson
The Handbook to Handling
His Lordship – Suzanne Enoch
Z: A Novel of Zelda
Fitzgerald – Therese Anne Fowler (Historical Fiction)
Hero of My Heart – Megan
Frampton (e-book)
The Paris Affair – Teresa
Grant (Historical Fiction)
If He’s Tempted – Hannah
Howell
The Dissolute Duke –
Sophia James
The Rake to Redeem Her –
Julia Justiss
Endless Heart – Emma Lang
And Then She Fell –
Stephanie Laurens
Seduced at Sunset –
Julianne MacLean
The Fever Tree – Jennifer
McVeigh (Historical Fiction)
Let It Be Me – Kate Noble
The Bridgertons: Happily
Ever After – Julia Quinn
Sins of a Ruthless Rogue –
Anna Randol
Children of Liberty –
Paullina Simons (Historical Fiction)
Francesca – Bertrice Small
Sweet Madness – Heather
Snow
The Ashford Affair –
Lauren Willig (Historical Fiction)
Contemporary
Scandalous – Tilly
Bagshawe (Women’s Fiction)
Get You Good – Rhonda
Bowen (Women’s Fiction)
Secrets from the Past –
Barbara Taylor Bradford (Women’s Fiction)
Consequences – Sasha
Campbell (Women’s Fiction)
The Wanderer – Robyn Carr
The Trouble with Love –
Beth Ciotta
What Tears Us Apart –
Deborah Cloyed (Women’s Fiction)
Fierce Love – Phoebe Conn
Too Hot to Handle –
Victoria Dahl
The Secret of Happy Ever
After – Lucy Dillon (Women’s Fiction)
No Turning Back – HelenKay
Dimon (e-book)
Marriage Matters – Cynthia
Ellingsen (Women’s Fiction)
The Weight of Small Things
– Sherri Wood Emmons (Women’s Fiction)
A Perfect Proposal – Katie
Fforde
From the Kitchen of Half
Truth – Maria Goodin (Women’s Fiction)
The Mighty Quinns: Jack –
Kate Hoffman
Love Irresistibly – Julie
James
Where You Can Find Me –
Sheri Joseph (Women’s Fiction)
The Mystery of Mercy Close
– Marian Keyes (Women’s Fiction)
Orphan Train – Christina
Baker Kline (Women’s Fiction)
The Cherry Cola Book Club
– Ashton Lee (Women’s Fiction)
Abby Road – Ophelia London
(Women’s Fiction)
The Difference a Day Makes
– Barbara Longley
Starting Now – Debbie
Macomber (Women’s Fiction)
Reflection Point – Emily
March
Something About Sophie –
Mary Kay McComas (Women’s Fiction)
Once Tempted – Laura Moore
Chocolate for Two – Maria
Murnane (Women’s Fiction)
The Rule-Breaker – Rhonda Nelson
The Clover House –
Henriette Lazaridis Power (Women’s Fiction)
Last Chance Book Club –
Hope Ramsay
No One Needs to Know –
Debbi Rawlins
The Love Shack – Christie
Ridgway
Amity & Sorrow – Peggy
Riley (Women’s Fiction)
What She Wants – Sheila
Roberts
Don’t Go – Lisa Scottoline
(Women’s Fiction)
Evidence of Life – Barbara
Taylor Sissel (Women’s Fiction)
The Summer He Came Home – Juliana
Stone
The Paradise Guest House –
Ellen Sussman (Women’s Fiction)
Currant Creek Valley –
RaeAnne Thayne
The Last Telegram – Liz
Trenow (Women’s Fiction)
The House at the End of
Hope Street – Menna van Praag (Women’s Fiction)
Wrecked – Shiloh Walker
While We Were Watching
Downton Abbey – Wendy Wax (Women’s Fiction)
Crash Landing – Lori Wilde
YA/Teen
The Sweetest Dark – Shana Abé
(Historical, Paranormal)
Apollyon – Jennifer L.
Armentrout (Paranormal)
The Rising – Kelley Armstrong
(Paranormal)
The Elite – Kiera Cass
(Futuristic)
Period.8 – Chris Crutcher
Shadow on the Sun – David Macinnis
Gill (Sci-Fi)
That Time I Joined the
Circus – J.J. Howard
The Rules – Stacey Kade
(Sci-Fi)
Inferno – Sherrilyn Kenyon
(Fantasy)
From Ashes – Molly McAdams
Taking Chances – Molly McAdams
Walking Disaster – Jamie McGuire
A Touch of Scarlet – Eve
Marie Mont (Historical)
This Is What Happy Looks
Like – Jennifer E. Smith
The Secret of Ella and
Micha – Jessica Sorensen
Nameless: A Tale of Beauty
and Madness – Lili St. Crow (Paranormal)
My Life after Now –
Jessica Verdi
Prophecy Girl – Cecily White
(Paranormal)
Hollywood High: Get Ready
for War – Ni-Ni Simone, Amir Abrams
Romantic Suspense
A Profiler’s Case for
Seduction – Carla Cassidy
Scene of the Crime:
Deadman’s Bluff – Carla Cassidy
The Seven-Day Target –
Natalie Charles
Royal Rescue – Lisa Childs
Cardwell Ranch Trespasser –
B.J. Daniels
Shades of Passion – Virna DePaul
Buried – Kendra Elliot
Conceal, Protect – Carol Ericson
Let the Dead Sleep –
Heather Graham
Star Witness – Mallory Kane
Special Forces Rendezvous –
Elle Kennedy
Secure Location – Beverly Long
Slow Burn – Anne Marsh
Hot Pursuit – Lorie O’Clare
Copper Lake Confidential –
Marilyn Pappano
Whiskey Beach – Nora Roberts
’Til Death – Sharon Sala
Surrender – Stephanie Tyler
Thrill Ride – Julie Ann
Walker
Paranormal
Sinner’s Heart – Zoë Archer
Passion’s Prey – A.C.
Arthur
Immortal Trust – Claire Ashgrove
Only Lycans Need Apply –
Michele Bardsley
Dogfighters – Alex Beecroft
Falling Blind – Shannon K.
Butcher
Flirting Under a Full Moon
– Ashlyn Chase
Rebel – Kristina Douglas
Twice Tempted – Jeaniene Frost
Allegiance Sworn – Kylie Griffin
Kiss of Temptation –
Sandra Hill
Beauty’s Beast – Jenna Kernan
Wolf with Benefits –
Shelly Laurenston
Stripper – Anitra Lynn
McLeod
Assassin’s Gambit – Amy Raby
Lover at Last – J.R. Ward
Finding Crissten – N.J.
Walters
The Wolf’s Prince – Karen Whiddon
Urban Fantasy
Hot Blooded – Amanda Carlson
Deadly Sting – Jennifer Estep
Rising Darkness – Thea Harrison
Blood Trade – Faith Hunter
The Lost – Vicki Pettersson
Iron Kin – M.J. Scott
A Patch of Darkness –
Yolanda Sfetsos
Of Shadow Born – Dianne Sylvan
Kitty Rocks the House –
Carrie Vaughn
Erotica/Erotic Romance
Bonds of Need – Lynda Aicher
(e-book)
Fever – Maya Banks
Hidden Heat – Leah Braemel
Lush – Lauren Dane
Office Affair – Jess Dee
Worlds Apart – Barbara Elsborg
Take What You Want –
Jeannette Grey (e-book)
Forbidden Fires – Jodie Griffin
(e-book)
Handle with Care –
Josephine Myles
The Ghosts and Ms.
Montgomery – Elizabeth Raines (e-book)
Desired – Anne Rainey
The Jezebel – Saskia Walker
Nautier & Wilder –
Lora Leigh & Jaci Burton
The Pleasure Project –
JAX, Jenna McCormick, Cassie Ryan
I'm just adding all of the Historical to my wish list, though my daughter says I need to branch out too.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing wrong with that, Mary! Historical romance is where it all started for me. :)
DeleteI read HelenKay Dimon's No Turning Back and Heather Graham's Let the Dead Sleep. Looking forward to Julie's Love Irresistibly and Suzanne's The Handbook to Handling His Lordship.
ReplyDeleteJane, you are going to love Julie's newest!!
DeleteI am looking forward to Love Irresistibly by Julie James.
ReplyDeleteAs with all of Julie's books, it is worth the wait, Maureen!
DeleteWOW! Quite a collection!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to read Heather Snow, Susanne Enoch, Elizabeth Boyle, Julianne MacLean, Julia Justiss, Sophia James, Stephanie Laurens, Julia Quinn, Victoria Dahl, Kate Hoffmann, Maya Banks, Laura Dane, Nora Roberts, Stephanie Tyler, Robyn Carr, Julie James, HelenKay Dimon, Debbie Macomber, Lori Wilde......
LOL! Love your list, Laurie!
DeleteOh my goodness, so many books my mind just boggles and so does my checkbook! I have read And Then She Fell – Stephanie Laurens, and added to my TBB list is (mostly historical, can't help it that is my first love)Darius – Grace Burrowes, At the Highlander’s Mercy – Terri Brisbin, And the Miss Ran Away from the Rake – Elizabeth Boyle, The Handbook to Handling His Lordship – Suzanne Enoch,If He’s Tempted – Hannah Howell, Seduced at Sunset – Julianne MacLean, The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After – Julia Quinn, Whiskey Beach – Nora Roberts, and Lover at Last – J.R. Ward.....Yeah, I am going to be a busy, busy girl for a while.
ReplyDeleteYou sure are going to be busy! Enjoy them, Dianna!
DeleteWow you are busy. I read the Julie James and Deb Macomber books and I loved them. So many contemps I see on that list; some are in the mail to me and some are on my tbr and for those that aren't yet am looking f/d to: Current Creek Valley and Too Hot to Handle. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing, Pat--lots of contemporaries this month. I'm glad to hear you loved Julie's!
DeleteApril is certainly bringing showers of great books for romance readers. I too loved Love Irresistibly. I've been a Julie James fan from her first book. Today I’m reading Let It Be Me by Kate Noble, another winner.
ReplyDeleteI’ve already read the following, liked them all, and raved about some.
And the Miss Ran Away from the Rake – Elizabeth Boyle
Hero of My Heart – Megan Frampton
The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After – Julia Quinn
Sweet Madness – Heather Snow
The Ashford Affair – Lauren Willig
The Wanderer – Robyn Carr
Love Irresistibly – Julie James
Reflection Point – Emily March
Once Tempted – Laura Moore
The Love Shack – Christie Ridgway
What She Wants – Sheila Roberts
The Summer He Came Home – Juliana Stone
Currant Creek Valley – RaeAnne Thayne
While We Were Watching Downton Abbey – Wendy Wax
These are on my TBR or TBB lists:
Secrets of a Runaway Bride – Valerie Bowman
Darius – Grace Burrowes
The Handbook to Handling His Lordship – Suzanne Enoch
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald – Therese Anne Fowler
The Paris Affair – Teresa Grant
The Rake to Redeem Her – Julia Justiss
Sins of a Ruthless Rogue – Anna Randol
Children of Liberty – Paullina Simons
Scandalous – Tilly Bagshawe
A Perfect Proposal – Katie Fforde
The Mystery of Mercy Close – Marian Keyes
Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline
Starting Now – Debbie Macomber
Something About Sophie – Mary Kay McComas
Last Chance Book Club – Hope Ramsay
Wrecked – Shiloh Walker
Crash Landing – Lori Wilde
Whiskey Beach – Nora Roberts
Janga, I am so glad to hear that Kate's newest is another winner. I can't wait to read it!
DeleteThe only one I read so far was Starting Now. Any of the contemps and romantic supsense books I will have to ck out; there are some on there that I know I will want to read as well as Lush by Lauren Dane.
ReplyDeleteSounds good, Helen! Enjoy!
Deleteso many books, so little time ;)
ReplyDeletereally enjoyed & recommend If He’s Tempted – Hannah Howell; also enjoyed (though not fave of the series) Wolf with Benefits – Shelly Laurenston
next up on the reading list:
And Then She Fell – Stephanie Laurens
Kiss of Temptation – Sandra Hill
waiting to arrive:
And the Miss Ran Away from the Rake – Elizabeth Boyle
The Handbook to Handling His Lordship – Suzanne Enoch
Falling Blind – Shannon K. Butcher
Great list, gamistress! And I can so relate: so many books, so little time!
DeleteAndrea, as always, the number of new releases is mind-boggling! I'm not yet into April releases, due to my perpetual state if behindness. I've been enjoying Elle Kennedy's new RS series and looking forward to Nora's Whiskey Beach, Amy Raby's Assassin's Gambit, and Grace Burrowes' Darius.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your new family member. We had a yellow lab, and we adored her.
Thanks, Nancy! He is such a joy and fits right in. :)
DeleteI just got my copy of And then she Fell by Stephanie Laurens and I'm waiting for my copy of Darius by Grace Burrowes to arrive. But all the historicals sound wonderful to me and some of the romantic suspense and paranormals too.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy them, catslady!
DeleteI'm reading Love Irresistibly by Julie James right now and enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear it, Kim!
DeleteI haven't read any of them, but I have a few on my list, including Love Irresistibly. I have quite a few of the other ones, either on my list or already purchased, but not yet read! And Then She Fell, Let it Be Me,Sweet Madness, Reflection Point, The Wanderer & Last Chance Book Club are top on the list right now. Thanks for the detailed list!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Sharlene! Glad I can help you buy more books. ;-)
DeleteToday I finished SWEET MADNESS by Heather Snow. What an amazing and moving story!
ReplyDeleteThere are so many on your list that I plan to read. April is going to be a great book month!
Marcy Shuler
bmndshuler(at)hotmail(dot)com
Oh! Thanks for the rec, Marcy!
DeleteI haven't read any of the books coming out yet, but I'm really looking forward to these:
ReplyDeleteBite Me, Your Grace – Brooklyn Ann (Paranormal)
Sweet Madness – Heather Snow
Twice Tempted – Jeaniene Frost
Deadly Sting – Jennifer Estep
Blood Trade – Faith Hunter
Iron Kin – M.J. Scott
Kitty Rocks the House – Carrie Vaughn
I hope you enjoy them, Barbara!
DeleteI have Sins of a Ruthless Rogue by Anna Randol and The Wonderer by Rybin Carr but haven't read them yet.
ReplyDeleteI heard The Wanderer hit #1 on the NYT bestseller list! Go Robyn, and go romance!
DeleteCant wait for Shiloh, leslie Kelly bOos,bwhooo
ReplyDeleteThanks, have a great weekend
Kimh
Thanks, Kim! Have a great weekend yourself!
DeleteSooo many! Especially Buried by Kendra Elliot and Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts.
ReplyDeleteI know, Na! The Nora sounds really good. :)
DeleteI just downloaded The Bridgerton Epilogues onto my Kindle last night. I want to get a print copy as well. I also want to pick up the new books by Suzanne Enoch, Heather Snow, and Kate Noble. I feel guilty that I haven't visited my indie bookstore since before Christmas.....My DH gave me the Kindle for Christmas. AND, once again, my proverbial TBR pile is overflowing. :)
ReplyDeleteLOL! I saw where it's discounted. I may have to buy a copy for my Nook and get a print copy as well, Deb! Enjoy!
DeleteMy most anticipated in april is actually a m/m book by abigail roux. But i also waiting for whiskey beach from nora roberts and several other.
ReplyDeleteI want to read And Then She Fell, plus Julia Quinns book. They both seem great. Haven't read any of these, yet :)
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