Bolu Babalola's audio book cover. For Love in Color. Mythical Tales from around the world retold. Brown skinned people in bold color scheme.
February 13th-
Bolu Babalola's
Love in Color
-Mythical Tales from around the world retold-
This anthology features strong women leads. Badass, dangerous, reckless or cautious in love or lust. het & queer. There are also a lot of revolutionary types.
#grayromances
Audio book cover for Charis Reid's Mickey Chambers shakes it up. Thick brown skinned woman sitting in a giant martini glass. Latino bartender leaning against the giantglass in foreground arms crossed
February 12th-
Charish Reid's
Mickey Chambers shakes it up
So, a big pet peeve is an 🤢inappropriate power differential in the workplace w/ the woman being subservient 🤮. This book has a duel power conflict, both characters are "in charge" in different but equal areas of life.
#grayromances
Book cover for Julian Winter's I think I they love you. Two brown skinned young men in suits cast sideling glances at each other the background is a colorful balloon arch. There are some shillouted figures behind the bold white title.
February 11th-
Julian Winters's
I think they love you
Aside from the ridiculous two scenarios that results in fake dating, this is a funny coming-of-adulthood book, which contains some imaginative ways to convey the characters motivations towards each other.
#grayromances
Book cover for Zane's anthology purple panties. Two brown skinned women embrace. They are wearing only purple panties. The purple title is in cursive and splashed across the women's torsos.
Podcast art for Zane's purple panties Poorly photoshopped booty cheeks in purple panties with purple neon sign font splashed across the front of them. A hand coming from out of frame is beckoning the owner of the booty cheeks.
February 10th-
Zane's (Editor)
Purple Panties
It's Zane 🤷🏾 nuff said. This anthology is lesbian/queer. It's black/woc. As I listened to this in podcast form- I can't attest to the book but it's an adaptation so I included both covers.
#grayromances
Book cover for Adriana Herrera's American Dreamer. Light blue background. Foreground a afro-latinx guy in a cotton tee.
February 9th-
Adriana Herrera's
American Dreamer
Not finished but so far IT'S ADORABLE 🥰 🥰 🥰 🥰 . Afro-latinx food truck owner who's fusion Caribbean food sounds 😋 moves from the city to upstate NY. Meets a NPR looking white guy who is starting a book mobile.
#grayromances
Book Cover for Alyssa Cole's Once Ghosted, Twice Shy. A stud with a under cut and long locs is eyeing a slightly shorter woman in a mini skirt, who's arm is slung over her shoulder. They are both making googly eye faces at each other. They are both wearing blue, blazer and sweater respectively. Pale purple background city scape.
February 8th-
Alyssa Cole's
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy
It's the only queer one. It's a novella. Featuring the side characters of the first novel. Long distance and immigration drama ensues.
#grayromances
Book cover for Alyssa Cole's A duke by default, of her reluctant royals series. A light skinned woman in a wax print dress with her arms around a Scotsman. Blue washed Scottish castle background.
February 6th-
Alyssa Cole's
A duke by default
This one in the reluctant royals series is black girl magic in arrested development. Not all the black girls have their lives together or know what they want to do with their career.
#grayromances
Pale pink background of a book cover for Talia Hibbert's Highly Suspicious & Unfairly Cute. The title is large Suspicious in white bubble letters cute in pink cursive. Trees line half the bottom the other half is a plus sized dark skinned girl with braids in a high ponytail and a light skinned slightly taller boy with short locs, they are holding back-packs in some outdoor gear.
February 5th-
Talia Hibbert's
Highly Suspicious & Unfairly Cute
This is a YA. Both the leads are nueroatypical. There's discussions of loss. It's absolutely hilarious. Both the leads are navigating school and family stressors and a few school social dynamics.
#grayromances
Close up of gray scale dark skinned couple a hair's breadth away from each other. Colorful leaves surrounded them. Red cursive title for AH Cunningham's out of office book cover.
February 4th-
A.H. Cunningham's
Out of Office
Guilt free ambition! Career focused woman who strives for ethical business practices & work life balance. Long distance relationship, Black people of the diaspora dealing with echoes of colonialism. Navigating difficult family dynamics.
#grayromances
Book cover of a black woman with a pineapple puff atop her head, she tips her sunglasses, she is in a pink camisole. The title is large across the bottom of the book.
February 3rd-
Rebekah Weatherspoon's
Xeni
Fake marriages always seem ridiculous to me this one resulting from an odd ball relative's antics+ a brief time limit made this one palletable for me.
Both characters are Bi ✨ & it isn't just a perfunctory mention. This book tackles grief.
#grayromances
Book cover for Talia Hibbert's Get a life Chloe Brown. White background, large red title, a cute graphic of a thick woman being smooched on the side of the head by a ginger in a motorcycle jacket.
February 2nd-
Talia Hibbert's
Get a life, Chloe Brown
Our lead realizes she isn't living life to the fullest and has a list of things to fix that
Realistic depictions of the balance of being independent & chronic illness.
Bonus audio book is read by #ladydanbury ✨
#grayromances
Book Cover for Alyssa Cole's A princess in theory. From her reluctant royals series. Black woman with some Marley hair in a colorful light blue wax print dress being held slot by a black man in a suit. Background is pink washed grand staircase.
Feb 1st-
Alyssa Cole's
A Princess In Theory
The whole vibe for these is black women excellences so hard, a crown floats to her general direction.
This black woman is in STEM and she gets an email about a prince marriage proposal SPAM!!! ....right??
#grayromances
#Grayromances
It's February. Black Love let's do it.
If you are a curmudgeon like myself or have a lot of issues with the romance genre;
race, disability, mental health being omitted
And are sick of internalized misogyny, fat phobia & hetero-monogamy being the norm
Here's what I got:
