“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.” -Marcel Proust As an author, I read a lot. As a reader, I think a lot. As a romance reader, I think about love a lot – an unfortunate amount, my friends might say. What is it made of? Hormones? Pheromones? Something less tangible? How reliable is it? Does it fade over time? There’s no limit to the number of questions a love-addled brain can produce in a single episode of insomnia, and no end of disastrous love stories that have failed to answer them correctly. So, why do we keep trying? C.S. Lewis wrote about four different types of love and how they intersect and fluctuate across the human life cycle. His essential conclusion was that familial love is defining, spiritual/religious love is necessary, passionate love (aka lust) is powerful yet fleeting, and companionship is forever. Thus, since companionship is the one that lasts, we should all marry our best friends, right? Admittedly, if we did, the divorce rate might go down. The birth rate might also go down since many of us, myself included, have exactly zero desire to see our BFFs naked. What’s the answer,…

Finally we are headed into spring with the month of April but other than looking forward to the warmer weather, there’s also plenty more in the book world to get excited about. April has so many releases that I’ve been anxiously awaiting so for this week’s recommendations, I wanted to share what I plan on reading and hopefully you’ll find them interesting enough to add them to your own to-be-read pile! During the first week of April, THE BEAST by J.R. Ward will be unleashed onto the world. As Ward’s fourteenth book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, Ward will be returning to a previous couple in the series who have already had their HEA and Since Rhage and Mary are my all-time favorite couple, I’m especially excited to have Ward revisit them. Another title that I think is worthy of putting on your TBR list for April is Donna Grant‘s SMOKE AND FIRE. As book nine in the Dark Kings series, Grant takes the dragon mythology and runs with it, breathing new life and culture into her books. This particular book is one of my favorites in the series because not only to get a steamy romance but there’s…