Fortune Favors the Wicked
RECOMMENDED: Fortune Favors the Wicked by Theresa Romain is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and is being priced matched. There’s a treasure hunt, a blind hero, and a former courtesan heroine. Talk about catnip! Redheadedgirl gave this an A grade in a Lightning Review:
What I found the most interesting about this book was how the blind hero was written. He hadn’t always been blind – he was struck by a disease while he was in the Navy – and the narrative describes with abundant detail how he moves through a world he can’t see, but he still perceives. And I really appreciated that she doesn’t magically cure him of his blindness. Love doesn’t cure all things, and this is a part of who he is now.
INDECENTLY LUCKY
As a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, Benedict Frost had the respect of every man on board—and the adoration of the women in every port. When injury ends his naval career, the silver-tongued libertine can hardly stomach the boredom. Not after everything—and everyone—he’s experienced. Good thing a new adventure has just fallen into his lap…
When courtesan Charlotte Perry learns the Royal Mint is offering a reward for finding a cache of stolen gold coins, she seizes the chance to build a new life for herself. As the treasure hunt begins, she realizes her tenacity is matched only by Benedict’s—and that sometimes adversaries can make the best allies. But when the search for treasure becomes a discovery of pleasure, they’ll be forced to decide if they can sacrifice the lives they’ve always dreamed of for a love they’ve never known…
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Fair Game by Josh Lanyon is 99c! This is a m/m romance with some suspense elements and a second chance romance. Readers liked the murder mystery element and thought the book was well-paced. However, others mention that the romance really doesn’t go anywhere until the second half of the book. Have you read this?
A crippling knee injury forced Elliot Mills to trade in his FBI badge for dusty chalkboards and bored college students. Now a history professor at Puget Sound university, the former agent has put his old life behind him—but it seems his old life isn’t finished with him.
A young man has gone missing from campus—and as a favor to a family friend, Elliot agrees to do a little sniffing around. His investigations bring him face-to-face with his former lover, Tucker Lance, the special agent handling the case.
Things ended badly with Tucker, and neither man is ready to back down on the fight that drove them apart. But they have to figure out a way to move beyond their past and work together as more men go missing and Elliot becomes the target in a killer’s obsessive game…
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Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay is $1.99! This is a YA, dystopian-esque retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Readers thought the world-building needed some work, while others were really taken with Jay’s writing. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret…
In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.
Isra wants to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.
As secrets are revealed and Isra’s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.
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Speak No Evil by Tanya Anne Crosby is 99c! I’m really loving the new covers created for this book and the rest of the Aldridge Sisters series. This is a mystery/thriller with romantic and gothic elements. Readers warn there’s a toxic mother figure and the mystery is a bit dark. You can buy all three books for less than $8!
Lifting the veil of secrecy on a grand Southern family in decline, author Tanya Anne Crosby explores the lives of Caroline, Augusta, and Savannah Aldridge, three sisters who share a dark past and an uncertain future…
Caroline Aldridge was surprised by the number of mourners at her mother’s funeral. Evidently the newspaper heiress who had caused her children so much pain was well-loved by everyone else in Charleston. Now she was gone, leaving behind countless secrets-and a few demands: Caroline and her sisters must live together for one year or lose their inheritance. And Caroline must take over “The Tribune.” But a killer is making headlines, and Caroline may have unwittingly stepped into the crosshairs…
A series of kidnappings and murders resurrect the sisters’ memories of their brother’s disappearance as a child-and Caroline fears she may be next. Yet in the midst of her turmoil, she may be rekindling a romance she’d extinguished long ago. With Jack back in her life and the tattered bonds of sisterhood slowly mending, Caroline hopes the family can restore its position in Charleston society-unless a sinister force beyond their control tears them apart forever…
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I really, really tried to like ‘Fortune Favors’ but it just strained credulity too hard. It turns out that I can only swallow just so much historical anachronism in terms of social attitudes in my Regency romances.
I read Fair Game awhile ago and enjoyed it. There’s at least one, maybe two sequels. A lot of fans love this book but it’s not my fave Lanyon or my least fave.
I know nothing about the FBI or murder investigations, but I did work in higher ed and there were a few things that required a suspension of disbelief. But no worse than other romancelandia versions of academia.
@Tam – totally agree. The hero was some kind of Daredevil in his blindness.
I enjoyed both the Romain and the Lanyon — tho I agree, not either author’s best. But both are such fluid, easy stylists; their books are never a waste of time.
My advice—stay away from “Of Beast and Beauty.” I really enjoyed the first third or so of the book because the writing *is* beautiful, but the plot fully disintegrates into nonsense in the latter part and there are some really problematic and frustrating ableist and orientalist tropes at play.
@Ellen: Yeesh, thanks for letting us know. I’ll avoid featuring it in the future.
The plot description of the Theresa Romain book reminded me a bit of an old trad Regency: Marjorie Farrell’s “Miss Ware’s Refusal”. The hero is a duke blinded in the war, and Farrell’s description of how it feels to go from master of your world — rich, handsome, athletic, powerful — to stumbling in the dark is very well done. Here too the heroine doesn’t magically cure him, which is why I liked it much more than a Theresa Medeiros from the same period. The Farrell
Is quieter but more poignant and romantic for it.