Season for Surrender
RECOMMENDED: Season for Surrender by Theresa Romain is $2.99 right now at most if not all vendors. This book was a Sizzling Book Club Pick, and Sarah loved it all kinds of ways. It takes place at a scandalous holiday house party, and features a hero who learns how to be a better person, and a heroine who isn’t taking any crap from anyone. As Sarah wrote when she announced this book as the club selection, “Y’all, they are in the library a great deal, and those are some of the best scenes in the book.” The book is also on sale to promote a Hero v. Hero romance tournament by Kensington, so feel free to vote when it opens February 9th!
Honor Among Rogues
Alexander Edgeware, Lord Xavier, has quite a reputation—for daring, wagering, and wickedness in all its delightful forms. But the wager before him is hardly his preferred sport: Xavier must persuade a proper young lady to attend his famously naughty Christmas house party—and stay the full, ruinous two weeks. Worse, the lady is Louisa Oliver, a doe-eyed bookworm Xavier finds quite charming. Yet to refuse the challenge is impossible—he will simply have to appoint himself Miss Oliver’s protector…
Mischief Among Misses
Louisa knows her chance for a husband has passed. But she has no desire to retire into spinsterhood without enjoying a few grand adventures first. When Lord Xavier’s invitation arrives, Louisa is more intrigued than insulted. And once inside the rogues’ gallery, she just may have a thing or two to teach her gentlemen friends about daring…
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Tempting Meredith by Samantha Ann King is 99c! This is book three in the Lovers and Friends series, which tend to be erotic romances with menage scenes. And I should also mention that the heroine is an astrophysicist. Yep, that’s right. Girl’s got some skills. There does seem to be some discrepancies on the plot and whether or not the book has one. Some readers say yes and some say no. It has a 3.8-star rating on GoodReads.
Astrophysicist Meredith Burke’s professional life is perfect. Her personal life is another story. Years ago, a menage with the man she loved and his roommate left her with a broken heart and a secret. She hasn’t trusted anyone since, but when she meets rugged hunting guide Charlie Connor she figures she doesn’t need to. He’s got “one-night stand” written all over him.
After one night with Meredith, Charlie needs more. She’s intoxicating, and shockingly willing to give him total control of her body. When she agrees to spend an entire week with him at the lodge where he works, it’s more than he’d hoped for. But Blaine Bridges, Charlie’s best friend and boss, has his own secrets.
Blaine hasn’t seen Meredith since that disastrous encounter eight years ago, but he still has feelings for her. Now she’s dating his best friend, the man he wants for himself. When Meredith invites him to join in their naughty play, his pleasure is all-consuming. But will the secrets they all hold close destroy a beautiful beginning or bring these three lovers closer than they ever imagined?
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This Heart of Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips is $1.99! This is a contemporary sports romance, which ties in perfectly with last week’s podcast! This is book number five in her Chicago Stars series, which focuses on a football team, if you happen to prefer that brand of athlete. Several readers couldn’t get behind the heroine, Molly, at all, while others were glad she finally got her own book. Molly kind of grows up as a secondary character in previous books, FYI. Anyone read this book and want to give their opinions on dropping the $2?
Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children’s book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. She has a reputation for trouble that started even before she gave away her fifteen-million-dollar inheritance. Then there’s her long-term crush on the quarterback for the Chicago Stars football team her sister owns—that awful, gorgeous Kevin Tucker, a man who can’t even remember Molly’s name!
One night Kevin barges into Molly’s not-quite-perfect life and turns it upside down. Unfortunately, the Ferrari-driving riving, poodle-hating jock isn’t as shallow as she wishes he were, and she soon finds herself at a place called Wind Lake. Surrounded by paintbox cottages, including a charming old bed-and-breakfast, Molly and Kevin battle their attraction and each other as they face one of life’s most important lessons. Sometimes love hurts, sometimes it makes you mad as hell, and sometimes—if you’re lucky—it can heal in a most unexpected way.
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Temporal Shift by Nina Croft is 99c! This is a scifi romance and is the fourth book in the Blood Hunter series. To be honest, I love me some science fiction romances and it’s something I always want more of in my reading. It’s recommended that readers familiarize with the earlier books before reading this one, though many say this couple has become their favorite so far in the series. It has a 4.5-star rating on GoodReads.
Caught between destiny and desire…
After diving into a black hole in search of the source of Meridian, the key to immortality, the crew of the Blood Hunter finds themselves stranded in an alternate universe.
Engineer Devlin Stark doesn’t want immortality. He just wants to live long enough to get his revenge on the man who murdered his brother. Now, he’s trapped in a strange world with a crazy woman who claims he’s fated to be her lover.
Saffira Lourdes has a destiny: to save humanity and lead her exiled people to the Promised Land. Haunted by visions of the past and future, she’s been sustained through the years by a dream lover. Unfortunately, Devlin doesn’t believe in fate. But it’s obvious there’s a connection between them, one that will soon be tested by the limits of time and space. Saffira is about to make the crew of the Blood Hunter an offer they’ll find impossible to refuse.
They’re heading back to Earth, and they’re going back in time…
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Loved the SEP book. It takes you through a range of emotions. It’s classic Susan Elizabeth Phillips. You grow with the characters. The romance is sexy and heart felt. It’s a yearly read for me. SEP is really a great contemporary author. I like that her female characters get the guy, even though they are not total bombshells.
That book is when I stopped reading SEP. Molly sexually assaulted Kevin. He does not consent to sex with her and she begins touching him while he is asleep. It is never addressed and somehow it is supposed to be cute that she liked him so much she could rape him.
I actually liked This Heart of Mine. While Molly’s behavior is indefensible, the author doesn’t justify it nor does she pretend that it’s somehow passionate or romantic. Kevin calls her on her behavior immediately. Molly is messed up and knows it. The individual reader has to decide whether her story arc is plausible, whether her behavior is forgivable in light of her background, and whether her HEA is earned. I can deal with horrible behavior on a character’s part, if that character evolves in the course of the story, and I found Molly’s growth and change over the course of the novel to be acceptable.
Yeah, I just bought This Heart of Mine. I agree with Pam G – Molly’s self-destructive tendencies aren’t romanticized and come with a price. I’m aware of and understand the controversies surrounding this novel, but it’s still perhaps my favorite of the Chicago Stars series.
I hated This Heart of Mine and Molly in particular more than I can remember hating any heroine for as long as I can remember. She was absolutely reprehensible and her actions throughout the book made me want to stab her. Not only were her initial actions horrifying, but she kept being a manipulative drama queen throughout the whole book. Her attempts at fiction were twee and mawkish. Not only did I find Molly absolutely unbearable, but Phoebe and Dan, who were characters that I liked in their own romance, became thoroughly dislikable in this book. If I’d owned the book in a dead tree, I would have thrown it across the room in disgust, several times. I wanted to tell Kevin to run far away from Molly and her horrible, controlling family. It baffles me that this book is still rated 52nd in the Top 100 over on All About Romance, higher than several of my favourite romances of all time. I not only wouldn’t pay 2 dollars for the book (I borrowed my copy from the library), but I want the time I spent reading this book back. That’s hours of my life I’m never getting back, and the only satisfaction I got was that I could rip the book to shreds in my review of it.
This Heart of Mine is very problematic, as far as Molly’s behaviour goes–and I was never fully convinced that she truly got just how fucked up it was that she raped Kevin. However, there is a secondary romance with Kevin’s birth mother that I enjoyed quite a bit. I honestly don’t know that I would buy the book, two dollars or not, just because of that, though.
The SEP book got too sappy for me (the book characters) plus I detested the heroine. It’s one e copy I don’t want.
I forgot to say that I really, really liked the Romain book–both this one and the first in the series, Season for Temptation