Now that I've read this one I feel like I vaguely remember it. I learned a lot about bees! Here are some books involving bees to get buzzing.

Meat Bees by Dane Erbach

Small Favors by Erin A Craig

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

The Nest by Kenneth Oppel

The Homing by John Saul

🐉🔥New Book Club Kit Drop: Firebird by Juliette Cross!

The dragons have landed and this might be our most EPIC kit yet

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If you’ve been craving a book club experience filled with dragon shifters, forbidden romance, and rebellion-level chaos, we absolutely delivered. This kit was inspired by everything we loved about Firebird: the tension, the passion, the high-stakes drama and turned into a fully immersive night you won’t forget.

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Why Roman history is better with dragons, rebellion, and a whole lot of tension

If you ever thought Roman history needed a glow-up let me introduce you to Firebird by Juliette Cross because WOW. This book didn’t just deliver, it absolutely consumed our entire book club.

The Page Ladies Book Club just finished this one, and let’s just say we are officially obsessed. If you love a conqueror vs. captive romance set in an alternate Rome where generals shift into dragons, then go ahead and make this your new personality.

🏛️The Drama

We follow Julian Dakkia, a Roman general caught in the grip of his ruthless, power-hungry emperor uncle. He’s built a reputation as a brutal conqueror but everything shifts the moment Malina reappears in his life.

Malina, a fierce Dacian witch and dancer, has haunted Julian for years. And when he shifts into his dragon form to save her on a battlefield soaked in blood and betrayal? Yeah that’s not just a bold move that’s a death sentence waiting to happen.

The tension? IMMEDIATE. The stakes? SKY HIGH.

🔥Why We’re Screaming

The Bond:
Julian and his dragon are fully in agreement Malina is theirs. And the way their connection feels so instinctive, so soul-deep? It’s electric in a way that had all of us completely hooked.

The Stakes:
This isn’t just romance it’s rebellion, war, and survival. Watching them navigate imperial politics while literal flying deathriders rain destruction from the sky had us on the edge of our seats the entire time.

The Vibe:
Dark, gritty, and emotionally intense with a romance that burns just as fiercely as the dragons. Malina is a powerhouse heroine who refuses to be broken, and Julian? The kind of hero who would absolutely burn down his own empire for the woman he loves.

✨Final Thoughts

This book gave us everything high-stakes fantasy, an addictive romance, and characters we couldn’t stop talking about long after we finished. It’s the kind of story that demands discussion, which is exactly why it made the perfect book club pick.

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🔥Bookish Question: Would you risk everything, your power, your loyalty, your life for a love that could destroy an empire? 👀

Happy Saturday, mis internet amigxs,

I had a lot to say on Friday when I reviewed Now I Surrender on Friday, so today's opening will be relatively short. Reminder that we'll be chatting with Alvaro Enrigue on Monday night in lieu of the first hour of sprints. The link to join is here.

We're currently reading The House of the Spirits this month and it's not too late to join us on Discord ahead of the Amazon Prime series premier on April 29th. I have some news regarding the book that I cannot wait to tell you....

But for now, on to this week's Latine releases...

ROMANCE

How To Fake A Southern Gentleman by Mayra Cuevas and Marie Marquardt (Audiobook) Contemporary rom-com retelling of My Fair Lady taking place within the halls of a southern

More Like Enemigas by Stephanie Hope (Audiobook) Queer romance debut--heartfelt sapphic rivals to lovers romance with wedding hijinx, family secrets, and tons of spark featuring Cuban representation

PICTURE BOOK

Lucia's Goals by Angela Quezada Padron and illustrated by Christina Barragan Forshay: bilingual picture book about a young girl who's determined to prove everyone wrong that says girls aren't supposed to play soccer. Just in time for World Cup fever.

POETRY

Against Breaking: On The Power Of Poetry by Ada Limon (Audiobook) a timely and beautiful reflection from the 24th poet laureate of the United States, Limon, about the healing power of poetry.

Visitations by Julia Alvarez (Audiobook) Great Dominican writer, Alvarez, returns to her great love, poetry, to examine everything from her childhood to her later, "silver" years.

xoxo,

Carmen

A spring reset across every genre

There’s something about April that makes me want to read everything.

Not in a chaotic way, but in a “windows open, iced coffee in hand, stack of books that match every possible mood” kind of way.

This month’s Inner Circle Shelf is built for that exact energy: a mix of fresh 2025 releases and backlist gems that feel like stepping into a new season.

Think: soft starts, sharp twists, a little magic, a little mess, and stories that remind you why you love reading in the first place.

🌷 If you want something soft, romantic, and full of feeling

• Funny Story by Emily Henry (2024, but still dominating spring reading lists)

• The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

• The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center (2024/2025 buzz carryover)

• Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren (backlist favorite)

Why this works for April:
These are your “read outside with a blanket” books. Emotional, hopeful, a little bittersweet, but ultimately grounding. If winter felt heavy, these are your reset.

🌿 If you want cozy magic + whimsical worlds

• The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

• The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst

• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

• Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

Why this works for April:
Low-stakes magic, cottagecore vibes, and stories that feel like wandering through a garden you didn’t know existed. This is your “slow down” stack.

🌼 If you want something a little darker (but still bingeable)

• None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

• The Teacher by Freida McFadden

• A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

• The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Why this works for April:
Because sometimes spring isn’t soft; it’s unsettling. These are your “just one more chapter” reads that pull you out of a slump fast.

🌸 If you want literary fiction that makes you feel something

• Real Americans by Rachel Khong

• This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum

• The Future Saints by Ashley Winstead

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Why this works for April:
These are your “sit with it after you finish” books. Character-driven, layered, and the kind of stories that stay with you longer than you expect.

🌱 If you want fantasy with momentum (but not overwhelming)

• A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen

• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

• The Will of the Many by James Islington

• One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

Why this works for April:
You’re coming out of winter reads but maybe not ready for a 1,000-page epic. These give you plot, tension, and payoff without losing momentum.

☀️ Final Thoughts

This month’s shelf is about range without overwhelm.

You don’t need to commit to one mood; you can move between them. Start your morning with something soft, switch to something twisty at night, and keep a little magic nearby just in case.

If March felt like survival mode, April is where we start enjoying reading again.

A book rec list for my hair stylist who likes queer feminist books that suck you in.

Hello, everyone!

One of my ideas for this Bindery group is to do online book clubs. This won't be like the Fable book clubs because I dislike the platform. No, my plan is to choose a book for each book club and then have a Discord voice/video chat meeting about it at the end of the month! Since we are early in April, this would make the first book club Sunday, April 26 at 5pm CDT for Thrillseekers and 7pm CDT for Stargazers.

A little more about each one...Thrillseekers is for our horror fans, our thriller buddies, who like reading things that give them the chills. Our first horror selection will be Ghost Eaters by Clay McCleod Chapman. You'll find that I will always try to choose something that's available in paperback because those hardcovers are expensive!

For Stargazers, this is is for our sci-fi and fantasy friends who like a thrill with a little less spook. Our first selection will be Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky, a short novella with an absolutely gorgeous cover if I do say so myself.

I'll prepare questions to get us started, but come prepared with your thoughts! You don't have to come to both, but it would be really cool if you came to one or the other! If you can't use Discord for whatever reason, please leave a comment so that I can set up a Zoom chat instead!

LET'S READ TOGETHER Y'ALL!!!!

This month we will be reading Woodworking by Emily St. James!

As a reminder, we will be meeting on April 29th at 8pm ET. Hope to see you there!

"I wish I could really, really get myself to understand that the things that make you happiest are the things that can tear you apart and leave you so empty that nothing feels any more."

GENRE: Romance
RATING: 4/5
FORMAT: eBook Arc
Tropes: Single Dad, Sports Romance (Lacrosse), Small Town, Mental Health Rep

Overall Impression: A lovely tale that takes you on an emotional adventure (literally) with the characters as you experience their journey with them.

Review:
I've started getting into Sport Romance and when I saw that this was Single Dad x Sport Romance? I was in for the adventure!

Now, Long Hot Summer was an interesting read for me in that the way we get to know the MCs was done differently than what I'm used to. In the beginning, I had a lot of questions as to who were both of our MCs, Jordan and Rod? We only knew them as they knew each other, which was superficially and that left space for a lot of curiosity as a reader. As we progress through the story, we get to know them as they know each other and I think this was uniquely done and super fitting for both of our MCs, who have been scarred in the past and do not trust easily.

This writing style and way of exploring their love for each other won't work for all readers and will require patience from whoever reads it. I do think it is worth it, seeing them find love and finding support in one another that they never did elsewhere.

My favourite thing might just be how they both eventually shed their tough exterior and open their hearts up to each other at last. It's been a lovely way of seeing it blossom and I think it was a fun to see Jordan bonding with Rod's family, especially Tali (my recent obsession in Romance is Single parent trope as it leads so naturally to found family).

And the way Esha Patel wrote Rod and his mental health journey? Oh what a way to read it and how accurate it felt as someone who has gone through something similar. I think, ultimately, Long Hot Summer does not shy away from the heavier theme but is done in a unique narrative style that has it hitting you all at once and you get to feel the entire journey with the characters. This is especially true with both MCs, with Rod and his mental health journey plus his past with his ex and how he became a single dad. It is true with Jordan, her past and childhood, which led to the fear of being in a relationship.

I am very excited to read Esha Patel's other stories, see how her narration style plays out in there in comparison to Long Hot Summer. Thank you to the author, publisher and netgalley for the Arc copy in the exchange for my honest opinion.

Good afternoon, mis internet amigxs,

We're chatting with Alvaro on Monday night about Now I Surrender, but we're in the midst of our spoilery discussion of Now I Surrender today on Discord. I'd meant to record a video on my thoughts to submit to book reviews, but since losing Veela on Monday, I haven't felt up for being in front of the camera. So today is a first for Bien Leidos: I'm sharing all the notes I've written down (warning: some are spoilery thoughts) about Now I Surrender and also a bibliography I developed from Alvaro's acknowledgements and personal lore below:

Literary fiction that comes with a bibliography can be a blessing or a curse. It can ask too much of the reader, dragging down the action of the story. But how many facts tips fiction towards nonfiction? Does a zealous love of history make historical fiction inaccessible or boring for the reader? I've seen a number of takes like this about Now I Surrender this month and it's been so interesting because if this was a more familiar history, would readers have felt the same way? I know for me, I always approach historical fiction as a student and luckily for me, Alvaro is a professor who shares the books he references openly not just in his text but in his acknowledgements. We have a full bibliography to pull from and his references lead me down a mini 2-book rabbit hole after I finished my reread on audio (see below).

This small literary detour made big changes in my perspective of the book. For example, when I originally read the opening of the book, it struck me as an anxious and self-aware author pretending he was the biblical god in the book of Genesis, creating the world they were introducing to us. I thought it was a clever, self-depricating device that delivered this work of fiction to the reader, reminding us that Alvaro is the person creating the story, but also as a way of injecting himself into the story, which he would do time and again throughout the novel.

However, when I read Geronimo: In His Own Words, I realized the opening of Now I Surrender was actually a reference to how Geronimo's autobiography begins:

"In the beginning the world was covered with darkness. There was no sun, no day. The perpetual night had no moon or stars."

versus Now I Surrender:

"In the beginning, things appear. Writing is a defiant gesture we've long since gotten used to: where there was nothing, somebody put something, and now everybody sees it."

I'm pretty sure there are many, many references like this I would never get in Now I Surrender, but for what Alvaro delivered, I appreciated both what this book was on its face, what it tried to teach the reader about this often overlooked part of history, usually swept aside and whitewashed not just by history books, but also in media. His focus on making the borderlands complicated, messy and multifaceted both in its population and history is greatly appreciated by this student of history.

Whether you get the references or not, Alvaro makes the setting, place, and people fully developed elements of the story. You can see the landscape, mountains, feel the heat and dustiness of the desert. Janos is a footnote of a town. You travel through the desert side-by-side with Camila. Geronimo is much, much more than the chief of the Chiricahua Apache. American and Mexican bureaucracy is desultory and ineffectual. You also felt the dizzying grief of surrender but not defeat.

I'm never sure whether to greet Alvaro's absurdity with laughter or tears. He has this penchant for writing about these unbelievably sad turning points in history and making the details funny while talking about the last of something: in the case of Geronimo, the last to surrender. You could tell Alvaro truly admires Geronimo as a person, warrior, leader, legend and wanted the reader to come out of the book with some semblance of his respect. Alvaro taught me more about Geronimo than any history class I had in school.

I am the first to admit that I do not gravitate towards women written by men, but I was pretty awestruck in the way Camila was developed: from a nameless, fearful woman fleeing to a strong and extremely competent Chiricahua wife telling Zuloaga how things were going to be. Quite honestly, I was suspect when she first appeared on the page, but she became central to the story and was the vessel through which timelines are revealed--because it DID take me a while to realize that Geronimo's timeline was decades after hers--but she was also far more important than the opening of the novel appeared to make her. The revelation of who she was to Geronimo was bittersweet in many ways and I loved how it tied to all the lore of Mangas Coloradas, Cochise and Geronimo and their joint lineage together.

Alvaro certainly had more runway to write than in his previous ones and I loved that he included epistolary elements such as interviews and telegrams to set the political stage of Geronimo's surrender. He made politicians and soldiers farces for their participation in the decimation of indigenous peoples. He dehumanized the colonizers through their bureaucracy and I was cheering him on for that type of intellectual humiliation.

I found the distinction, or lack of distinction, between the Mexican government and the US government so interesting. I also thought the reasoning the Chiriacahua chose to surrender to the US was absolutely fascinating. You so rarely hear the perspective of the Mexican government's treatment of indigenous peoples. Again, I learned so much from this book, and I was so grateful for the lesson, although I do understand that historical fiction isn't here to necessarily teach us, but it can be the beginning of understanding a moment in history.

I personally believe that the key to enjoying an Alvaro book is if you can read the first line and last line in a row and you not only does your jaw drop from the way they're connected, but find that you enjoyed the journey between them satisfying. He lands a last line like gymnast hurtling towards a perfect landing on the vault that gets 10s across the board. Now I Surrender is all 10s for me.

READING JOURNEY

As I mentioned, Now I Surrender lead me down a path, so here's my reading journey and why I followed up with these books:

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli: Fun fact for the chismosas, Valieria is Alvaro's ex-wife and this book is her perspective on the real-life trip Alvaro took with his family from NYC to Arizona to research Now I Surrender. This is a fictionalization as well, so obviously not all fact, but this was an interesting foil to how the road trip was presented in Now I Surrender. Read this if you're into he-said-she-said.

Geronimo: In His Own Words as told to JM Barrett: It was so fascinating to hear Gernonimo's story and perspective as was told to Barrett. Again, he's a historical figure I'm not super familiar with, so it was fascinating to hear the cadence of his words and storytelling.

Here are others referenced in the acknowledgements for those that want to continue to learn:

If you made it all the way here, thank you so much for your attention. I'm curious what you thought about Now I Surrender and if I said anything in the review that made you want to pick it up.

xoxo,

Carmen

Friends! Enemies! Everyone in between!

I hope you're all doing as best as you can be and taking care of yourselves. It's time to vote for the May book club!

After her mother is sentenced to life in a hilltop prison, Suzanna vows to return to the hill forever. An unexpectedly funny and deeply moving novel about the many ways we punish and return to each other.

Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, every Saturday, Suzanna lines up at the prison gates among the other children, each dressed as if for celebration. Inside there is a nursery and a cemetery; there are watchful guards and distractable nuns; there are women counting down to release and women like Suzanna’s mother, who will never be released.

At home, Suzanna is raised by her grandmother, who is entirely unforgiving of her daughter’s crime and refuses to visit the prison. Surrounding Suzanna are her grandmother’s friends, who know one another from their years in the Communist Party and still spend extended cocktail hours debating the Hitler-Stalin pact. Though these women once insisted on changing the world, they are torn between teaching Suzanna how the world works and shielding her from it.

Suzanna vows to return to the prison forever but her mother wants her to be free. Harriet Clark’s The Hill is an incandescent novel of a child growing up between worlds, the last of three generations whose fates have been tied to punishment. It is the tale of a family broken apart by the desire for change, told with irreverent wisdom and visionary force. The Hill brings new music to American fiction.

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Sigrid Nunez, a darkly funny and moving debut novel about the unforgettable Agatha, whose devotion to a widow with dementia (and an inconvenient attachment to her daughter’s grave) sparks a radical reckoning with life, loss, and love’s aftermath.

Agatha, a bristly painter fleeing her own darkness, decamps to rural New Mexico to live the reclusive life of a small-town curmudgeon. It is there she meets Alice, a mild widow with a deepening case of dementia who keeps steady vigil at her daughter’s backyard grave. Despite Agatha’s rough edges and fierce aversion to sentimentality, she surprises herself by falling in love, and her well-worn convictions begin to upend.

As Alice’s condition worsens, Agatha hatches a plan for them to live together at her remote residence at Mesa Portales. But when Alice’s wayward son comes along with different ideas—and Alice suddenly goes missing—Agatha takes matters into her own hands with the help of a faithful thirteen-year-old-neighbor, a pair of shovels, and her trusty pickup, embarking on an unusual mission that calls into question whether some secrets are better kept buried.

Sharp, watchful, at once thrillingly perceptive and hidden from herself, Agatha is as imposing as the vast landscape her rustic adobe home overlooks. Loosely inspired by the life of Agnes Martin, I Am Agatha introduces us to this irascible, indelible character who learns—over a stretch of strange, singular days—new ways to fathom life, death, and her own heart.

A polyphonic debut following an aging French bulldog and the parasitic worms that send her toward death — a singular, sly novel about form, freedom, interiors, and the matter by which we are composed and consumed.

Gelsomina is a French Bulldog who leads a routine life in a glass house. One day, she ingests an orb of parasitic worms who make an imperfect home inside her. Approaching death, yet filled with new life, she begins to see everything differently: her attachment to the designer-architect couple with whom she lives; the naive preoccupations of their younger French Bulldog, Zampanò; her feelings for an elusive fox; and the voids within and beyond her. The worms propel Gelsomina to plumb the meaning of her domestic existence and ask if her rebirth lies in the wild unknown outside the panes.

The Oldest Bitch Alive is a polyphonic story of containment refracting across scales. Revolving perspectives meditate on consciousness, theories of everything, multispecies narratives, philosophies of form and the immaterial, and other ways in which matter is composed and consumed. Gelsomina’s introspections culminate in an ecstatic sprint through a natural world she’s never seen, awakening the French Bulldog to the depths of love, reverence, death, and the bound self in dichromatic color.

“If Philip K. Dick had written The Bell Jar” (Camille Bordas) it would resemble Albertine Clarke's mesmerizing debut about the frayed borders between our bodies and minds.

Ada lives a solitary life. She spends her days in her London apartment building's swimming pool, occasionally visiting with her cousin Francesca and meeting her friends, each of them chatting, drinking, posing invitations Ada ignores. Ada's parents are recently divorced after her father became a bodybuilder: he spends his days at the gym, which is crowded and bright, warm with human proximity, infrequently calling to express minor concerns around his daughter's well-being.

When she meets a man named Atticus by the pool, Ada immediately feels an intimate connection between them: they share a life, in a way she can't explain. Little by little, Ada's estrangement from her familiar surroundings and from reality widens, as though seeing her reflection through a mirror, pieces of it falling away. After her mother entreats Ada to join her on a remote Greek holiday, Ada is jolted out of the physical world and into a new, artificial environment, one that a mysterious and potentially otherworldly force has created and designed for her. As this brilliant first novel pivots with masterful effect into the surreal and speculative, we move through Ada's experiences of life like spokes on a wheel, profoundly surprised by the enduring mystery of our existence, and of our relationships with ourselves and others. When a person's life, in the odd space between mind and body, is inherently one of isolation, are our connections with those around us merely projections of ourselves? And if not, where do they come from?

Albertine Clarke transforms the speculative into an entirely singular experience of deep interiority. The precision, subtlety, and confidence of her writing is nothing short of astonishing. THE BODY BUILDERS is new classic of the speculative fiction genre, landing like a blow, widening a crack that allows us to perceive the world wholly differently than we ever imagined.

Four very compelling choices! Happy voting and remember we are reading Whidbey by T Kira Madden in April, today is your last day to sign up.

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"We're bugs in a terrarium. Not being hunted. Just watched."

GENRE: Horror (Body Horror with Worms)
RATING: 4.25/5
FORMAT: eBook Arc

Review:
Indigent is such an interesting story that tackles a lot of social commentary in a perfect way for this horror book with Worms (!!) in it. The way it's weaved in and with some of the social commentaries, you do have to pay attention and reflect back to it (and reread it, which I will be doing) in order to grasp it all. Briana does a lovely work of combining so many commentary, themes and important message together in the book.

I also quite enjoyed that we get multi-POV and I am always going to be a huge fan of books that have multiple POV, especially from minor characters. Some of the characters, like Xavier and Ari, get deeper POVs and more of them so we get to know them a lot more. Others, we see their POV and understand their impact on the main characters instead. I think in this way, the multi-POV feeds in beautifully together to deliver the themes across.

Essentially, I dont want to share anything as to avoid spoilers but the author wrote this book as a commentary to the medical system and healthcare in the USA. We see the impact of society, lack of funding and finance on people who cannot afford healthcare and we see what greed and so many other things do to further this.

The writing in here was done well and I quite enjoyed the fact that we also have so many anatomical phrases, which Xavier uses throughout the book. Also, I loved the footnotes in the book, I'm always here for having them in fiction books! I am looking forward to more by the author and can't wait to read their future work!

Thank you to the author and netgalley for the Arc copy in the exchange for my honest opinion.

Here are some Indigenous audiobooks that are currently on sale on Libro! (I think it varies by region)

Audiobooks took me a looong time to get into. As someone with autism and ADHD, processing information (especially verbal) has always been a challenge. But I really wanted to find a way in, especially during burnout, when reading with my own eyeballs is too dang hard.

If audiobooks are hard for you too, but you want them to work, I really recommend pairing them with something that keeps your body busy and your mind open to processing sound information. I know a lot of people craft, but for me that takes too much focus because I need to think about my art. What’s helped me is sort of mundane tasks like doing the dishes, tidying up, small chores that you can do on auto pilot. Audiobooks make those moments feel more doable and enjoyable. There has been a substantial increase in my available spoons since getting into audiobooks!!

I used to avoid listening on walks because I really value being present- taking in the world around me and being in relationship with the land. But lately I’ve been going on night walks with an audiobook, and it’s been sooo nice. A different kind of presence. In the darkness of night the sounds are dull, the brightness is gone, the humans are asleep and everything is . It’s just you and a story and the light of the moon. (sometimes some little furry pals lurking about !!) I find myself walking three times farther than usual. It’s turned into a gentle way to move my body, especially on days when that feels hard. It’s my new favourite coping skill (and I’ve been needing to do a lot of coping!!!!)

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