BookCase Club February 2017 Subscription Box Review – Booking for Love Case

BookCase.Club is a one stop monthly subscription service for book lovers. Each month, you’ll receive 2 books curated for one of eight 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! Subscriptions are available in 1, 3, 6, or 12-month terms and each one will automatically renew until you cancel. Gift subscriptions are also available.

Select your genre when you sign up. You can change the genre each month, but make sure to log in by the 10th to ensure your choice. If you have a multi-month subscription you will need to shoot them an email to switch. This month I am reviewing the “Booking for Love Case.”

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Recently, BookCase.Club had a bit of a facelift. They have a new box, they introduced a bookmark info card, and now they have exclusive patterned paper! Altogether, the new look is refreshing and polished.

I received 2 paperbacks this month, one a historical romance and the other contemporary.

Here’s the front of the product info card, which is in a convenient bookmark form.

There was a bit of a teaser on the plots.

The Baron’s Honorable Daughter by Lynn Morris ($15 $6.52) I love historical fiction so this is going to be read first. I love to learn about the customs in long ago times and this one is supposed to have lots of info on the Regency era.

When her stepfather suddenly dies, Valeria Segrave finds she must take charge of her grieving mother and the vast estate which now belongs to her six-year-old half brother, the new Earl of Maledon. Though capable, Valeria is frustrated to find each day brings a new struggle as she tries to establish her authority with servants, stewards, and solicitors-all men. As a young woman with no blood relation to the earl, they are all too ready to dismiss her.

Much to her chagrin, she must rely on the assistance of her stepfather’s distant kinsman, Alastair, Lord Hylton. He is handsome and noble, and Valeria senses under the veneer of his gentlemanly behavior that she never measures up to his expectations of a refined lady. In light of that, accepting his help and feeling under a burden of gratitude to him is almost unbearable. Even when Valeria leaves the country estate for the glittering London Season, where she gets into a series of escapades, Lord Hylton is always there to witness, criticize, and correct her behavior. But if Alastair insists on engaging in a battle of wits and wills with the lively Valeria, she’ll stop at nothing to prove that he’s met his match.

One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell ($15.99 $10.88) I missed the whole Sex and the City craze as I was a stay-at-home mom at the time and couldn’t afford cable, but this is supposed to be SATC for the middle-aged crowd, so maybe it’ll grab me.

From one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day comes another look at the tough and tender women of New York City–this time, through the lens of where they live.

One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan’s oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into–one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell’s new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they’ve carefully established–or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king’s wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person’s game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building.

Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York’s Gilded Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell’s New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past: They thirst for power, for social prominence, and for marriages that are successful–at least to the public eye. But Bushnell is an original, and One Fifth Avenue is so fresh that it reads as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before.

I liked the selections this month! I usually read historical romance but a contemporary novel is welcomed as well. One book was published in 2014 and the other in 2008 so they are not too recent but since I haven’t read them before they’re new to me! This month’s selections totaled $17.40, which is more than the price of the subscription plus shipping.

What did you think of this month’s choices? Have you tried any of the BookCase Club subscriptions?

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