Blue Angel is the first book in a series from Logan Belle, and is erotica set in a burlesque club. It's on sale for $1.99, and has gatehred some really thoughtful reviews on GoodReads.
One woman is about to get the surprise of her life. . . Mallory Dale doesn't like surprises. So when her boyfriend, Alec, takes her to a burlesque club for her twenty-fifth birthday, all she wants is to go home and crawl under the covers. But then beautiful burlesque star Bette Noir pulls Mallory on stage, and before she knows it, she's stripped down to her bra in front of a roaring crowd—and loving every second of it! Now she's in for an even bigger bombshell: the glamorous Bette wants to be Mallory's private tutor in the tantalizing art of the striptease. Exploring the world of burlesque awakens Mallory's true sexual nature, but if she devotes herself to her newfound sensual pleasures, will she risk losing Alec—or can she really have it all?
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Into the Darkest Corner is Elizabeth Haynes' debut novel, and has some powerful reviews behind it. It's $1.99.
Catherine Bailey has been enjoying the single life long enough to know a catch when she sees one. Gorgeous, charismatic and spontaneous, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. And her friends clearly agree, as each in turn falls under his spell. But what begins as flattering attentiveness and passionate sex turns into raging jealousy, and Catherine soon learns there is a darker side to Lee.
His increasingly erratic, controlling behaviour becomes frightening, but no one believes her when she shares her fears. Increasingly isolated and driven into the darkest corner of her world, a desperate Catherine plans a meticulous escape. Four years later, Lee is behind bars and Catherine—now Cathy—compulsively checks the locks and doors in her apartment, trusting no one. But when an attractive upstairs neighbour, Stuart, comes into her life, Cathy dares to hope that happiness and love may still be possible . . . until she receives a phone call informing her of Lee’s impending release.
Soon after, Cathy thinks she catches a glimpse of the former best friend who testified against her in the trial; she begins to return home to find objects subtly rearranged in her apartment, one of Lee’s old tricks. Convinced she is back in her former lover’s sights, Cathy prepares to wrestle with the demons of her past for the last time.
Utterly convincing in its portrayal of obsession, Into the Darkest corner is an ingeniously structured and plotted tour de force of suspense that marks the arrival of a major new talent.
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How to Lose a Demon in 10 Days by Saranna DeWylde is free for the nook, and $1.99 or $2.99 at other retailers.
GOT DEMON?
Grace does. She’s got more demon than she can saddle. In fact, she’s got a sinfully sexy Crown Prince of Hell named Caspian. She’s also got ten days to get rid of him or Bad Things shall ensue. See, her Russian mobster exboyfriend didn’t take kindly to her smutty Mephistophelean contract. It’s not that she’s conspiring with fiends; that was his idea. It’s that she’s conspiring against him with outrageous devilry that runs the gamut from embarrassing to a dead hooker turned dominatrix demon gunning for his soul.
One should never trust demons, let alone shag them. They don’t have hearts. Yet Grace is buying hers some slightly tarnished armor and hoping that once he’s been shoveled into it, kicking and screaming, he’ll find it’s just his size. This damsel in distress needs a dark knight for a Happily Ever After.
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And here's a little something different: comedian Sarah Silverman's memoir The Bedwetter is on sale digitally for $1.99.
From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne Sarah Silverman comes a memoir—her first book—that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still pee-in-your-pants funny.
If you liked Sarah’s television show The Sarah Silverman Program, or memoirs such as Chelsea Handler’s Are You There Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea and Artie Lange’s Too Fat to Fish, you’ll love The Bedwetter.
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I’m torn. On one hand, it looks like Blue Angel features a bisexual heroine (a creature as rare as a unicorn in Romancelandia, apparently). But judging by some of the reviews (not to mention the blurb), it kind of looks like this book falls into the usual stereotypes of a) bisexual people require simultaneous partners of both sexes in order to be satisfied, and b) she’s not bi; it’s just “a fling!”
I mean, exposure is a good thing, but not when the representation relies on damaging and inaccurate stereotypes.
Has anyone here read the book? Can you tell me if I will rage-splode if I read it?
Mallory isn’t bisexual and she does have a fling with a fellow burlesque dancer. I didn’t find it exploitative, but YMMV.
I agree with Evangeline. The focus is on Mallory and her boyfriend. IIRC Mallory is straight and Belle is a lesbian. Neither require simultaneous partners. I don’t even think they have a threesome.
Oops I meant Bette, not Belle.