RECOMMENDED. The Marrying Kind is currently .99c. It's an expensive book otherwise, so if you're curious about it, please grab it! I loved this book. I reviewed it here and gave it an A-. Seriously. It's $1. Go buy it already. I hope you laugh as much as I did.
From my review:
When reading this book, I never felt hit over the head with A Message, and I worried that I would. Instead, I Got The Point because of how much I hurt for Adam and for Steven when the million little ways they are excluded coalesced into a toast at a rehearsal dinner. I got The Point about how meaningful it was to stop attending family weddings for two men who honestly and openly love their families. This book made me laugh and made my heart hurt, and I loved the experience of reading it.
Wedding planner Adam More has an epiphany: He has devoted all his life’s energy to creating events that he and his partner Steven are forbidden by federal law for having for themselves. So Adam decides to make a change.
Organizing a boycott of the wedding industry, Steven and Adam call on gay organists, hairdressers, cater-waiters, priests, and hairdressers everywhere to get out of the business and to stop going to weddings, too.
In this screwball, romantic comedy both the movement they’ve begun and their relationship are put in jeopardy when Steven’s brother proposes to Adam’s sister and they must decide whether they’re attending or sending regrets.
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LOOK AT THAT COVER. Is that not GORGEOUS?! What a truly exemplary piece of digital art. Surely you wish to buy this book JUST FOR THE COVER ART, yes? Oui! Mais oui! Glitter Baby is today's Kindle Daily Deal, and it's $1.99 today only. For $2 you too can say, “You've got to be fucking kidding me with that crap.”
Glitter Baby was originally published in 1987, and has, according to the cover copy, been revised.
Welcome to the world of the Glitter Baby Fleur Savagar is the most beautiful woman in the world . . . to everyone but herself. With her oversized hands and paddle-boat feet, her streaky blond hair and funny green eyes, she lives a life filled with secrets that began before she was born. That was when her bewitching mother left home to find James Dean and met Errol Flynn instead.
Now Fleur has to grow up quickly, and life won't make that easy. Jake Koranda is both New York's most brilliant playwright and Hollywood's hottest actor. Difficult, talented, and tormented, he has no patience for international glamour girls, not even ones with beautiful bodies and smart-aleck mouths. But there's more to the Glitter Baby than shine, and Fleur's tougher than Jake expects.
Even with the odds stacked against her, she's fiercely determined to discover the woman she's destined to be. An ugly duckling who can't believe she's turned into a swan . . . A tough-guy movie star with a haunted past . . . In a land of broken dreams, can two unlikely lovers trust their hearts?
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Tall Dark and Deadly is a three book box set from Lisa Renee Jones. It's .99c for the set.
The Walker Brothers… Tall, dark, and deadly, these three brothers run Walker security. Each brother is unique in his methods and skills, but all share key similarities.
They are passionate about those they love, relentless when fighting for a cause they believe in, and all believe that no case is too hard, no danger too dark.
Dedication is what they deliver, results are their reward.
Wow. Glitter Baby has a better cover at BN but a much higher price. I’d recommend it for the sale price if you like early SEP with crazy, larger than life characters, epic plots and a side helping of wtf. I read the revised version and I enjoyed it. SEP does humiliate and treat her poor heroine badly but her triumph is quite satisfactory. Lots of dress porn. Lots of eighties references. Lots of wtf.
Psyched about the Ken ONeill. Was intrigued when it came out. Just bought it.
The cover of Glitter Baby is a piece of art; you have to bring something of yourself to it. It requires you ask: what IS a book cover? It then scoffs at you and corrects your misconception. I am a book cover, says the book cover of a book cover. When you gaze upon me you will marvel at all the absence of all of your expectations being met. Then you will gaze upon the other lavish covers that careen through the romance aisles of your local ebook emporium and you will weep. Weep bitter tears. Weep, for the loss reckoning inside you and the joyous mindbending brilliance of the publisher who enclosed a book within a cover… of a book.
Loved The Marrying Kind……what a great deal!
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me with that kind of crap”
Are you including the content as well as the cover? I have to say that this is not my favorite SEP…..to be blunt…..it totally sucks.
@SarahB: I really like the gal in the SBTB ad for Tessa Dare. She’s very pretty.
I bought Glitter Baby because it was a good book and I have most of SEP’s books. However, if Iwas new to the author I might have not bought it because of the crappy cover (non) art. I see a lot of good ebargains every day and if the cover grabs me. I look at the blurb and then buy. This wouldn’t have made the cut.
That is actually the standard Kindle “no-cover-art” cover—I have it on several “Discworld” books, for example. There’s half the mystery solved; but it leaves unanswered why they didn’t manage to get the real cover art.
Is Glitter Baby worth finishing? It’s currently a DNF for me. I tried to read it and enjoy it but I wanted to hit all of the characters over the head with the book. If y’all think that I should give it a second shot then I will. I still own a paperback copy of it.
Jessica, SEP is an autobuy for me ad hwen I first bought litter Baby, had difficulty reading it as well. I ended up listening to the audio version and really enjoying it. I would say try again because it really is a pretty good book.
Jessica – I liked the second half a lot more than the first, but early SEP really is not for everyone.
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