Worth the Fall
RECOMMENDED: Worth the Fall by Bria Quinlan/Caitie Quinn is $3.99! This contemporary romance was nominated for a RITA in the Mid-Length Contemporary category. During the RITA© Reader Challenge review, there were a lot of positive comments about the book!
Reader Taffygrrl gave it an A-:
Just as the conflict between Max and Kasey does not feel forced, the resolution feels natural. The tension lasts as long as it needs to, and the characters work things out at exactly the right time. I would have liked to get to see more of them after they worked out their conflict, but I guess that’s what the next book is for.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to read everything Caitie Quinn’s ever written.
Kasey Lane is having a bad week.
Understatement.
Her idea of success never involved losing her job, man, and apartment in 24-hours. Now, with nowhere to go and no way to pay for it anyway, Kasey decides it’s time for a fresh start, which means a new apartment, a new career, and…no men.
But as a magnet for ridiculousness and absurd brushes with the law, her start goes from fresh to stale in record time. It doesn’t help that Mr. Wrong keeps showing up during her adventures gone awry and taking over. Now, as Kasey plans her way to independence she has to decide if the only path to success is going it alone…or if maybe a partner in crime can make the journey sweeter.
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RECOMMENDED: Craving Flight by Tamsen Parker is FREE! This is a contemporary erotic romance with BDSM elements and Jewish characters. Sarah recently reviewed this and gave it a B+:
This novella is a compelling, immersive reading experience, and I mean that in all the best definitions of both words. I loved the immersion into modern orthodoxy, and the ways in which the heroine struggles to get things right, to keep traditions and facets of faith in the right way, determined to persevere in the face of neverending censure.
Tzipporah Berger is thirty-seven and single, which is practically unheard of in the Orthodox Jewish community she now calls home. Her increasing religiosity and need for kink may have broken up her first marriage, but she’s decided it’s time to try again. And the rabbi’s wife has just the man in mind.
Elan Klein is the neighborhood butcher whose intimidating size and gruff manner hint at a deliciously forceful personality. But BDSM isn’t exactly something you discuss during an Orthodox courtship. Will a marriage to Elan solidify her place in the community that she loves and provide the domination and pain Tzipporah craves or will she forever have to rely on flights of fancy to satisfy her needs?
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Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros is 99c! This book is an epistolary romance told through tweets and DMs. We actually have a few dissenting opinions on this book between Sarah’s grade and the two RITA© Reader Challenge reviews we received. Sarah gave it a DNF (did not finish):
I didn’t like how the reality of the author’s voice was intruding into the fictional world of the book. But then, the reverse didn’t work, either. The parts that were fiction that could come forward into “real life” weren’t verifiable. For example, when the characters tweet pictures of one another, none of the URLs actually work (I tried, trust me).
Maybe that was kind of the point, and the author was playing with the idea of reality and character, that everyone on Twitter is a fraction of themselves, a sketch of a character typed out in 140 characters. Maybe if you follow Medeiros’ tweetstream, which is a very fun and savvy example of an author interacting online, you’re supposed to see the words and phrases in this book that are the author’s, not the character’s, and wonder how much of the author, and the character, is real when present on Twitter, and by extension, how much or how little of ourselves we reveal on Twitter.
Reader Jenn gave it a B:
This is a story of two people who are need of connection, and they find each other in a uniquely modern fashion. The only thing that bothered me about this book was that they obviously liked each other, but they didn’t seem to want to connect beyond Twitter –no emails, no online chats, no Skype, etc. When Abby does suggest that they take the next step of talking on the phone, Mark is forced to reveal his Big Secret, and the tone of the book changes abruptly. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about that change in tone, but I enjoyed the ending and applaud the author for choosing to do something a little out of the ordinary.
Reader Catherine gave it a B-:
Twitter, with all its characters, hashtags, and real-time reflections, can tell one heck of a story. But without the random thoughts and intermixed conversations that usually cover one’s Twitter account, how is this any different from other e-epistolary styles like IM and email?
Style aside, the relationship between Abby and Mark is a heartwarming story and has its high points, from the Twitter “dates” to their style of saying good night (lots of old TV characters here!) to the ending. This book has good intentions, but it is ultimately unremarkable.
New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros absolutely dazzles in this quick-witted, laugh-out-loud funny, and highly moving love story that will set readers’ hearts atwitter.
Abigail Donovan has a lot of stuff she should be doing. Namely writing her next novel. A bestselling author who is still recovering from a near Pulitzer Prize win and the heady success that follows Oprah’stamp of approval, she is stuck at Chapter Five and losing confidence daily. But when her publicist signs her up for a Twitter account, she’s intrigued. What’s all the fuss?
Taken under the wing of one of her Twitter followers, “MarkBaynard”, a quick witted, quick-typing professor on sabbatical, Abby finds it easy to put words out into the world 140 characters at a time. And once she gets a handle on tweets, retweets, direct messages, hashtags, and trends, she starts to feel unblocked in writing and in life. After all, why should she be spending hours in her apartment staring at her TweetDeck and fretting about her stalled career when Mark is out there traveling the world andliving?
Or is he?
Told almost entirely in tweets and DMs, Goodnight Tweetheart is a truly modern take on a classic tale of love and loss, a Griffin and Sabine for the Twitter generation.
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Dirty Past by Emma Hart is $1.99! This is a new adult contemporary romance with a rockstar hero. It’s also (technically) a workplace romance since the heroine is a personal assistant for the hero’s band. I will add a trigger warning because there does seem to be mention of trauma/abuse in the plot description. Readers loved the heroine’s emotional journey, but felt the ending was a little rushed. It has a 4.1-star rating on Godreads.
On the heels of Dirty Secret, here is a sizzling hot romance featuring another Burke brother and the girl he can’t resist, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Game series.
Walking out on my wedding wasn’t my best idea.
Neither was throwing my cell in the lake and taking a job as PA for Dirty B, America’s favorite rock band, complete with every teen girl’s dream man, the eldest of the Burke brothers.
Tate Burke is pure sex. Women actually throw their panties at him during shows. And Ella Dawson is the lucky little thing that gets to escort their fangirling butts out when he’s done with them.
Yay.
He’s a cocky son of a bitch, but there’s more to him than meets the eye. Every now and then Ella gets a rare glimpse of the Tate behind the “bad boy” act, and it attracts her in the most annoying way. The most annoying, heart-thumping, panty-wetting way.
When her abusive ex turns up at the hotel room Ella and Tate are sharing, raging mad, she knows she’ll need more than just a little protection. Tate sees red, and Ella can’t help but lean on him, despite his bad-boy ways.
And now? Now, he’s in a whole lot of trouble.
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“Sunshine” by Robin McKinley is $1.99 on Kindle. 🙂
I love Caitie Quinn’s/Bria Quinlan’s Brew Ha Ha series! Taffygrrl’s review this summer inspired me to buy Worth the Fall–and all the others in the series so I could read them in order, which I did much too quickly.
Has anyone read Dirty Past? I’m intrigued because I’m a sucker for rock star romances, but they tend to have a very specific trope of slut-shaming female fans (other than the heroine, of course), and this quote makes me nervous: “And Ella Dawson is the lucky little thing that gets to escort their fangirling butts out when he’s done with them.”
One of my biggest peeves is when authors throw female characters under the stereotype bus in order to make the heroine look better by comparison. That’s the main reason I ragequit the Olivia Cunning Sinners series (aside from the intense biphobia). I’d like to check out Dirty Past, but not if this author does the same thing.
Dirty Past looks intriguing. Has anyone else read it yet?
@ Heather S: Rose Daughter is, too. Thx.
Godreads, ha ha, perfect! Still more perfect is that it’s right next to the dirty thoughts cover 😉
@Heather S. I cannot recommend Sunshine enough! Fantastic book
Umm… That’d actually be ‘dirty past’…
Worth the Fall is great! First book in a while that I was actually laughing out loud and reading passages out loud to my husband.
Upon this recommendation I read Dirty Past last night. *sigh* I wanted to like this book and I struggled through it. While I didn’t read the first book in this series, those characters were ALL up in this book. Add to the fact there was a 2yr old in a lot of the dialogue and i’m done. I absolutely hate when writers speak for children in their kid language. It rarely ever works. Series books without drawing in almost all the other characters and having a new-ish story are tough to pull off and this one just couldn’t do it.
Dirty Past was a DNF for me. I thought it started out strong, with a likeable heroine and intriguing back story, but it went down hill as soon as she made contact with the other characters. About 10% into the book I was feeling really confused because the characters were either acting inconsistently compared to how other characters perceived them, or were being perceived in a way that made no sense
based on what I’d just read. At 30% it devolved enough that I gave up.