Rose is looking for a book she read recently, and can't recall:
I have been on a reading kick of Asian (mostly Chinese) romance.
I am looking for a book I read a several years ago when I had my Booksfree account. Yes, children, it was a different time, all books had to be on paper. I asked the librarian who was checking people out about trying to help me find this book. I know she is a recent college grad. Anyway she very kindly explained to me that there was this thing on Amazon called Orders under your account and you could find your previous orders of books there. And then I had to explain to her that I got the paperback through a mail order library and she was amazed that such a thing existed so recently. I never have felt older. 🙂
Anyway, the heroine was white, hero was Chinese. I think he was an assassin or something.
The only detail that really sticks out to me was just when they were getting down to business the hero always clenched his ass. I asked my husband if he ever did that and he spent about 5 minutes hilariously trying to figure it out.
It has been bugging me for weeks and Booksfree will not email me back about reinstating my account with my old reading list on it.
Please help!
Ah, BooksFree. I used that same service back at the very beginning of SBTB. Do you recognize this book?
This is a complete and total shot in the dark as I haven’t read the book but, The Deepest Edge by Jessica Hall. Romantic suspense, a Chinese hero, but he’s not an assassin (plus, he has a kid). Also it was published in 2003, so sort of fits a BooksFree timeline. I’m pasting the Booklist review below:
I was going to suggest Tiger Eye by Marjorie M. Liu but that’s a paranormal with a shapeshifter hero. Also I did a search for the word “clench” on the copy in my Kindle library and I found that the hero only clenches his jaw (naturally!), sometimes a fist or a knife.
Trying to portray him as a tight ass, were we?
It sounds like one of Jade Lee’s Tigress books, White Tigress, Hungry Tigress, and Burning Tigress all have white heroines, and Chinese heros. I don’t specifically remember clenching, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a whole heap of ass clenching.
Anne Stuart has a series (Ice?) where heroes are all assassins. One or maybe two have a Japanese hero. Ice Blue rings a bell with me. The heroine is a museum curator. Alas I don’t remember the clenching of the buttocks, which is a shame.
OOOHHH GOOD CALL ON THE ANNE STUART.
I just searched my copy of both Ice Blue and Fire & Ice (Japanese assassins, caucasian heroines, fantastic series). In IB, TAKASHI O’BRIEN (my favorite hero name, ever) doesn’t do much clenching, but her *body* clenches as.he.enters.her. In F&I… the only time “clench” comes up is when “she looked up at the huge man, clenched her hand into a fist and slammed it into his testicles.” Sweet.
The books were also published mid-late 20-00s, so probably not the series.
You know when a one star review tells you this is the book for you? Following up the Anne Stuart Ice Blue rec… “Story wise this is Anne Stuart’s WORST. I have read all in this series. Shock and awe with sexploits and street language might better describe this book.”
“Shock and awe with sexploits and street language”? Where do I start?
FairyKat, ha I do the same thing with reviews! If a review talks about too much cursing and lots of explicit sex, I’m like “Maybe I should check this one out!” 🙂
Yeah, my heroes don’t clench their asses. But now I want to read the Jessica Hall book, and the HABO book if that isn’t it. I love me some Asian heroes.
Hello,
I don’t know if this is where I should send my request for help, but I’ll try it anyway. I am looking for a recent romance I started reading a sample of on my Kindle. I deleted it by mistake (crowded bus, downtown Nanjing) and don’t remember the title: The main character is a woman named Ryan. She was a model. She’s now a bartender in an upscale bar. One night on shift, she feels sympathy for a customer who is looking very down in the mouth because (it turns out) his baby sister has gotten into trouble. She decides to meet up with him after work, in his hotel. Geeez! That’s as far as I got before I lost the damn thing. I thought it might be a Molly O’Keefe, but no. Thank you for any help you can send me.
ewl