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Need Me
RECOMMENDED: Need Me by Tessa Bailey is 99c! This is the second book in Bailey’s Broke & Beautiful series, which revolves around a group of friends living in New York City. Three women and three men. Naturally, they all get paired off together and I’ve loved all three books in this series. If you’re interested in binge reading all three books (and I highly recommend you do so), all three are available for less than $5. This particular one features a student/teacher relationship, though the student pursues the teacher in this case. There is also a slight age difference and class difference. The hero is from a privileged family and the heroine is from a poor Southern town. This is what I said of it on Goodreads:
I’m really torn whether I liked this book better than the first one, but I will say that Tessa Bailey writes some of the best dialogue and sexiest foreplay talk I have read in a while. With great pacing, Need Me never keeps Honey and Ben in a comfortable place for long, which I appreciate. For me, I prefer my romance where the actual romance and HEA is the payoff.
I did have reservations with the references to Lolita. Ben is an English professor, so it’s natural for him to make literary references; I just didn’t think that one was the smartest choice. Don’t get me wrong, I love Lolita and it’s, hands down, one of my favorite titles; however I don’t associate it with anything romantic. Or rather, I don’t want to.
When Honey Perribow traded in her cowboy boots for stilettos and left her small Kentucky town to attend Columbia University, she never expected to find a dirt-cheap apartment or two new best friends. No stranger to hard work, Honey is completely focused on her medical degree … until she sees newly minted professor Ben Dawson, and her concentration is hijacked. Honey is fascinated by her gorgeous young English professor and vows to find a crack in his tweed-wearing, glasses-clad exterior.
At an off-campus party, an accident lands Ben in a dark, locked closet with a sexy-sounding Southern belle … and their chemistry is explosive. But when he discovers that the girl in his arms is the same beautiful student he can’t stop thinking about, he is stunned. Student-teacher relationships are strictly forbidden … yet no matter how hard he tries, Ben can’t stay away from Honey.
And when his attempt to fight their attraction nearly ruins the best thing that ever happened to him, Ben will do anything to prove how much he needs her.
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RECOMMENDED: How to Bake a Perfect Life by Barbara O’Neal is $1.99! This is women’s fiction rather than a romance novel, and it won a RITA© in 2012 for Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements. During our RITA© Reader Challenge that year, Reader Tabs gave the book an A:
This is a lovely book.
Every time I read it I get lost in the language. I get lost in the descriptions of Spanish guitars, of mother doughs and Old World breads, and of dahlias and flowers that look like dancing ladies.
Every time I read it I get lost in the emotion. I get lost in the sorrows of parents who grieve for lost futures, in the anger of resentful siblings, in the tenderness of rediscovered love, and in the joy of connection.
In a novel as warm and embracing as a family kitchen, Barbara O’Neal explores the poignant, sometimes complex relationships between mothers and daughters—and the healing magic of homemade bread.
Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a master of an art that has sustained her through the most turbulent times, including a baby at fifteen and an endless family feud. But now Ramona’s bakery threatens to crumble around her. Literally. She’s one water-heater disaster away from losing her grandmother’s rambling Victorian and everything she’s worked so hard to build.
When Ramona’s soldier son-in-law is wounded in Afghanistan, her daughter, Sophia, races overseas to be at his side, leaving Ramona as the only suitable guardian for Sophia’s thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, Katie. Heartbroken, Katie feels that she’s being dumped again—this time on the doorstep of a woman out of practice with mothering.
Ramona relies upon a special set of tools—patience, persistence, and the reliability of a good recipe—when rebellious Katie arrives. And as she relives her own history of difficult choices, Ramona shares her love of baking with the troubled girl. Slowly, Katie begins to find self-acceptance and a place to call home. And when a man from her past returns to offer a second chance at love, Ramona discovers that even the best recipe tastes better when you add time, care, and a few secret ingredients of your own.
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Dirty Talk by Megan Erickson is 99c! This is a contemporary romance with a blue collar hero and a single parent heroine who’s trying to start over. Readers say this is light on angst and “unnecessary drama,” which many liked. However, a few readers didn’t really buy the romance between the hero and heroine. Have you read this one?
When the one you shouldn’t want is the one you can’t resist…
Brent Payton works hard, plays hard, and has earned his ladies’ man reputation. But he’s more than just a good time, even though no one seems to see it. Until a gorgeous brunette with knockout curves and big, thoughtful eyes walks into his family’s garage and makes Brent want more.
Ivy Dawn and her sister are done with men, all of them. They’ve uprooted their lives too many times on account of the opposite sex, but that’s over now. The plan seems easy until a sexy, dirty-taking mechanic bursts in Ivy’s life and shakes everything up.
Brent can’t resist the one person who sees past his devil-may-care façade, and Ivy finds it harder and harder to deny how happy he makes her. But she has secrets of her own and when the truth comes out, she must decide if she’ll run again or if she’ll take a chance on forever.
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Adapted for Film by Stacey Rourke is $2.99! This is a contemporary romance with an actor hero, a fake relationship, and an opposites attract pairing. I’m very interested in this one admittedly. Some readers felt the characterization was a little station, while others thought this book had a great blend of humor and romance. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
Aubrey Evans is living every author’s dream; her sizzling romance novel is being turned into a blockbuster film. She would be celebrating this momentous event, if she wasn’t busy fighting over every tiny production detail with the maddeningly cavalier director, Kole Camden.
When news of their heated rivalry hits the gossip columns, drastic measures must be taken to save their sinking project. In an elaborate PR hoax, she is publicly linked to Greyson Meyers, the swoon-worthy star of her movie. A whirl-wind love affair is staged for the couple to mirror the steamy chapters of her own books.
Can the introverted author resist the charms of Hollywood’s sexiest leading man? Or will love find her in the City of Angels?
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The contemporary lesbian romance, “London Calling” by Clare Lydon is on sale for $0.99 at Amazon. And lesbian romances never go on sale, guys!
The only one I’ve read is the Tessa Bailey, and I gotta say, I was really bothered by the professor sleeping with his student. Which, to be fair, is a power imbalance that I knew would be problematic for me, although it was more upsetting than I expected. Ymmv, and no judgement on anyone who likes that, just warning for anyone who was curious. I don’t want to be spoilery,
but from my point of view
the hero makes a series of unacceptable choices and then buys his way out. Is that spoilery? If that’s a spoiler feel free to delete.
@kkw: For me, I think if it were reversed with the teacher being the pursuer, I might have been more bothered. And actually, this might have been the only way I would have been on board with that particular plot. I definitely agree that the hero did some shitty things, but I chocked them up to a variety of issues: his family background, his conflicted opinion of becoming involved with Honey, etc.
Regardless of whether or not who is the aggressor in the relationship, I agree that there’s still a power imbalance, which does become a clear problem in the romance.
Snowkissed is also on UK Amazon for 99p
@Amanda Agreed, it would have been way worse if he came on to her. This situation was more borderline, so I was intrigued. Power dynamics like this are something that can be great as fantasy but I dislike (intensely) irl.
It’s a strange case where I think maybe Tessa Bailey is too good a writer to pull it off – her characters feel too real, which made circumstances I might have otherwise been able to gloss over feel too bothersome. I couldn’t blow off my disgust with the hero as typical hero antics, because it seemed like it was really happening, not romancelandia happening.
@kkw: “Too good a writer.” Now that’s a problem to have! I’m very picky about new adult titles, but I agree that Bailey does a great job capturing characterization and emotions that feel very real.
“Nuts” the new Alice Clayton book is only $1.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
I am reading ‘Need Me’, and I have to say that as the proud unemployed owner of a PhD in English literature, I’m seriously distracted by this whole ‘English professor at twenty-five’ thing. Hoooow did he finish a PhD and post-doc by twenty-five? Four years for his basic BA, five for his PhD if he was SUPER SPEEDY – so he started college at fifteen, sixteen, yes? And where is this magical land where you get offered professorships teaching English literature from not one, but TWO universities at twenty-five? Especially when he doesn’t seem to have read Lolita? Can I please go to there?
I think this must be how my military SIL feels when she picks up contemporary romances where the hero makes Major at twenty-two.