Episode 127: Luxuria by Colette Rhodes

Its Hispanic Heritage Month here on the podcast and we are celebrating by taking a trip back in time to Restored Republic era Mexico to discuss the last installment of the Luna Sisters series, ⁠Gabriella and His Grace⁠ by Liana de La Rosa. It’s been a while since we’ve been on the Tardis traveling back in time but we wanted to visit this period of history with three formidable sisters doing the hard work to improve women’s lives and health. SOS: ⁠Vined and Dined⁠ by Fern Summers Up Next: (One Hundred) 50 Shades of Gray EL James What We’re Reading: ⁠Just for the Plot⁠ by Meghan Quinn ⁠My Fae Lady⁠ by SL Prater and Jen Lynning Follow us on ⁠Spotify⁠ Website: ⁠www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com⁠ Merch: ⁠https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/⁠ TikTok: ⁠ChickLitBookClub⁠ Instagram and Threads:⁠ ChickLitBookClubPodcast⁠ Pinterest: ⁠ChickLitBookClubPodcast⁠ BlueSky:⁠@clbcpodcast.bsky.social⁠ Youtube: ⁠@ChickLitBookClub⁠ Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

We weren’t ready to leave the hockey rink, so we read Face Off by Chelsea Curto! It’s been on our list forever and we just hadn’t gotten there, but we’re sooooo glad we did. Give us female hockey players and reformed rakes all day long, please and thank you. We also wax rhapsodic about Dolly Parton because we will always love her. SOS: Scizza Glizztas by Ryan J. Powell Up Next: Hispanic Heritage Month! Gabriella and His Grace by Liana De La Rosa What We’re Reading: Knots About You by Effie Raye The Grump Next Door by Effie Raye Gamble on a Gargoyle - Maggie Mayhem Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected]

To round out comfort reads month, we read Veronica’s pick: The Deal by Elle Kennedy. Thanks to Prime’s hit series Off Campus, we’re seeing a well-deserved resurgence of this book, and we’re totally stoked to talk about it. Hockey star Garrett Graham has a problem: he’s failing Ethics, which was supposed to be an easy class to round out his course load. Hannah Wells is sailing through class, and when Garrett begs her to tutor him, she shoots him down real fast. But when he finds out she has a crush on the star quarterback, he proposes a deal: he’ll help her land her crush via classic fake dating if she tutors him. One thing leads to another, and Hannah proposes her own deal. And suddenly, the fake-dating situation doesn’t feel so fake anymore. SOS: Taken by the Twister by Rebecca Massey and Adelyne Graves Up Next: Face Off by Chelsea Curto What We’re Reading: Rules for the Summer by Meghan Quinn (audio) Knot That High by Kara Kaminski The Differences Between Us by Rachel Higginson Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected]

We pulled an audible and chose to do comfort reads for the month of August. Rae chose The Opposite of You by Rachel Higginson, an enemies-to-lovers story about two chefs competing (or not) from across a parking lot. Vera has recently opened a food truck, aptly named Foodie, while trying to get back on her feet following a horrible breakup. Killian is the executive chef at swanky upscale restaurant, Lilou, right across the street. Can they put down the knives and call a truce? SOS: Phil and The File Cabinet by Katy Ipock Up Next: The Deal by Elle Kennedy What We’re Reading: Knot a Highland Romance by Sarah Blue Her Orc Healer by Etta Wild Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected]

We’ve headed out west for this episode, covering West of Forever by Corinne Michaels. Michaels is a new-to-us author, even though she’s been on our radar for years and is quite prolific. This is a Hatfields-McCoys/Romeo and Juliet situation with two rival ranching families. The only thing is, there’s a heck of a lot of chemistry between the only sister in a family of four, Lark Gatlin, and single dad/widower Tristan Stone. And well…what the families don’t know won’t hurt them. Or do the families know? SOS: Howls and Home Runs by Biblio Barbie Up Next: Save a Horse, Ride a Cowman by Emily Antoinette What We’re Reading: Starbound by Adrien Blue The Orc’s Heart by Etta Wild Mistakes Were Made by Lucy Score Follow us on Spotify Website: www.chicklitbookclubpodcast.com Merch: https://chicklitbookclubpodcast.threadless.com/ TikTok: ChickLitBookClub Instagram and Threads: ChickLitBookClubPodcast Pinterest: ChickLitBookClubPodcast BlueSky:@clbcpodcast.bsky.social Youtube: @ChickLitBookClub Email: [email protected]