Welcome to the what? Your next podcast. The podcast that tops your TVR. And today I have spring new releases, romcom recommendations for you. These books are releasing in 2025. So they're fresh releases that you can pre-order for your library or your favorite bookstore. So all these recommendations are romcom. We got adventure, we got Second Chance, we got rivals to Lovers, we got a lottery winners. We got a little bit of everything. There's six recommendations. Three of those recommendations were or originally published in the last week's noble hour episode, but I added three bonus recommendations as a podcast listener. So this is for you. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Bye.

Laura is going to give us those new book releases. I'm really excited about them and the focus for these are rom com. Yeah, so you gotta love spring and rom coms. They're just like meshed together. So I curated a list of nine titles It's about one sub stack. You can download it anytime But I actually curated three books that I wanted to highlight they're a mix of rom com, women's fiction and a little bit of lottery winner because what else can you have? So the first book is Didn't You Used to be Queen Bee by Terry Lynn DeFino So this book is a little bit more women's fiction, but it's actually has some rom com elements for it. So, Queenie B, or Regina Venuzzi, was a famous delivery chef, but she had a downfall. And so she's been spending the past 10 years working at a soup kitchen. And she just wanted to stay away from the shadows and stay away from the space because it was a public, it was a public downfall. And so she connects with Gail Carmichael, who is a struggling line cook and has raw talent. He's he has a total past as we always do, and she starts to mentor him and he ended up getting chosen to be part of a coveted spot of cult, which is, high stake reality TV show of cooking show, which I don't know about you, but I love watching those reality TV shows. Hell's kitchen master chef, like great British baking show. Like I love watching people cook and those high end, like those high stake realities. So. She has a choice. Regina has a choice whether she stays in the shadows or she actually shows up and to be seen because this is her old her. And so the book unravels. It's a fun book to read. It has food. It has reality TV, which we love. And so this is didn't used to be a Queenie Bee. And it's actually, it will be available this month, but it's a fun, and it's actually pink, so you might be able to get it as a as a reading challenge. The next book is actually, I actually should have included it as an Alaskan recommendation a couple weeks ago. But it comes out in April, even though it's a little bit winter, but you know, it is, it is still a rom com, so there's any trope, but you have a Rectory at 11. This book is basically a romance author who does not believe in love. And she gets caught up publicly in an event where they share her happily never list. So basically as an author, she's been writing epilogues of her stories of how they got divorced or how he dies or how things happen and they're just like, they hate each other and her fan base. Goes against it. They're just like, what did you just do? Like you are just, you are just like devastating. So her sister was like, you were planning to write an Alaskan book. You need to do research. Why don't you just go for six weeks to Alaska? So she goes to a retreat and her goal was to write a cozy mystery or mystery. She wanted to write a thriller altogether. She's I don't wanna believe in love. I'm gonna write about a murder, which is. Make sense. And so on the first day, there's a rugged guy. She goes into the south, picks her up, and she's ill equipped. She's expecting internet. She's expecting like this like luxury apartment, and it's just basically rugged, bare bones apart, like bare bones retreat. And he picks her up. He gives her like, he's just he's aware of her. He doesn't want to have feelings. He thinks she's city girl coming in, but you have more to be real. And they have all the tropes that you can imagine and their forced proximity. There's actually I have to sleep in one bed, one sleeping bag. He rescues her multiple times. He's actually holding on. She's a, she's growing up and trying to realize like how to fall in love. And so. Her sister sends her on a, on a ramp, like a hunted, like a scavenger hunt, and he has to provide her letters from her sister, like telling her she's doing a good job. And he also happens to be a, a, like a well known surgeon researcher in LA where she was based on. And he happens to be there helping his dad and. So there's like character growth between both characters and trying to come up not just from falling in love, but also trying to find a way in the world as of today. So it's a good book. I enjoy this one. It's still set in Alaska. So if you're still looking for Alaska books, this one is but it's definitely has a lot of character growth that fills into the spring guide. So this can go for a reading challenge. So it's any, any child, but you. The third book is Just Our Luck by Denise Williams. Denise Williams is like a try and true author that I feel like needs more love. Because her books are so fun. They also feature character growth. They feature space. So this one our heroine actually Just had a late night thing and she's not having a terrible day and she buys a lottery ticket and she goes get a late night donut and then the way out of the donut place, she leaves her lottery ticket. What turns out the lottery ticket is a winning lottery ticket and the guy, the owner, the bake shop owner finds a lottery ticket and he's a good guy. So even though the, the, the bakery is struggling, he's a good guy. I'm going to give you the money lottery ticket back and so it's a pretty pretty public way like how to show it like he the the idea like the he finding her goes viral as one does and so they have to pretend if people were shipping them they're like oh my gosh this is like a meet you and so they had to fake date so they can actually get you know more promotion for his business and then and she can get You know, get out of her down walk and when does the fake dating feelings grow and we have a love story. Again, pastel color. So this is another one that you can put for the spring reading guy. So those are three recommendations. If you'd like more recommendations, have nine recommendations available on sub stuff so you can sign up and you can get access to them today. I love that, you see lots of pastel recommendations for the challenge everyone, it matches the guide, cover all the things. My first gut reaction when you were sharing Laura, I was like oh my god, the any trope but you, I was like that sounds so good, but then you went to Denise Williams, I'm like I didn't know that book was coming out now, I love Denise Williams and you just sold me on that. Yeah, that one sounds so cute. But also, am I the only one that thinks that the setup for any trope at you with the author writing the Divorced and whatever. I would love authors to do that. Like I would pay for them to do like a subscription and you get to hear all the like terrible mess that their love story gets into. That sounds fun. Yes, I agree. No, give it to me. Yes. I want them to be like, he just, he, he just was abusive. He was just this, all this warning silence, red flags came true. Like he was not a green flag, not a green flag at all. But yes, I will love that. But you know, then again, I'm a cynic and I don't love the blue love.

Hey, podcast listener. I actually have some bonus recommendations. I got three of my books for you to add onto your spring reading. New releases, TBR. So the first one is Crash Landing by Annie McQuaid. So the plot is that Piper Adams has a meticulous libo in her post heartbreak, finds herself stranded. With her ex Wyatt after a cancel flight. The predicaments didn't specify when the crash line desert, a Caribbean island and compelling Piper. Different front, her past ones. I reconsider her trust wind. Wyatt. So this is crash landing. So think about Desert Island. Just pilot crashing. I don't know, it's a little bit too close to home the recently, but if you like, stranded islands, if you love On the Island by Tracy Garvis Graves graves, I think it is. I think you'll love this one. It's actually an upgraded version of it with not, the age gap. So this is the second chance romances. This is, I know. trying to figure out what am I gonna do, desert island, and how are we gonna get bus, the fact that he broke up with her and she had heartbreak for this. So that's crash landing by Annie McQuaid. So the next one is Code Word Romance spybyrly Walker. So in this one it's a leather spy romance that we love Carly, it's Adventure romance. So it's a little bit of a romantic one, but it's more like just a spy and romance stuff. So Max is tasked impersonating prime Minister during Italian vacation must navigate the assasination attempts. The mission complexity heightens us. Her handler Flynn is an ex lover, intertwining professional challenges and resolve personal feelings. Again, this is a second chance, romance, this is another one that you're like, what is supposed to do? Forced proximity. Again, we're just like going for it, but is a, an adventure romance if you're looking for a little bit more. Of like an adventure, a town vacation. This book is for you. That's again, Code Word Romance by Carly Walker. And the third bonus recommendation is Drop Dead by Lily Chu this is two rival journalists after a significant professional blunder are compelled to collaborate. Their partnership evolves amidst shark banker, slow burning romances, unraveling the intriguing mystery, making it a compelling enemies to love's narrative. So this is a professional rivals to lovers, book that you get to do. There's a b plot that actually makes it much more meatier, but it also had to come together and collaborate when they don't want to. So this is Drop Dead by Lily Chu. And now let's get to, those are, and now those are our recommendations. So you have six books to add onto your TBR that you can actually pre-order from your library or pre-order from your favorite bookstore. If you enjoy this podcast, please consider rate, review, subscribe, share with your friends. If you're looking for recommendations. We got 700 or plus. Book recommendation episodes with lots of author interviews. For more. If you want even more book recommendations that come to whattoreadnextblog.com you can set up for a newsletter, which is our substack. We have more recommendations sent via email, as well as daily recommendations available on the blog. So there's lots of books to pick up. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you have a great day.