Tales of a Returning Historical Romance Reader

 Hello, my fellow readers, you know that feeling when you discover a new favorite book, author, or genre? I think the only better or could come as close as that is when you rediscover your love for one or all of those things. Recently, I have been rediscovering how much I love historical romance. Thanks to the power of read-a-thons and my monthly TBR games I have had the opportunity to reread some of the series that made me fall in love with historical romance in the first place, but I've also had the opportunity to discover some newly found favorites. 

The series that I had an opportunity to reread was Sarah MacLean's Bareknuckle Bastards series. 

     If these gorgeous covers by themselves weren't enough to make anyone want to read these books, these books feature some of the most well-written, well-rounded female characters I've read in historical romance to date. Not only that, but they also have the most cinnamon rolls of all cinnamon rolls when it comes to MacLean's male counterparts. All three of these books have a great combination of romance, action, and humor that will be a great introduction for anyone wanting to get into historical romance but also just a great addition to any readers' library. 

   The first new author I've discovered in returning to the historical romance genre is Sapna Bhog. As far as I can tell, this author has only written two historical romances, but having read both I am already a huge fan of this author. 

    


Can we all just take a collective long moment to take in these gorgeous covers? Omg. Again, if anyone needs a bit more to give these books a chance, they'll be happy to hear these books both have amazingly written female characters as well as all the steam any historical romance reader could want. 

Another new author and series I've come to adore is Grace Callaway's Society of Angels series. 



These are all the currently published books in this series, including a novella. I really need more people to know about this series. This is very much what you get when you combine historical romance and Charlie's Angels, which is a combination I never knew I needed until I read this series. Now having read this, I really want to check out Grace Callaway's future book and their previous work. 

I'm so happy I've gotten back into historical romance. It, of course, can be difficult to keep up with all the books within all the genres but I love it when I can kind of have a book reset and still be surprised by something new I've read or I've rediscovered an old favorite. 

What's a genre you've taken a break from but want to get back into? Do you enjoy rereading books? If so, what books have you reread recently? Did you enjoy them the same way? More? Or less? 

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