Monday, June 29, 2026

Things I Notice, #89274927

 

        



Practically identical covers! The striped awning, characters hanging around in front of the store, title above the storefront... I'm going to start collecting them here on this post.

The second book is one I am listening to because I had been approved for an ARC of it a while back. When I looked it up on Goodreads, I was hit in the head with "A Clean Romance" under the title.  Not all editions of the book have this on the cover, and I 100% would not have requested it if I had read that in the ARC description. I went back and looked, and that was never mentioned.

I have nothing against a closed-door romance, but I absolutely hate the term "clean romance" because, of course, it implies such a thing as "dirty romance." And I hate that morality policing of the romance genre. 

At any rate, I'm much more looking forward to reading the first book, which is a sapphic later-in-life love story.

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Why I Have Trust Issues

I get an email everyday of ebook bargains, and if something catches my eye, I look it up on GoodReads to see what others think.

This book was in my email:

Very clearly, I see "Hard to Fake" by Piper Lawson, #1 in the Denver Kodiaks series.

Yet when I looked it up on GoodReads, this is what I found:
"Hard to Take" by Piper Lawson, #2 in the Denver Kodiaks series.

What is going on here?  The covers are similar, the title font is the same, but one is clearly an F and one is a T.
Bizarre.