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SuperWendy<p>One last share before I go read - I read Treachery on Tenth Street by Kate Belli, third book in a Gilded Age historical mystery series with strong romantic elements <a href="https://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/08/review-treachery-on-tenth-street.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspo</span><span class="invisible">t.com/2025/08/review-treachery-on-tenth-street.html</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span></p>
SuperWendy<p>Finally, my own <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/TBRChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TBRChallenge</span></a>. I went back to 1994 and Cheryl St. John's debut historical romance with Harlequin Historical <a href="https://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/07/tbrchallenge-2025-rain-shadow.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspo</span><span class="invisible">t.com/2025/07/tbrchallenge-2025-rain-shadow.html</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span></p>
SuperWendy<p>Last week of July and it's (finally) time to harvest this month's crop of Unusual Historicals! A bumper crop of 16 titles this month with plenty of variety. Read all about 'em at the blog <a href="https://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/07/hotter-than-4th-of-july-unusual.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspo</span><span class="invisible">t.com/2025/07/hotter-than-4th-of-july-unusual.html</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://romancelandia.club/@mom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mom</span></a></span></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a> </p><p>I read Nalini Singh's _Last Guard_; it's the 20th overall in the Psy/Changeling series, 5th in the Psy/Changeling: Trinity arc.</p><p>I did not enjoy it.</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/last-guard-by-nalini-singh/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/07/06/last-guard-by-nalini-singh/</span></a></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>I read Anthony Horowitz' _Moonflower Murders_, after watching the PBS Masterpiece adaptation--and I have thoughts about booth.</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/moonflower-murders-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/07/03/moonflower-murders-2024/</span></a></p>
SuperWendy<p>Hey, so while you were all sad recently about the state of historical romance in publishing, 18 (!) Unusual Historicals dropped in June. Turn that frown upside down and read all about them over at the Bat Cave <a href="https://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/06/so-many-choices-unusual-historicals-for.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspo</span><span class="invisible">t.com/2025/06/so-many-choices-unusual-historicals-for.html</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a> </p><p>I read Dr Malka Older's _The Potency Of Ungovernable Impulses_, the third in the amazing Investigations of Pleiti and Mossa <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/ScienceFictionMystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFictionMystery</span></a> series.</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/the-potency-of-ungovernable-impulses-by-malka-older/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/06/12/the-potency-of-ungovernable-impulses-by-malka-older/</span></a></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a></p><p>Late, but I finally read my ARC for Kelley Armstrong's most recent entry in the Rip Through Time series, _Death at a Highland Wedding_</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/death-at-a-highland-wedding-by-kelley-armstrong/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/06/04/death-at-a-highland-wedding-by-kelley-armstrong/</span></a></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a> </p><p>I read Benedict Brown's _Murder at Everham Hall_, the first in his Marius Quin series of historical cozy mysteries.</p><p>I really wanted to love this book. Alas!</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/TBRChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TBRChallenge</span></a></p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/murder-at-everham-hall-by-benedict-brown/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/05/29/murder-at-everham-hall-by-benedict-brown/</span></a></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a> </p><p>I read Sandra Antonellis' "Your Sterling Service", the short sequel to the In Service series.</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/your-sterling-service-by-sandra-antonelli/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/05/27/your-sterling-service-by-sandra-antonelli/</span></a></p>
SuperWendy<p>A cartoonist, a hand-writing expert, a showgirl, a chef and...A DOXY! The Unusual Historicals for May are bringing it! Read all about them over at the blog <a href="https://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/05/full-bloom-unusual-historicals-for-may.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspo</span><span class="invisible">t.com/2025/05/full-bloom-unusual-historicals-for-may.html</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a> </p><p>In the "better late than never" category: I read Sandra Antonelli's _At Your Service_, the first book in her In Service series, for Super Wendy's May <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/TBRChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TBRChallenge</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/at-your-service-by-sandra-antonelli/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/05/26/at-your-service-by-sandra-antonelli/</span></a></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a> </p><p>I had forgotten to review this movie!</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves-2023-sort-of-a-movie-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/05/16/dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves-2023-sort-of-a-movie-review/</span></a></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a> </p><p>I tried to read Debbie Young's _Death at the Old Curiosity Shop_; I tried, but I couldn't force myself to finish.</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/death-at-the-old-curiosity-shop-by-debbie-young/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/05/05/death-at-the-old-curiosity-shop-by-debbie-young/</span></a></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a> </p><p>I read T.E. Kinsey's _The Burning Issue of the Day_, part of the Lady Hardcastle historical cozy mystery series.</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/2025Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025Reading</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/the-burning-issue-of-the-day-by-t-e-kinsey/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/05/03/the-burning-issue-of-the-day-by-t-e-kinsey/</span></a></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a> </p><p>I read T.E. Kinsey's "Christmas at the Grange", part of the Lady Hardcastle historical cozy mystery series.</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/2025Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025Reading</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/christmas-at-the-grange-by-t-e-kinsey/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/05/02/christmas-at-the-grange-by-t-e-kinsey/</span></a></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a></p><p>I read Allison Montclair's <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/AnExcellentThingInAWoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnExcellentThingInAWoman</span></a>, the seventh book in the <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/SparksAndBainbridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SparksAndBainbridge</span></a> series of <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/HistoricalMystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalMystery</span></a></p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/2025Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2025Reading</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/NetGalleyARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetGalleyARC</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p>I read _Quilling Round the Year_</p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/quilling-round-the-year-by-rachel-warrillow/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/04/30/quilling-round-the-year-by-rachel-warrillow/</span></a></p>
SuperWendy<p>It's that time! Time to check out the themes and sign up for the 2025 <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/TBRChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TBRChallenge</span></a>! Thanks to everyone who filled out my poll, some great theme suggestions for this next year. Details at the blog <a href="https://wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2024/12/all-aboard-sign-up-for-2025-tbrchallenge.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspo</span><span class="invisible">t.com/2024/12/all-aboard-sign-up-for-2025-tbrchallenge.html</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span></p>
azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomancingTheVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomancingTheVote</span></a> 2024 edition is live!</p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RomBkBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomBkBlog</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/2024Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2024Election</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/06/30/romancing-the-vote-2024-is-live/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2024/06/30/romancing-the-vote-2024-is-live/</span></a></p>
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