Winter is starting to creep in now and I’m feeling some gothic reading but also some fun reading for when I’m wrapped up all cosy by the fire.
I have picked out two contemporary romances and two gothic books for my November reading plan. I’m currently reading Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy which I didn’t manage to finish in October for Victober.
The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
The first rule of this book club:
You don’t talk about book club.
Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott’s marriage is in major league trouble. He’s recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it’s the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he’s let his pride and fear get the better of him.
Welcome to the Bromance Book Club.
Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville’s top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency titled Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it’ll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his wife.
Grin and Beard It by Penny Reid
Sienna Diaz is everyone’s favorite “fat” funny lady. The movie studio executives can’t explain it, but her films are out-grossing all the fit and trim headliners and Hollywood’s most beautiful elite. The simple truth is, everyone loves plus-sized Sienna.
But she has a problem, she can’t read maps and her sense of direction is almost as bad as her comedic timing is stellar. Therefore, when Sienna’s latest starring role takes her to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park she finds herself continually lost while trying to navigate the backroads of Green Valley, Tennessee. Much to her consternation, Sienna’s most frequent savior is a ridiculously handsome, charming, and cheeky Park Ranger by the name of Jethro Winston.
Sienna is accustomed to high levels of man-handsome, so it’s not Jethro’s chiseled features or his perfect physique that make Sienna stutter. It’s his southern charm. And gentlemanly manners. And habit of looking at her too long and too often.
Sienna has successfully navigated the labyrinth of Hollywood heart-throbs. But can she traverse the tenuous trails of Tennessee without losing her head? Or worse, her heart?
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
As Messieurs Richard and Moncharmin prepare to take over as acting managers of the Opera House, they discover their predecessors have bequeathed them the ‘Opera Ghost’. A separate memorandum book has been set aside for his various whims, including extravagant financial needs. Heedless of numerous warnings to comply with these strange demands the managers shrug it all of as a practical joke taken too far. Then a sequence of eerie coincidences and tragic events follow, culminating in the sudden disappearance of the beautiful Prima Donna Christine Daae in the middle of a performance.
Tortured by pangs of unrequited love, the mysterious figure living beneath the Opera House has been awaiting his chance to strike- and once he does, he is deadly…
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice, this sensuously written spellbinding classic remains ‘the most successful vampire story since Bram Stoker’s Dracula‘ (The Times)
In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life – the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice’s compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published in 1897.
When Interview with the Vampire was originally published the Washington Post said it was: called Interview with the Vampire a ‘thrilling, strikingly original work of the imagination . . . sometimes horrible, sometimes beautiful, always unforgettable’. Now, more than forty years since its release, Anne Rice’s masterpiece is more beloved than ever.
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I’ve seen The Bromance Book Club around a lot recently. It looks like a fun read! You’ve got some great titles in there. On my November TBR is Angel Mage by Garth Nix and The Lord of the Rings by JR Tolkien. I think LOTR series will possibly overflow into December, but we’ll see!
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Enjoy your books!
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I remember reading The Phantom of the Opera in high school and being totally shocked by the completely different story than the play. Idk if that’s like really ignorant, but I was 16 and had no idea it was even a book.
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I hope you’ve had a lovely month of reading
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I have, thank you
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