Hello everyone, I hope you've all been having a good start to the year so far!! With just 10 days left of Pagebound's Winter Readalong season, I wanted to introduce something new that we could do for this Quest. I thought we could do a Books of the Season highlight (think Employee of the Month but ✨️ books ✨️) instead of unofficial readalongs, for something more casual for this Quest!! For this spring, I wanted to highlight a book each that fit the season from our Sports and Historical genres.

Sports — The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman

Spring is here and that means baseball teams are thawing and getting ready to strut their stuff! If you're looking to ride the high from Heated Rivalry, maybe a sports romance from the current sport season would be fun ⚾️

Minor leagues. Major chemistry. A joyful, heartfelt debut rom-com revealing what’s possible when we allow ourselves to want something enough to swing for the fences

Historical — A Gentleman's Gentleman by T.J. Alexander

With the coming of spring, it also meant the start of the English social season in the Regency era! Perhaps I could interest you with a historical romance after you finish the latest season of Bridgerton 🎩

With its heady combination of dry wit, slow-burn romance, and a nuanced, complex portrait of trans identity and relationships that’s as relevant now as it was during the Regency era, A Gentleman's Gentleman stands to transform the historical romance genre as we know it.

Are you looking to read one over the other this season? Both? Or do you have different plans for working through this Quest this season? Have you read either of these already? I'd love to know!

I hope these two seasonal reads will find your fancy, and we hope to see you and your beautiful brains in the book forums this spring!