The Pages of the Mind
The Pages of the Mind by Jeffe Kennedy is $2.99! This is a fantasy romance with an arranged marriage. Readers loved the scholarly heroine, but found that the second half of the book had a very different feel than the first half. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
An Orphan’s Throne
Magic has broken free over the Twelve Kingdoms. The population is beset by shapeshifters and portents, landscapes that migrate, uncanny allies who are not quite human…and enemies eager to take advantage of the chaos.
Dafne Mailloux is no adventurer–she’s a librarian. But the High Queen trusts Dafne’s ability with languages, her way of winnowing the useful facts from a dusty scroll, and even more important, the subtlety and guile that three decades under the thumb of a tyrant taught her.
Dafne never thought to need those skills again. But she accepts her duty. Until her journey drops her into the arms of a barbarian king. He speaks no tongue she knows but that of power, yet he recognizes his captive as a valuable pawn. Dafne must submit to a wedding of alliance, becoming a prisoner-queen in a court she does not understand. If she is to save herself and her country, she will have to learn to read the heart of a wild stranger. And there are more secrets written there than even Dafne could suspect…
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Scandal Becomes Her by Shirlee Busbee is $2.99 at select vendors! This is a historical romance with elements of force proximity and a marriage of convenience, which is all sorts of catnip for some. But some readers felt it had way too much going on, which detracted from the romance. Have you read this one?
LOVE IS SWEETEST WHEN IT’S UNEXPECTED
Nell Anslowe and Julian, Earl of Wyndham, are an unlikely couple in every respect. Injured in a riding accident ten years ago, Nell was left with a fiance who abandoned their engagement, a slight limp, terrifying nightmares, and the firm belief that she will never marry. The abrupt end of Julian’s unhappy marriage formed his resolve to remain a bachelor until the end of his days. But as Julian chases down his reckless stepsister, he seeks shelter from a summer storm in a cottage–and finds it occupied by Nell, who has escaped from a fortune-seeking libertine bent on carrying her off to Gretna Green. Discovered together by Nell’s family, the couple’s hasty wedding is the only way to save Nell from scandal–but the polite union each of them expects blossoms into something much more powerful…
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Best of My Love by Susan Mallery is $1.99! This is part of the small town romance Fool’s Gold series and seems to have a When Harry Met Sally element to it, which some readers either seemed to love or actually really hate. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
An irresistible new love story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fool’s Gold series, set in a town Library Journal calls “so appealing, readers will want to start scoping out real estate.”
To overcome her painful past, baker Shelby Gilmore goes on the hunt for a friend—a male friend—to convince her stubborn psyche that men can be trusted. But where in a town as small as Fool’s Gold will the petite blonde find a guy willing to not date her?
Dark, charming Aidan Mitchell puts the “adventure” in Mitchell Adventure Tours…and into the beds of his many willing female tourists. Until he realizes he’s inadvertently become that guy—the one-night Casanova—and worse, everyone in town knows it. Maybe Shelby’s boy/girl experiment will help him see women as more than just conquests so he can change his ways and win back his self-respect.
As Aidan and Shelby explore the secret lives of men and women, the heat between them fires up the Fool’s Gold rumor mill. If no one will believe they’re just friends, maybe they should give the gossips something to really talk about!
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The Rosie’s Bakery All-Butter, Cream-Filled, Sugar-Packed Baking Book by Judy Rosenberg is $1.99. This baking cookbook has been on sale before, and Bitchery regulars KKW and DonnaMarie both recommend it highly, saying the recipes are straightforward, delicious, and worth repeating.
When the book was on sale in 2013, Laura Xixi tweeted at Sarah that she hopes the book includes their “Chocolate Orgasm” brownies recipe, which appears on store receipts as “orgasms.” Indeed it does, which means this book has $3.00 orgasms. CHOCOLATE ones! Happy holidays indeed!
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Packed with more than 300 irresistible recipes—more than 40 never before published—from Judy Rosenberg, owner of Rosie’s Bakery, the famous chain of New England bake shops that has won numerous Best of Boston awards, The Rosie’s Bakery All-Butter, Cream-Filled, Sugar-Packed Baking Book is for holidays, birthdays, pick-me-ups, the cookie jar, bake sales—when only genuine homemade goodness will do.
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Does anyone know if the Fool’s Gold series gets less preachy? I was turned off slightly by the first book (where the heroine has a secret kid because she overheard the hero say something about not wanting kids or whatever, and comes back years later and everyone treats her like garbage), but had serious issues by the time the third or so book rolled around, in which the single heroine is left the fertilized eggs of her friend who died from cancer and the friend’s husband, who died in war. And everyone says something like ‘you’ll do the right thing with the eggs’ while making it obvious that she needs have them implanted and to carry them to term. As a single woman. Who wasn’t otherwise looking to have children at that time. Anywho, sorry about the rant but I couldn’t get over how high-handed this town was and how grossed out I was over their behaviour.
@Katie Lynn, I think the earliest ones and the latest ones are the weakest. I seem to remember that the sweet spot on this series was in the middle, which was pretty standard small town romance fare. I think I remember really liking “Three Little Words” and “Before We Kiss” because there was more humor involved, but then again, it’s been a while. If you don’t like neighborly interference, this series is not for you, because there is plenty of that, and I think every GD book ends the same abrupt way which can be grating. But otherwise, this is a solid comfort read type series, at least for me.
I slipped a copy of the Rosie’s Bakery books into the hands of many a shopper back in my retail days. Many came to say thank you.
@Mara, I totally agree about the Fools Good series. There were a few good ones in the middle until they became the same book, over and over again, with the same ending – girl likes boy, basically agree to be friends with benefits, turns into more, boy leaves, girl is upset, boy realized his wrong and comes back. Rinse and repeat. I haven’t picked up a Fools Good book in a while because of that. Also, exactly how many odd jobs can one town have?
I’m trying really really hard to get through Scandal Becomes Her, but the writing is dense, there’s too much going on (both with plots and with head-hopping), and so many of the issues could be solved if people would just TALK to each other. And then some places where they’ve built up the possibility for character clashes have everything solved in a paragraph.
Too much happens internally, there’s info-dumping everywhere, characters are inconsistent or unrealistic…and there are some spots in the ebook that could have used better editing. This may turn into a DNF title for me.
Sorry, needed to vent.