#Rose Santoriello

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I've been juggling 3 books! The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Hook-up to Holidate by Priscilla Rose/Rose Santoriello, and In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire.

The Hunger Games was by first finish in 2024.

Weekly Bookish Question #370 (December 31st - January 6th 2024)

What is your first read of 2024?

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in October 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

❓What was the last queer book you read?

[ Release dates may have changed. List below! ]

❤️ Back in the Hunt - K. Sterling 🧡 The Connoisseur's Christmas Courtship - L.M. Bennett 💛 Shoestring Theory - Mariana Costa �� The Black Hunger - Nicholas Pullen 💙 Wild Fire - Radclyffe 💜 Because Fat Girl - Lauren Marie Fleming ❤️ The Ace and Aro Relationship Guide - Cody Daigle-Orians 🧡 Soul Survivors - River Kai 💛 Stolen Hearts - Michele Castleman 💙 Reverence - Milena McKay 💜 Love Immortal - Kit Vincent

❤️ Take a Sad Song - Ona Gritz 🧡 Showmance - Chad Beguelin 💛 Redundancies & Potentials - Dominique Dickey 💚 Alexander - Karla Nikole 💙 Rest in Peaches - Alex Brown 💜 Rise of the Wrecking Crew - Kalynn Bayron ❤️ Language Lessons - Sage Donnell 🧡 Legend of the White Snake - Sher Lee 💛 Sorcery and Small Magis - Maiga Doocy 💙 Cried Out - Kate Hawthorne 💜 Skysong - C.A. Wright 🌈 No Rules Tonight - Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada

❤️ My Mother's Ridiculous Rules for Dating - Philip William Stover 🧡 I Shall Never Fall in Love - Hari Conner 💛 Castle Swimmer - Wendy Martin 🧡 The Hollow and the Haunted - Camilla Raines 💙 How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? - Anna Montague 💜 The Arizona Triangle - Sydney Graves ❤️ Every Rule Undone - Nancy S.M. Waldman 🧡 Mister Nice - Jamie Jennings 💛 Under the Mistletoe with You - Lizzie Huxley-Jones 💙 How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster - Muriel Leung 💜 The Snowball Effect - Haley Cass 🌈 This Will Be Fun - E.B. Asher

❤️ Our Evenings - Alan Hollinghurst 🧡 Don't Let the Forest In - C.G. Drews 💛 Finding Delaware - Bree Wiley 💚 The Reeds - Arjun Basu 💙 The Bloodless Princes - Charlotte Bond 💜 Women's Hotel - Daniel M. Lavery ❤️ Alex McKenna and the Academy of Souls - Vicki-Ann Bush 🧡 A Vile Season - David Ferraro 💛 Synchronicity - J.J. Hale 💙 Writ of Love - Cassidy Crane 💜 Di-Curious - Erin Branch 🌈 Swordcrossed - Freya Marske

❤️ Stand Up! - Tori Sharp 🧡 Haunt Me, Baby - Rose Santoriello 💚 Planet Drag: Uncover the Global Herstory - Various 💙 Until We Shatter - Kate Dylan 💜 Metal from Heaven - August Clarke ❤️ Vicious Fates and Vast Futures - Tilly Bramley 🧡 The Daughter of Danray - Natalia Hernandez 💛 If I Stopped Haunting You - Colby Wilkens 💙 The Darkness Behind The Door - Mira Gonzalez 💜 Hunt Monsters, Do Magic, and Fall in Love - A.M. Weald 🌈 Jasmine Is Haunted - Mark Oshiro

❤️ Model Home - Rivers Solomon 🧡 Haunting Melody - Chloe Spencer 💛 The Door in Lake Mallion - S.M. Beiko 💚 The City in Glass - Nghi Vo 💙 Fang Fiction - Kate Stayman-London 💜 The Merriest Misters - Timothy Janovsky ❤️ Make the Season Bright - Ashley Herring Blake 🧡 My Kind of Trouble - L.A. Schwartz 💛 To Become A Flower - CEON 💙 What Was Lost - Melissa Connelly 💜 The Forbidden Book - Sacha Lamb 🌈 This Dark Paradise - Erin Luken

❤️ The Sound of Storms - Anya Keeler 🧡 Country Queers - Rae Garringer 💛 A Spell for Heartsickness - Alistair Reeves 💚 The Stars Inside Us - Kristy Gardner 💙 October's Ocean - Delaine Coppock 💜 Haunt Your Heart Out - Amber Roberts ❤️ The Dark Becomes Her - Judy I. Lin 🧡 Power Pose - Emily Silver 💛 The Magic You Make - Jason June 💙 House of Elephants - Claribel A. Ortega 💜 Tegan and Sara: Crush - Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, Tillie Walden 🌈 The Brightness Between Us - Eliot Schrefer

❤️ The Spring before Obergefell - Benjamin S. Grossberg 🧡 Pray For Him - Tyler Battaglia 💛 Coup de Grâce - Sofia Ajram 💚 Coal Gets In Your Veins - Cat Rector 💙 He Who Bleeds - Dorian Valentine 💜 The Revenge of Captain Vessia - Leslie Allen ❤️ Camelot's Tower - Brooke Matthews 🧡 The Manor - Tiffany E. Taylor 💛 Arcanum - Ashlyn Drewek 💙 Strange Beasts - Susan J. Morris 💜 On Vicious Worlds - Bethany Jacobs 🌈 Death Song - B. Ripley

❤️ Best Hex Ever - Nadia El-Fassi 🧡 I'll Be Gone for Christmas - Georgia K. Boone 💛 Make My Wish Come True - Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick 💚 Gentlest of Wild Things - Sarah Underwood 💙 Troth - E.H. Lupton 💜 Solis - Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher ❤️ Lucy, Uncensored - Mel Hammond, Teghan Hammond 🧡 Mama - Nikkya Hargrove 💛 Under All the Lights - Maya Ameyaw 💙 Reclaimed - Seth Haddon 💜 The Devil's Dilemma - Alex J. Adams 🌈 The Jovian Madrigals - Janneke de Beer

❤️ Blood Price - Nicole Evans 🧡 Worship Me - K.C. Blume 💛 All the Hearts You Eat - Hailey Piper 💚 The Nightmare Before Kissmas - Sara Raasch 💙 Rogue Community College - David R. Slayton 💜 Mistress of Hours - Emma Elizabeth ❤️ The Dog Trainer's Secret - Sav Uong 🧡 Most Wonderful - Georgia Clark 💛 Antenora - Dori Lumpkin 💙 House of Frank - Kay Synclaire 💜 Sir Callie and the Witch's War - Esme Symes-Smith 🌈 Prince of Fortune - Lisa Tirreno

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REVIEW

Monsters Under Mistletoe

A Monster Holiday Anthology

Monsters are not all scary and some are wonderful book boyfriends as seen in this varied and interesting collection of short stories that gives readers an opportunity to sample authors’ writing styles. I finished four of the seventeen stories and enjoyed them all. Something for everyone in this collection!

KISSED BY THE ICE BEAST by Robin O’Connor

Human female Olivia meets her alien Hoxiam  mate Kyavri at a bar Christmas party on the planet Strewn. Who knew that a huge blue furred alien with sharp teeth would be the one to steal a human’s heart.

YULE LOVE BITES by Petra Palermo

Vampire human romance sees ancient Felipe and Elise fall for one another while in close proximity one snowed in winter evening. They are perfect together and the way there manage to be together provides a fun ending for the couple.

SANTA BABY by Trish Heinreich

A one night hookup at a Christmas party sees an orc and human meeting for a hot interlude only to find themselves working new jobs side by side soon afterward. Is it Fate that they end up together at the party and then again meet and are able to pursue more? Perhaps.

SO I SMOOCHED A SANTA BEAR

Mated wolf and bear shifters who met on The Mating Game series are surprised by the costumes worn to the office Christmas party and their plans for a steamy holiday will provide all the naughty and nice they both look forward to.

THICKET AND STICK IT by E.L. Eldridge

Ivy was born on Yul, lives in the woods, and knows there is a presence in the woods she is drawn to and wants to meet…feels she MUST meet. What a wonderful story this one was ~ Would love to know how Ivy and the variety of wood fae she meets move forward together in the future!

Did I like the stories I read? Yes

Will I finish reading the rest of the stories? Yes

Thank you to BookFunnel and the authors for the ARC – This is my honest review.

5 Stars

BLURB

What is more iconic for the holiday season than a mistletoe? Whether it's your workplace enemy, or your gym crush, all it takes is a tiptoe under the mistletoe and it's true love. From Minotaurs, Orcs, Aliens, to grumpy Trolls, we've got a kiss for every good little monster this holiday season. Come get this monstrous holiday anthology where all the proceeds benefit Planned Parenthood. Snag a smooch under this mistletoe, and donate to a good cause! Featuring Short Stories LE Eldridge Lizzie Strong Ash Raven Petra Palerno Rose Santoriello Kate Prior Ami Wright Trish Heinrich Selina Shaw Melody Beckett Kristen Strassel Bella Blair Marian Pattechat Robin O'Connor Stephanie Kazowz Chloe Alice Balkin Nikki Bradley All proceeds from this anthology will be donated to Planned Parenthood.

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So, since I’ve been listening to the A Tale of Two Cities cast/concept albums virtually non-stop since finishing the book (and Lucie Manette’s been my dream role since I first read the book in 10th grade) I wanted to get other peoples’ opinions on the changes to Lucie’s song, Without a Word, because I’m conflicted;

I like the lyric changes – and they do feel more conclusive – but I adore the melody of the vocal line at the end of the concept album version, and it’s completely removed for the broadway version, and that makes me sad. Though, admittedly, I do like that Brandi goes up at the end because I’m an obnoxious lyric soprano who loves any and all unnecessarily high notes in musical theatre.

Left: Concept Album – Christiane Noll

Right: International Cast Recording – Brandi Bukhardt

Thoughts?

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