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When a Scot Ties the Knot
RECOMMENDED: When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare is $1.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble! Elyse loved this book so much and gave it an A:
Everything about When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare worked for me. Everything. Bust out the squee mop, y’all because this review is just going to be a flappy-hands Good Book Noise® mess.
Things this book has:
1. A sexy Scot hero I pictured as Sam Heughan.
2. A heroine who is a naturalist and illustrator.
3. Tons of UST.
4. A completely crazy sauce plot that Dare pulls off flawlessly.
5. A missing lobster.
On the cusp of her first London season, Miss Madeline Gracechurch was shyly pretty and talented with a drawing pencil, but hopelessly awkward with gentlemen. She was certain to be a dismal failure on the London marriage mart. So Maddie did what generations of shy, awkward young ladies have done: she invented a sweetheart.
A Scottish sweetheart. One who was handsome and honorable and devoted to her, but conveniently never around. Maddie poured her heart into writing the imaginary Captain MacKenzie letter after letter … and by pretending to be devastated when he was (not really) killed in battle, she managed to avoid the pressures of London society entirely.
Until years later, when this kilted Highland lover of her imaginings shows up in the flesh. The real Captain Logan MacKenzie arrives on her doorstep—handsome as anything, but not entirely honorable. He’s wounded, jaded, in possession of her letters… and ready to make good on every promise Maddie never expected to keep.
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The Duke’s Disaster
The Duke’s Disaster by Grace Burrowes is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and seems to be price matched elsewhere. Don’t you love it when that happens! Readers loved the marriage of convenience element of the plot, though some didn’t like the main characters: the hero was a jerk and the heroine needed a backbone. Have you read this one?
Noah Winters, Duke of Anselm, exercises the pragmatism for which he’s infamous when his preferred choice of bride cries off, and her companion, Lady Thea Collins, becomes his next choice for his duchess. Lady Thea’s mature, sensible and even rather attractive-what could possibly go wrong?
As a lady fallen on hard times, Thea doesn’t expect tender sentiments from His Grace, but she does wish Noah had courted her trust, lest her past turn their hastily arranged marriage into a life of shared regrets. Is His Grace courting a convenient wife, or a beautiful disaster?
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The Maiden
The Maiden by Jude Deveraux is $1.99! This is a medieval romance with an enemies to lovers plot. Some readers thought it was good, but not very memorable. However, others loved how Deveraux captured the growth from hating someone to loving them. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
He was wise, strong, and brave. His destiny was to be king. She was young, beautiful, a warrior princess. Her destiny was to love him.
But when first they met, it was not as princess and king — it was as man and woman only, consumed by a passion so sudden, so deep that the very world exploded with one kiss. Only later, with his touch still burning on her lips, did Jura discover that the knight of her secret tryst had been none other than the hated Prince Rowan! Rowan, who had returned from far-away England to usurp her brother’s throne…Rowan, who vowed to unite the wild clans under his rule.
Furious, Jura swore her enmity to the golden-haired prince whose glorious visage tormented her days and haunted her nights. But nothing would stop Rowan from ruling over the warring tribes…and nothing would stop him from winning the fierce and lovely Jura as his bride, his Queen, his love….
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An English Bride in Scotland
An English Bride in Scotland by Lynsay Sands is $2.99! The hero is originally arranged to be married to the heroine’s sister, but his wife-to-be elopes with someone else. Right now, you can pick up all three books in the series for less than $8!
I must say, though it’s not faborable, this is one of my favorite Goodreads reviews:
Alternate title: An English Bride (and her tits) in Scotland.
Seriously, with all the hullabaloo made over Annabel’s boobs, they deserve a place in the title. In fact, I’m pretty sure her legendary bosom has more words devoted to their bounteousness than some supporting characters within the book.
Main plot: who’s trying to hurt Annabel?
Subplot: HOW TO CONTAIN THESE TITS
However, the book has a 3.9-star rating, with many readers praising how the hero and heroine eventually come to love each other.
The first in a new historical series set in the Highlands of Scotland, from Lynsay Sands, the New York Times bestselling author of the Argeneau vampire series and countless historical romances.
Annabel was about to take the veil to become a nun when her mother suddenly arrives at the Abbey to take her home… so that she can marry the Scottish laird who is betrothed to her runaway sister! She knows nothing about being a wife, nothing about how to run a household, and definitely nothing about the marriage bed!
But from the moment Ross MacKay sets eyes on Annabel, he is taken with his shy sweet bride… and the fact that she’s blessed with lush curves only makes him utter his own prayers of thanks. But when an enemy endangers her life, he’ll move the Highlands themselves to save her. For though Annabel’s not the bride he planned for, she’s the only woman he desires…
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OMG that goodreads review for An English Bride in Scotland just made my day. Hilarious!!
I second the awesomeness of the Goodreads review for the Sands. I may just spend the day reading her other reviews.
I adore Grace Burrowes but I cannot recommend The Duke’s Disaster. The hero is really nasty to the heroine in a way that feels abusive (see also Four Nights with the Duke, see also The Luckiest Lady in London for books that gave me the same sorts of feelings, both of those were also from authors I adore yet those particular books I disliked.
The Tessa Dare, though, I recommend verra, verra much.
I second the Tessa Dare rec! I almost bought it at regular price last week, so I’m glad I actually managed to exercise some uncharacteristic restraint with regards to book buying. It’s a funny, sweet, and romantic story. Plus, I kind of love that cover. The way the heroine and hero are smiling at each other is so adorable.
Missing lobster? *buys*
I almost didn’t click on the Dare book because a) I really thought I already owned it, and b) I have a serious hangover from yesterday’s KDD book bender. Glad I summoned the energy to doublecheck. Thx!
6. Lobster UST, which is… LUST… I’ll see myself out.
I preordered the Tessa Dare, and I started reading it the day it came out. I’m still only halfway through. I have no idea why. I just don’t care about the characters or the story. Scottish stories are always a little turn off for me (I lived in Scotland for five years, and the stereotypes in the books are so different from real Scottish people, and just strike me as weird, not sexy), so maybe that’s it, but I’m so sad about not liking it.
Loretta Chase’s “Falling Stars”, a novella from a mid-90s Christmas anthology, is now available digitally for $1.99. 🙂
@Hera I thought I was the only one who didn’t love this book! Also, I finished it two days after arriving in Scotland!
Although, I don’t think my location had anything to do with my feelings about it. I actually loved the first half but was really frustrated by the second. It felt like there were 3 or 4 “endings”. Issues that seemed to be resolved would pop back up and get re-resolved.