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Romancing the Duke
RECOMMENDED: Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare is $1.99! This is the first book in the Castles Ever After historical romance series and it won a RITA last year. It currently has 3.9-star rating on GR. Sarah reviewed it and gave it a B+:
I think this is a truly unique historical that will appeal to readers who aren’t often historical fans. This story captures both a distant time period, and the present day, reflecting it in the characters – with a story and a parallel set of references beside it that grow together until the meaning of both is intertwined and layered into something I haven’t read before. This is a romance that is also a little bit about the community around romance, and all the many, many people who believe in it and have their fondness for it in common.
In the first in Tessa Dare’s captivating Castles Ever After series, a mysterious fortress is the setting for an unlikely love . . .
As the daughter of a famed author, Isolde Ophelia Goodnight grew up on tales of brave knights and fair maidens. She never doubted romance would be in her future, too. The storybooks offered endless possibilities.
And as she grew older, Izzy crossed them off. One by one by one.
Ugly duckling turned swan?
Abducted by handsome highwayman?
Rescued from drudgery by charming prince?No, no, and… Heh.
Now Izzy’s given up yearning for romance. She’ll settle for a roof over her head. What fairy tales are left over for an impoverished twenty-six year-old woman who’s never even been kissed?
This one.
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Cover Me
Cover Me by Catherine Mann is $2.99! This is a romantic suspense with the hero and heroine trapped in a blizzard. It’s also the first book in the Elite Ops series. Readers enjoyed the setting and the balance of suspense and romance. However, others felt they just couldn’t get invested in the romance at all. The second book, Hot Zone, is also on sale.
It should have been a simple mission…
Pararescueman Wade Rocha fast ropes from the back of a helicopter into a blizzard to save a climber stranded on an Aleutian Island, but Sunny Foster insists she can take care of herself just fine…
But when it comes to passion, nothing is ever simple…
With the snowstorm kicking into overdrive, Sunny and Wade hunker down in a cave and barely resist the urge to keep each other warm… until they discover the frozen remains of a horrific crime… Unable to trust the local police force, Sunny and Wade investigate, while their irresistible passion for each other gets them more and more dangerously entangled…
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Wicked Nights
Wicked Nights by Gena Showalter is $1.99! This is the first book in her Angels of the Dark series, which obviously features angels and demons. Reviews on Goodreads mention how much readers loved the characterizations of the hero and heroine. However, others found the action of the plot and some of the sex scenes to be rather…stiff (heh). It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, Zacharel has been deemed nearly too dangerous, too ruthless-and if he isn’t careful, he’ll lose his wings. But this warrior with a heart of ice will not be deterred from his missions, at any cost…until a vulnerable human tempts him with a carnal pleasure he’s never known before.
Accused of a crime she did not commit, Annabelle Miller has spent four years in an institution for the criminally insane. Demons track her every move, and their king will stop at nothing to have her. Zacharel is her only hope for survival, but is the brutal angel with a touch as hot as hell her salvation-or her ultimate damnation?
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The Big Book of Casseroles
The Big Book of Casseroles by Maryana Vollstedt is $1.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble! This cookbook has 250 recipes with various meat, pasta, and veggie casseroles. Readers loved the variety of the recipes, while others warn that this is a cookbook without any pictures.
Bubbling cheese, golden bread crumbs, tender vegetables, and succulent meats – what’s not to like about casseroles? Comfort food just doesn’t get any cozier, or more convenient. Now, thanks to Maryana Vollstedt, busy cooks don’t have to call up Mom in order to make delicious one-dish meals for family and friends. The Big Book of Casseroles boasts over 250 recipes (including low-fat and vegetarian dishes), plus handy planning, freezing, and storage tips. For hot-from-the-oven dinners equally at home in the dining room or on the kitchen table, cooks need look no further than The Big Book of Casseroles, because serious comfort food never goes out of style.
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I was going to rattle my sabre again about cookbooks with no pictures, but… casserole always kind of looks like casserole. In this case, every recipe could say “As pictured on the cover” and you couldn’t dispute it much.
Romancing the Duke was my favourite book of 2015. Clever, funny, charming and steamy. Highly Recommend.
There are several in Tessa Dare’s Spindle Cove series for $1.99 on Kindle, too. Goodbye, wallet!
I’m cautious about which historicals I read, as they’re not my main genre, but you can rarely go wrong with Tessa Dare. I just added Romancing the Duke to my TBR pile!
I just can’t with Tessa Dare. I feel inadequate every time I read her work. Because it SHOULD be something I’d love, all the catnip’s there and she’s a skilled author. It just never clicks for me. I blame myself.
I’m kind of seething over the latest Courtney Milan, whom I revere and love all her books so much. A Right Honorable Gentleman is 99 cents at Amazon. As a veteran fan of her novellas, I expected short and remarkable. What I got was what seemed like the final two chapters of a novel she never wrote. It was scarcely a vignette. I got no character development nor any sense of their motivation. I whine.
Ooh, yay! I think Romancing the Duke is really what made me into a romance reader. Everybody get your hands on that book while it’s on sale! 🙂
@ Lora, I decided not to be so quick with the one-click the next time I see a new Courtney Milan story. I’ll read the description first.
I read A Promise of Fire based on the review from here, and I LOVED IT. LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT.
Honestly, I started it thinking it was going to be a YA sci-fi/fantasy novel, but then I was surprised with some sexy times 😉 The review says it all – it was a fantastic book, IMO, and a really great new world to explore! I usually stay away from reading series that aren’t finished yet (thank you, years of waiting for A Wheel of Time and Game of Thrones), but this was tempting and it was so so good. Have I said that enough yet? eek, sorry, over-loving on this book.
Rent it from the library. Then buy it before the sale goes out. But then buy it anyway if the sale ends because it’s juuuuust that good!
“Canned soups and dry mixes are not used in The Big Book of Casseroles.”
*1-click* (I loathe the use of canned soups and dry mixes in recipes… Pictures, shmictures!)
(I might loathe the use of canned soups and dry mixes a little less if I could get ahold of specific soups for interesting-looking recipes… Then again, I’m Nordic. I think the eleventh commandment for us is something like “prepare meals from scratch (using clean, locally sourced ingredients).” 😉 )
Tessa Dare is a wonderful woman, intelligent and insightful and kind, and her books are funny, skillfully written, and engaging. However, I can’t completely enjoy them because they aren’t historical–or historically plausible–in a way that is satisfying for me. I would put them in another category–maybe “alt-historical” or “historical fantasy.” I thought “Romancing the Duke” was fun but unconvincing, and the meta elements that so many others seem to love threw me right out of the story. Of course, I know we all seek different things from our historicals, so your mileage may vary.