HAPPY FRIDAY!!! THE WEEKEND IS FINALLY HERE AGAIN! Whatcha doing this weekend? Hopefully this weekend, I’m going to get up the nerve & maybe go thrifting for fun stuff. I’m addicted to watching reels of people thrifting (shopping for antiques, or unique pieces, or beautiful handblown glass, or one of a kind things… even vintage designer stuff that is still so gorgeous). There’s one girl that I follow (actually TWO) that are just model-gorgeous and have INCREDIBLE style. They find the BEST pieces, and put them together with such finesse, they look like runway models, or high-end socialites and so preppy pretty. Swwwooooon! I wanna try!!! And you KNOW I love bargain hunting, so it’s win-win!!!
Throwback Thursday: On This Day on Maryse’s Book Blog – Jan 22nd…
<— HOLY MOLY LOOK AT THAT!!!!! 😂🤣 This is wayyyyyy too much fun!!! I just love being inspired by my old posts that make up these lists and creating something so fun to go with it! As you can tell, my big highlight of this day, from back in time, was our HUGE love for Karen Marie Moning’s Fever Series!!!! It rocked our worlds, left and right, throttled us, and kept us coming back for more, and THAT ending!!! *whooooooooooof* that was something else!
And then… a few years later, the author surprised us with a sort of spin-off plus another book featuring our favorite couple!!
Kristen Ashley – The Rising Series Reading Order
KRISTEN ASHLEY FANS!!! IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T READ IT YET – this is a Fantasyland Spinoff series!!!
MichelleS: The Rising Series, by Kristen Ashley
My all time favorite KA book is Golden Dynasty, and this series takes place in THAT world. It is a spinoff of the Fantasyland series, and those characters actually appear in this series. YAY. are I say I might actually like this series MORE? Yup. I said it. The story, the couples, and the flow of the story is way better than the Fantasyland series. So if you were a fan of Golden Dynasty. Do yourself a favor and READ THIS SERIES.
Romantasy Reader Recommendation – Kristen Ashley’s Fantasyland Series
ANOTHER BLAST FROM OUR PAST & it’s by one of our very favorite authors in the world!!! And considering how hot “Romantasy” is right now, and when I found this old chat amongst our crew, I couldn’t help but bring this one back to the forefront!
P.S. This series has ALL NEW COVERS TOO!!!
Lori: They are standalones … If you want to read the whole series, start with Wildest Dreams…then GD, Fantastical, Broken Dove should be out soon. Well worth the read!! but GD is a must!
Latest Romance Book Releases – 01-20-2026
HOLY MOLY BIGGEST NEW RELEASE LIST IN MONTHS!!!! 47 NEW RELEASES on this list alone, and then the ones on yesterday’s list which had a few BIG standouts on it too (’cause of Maya Alden’s latest is on there too). So that makes 55 NEW BOOKS to choose from!!
BLURB JOLTS & STAND OUTS: Very Slowly All at Once (domestic thriller! Married couple with the usual financial issues start receiving checks in the mail...), All the Little Houses (from the author of “The Hunting Wives!!” – She’s built her own little social empire until they comes to the neighborhood…), Catch Her If You Can (Tessa Bailey’s latest sports romance marriage of convenience!!), Jax: Colorado Crush Hockey Series (the hockey star fake-dating a school-teacher for his image!!), Come What May (Ember Falls Book 4) by Corinne Michaels (BLURB JOLT! her best friend eases her mind that it’s okay that she’s dating her older client, but doesn’t realize it’s her dad!!), Room 706: A Novel by Ellie Levenson (BLURB JOLT!! Domestic thriller!! She’s in a hotel room having an affair and the hotel is taken over in a siege!!) and so many more. You’ll see!!