BookCase Club January 2018 Subscription Box Review + 50% Off Coupon – 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 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.”

DEAL: Save 50% on your first month! Use coupon code CRATE50.

My books were wrapped in Bookcase.Club branded paper.

I received a nifty bookmark.

The back of the bookmark featured a quote from each of this month’s featured books.

I received two hardcover books this month!

The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild ($27.95 list price, currently $20.70) I just want to say that this book looks lonnng, but it is supposed to touch on different time periods and I do love a historical novel. It is satirical and I think I might like this one.

Wickedly funny, this totally engaging, richly observed first novel by Hannah Rothschild is a tour de force. Its sweeping narrative and cast of wildly colorful characters takes you behind the scenes of a London auction house, into the secret operations of a powerful art dealer, to a flamboyant eighteenth-century-style dinner party, and into a modest living room in Berlin, among many other unexpected settings.
In “The Improbability of Love” we meet Annie McDee, thirty-one, who is working as a chef for two rather sinister art dealers. Recovering from the end of a long-term relationship, she is searching in a neglected secondhand shop for a birthday present for her unsuitable new lover. Hidden behind a rubber plant on top of a file cabinet, a grimy painting catches her eye. After spending her meager savings on the picture, Annie prepares an elaborate birthday dinner for two, only to be stood up.
The painting becomes hers, and as it turns out, Annie has stumbled across a lost masterpiece by one of the most important French painters of the eighteenth century. But who painted this masterpiece is not clear at first. Soon Annie finds herself pursued by interested parties who would do anything to possess her picture. For a gloomy, exiled Russian oligarch, an avaricious sheikha, a desperate auctioneer, and an unscrupulous dealer, among others, the painting embodies their greatest hopes and fears. In her search for the painting s identity, Annie will unwittingly uncover some of the darkest secrets of European history as well as the possibility of falling in love again.
Irreverent, witty, bittersweet, “The Improbability of Love” draws an unforgettable portrait of the London art scene, but it is also an exuberant and unexpected journey through life s highs and lows and the complexities of love and loss.”

See Me by Nicholas Sparks ($27 list price, currently $20.25) This particular printing has an exclusive Target Q&A inside. I have never read a book by this author, although I did watch The Notebook. Before looking into this book I didn’t realize that there was a difference between and love story and a romance novel, and this falls into the first category.

See me just as I see you . . .

Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. With a history of violence and bad decisions behind him and the threat of prison dogging his every step, he’s determined to walk a straight line. To Colin, that means applying himself single-mindedly toward his teaching degree and avoiding everything that proved destructive in his earlier life. Reminding himself daily of his hard-earned lessons, the last thing he is looking for is a serious relationship.

Maria Sanchez, the hardworking daughter of Mexican immigrants, is the picture of conventional success. With a degree from Duke Law School and a job at a prestigious firm in Wilmington, she is a dark-haired beauty with a seemingly flawless professional track record. And yet Maria has a traumatic history of her own, one that compelled her to return to her hometown and left her questioning so much of what she once believed.

A chance encounter on a rain-swept road will alter the course of both Colin and Maria’s lives, challenging deeply held assumptions about each other and ultimately, themselves. As love unexpectedly takes hold between them, they dare to envision what a future together could possibly look like . . . until menacing reminders of events in Maria’s past begin to surface.

As a series of threatening incidents wreaks chaos in Maria’s life, Maria and Colin will be tested in increasingly terrifying ways. Will demons from their past destroy the tenuous relationship they’ve begun to build, or will their love protect them, even in the darkest hour?

Rich in emotion and fueled with suspense, SEE ME reminds us that love is sometimes forged in the crises that threaten to shatter us . . . and that those who see us for who we truly are may not always be the ones easiest to recognize.

Wow, what a bang for my buck this month! I love that BookCase.Club sends picks that are highly rated, both on Amazon and Goodreads, and it is always worth more than the price paid for the subscription. This month my books were selling for $40.95, way more than the price paid for this subscription! There are less expensive paperback versions available but I love the look of hardcovers on my bookshelf and there is something substantial about holding them when I’m reading. BookCase.Club sends books that are usually a few years old – one book this month was published in 2015, the other in 2016. Either way, they were both new to me!

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

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