The Bollywood Bride
TODAY ONLY: 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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Nowhere but Home by Liza Palmer is $1.99! This women’s fiction was in a past DABWAHA tournament, just in case the name seems familiar. Our culinary heroine was just fired from her job as a chef and must return to her small, hometown in Texas, where she goes to work as a chef for the local prison. But these aren’t just any inmates. She’s cooking last meals for those on death row. Readers say the book has a great combination of humor and tension, though a couple found the book did more telling than showing. We also had the author on the podcast last year, if you missed it!
After Queenie Wake is dismissed from her restaurant job, she returns to North Star to cook meals for death row inmates.
Hopeful that the bad memories of her late mother and promiscuous sister (now the mother of the captain of the high school football team) have been forgotten by the locals, Queenie discovers that some people can’t be forgotten—heartbreaker Everett Coburn—her old high-school sweetheart.
When secrets from the past emerge, will Queenie be able to stick by her family or will she leave home again?
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The Marriage Season by Linda Lael Miller is $1.99! This is the third book in her Brides of Bliss County series, and it features a single dad hero and a small town romance. Some readers mentioned that the writing is a bit disconnected and disjointed, but many found the plot all sorts of sweet.
Sidenote: whenever I think of this author, I remember going to a huge Friends of the Library warehouse sale and this woman had a box and she just wanted to grab all the Miller titles the place had. She even had a list with her of what she already owned. I spent a good twenty minutes, running around the huge romance section, bringing her titles. Wherever she is, I hope that woman is luxuriating in her Linda Lael Miller collection.
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Since Hadleigh, Melody and Bex—the best of best friends—entered into a marriage pact, two of them have found (and married) the men of their hearts. But Bex doesn’t think she’ll be as fortunate as the others. Her own first love died years ago in a faraway war, and Bex has lost hope for a happy marriage of her own. She concentrates on her business, a successful chain of fitness clubs, instead.
Then, when single father Tate Calder comes to Mustang Creek with his two sons in tow, who befriend Bex’s eight-year-old nephew, she and the handsome, aloof newcomer are constantly thrown together. But is the marriage season over? Or can a man with doubts about love be the right husband for a woman who wants it all?
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Power Play by Tiffany Snow is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance with some elements of suspense. I will add a couple warnings. It does feature a love triangle between a woman, her boss, and a detective investigating said boss. And, there’s no firm conclusion at the end of this book, as these characters carry over to at least two more titles. However, many loved the push/pull aspects between the characters and how different they all were. It has a 4.1-star rating on GoodReads.
THIS KIND OF BUSINESS CAN ONLY BE PERSONAL
Sage Reese lives for her job. More precisely, she lives for her debonair boss, Parker Andersen. Sage handles everything for Parker, even as she fantasizes about the one thing that isn’t in her job description: him. But when a high-stakes account crosses the line from shady to deadly, a tough cop starts giving Sage the attention she wishes Parker would . . .
Detective Dean Ryker couldn’t be more different from Parker. While Parker wears expensive suits like a second skin and drives a BMW, Ryker’s uniform is leather jackets and jeans . . . and his ride of choice is a Harley. While Parker’s sexiness is a reserved, slow burn, Ryker is completely upfront about what-and who-he’s after. And Sage tops his list.
Now, as Ryker digs deeper into the dark side of Parker’s business, Sage finds herself caught between two men: the one she’s always wanted-and the one who makes her feel wanted like never before . . .
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Sonali Dev gets the most gorgeous covers. I wish all romance novels could be so wonderfully understated. Clinch covers and half-dressed cover models just do not work for me.
I loved Bollywood Bride, possibly even more than A Bollywood Affair, despite agreeing that the hero could have been more consistent or at least his motivations could have been clearer. I loved the heroine so much that I was content to just accept that she should be with him because she wanted him.
I recently read both novels by Sonali Dev: A Bollywood Affair and The Bollywood Bride. Loved ’em!
I was just trying to find Nowhere but Home yesterday. It sounded so interesting on the podcast, but I couldn’t remember which episode it was, or the author’s name, or the title of the book. I guess I should pay closer attention.
In The Bollywood Affair, I hated the hero and thought he was an absolute jackass. The heroine didn’t really hold up to close scrutiny either (nowhere near as bad as he was, but still very problematic whenever I stopped to actually think about the character.)
I kept reading because, in spite of the main characters (and actually some of the supporting characters, too) the writing was kind of compelling. Is The Bollywood Bride more of the same?