Just put Into the Blue on my TBR and requested it from Netgalley! I’m not much a romance reader but I loved Ursa Major and trust Emma Brodie. Plus… those comps! 🤯 Thanks for putting it on my radar.
Can’t believe Megan Markle is adapting the wedding date - the perfect match we never knew we needed!! And on book recs, just read and loved Onyi Nwabineli’s debut Someday Maybe - raw, funny and above all the best representation of a close fiercely protective family. I want her to write a million more books!
I believe I read this recommendation from you Becca, but just in case I didn’t I need to share my -cannot-put-down book rec right now: The Force of Such Beauty. Holy ____. It is SO good. I am on holiday in the UK right now and told my husband he was on his own today to sightsee because I just wanted to stay behind and read it. Which I did. Will definitely read the author’s other books now. This book is part romance-part fairy tale-part mystery/thriller(?) Could definitely see this picked up for a movie or series.
Okay, I think you're the last straw, EVERYONE is recommending Sophie Cousen's latest, and I have read one of hers and loved, so with your summary I am finally convinced. It's going on the TBR.
Brilliant observation about Colored Television creating that Curb-style anxiety. The comparison is perfect because both capture how cringe comes from watching someoen dig themselves deeper through their own choices. I remeber reading Senna's book and having to take actual breaks when the protagonist's lies started compounding. That uncomfortable comedy space where humor meets dread is way harder to pull off in prose than TV dunno why more authors don't attempt it.
Absolutely thrilled to hear about one Italian summer!!
Same!!!!!
Becca, you are the best—so glad you enjoyed Into the Blue!! 🤗🤗🤗
Emma!!! I’m so excited for you and for people to read this book this summer!!!!
I have Into the Blue on my list for July - glad to hear it's so good! I LOVE a literary romance!
I will be so excited to hear what you think!
So excited for "So Old. So Young" ever since you raved about it on BOP!
Just put Into the Blue on my TBR and requested it from Netgalley! I’m not much a romance reader but I loved Ursa Major and trust Emma Brodie. Plus… those comps! 🤯 Thanks for putting it on my radar.
Oh my gosh, I hadn't heard of Into the Blue yet but it sounds exactly like my sort of book!
Can’t believe Megan Markle is adapting the wedding date - the perfect match we never knew we needed!! And on book recs, just read and loved Onyi Nwabineli’s debut Someday Maybe - raw, funny and above all the best representation of a close fiercely protective family. I want her to write a million more books!
I believe I read this recommendation from you Becca, but just in case I didn’t I need to share my -cannot-put-down book rec right now: The Force of Such Beauty. Holy ____. It is SO good. I am on holiday in the UK right now and told my husband he was on his own today to sightsee because I just wanted to stay behind and read it. Which I did. Will definitely read the author’s other books now. This book is part romance-part fairy tale-part mystery/thriller(?) Could definitely see this picked up for a movie or series.
Yes! I’m obsessed with this book and it was in my top 10 for 2025 as well!!
obsessed with these recs! and i LOVED Colored Television. i just did my own ranking of 2025 books and so many BOP recs made the list <3
on another note, *feral* for season 2 of heated rivalry!
Honored that BOP influenced your reading this year!! 🩷
Okay, I think you're the last straw, EVERYONE is recommending Sophie Cousen's latest, and I have read one of hers and loved, so with your summary I am finally convinced. It's going on the TBR.
Brilliant observation about Colored Television creating that Curb-style anxiety. The comparison is perfect because both capture how cringe comes from watching someoen dig themselves deeper through their own choices. I remeber reading Senna's book and having to take actual breaks when the protagonist's lies started compounding. That uncomfortable comedy space where humor meets dread is way harder to pull off in prose than TV dunno why more authors don't attempt it.