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How Not to Fall
RECOMMENDED: How Not to Fall by Emily Foster is $2.99! I enjoyed this book and gave it a B:
I would recommend this book, honestly. The smart characters and Annie’s earnestness as a heroine are so refreshing, despite the emotional shift in the narrative. I’m glad I read it and I’m going to scramble for the continuation because I want to know what Emily Foster will do with these characters. And while I struggled with various aspects of How Not to Fall, I think it’s always a good sign when I still want to know what an author is going to do next
We also had a guest review, and Reader Sabra Nicole gave it an A:
I highly recommend this book to people (all genders, everyone) who are maaaybe, possibly interested in exploring BDSM themes in contemporary romantic-comedy, but are a little intimidated by the genre, or unsure where to even find that unique genre mish-mash. Since the kink leans more towards BDSM-light, it is a pleasant, sexy alternative for those who were left feeling limp (tee hee) after reading 50 Shades, but who aren’t quite ready to read about hard core couples in the BDSM scene. Even if BDSM isn’t your cup of tea, I’d still recommend giving this book a shot. The humor, brilliant characters, and heart make How Not to Fall a compelling read that you will be tempted to read again, and again.
In her witty and breathtakingly sexy novel, Emily Foster introduces a story of lust, friendship, and other unpredictable experiments. . .
Data, research, scientific formulae–Annabelle Coffey is completely at ease with all of them. Men, not so much. But that’s all going to change after she asks Dr. Charles Douglas, the postdoctoral fellow in her lab, to have sex with her. Charles is not only beautiful, he is also adorably awkward, British, brilliant, and nice. What are the odds he’d turn her down?
Very high, as it happens. Something to do with that whole student/teacher/ethics thing. But in a few weeks, Annie will graduate. As soon as she does, the unlikely friendship that’s developing between them can turn physical–just until Annie leaves for graduate school. Yet nothing could have prepared either Annie or Charles for chemistry like this, or for what happens when a simple exercise in mutual pleasure turns into something as exhilarating and infernally complicated as love.
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The Bollywood Bride
The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev is $2.99! This is a recommended contemporary romance and Dev is an auto-buy author around here. Redheadedgirl and Carrie did a joint review of the book and gave it a B+:
CarrieS: My super short review is, As a novel, this book is great, but as a romance novel, it’s not as good because the hero is not terribly convincing as a character. It’s interesting that we don’t get his point of view directly. That would have helped, because his character swings back and forth a lot between angel and jerk.
RHG: Yeah, it’s…. it’s kind of old school in that way? We get very little of the hero’s POV and it’s all about her. And yet decidedly neo-classic in that the trauma the heroine goes through has actual lasting consequences that aren’t fixed by magic wang.
Ria Parkar is Bollywood’s favorite Ice Princess–beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof–until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling home to Chicago for her cousin’s wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting Vikram Jathar.
Ria and Vikram spent childhood summers together, a world away from Ria’s exclusive boarding school in Mumbai. Their friendship grew seamlessly into love–until Ria made a shattering decision. As far as Vikram is concerned, Ria sold her soul for stardom and it’s taken him years to rebuild his life. But beneath his pent-up anger, their bond remains unchanged. And now, among those who know her best, Ria may find the courage to face the secrets she’s been guarding for everyone else’s benefit–and a chance to stop acting and start living.
Rich with details of modern Indian-American life, here is a warm, sexy, and witty story of love, family, and the difficult choices that arise in the name of both.
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Too Hot to Handle
RECOMMENDED: Too Hot to Handle by Tessa Bailey is $1.99 at most vendors! It’s also $2.99 at All Romance. I love Bailey’s writing so much. Her dialogue is realistic and fun, and her dirty talk between characters is top notch. I loved the setup of an estranged family’s cross-country road trip. But I will admit the chemistry between the hero and heroine wavered at times.
The first book in a brand new contemporary romance series from New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey!
When Rita Clarkson’s Suburban takes its last breath on a New Mexico roadside, rescue roars up on a Harley in the form of smooth-talking honkey tonk owner, Jasper Ellis, a man as mysterious as he is charming. Rita’s cross-country journey to New York City–with her three estranged siblings in tow–is only beginning, but now that Jasper has found Rita, his plans do not include her leaving.
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Vision in Silver
Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop is $1.99! This is the third book in highly recommended The Others urban fantasy series. You should probably read these in order, and readers warn that the series may be triggering as it includes self-harm. But many love the heroine and the world Bishop has created. Any fans of the series here? The first book has been on my TBR forever, but I always get distracted by other books.
The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before—both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control their divinations for wicked purposes. In desperate need of answers, Simon Wolfgard, a shape-shifter leader among the Others, has no choice but to enlist blood prophet Meg Corbyn’s help, regardless of the risks she faces by aiding him.
Meg is still deep in the throes of her addiction to the euphoria she feels when she cuts and speaks prophecy. She knows each slice of her blade tempts death. But Others and humans alike need answers, and her visions may be Simon’s only hope of ending the conflict.
For the shadows of war are deepening across the Atlantik, and the prejudice of a fanatic faction is threatening to bring the battle right to Meg and Simon’s doorstep…
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I really love Anne Bishop’s style of writing – not only her current series but her older stuff, too.
But you should definitely start with ‘Written in Red’, otherwise you won’t have all the information you need and won’t be able to enjoy the development of the characters and the world.
I also love Anne Bishop. I discovered her through reader’s recommendations for her Black Jewels series. It was so refreshing. I read all three of her Others series as soon as I could get my hands on them. I just learned that another book is on the way. Etched in Bone will be out in March 2017.
Another Anne Bishop fan here. Definitely read them in order.
Caveat: So far every single one of her series has let me down at the end. Here’s hoping this one doesn’t.(If she hadn’t tried to wrap up the Black Jewels series neatly, that one wouldn’t have.)
I’ve read Written in Red, but after all of the warnings about Bishop letting fans down in prior series, I was hesitant to keep going. I thought the Others world was terrific, though. You’re all convincing me to read forward into the series (though, I confess, I’d really enjoy a daily diary of her job and deliveries almost more than the Big Bad coming to get her plot parts!).
This is the only Anne Bishop series I’ve read–tried her other books, but they weren’t my thing. I LOVE these books. So much. As in, I’ve read the entire series twice within six months and I’ve got books piled on my nightstand and Kindle I’ve been waiting to get to. So, yeah. It’s good.
The self harm trigger is specifically about cutting, which isn’t a spoiler, because this comes out fairly quickly in the book. It’s handled very well, in my opinion, as it’s seen as a largely negative thing. Having said that, someone very close to me has struggled with this issue and I wouldn’t recommend this book to her, no matter how great the story is.
@Lostshadows Oh no! I’m worried about the series ending now. The last book ended so well I thought it was the LAST book. If she ends this one badly, maybe I’ll only read up to that one and pretend it’s the end. 😉
Harlequin has a bogo sale on their site. It looks like the offer is good up to five books. Code is BOGOCRAZY.
I probably should have said up to ten books, pay for five, get five free.
I love Bishop’s original Black Jewels Trilogy, some of my favorite books ever, but I could barely make it through “Written in Red.” I love urban fantasy, but there was something about this that comes off… unbearably cute. Meg is perfect and sweet and everybody loves her (a character trait I’ll admit pops up in Black Jewels, but is tempered by emotion and plot and growing development). And why does everyone, all these shapeshifters who hate humans love Meg? Because she’s in trouble and sad about it. There’s like a whole chapter where animals just bring her gifts.
I kept waiting for her to have a shade of something, anything beyond Sad Snow White and it just didn’t happen.
I found the Others by what else, My SBTB email. Which. My wallet suffers dearly for. Written in Red was 2$ a while back but I opted to borrow from my library. I wish I hadn’t. There are few series that I will re read, but this is one of them. Yay for SBTB letting me know #3 was on sale…I love the little world she has created with this one.
I’ve enjoyed Anne Bishop’s Blood Jewels books (all of them!) and The Others so far. Written in Red seemed to me to be written in a voice more for a YA reader, but it got more mature. I’m wondering if she wrote the books the way she has as a way to show Meg’s growing maturity. Maybe?
I enjoyed the first two books in the Others series. By the third book the story started to drag. She threw in a lot of extraneous scenes that seemed like pure filler. (Example, in the third book there are a lot of letters, no mention of who they’re to or who they’re from. They’re not even remotely relevant until the fourth book. Even then, they’re not really all that important, so why are they there?)
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Also, the last two books had basically the same two-step plot. 1 – Something bad is going to happen if you don’t change your ways. 2 – You didn’t change your ways, something bad is now happening.
After the third book, Bishop went from auto-buy to “maybe I’ll check it out of the library sometime.”
Another Others and Anne Bishop fan here. I read most of the Black Jewels but sort of tapered off and didn’t finish. Upon recommendations of many, I gave WRITTEN IN RED a try. I could not put it down. This isn’t exactly urban fantasy. I’d qualify it as speculative/alternative fantasy with very strong conservation themes. Conservation as in “Save the earth.” The world-building is…just damn and whoah! Watching the relationship develop between Meg and Simon just makes me melt.
Is there a chance the series will run it’s course? Yes. It undoubtedly will, and I’ll be sad, but then all but a couple of series that are/were auto-buy for me have done the same. Takes two hands to count the ones that ultimately let me down. Until then, I’ll continue reading, rereading, and enjoying the Others. I have this auto-buy series in hardback, Kindle, and audio. If I didn’t already own all the formats, I’d be jumping on this sale like crazy.
@SB Sarah: I think the first Others book is still my favorite because I really liked the bits about Meg learning to cope with things other people took for granted. I found the mailroom/mail delivery scenes oddly satisfying.
I also recommend the audio books of The Others–I always listen to them after I’ve read the books first.
I think I am in the minority in that I haaaaated the “hero” in The Bollywood Bride. I spent the whole book wanting the heroine to get wise to the fact that she was way too good for him.
@KateB: I had a hard time getting through Written in Red, too. The Disney princessness got on my nerves, but the deal breaker was how she was infantilized throughout… and then sexualized. Gross.
OMG, Anne Bishop’s The Others series is amazing, I highly recommend it! (So far, anyway. I am a tad apprehensive about what will happen when it comes time to wrap up the series…) The audiobooks are also pretty wonderful (I consume the series in that form), though I recommend reading book 1 and picking up the audio from book 2 onwards. Why? Because the narrator mispronounces some pretty central-to-the-story words in audiobook 1 and it irks the everloving crap out of me! (I’m particularly bitter about the mispronunciations because Anne Bishop has a pronunciation guide on her website!) (What does she mispronounce? Cassandra sangue [sang] and B.O.W. [boe, bow]. Included are the correct pronunciations.)
Now I’m off to 1-click on the Emily Foster…
I probably missed hearing about this, but has anyone else noticed that several Judith McNaught ebooks have appeared on Nook? All but one are priced at 4.99. I’m on my way to one-click Paradise and Perfect before they possibly disappear again.
Unfortunately there’s still only one title (Every Breath You Take) on Kindle.
Just purchased and read ‘How Not To Fall In Love’ in one sitting, and that included time I should have been working…
Bloody marvellous. Intelligent characters, likeable characters and a compelling storyline.
Thank you.
I agree with Evelyn about the third book in The Others series needing drastic editing. (I’d say the fourth did, too.) I thought all of them were a bit bloated, but I still enjoyed them, particularly the first installment. The world-building is great, and I loved all the humor. I can totally see how some readers felt the heroine was infantilized and Disney-Princess-y, but she worked for me — c’mon, she was raised in a lab without real-world experience!
I tried reading the Black Jewels series — I have friends who adore it — but couldn’t get into it. Will try again at some point, I’m sure.