Coming Soon – The Books We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in April 2025
It’s time for April Releases! What are you excited about?
We would love to hear which books you’re looking forward to in the coming weeks. Here are a few from our AAR reviewers. (You can see them all at Amazon here.) Are you excited about any of these? Let us know!
Releasing the week of 1st April 2025
Any Trope but You by Victoria Lavine (April 1)
Crash Landing by Annie McQuaid (April 1)
Fair Play by Luise Hegarty (April 3)
It Takes One to Know One by Lissett Decos (April 1)
No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel (April 1)
Reluctant Witch by Melissa Marr (April 1)
Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez (April 1)
Swept Away by Beth O’Leary (April 1)
The Fourth Girl by Wendy Corsi Staub (April 1)
The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson Wheeler (April 1)
The Duke and Lady Scandal by Christy Carlyle (April 1)
The Family Recipe by Carolyn Huynh (April 1)
The Folklore of Forever by Sarah Hogle (April 1)
The Last Session by Julia Bartz (April 1)
The Library of Lost Dollhouses by Elise Hooper (April 1)
The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton (April 1)
The Wandering Season by Aimie K. Runyan (April 1)
Unlikely Neighbors by Renee Daniel Flagler (April 1)
Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping by Jesse Q Sutanto (April 1)
Releasing the week of 8th April 2025
A Proposal to Die For by Molly Harper (April 8)
Desperate Deadly Widows by Kimberly Belle (April 8)
Don’t Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo (April 8)
Firebird by Juliette Cross (April 8)
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory (April 8)
House of Blight by Maxym Martineau (April 8))
Save the Date by Alison Raskin (April 8)
The Baker of Lost Memories by Shirley Russak Wachtel (April 8)
The Geographers Map to Romance by Indira Holton (April 8)
The Maid’s Secret by Nita Prose (April 8)
The Revenge Game by Jax Calder (April 11)
The Wind Weaver by Julie Johnson (April 8)
The Gods Time Forgot by Kelsie Sheridan Gonzalez (April 8)
Releasing the week of 15th April 2025
A Lady’s Guide to London by Faye Delacour (April 15)
One Death at a Time by Abbi Waxman (April 15)
Wild and Wrangled by Lyla Sage (April 15)
The Seven O’Clock Club by Amelia Ireland
The Women Left Behind by Kristen Ashley (April 15)
Undercover Billionaire by Amy Andrews (April 17)
Who Will Remember by C.S. Harris (April 15)
Releasing the week of 22nd April 2025
A Wallflowers Guide to Viscounts and Vice by Manda Collins (April 22)
Anywhere You Go by Bridget Morrissey (April 22)
Bold Moves by Emma Barry
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (April 22)
Total and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman (April 22)
Joyride by Ellen Meister (April 22)
Love, Camera, Action by Noel Stark (April 22)
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Betty Cayouette by (April 24)
The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick (April 22)
The Meaning of You by Jay Hogan (April 24)
The Summer That Shaped Us by Lori Wilde (April 22)
You Make My Heart Stop by Becky Hunter (April 22)
Releasing the week of 29th April 2025
Barbarian’s Hope by Ruby Dixon (April 29)
Broken Souls and Bones by L. J. Andrews (April 29)
Destructively Mine by Krista and Becca Ritchie (April 29)
Hardly a Gentleman by Eloisa James (April 29)
Hello, Juliet by Samantha M. Bailey (April 29)
If Two Are Dead by Rick Mofina (April 29)
Julie Chan Is Dead: Or That’s What She Needs You to Think by Liann Zhang (April 29)
King of Envy by Ana Huang (April 29
My Best Friend’s Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner (April 29)
Once Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky (April 29)
The Traitor of Sherwood Forest by Amy S. Kaufman (April 29)
Up Close & Personal by Ana Holguin (April 29)
I’m looking forward to the Corpse played dead which is the third book of the Lizzie Hardwicke series by Georgina Clarke. The first 2 books were released around 2019 and received A grades. I have a vague memory of why there was a long time between books but I don’t remember the specifics. I remember enjoying the first 2 of the series but I may need to do a reread .
Amazon shows The Viper in the Nest is the third book in the series and coming April 10th. I haven’t heard of the author before and this series looks really good. I’m going to check it out. Thanks for the heads up!
You’re right. Oops on my part.
I am also extremely excited for Viper in the Nest. The first two Lizzie Hardwicke books were great and I highly recommend them! It’s been a really long wait for book 3. I think there were some issues with the publisher and the author has a new publisher now? The book covers for the first 2 books have changed to match the upcoming book (which I’m a little sad about since I really liked the previous covers).
I read Viper in the Nest by Georgina Clarke (Lizzie Hardwicke book 3) last weekend and it was fantastic! I’m still thinking about how much I loved it. Book 4 (The Devil for a Brother) comes out in December and I can’t wait!
Hi Manjari, glad you’re enjoying the Lizzie Hardwicke series! Just to let you know that there’s a small update to Book 4 in the series, which will now be published in December under the title ‘A Kiss from the Devil’:
https://www.vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php?isbn=9780857309303
with thanks, Jem. VERVE Books
Thanks, Jem! I purchase in e-book from Amazon and have the book on my wishlist. It is still listing the previous title but I will watch for the changeover. I like the new title!
Excellent, Manjari! Yes, changing book details (like the title!) mid-stream is a tiny nightmare but we’ve managed to update with most of the UK distributors and hopefully amazon.com isn’t going to be too far behind. Hope you enjoy it when it arrives! Jem
The one I’m really looking forward to is The Meaning of You by Jay Hogan. I’ll probably pick up the Jax Calder book, too. Other than that I’ll keep plowing through my TBR list!
I have a few April titles for review, but not many that I wanted to add to this list; April is pretty quiet for new m/m releases that interest me :(
I look forward to your reviews!
There are a lot to look forward to this month! I am excited to talk about Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez, Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry, Wild and Wrangled by Lyla Sage, Swept Away by Beth O’leary and a few more.
I’ve only read three of these:
Broken Souls and Bones
The Gods That Time Forgot
Hardly a Gentleman
The best of these, for me, is Broken Souls and Bones which feels original and has very interesting world-building.
So far, I only have two books on my April tbr:
Claire Kingsley’s WHISPERS AND WILDFIRE (April 10) is the fourth book in her Haven Brothers series of romantic-suspense novels. This outing involves a couple who dated in high school reconnecting years later.
Willow Dixon’s OFF LIMITS (April 17) is the fourth book in her Legacy Mechanics series of m/m romances. This is an antagonists-to-lovers story between step-brothers, one of whom appears to be a cam-boy. My favorite book using this theme is Nyla K’s FOR THE FANS; I’m curious as to how Dixon will measure up.
I also look forward to Whispers and Wildfire, although overall I haven’t liked the Haven Brothers series quite as much as the Bailey Brothers.
Agreed. The Haven Brothers are well-written (I expect nothing less from Kingsley), but I think she’s struggling with keeping the balance of romance and suspense just right. Back when her books weren’t overtly romantic-suspense, but just romance with some background mystery, she was able to let the romance be front-and-center in each book. Now you can see how the romance has to share space with the suspense plot—and that’s not always as successfully done.
Yes, I think you are exactly right!