BookCase Club Subscription Box Review & Coupon – March 2016 Booking for Love Case

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BookCase.Club  is a one stop monthly subscription service for book lovers. Each month, you’ll receive 2 books curated for one of six genres.  For the Read to Me Case (children’s picture books), you’ll receive four books!  With each new subscription, a book is donated to Books for Keeps in Athens, Ga.  This is an inexpensive book subscription – less than $15 including shipping per month!

Select your genre when you sign up.  I love a HEA (happily ever after) and sometimes a little down and dirty, so I got the Booking for Love Case.

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This box contains two full-sized books in it; one a paperback and the other a hardcover.

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The folded information card contains a brief synopsis of each title as well as a note to subscribers.  I love the Cassandra Clare quote on the front of the card, “One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”   I can’t tell you how many times I’ve finished a book and decided to take a risk or had my views changed; words do contain the power to change us.

Each of the book selections this month included a letter from its respective author with details on how/why the book was written and insights into the stories.

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Dear Reader,

Thank you so much for reading The Lady’s Tutor.  Elizabeth and Ramiel are two of my most popular lovers.  One of the highlights of my writing career was receiving a letter from a Chaplin, thanking me for my honesty in dealing with a woman’s sexuality.  I was also very honored when a gynecologist wrote informing me she recommended The Lady’s Tutor to some of her patients.  It was an Amazon.com Top 10 bestseller, and even received a write up in The Globe and Mail, a mainstream newspaper in Canada.  It is always a pleasure to see the various covers my publisher at Kensington creates (it is on its 5th cover).  I think the current cover of the pretty lady with the black lace fan is my favorite.  My publisher in Spain created a marvelous cover, too, utilizing the gorgeous painting “Leila” by Sir Frank Dicksee, painted in 1892.

I was inspired to write The Lady’s Tutor when a friend gifted me one Christmas with a copy of The Perfumed Garden, a 15th century Arabic treatise on making love.  The moment I opened the beautifully illustrated book, I vowed to write a story utilizing the lessons within.  The only problem was…the book I received was edited, including far more pictures than text.  I spent months hunting down an original copy of The Perfumed Garden as translated by Sir Richard Burton in 1886, so I could more faithfully incorporate the lessons that change Elizabeth and Ramiel’s life.

I hope you enjoy The Lady’s Tutor.  Please do write and let me know what you think of it!  BTW, if you enjoy reading about Elizabeth and Ramiel, you might enjoy the spin-off tale, A Man And A Woman, a short novel about Ramiel’s faithful servant, Muhamed.  It was a fascinating story to write.  Publisher’s Weekly wrote that Muhamed is “probably the first 53-year-old eunuch to be a romantic hero.”  It was a joy giving him his much deserved happy ending.

May 2016 be filled with wonderful reads!

Robin Schone

www.robinschone.net

The Lady’s Tutor by Robin Schone ($11.59):  I like a good historical romance… I get pulled into the fashions and dialogue and get completely lost.  Why don’t people talk like that anymore?  But I digress.  Back to this story, there’s a bit of taboo with the proper English lady (Elizabeth) asking the bastard son of an Arab sheik (Ramiel) for lessons in the sexual arts.  I’ve just started reading and the tension is already strong.  Can’t wait to see how this ends!

An Education In Pleasure

Married young to a man hand-picked by her father, Elizabeth Petre is an ideal Victorian lady. She has borne two sons and endured sixteen years of selfless duty in a passionless marriage. Craving a man’s loving touch yet loyal to her wedding vows, Elizabeth is determined to seduce her coldly indifferent husband. She knows of only one man who can teach her the erotic secrets of love.

A Lesson In Love

The bastard son of an English countess and an Arab sheik, Ramiel Devington was reared to embrace both Western culture and Eastern pleasure. Scorned by society and challenged by prim Elizabeth’s request, he undertakes her instruction in the art of sensual delight. But when the lessons become a temptation neither can resist, Elizabeth is forced to choose between obligation and a bold, forbidden passion. . .

“Takes the reader on a sweeping adventure into the very heart of sensuality and the nature of passion.” —RT Book Reviews

“Be prepared for romantic erotica the way it should be written. . .truly captivating.” –theromancereader.com, 5 Hearts

“Combining the erotic with the romantic, Robin Schone tests the boundaries of romance fiction.” —The Literary Times

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Dear Reader, 

     I first wrote Letters from Skye nine years ago, while I was living in Edinburgh, Scotland.  After my youngest was born, we escaped the city to spend a week on the Isle of Skye.  It was a magical week, in a rain-spattered cottage on the beach.  We chased rainbows, looked for fairies, and dozed, dreaming, by a little peal coal fire.  On the drive back to Edinburgh, a story came together in my head.  The story of a woman bound to the poetry of Skye, held within those rocky coasts, being given a glimpse of the greater world with the unexpected arrival of an envelope.  The story of a man, desperate to prove himself fearless, finding his only fear on the other end of those letters.  The story of a daughter, trying to catch the past as it comes tumbling out of the wall.  I scribbled notes right there in the car and started furiously writing when we got back home.

     What poured out over many sleepless nights was not just a novel; it was an extended letter to myself, written in those secret hours past midnight, while the rest of the household slept.  It was a reminder that, no matter how far I may go in the world, I was never more than a letter away from those I love.  Just as my characters forge relationships with pen-and-paper, I could hold on to my own with nothing but.  Words are stronger than we may think.

     I’m grateful to have a chance to share those words with you.  I hope to remind readers of those days when an envelope sent the heart racing, when a stamp was affixed with a kiss, when people had no choice but to entrust bits of their heart to the postman with every letter they sent.

     I moved beyond Skye for my next book, At the Edge of Summer, and traveled (in person and on the page) to France.  It’s the story of a friendship born of proximity but boundless in the face of separation and war.  When a wounded French soldier and a Scottish artist meet in Paris at the end of WWI, they remember an idyllic summer they shared before war and attempt to recapture a love they thought lost.  It will be released on May 17th and is available for preorder now.  If you enjoy Letters from Skye, I hope that you’ll enjoy At the Edge of Summer as well!

     Happy reading!

Jessica Brockmole

Letters From Skye by Jessica Brockmole ($15.91):  This doesn’t sound like lighter fare, and I feel that this will be much more dramatic than the other selection.  I’m anxious to see how the hidden letters help bridge the gap between two generations of women.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word to stir the heart.

March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet, has never seen the world beyond her home on Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye. So she is astonished when her first fan letter arrives, from a college student, David Graham, in far-away America. As the two strike up a correspondence—sharing their favorite books, wildest hopes, and deepest secrets—their exchanges blossom into friendship, and eventually into love. But as World War I engulfs Europe and David volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only wait for him on Skye, hoping he’ll survive.

June 1940: At the start of World War II, Elspeth’s daughter, Margaret, has fallen for a pilot in the Royal Air Force. Her mother warns her against seeking love in wartime, an admonition Margaret doesn’t understand. Then, after a bomb rocks Elspeth’s house, and letters that were hidden in a wall come raining down, Elspeth disappears. Only a single letter remains as a clue to Elspeth’s whereabouts. As Margaret sets out to discover where her mother has gone, she must also face the truth of what happened to her family long ago.

Sparkling with charm and full of captivating period detail, Letters from Skye is a testament to the power of love to overcome great adversity, and marks Jessica Brockmole as a stunning new literary voice.

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Praise for Letters from Skye

Letters from Skye is a captivating love story that celebrates the power of hope to triumph over time and circumstance.”—Vanessa Diffenbaugh, New York Times bestselling author of The Language of Flowers

“[A] remarkable story of two women, their loves, their secrets, and two world wars . . . [in which] the beauty of Scotland, the tragedy of war, the longings of the heart, and the struggles of a family torn apart by disloyalty are brilliantly drawn, leaving just enough blanks to be filled by the reader’s imagination.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Tantalizing . . . sure to please readers who enjoyed other epistolary novels like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.”—Stratford Gazette

“An absorbing and rewarding saga of loss and discovery.”—Kate Alcott, New York Timesbestselling author of The Dressmaker

“A sweeping and sweet (but not saccharine) love story.”USA Today

“[A] dazzling little jewel.”Richmond Times-Dispatch

This month’s value was $27.50, with one title alone covering the cost of the box.  I like BookCase.Club because I get a variety of stories within my chosen genre and a chance to discover new authors.   Did you like this month’s selections?  Leave me a comment and let me know what you thought.

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  • Megan
    03.10.16

    This is an interesting subscription. I’m always looking for new books and I like that you pick among genres. I’m interested to know what you thought of the books after your read them. I hate getting to the end of the book and having a disappointing feeling with a bad ending or poor writing or it’s just plain boring type of thing.