The Deep End
The Deep End by Kristen Ashley is $1.99! This is the first book in her new Honey series and features an alpha hero who happens to be a submissive in the bedroom. I met fellow Boston bitch Jayne at RT this year and she told me it’s fantastic. However, some readers felt the writing was too “flowery” for a typical Kristen Ashley romance. If you’ve read this, tell me what you thought!
Enter a decadent sensual world where gorgeous alpha males are pleasure slaves committed to fulfilling a woman’s every desire. At the elite Honey club, no boundary will be left untested, and one’s darkest desires will become a sensual reality.
Olivier isn’t sure what he’s gotten himself into when he joins the Honey Club, only that a dark part of him craves the lifestyle offered by this secret, exclusive club.
When Amèlie invites Olivier to surrender, she pushes him to explore his deepest desires as a submissive. As they grow closer and find themselves falling harder than either of them anticipated, the truth about Olivier’s past could threaten the budding relationship they both long for.
Gripping and seductive, The Deep End is the first book in a sensational new series from bestselling author Kristen Ashley.
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If You Give a Rake a Ruby by Shana Galen is $1.99! This is the second book in the Jewels of the Ton historical romance series, but can be read as a standalone. Readers loved the courtesan heroine with all of her secrets, though some felt the romance happened a little too quickly to be believable.
Fallon, the Marchioness of Mystery, is a celebrated courtesan with her finger on the pulse of high society. She’s adored by men, hated by their wives. No one knows anything about her past, and she plans to keep it that way.
Warrick Fitzhugh will do anything to protect his compatriots in the Foreign Office, including seduce Fallon, who he thinks can lead him to the deadliest crime lord in London. He knows he’s putting his life on the line.
To Warrick’s shock, Fallon is not who he thinks she is, and the secrets she’s keeping are exactly what makes her his heart’s desire.
The second book in a sparkling Regency romance trilogy from acclaimed author Shana Galen following a glittering trio of celebrated courtesans whose fortunes depend on the ton believing the rumors about their mysterious lives.
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Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen is $1.99! I read a lot of Dessen in my pre-teen years, so I have a lot of found memories regarding her books. Some readers mentioned that the pace felt slower than Dessen’s usual books, but others say this contemporary YA packs an emotional punch. A couple of Dessen’s other titles are also on sale!
Halley has always followed in the wake of her best friend, Scarlett. But when Scarlett learns that her boyfriend has been killed in a motorcycle accident, and that she’s carrying his baby, she was devastated. For the first time ever, Scarlett really needs Halley. Their friendship may bend under the weight, but it’ll never break–because a true friendship is a promise you keep forever.
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Love Overdue by Pamela Morsi is $2.99! This is a contemporary romance with a librarian who devotes herself to a “prim & proper” lifestyle after a Spring Break scandal. Readers say it’s sweet and adorable, but that the ending was incredibly abrupt.
Meet Dorothy Jarrow: devotedly unsexy librarian
Buttoned-up book lover DJ is all sensible shoes, drab skirts and studious glasses. After an ill-advised spring-break-fueled fling left her mortified, she’s committed to her prim and proper look. When she’s hired by a rural library in middle-of-nowhere Kansas, she finally has the lifestyle to match-and she can’t wait to get her admin on.
But it’s clear from day one that the small-town library is more interested in circulating rumors than books. DJ has to organize her unloved library, win over oddball employees and avoid her flamboyant landlady’s attempts to set her up with the town pharmacist. Especially that last part-because it turns out handsome Scott Sanderson is her old vacation fling! She is not sure whether to be relieved or offended when he doesn’t seem to recognize her. But with every meeting, DJ finds herself secretly wondering what it would be like to take off her glasses, unpin her bun and reveal the inner vixen she’s been hiding from everyone-including herself.
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I loved it and it’s Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo flippin’ sexy. I think it’s my favourite of Kristen Ashley’s so far and I one-clicked the shizz outta the second book in the series which released today.
I saw that some KA fans didn’t like the different style, and while, yes, it has a different tone it still has the essential KA-ness. Her Men are still Alpha-y, although Oliver is definitely less Alpha-hole, because he’s in a situation where he’s not the one in charge, he’s the student, not the Master. There’s a subtlety to this book that isn’t in some of her others. e.g. there’s less “Babe….” that can mean any one of a 100 things.
Personally I’m all for an author giving something different a try and stretching themselves as a creator. Without that option they become stale & formulaic and honestly so would I as a reader.
Don’t kiss on a stool, bound to end in bruising at the best if the kiss is any good.
Omg, that Pamela Morsi book, it is the worst. Unless it’s not the one I’m thinking of, because my memory’s what’s actually the worst, but I know I read this because I cannot resist a librarian heroine, and I am reasonably certain that cute cover is about as misleading as possible. Someone help me out here, I know I sound crazier than usual, but isn’t this the one that’s actually a sort of faux wizard of oz thing, with a suicidal mom subplot? Not a fun light hearted romp.
@kkw, I think it IS the one you are thinking of. I think they changed the cover (and it nearly tricked me into reading it AGAIN). I HAVE NEVER felt so betrayed by the ending of a book. I think I wrote into the SBTB podcast about it! I was so mad. STILL SO MAD.
Someone like you is one of my favorite Dessen books of all time.
@Jazzlet
Don’t kiss on a stool
Also, if you’re color-blind, ask a friend or relative to identify which shoes and skirts can be worn together.
On the other hand, if kissing on stools is your turn-on, a library push-stool is probably about as safe as you can get.
Count me as one of the KA fans who hated THE DEEP END. In fact, I still haven’t finished it. Totally hated the heroine ad the storyline. I cancelled my pre-order of the second book.
Thank God for the audible release of KA’ s COMPLICATED which both fulfilled my KA addiction and cleansed my palette of the crap that was THE DEEP END.
She needs to start the series about Mace’ s men and end this series.
‘The Deep End’ characters felt like the ‘Midnight Soul’ characters to me. MS worked better for me but YMMV.
I’ve read some Shana Galen books that I enjoyed but the last couple I read were over the top silliness and I’m a bit gun shy. I think she’s a talented author who kind of phoned it in a few times and I’m not sure if I’m going to get a good book or one that makes my eyes roll out of my head.
I am also a KA fan who hated The Deep End. The writing was just bad. So stilted and awkward. Especially the dialogue. And especially, especially anywhere where we were getting the heroine’s thoughts about anything. Just so, so awkward.
I had high hopes for the book, because I thought some of the light kink in the Unfinished Heroes was good, but no. It was just terrible.
I read Love Overdue and found the ending awful. There should’ve been huge amounts of groveling on the behalf of our heroine who totally misjudged the hero. There was no groveling, no conversation, no nothing. Just, oh, you’re the girl and we’re done. Plus there’s a weird suicide attempt by the landlady who is the pharmacist’s mother. And it was implied that the heroine’s pet was like the reincarnation of the land lady’s dead hubby. Also, you get to learn about harvesting. I really didn’t like the book much at all.
*snort*
“Take off her glasses, unpin her bun….”
*snicker*
…
Oh who am I kidding, that shit is my catnip.
(Clicks to add to Goodreads list)
Fuck it…..
(Adds the rest of the books to the list)
@kkw: YES, it is! Like you, I was misled by the cute cover and plot summary. Instead, I got this HORRIBLE BOOK that makes me flail with rage years later. I should have known it wasn’t as advertised when it opened on discussion of the (off page) suicide of a character we never saw on page. Yep, and spoiler that isn’t such a spoiler: mother buys expired food with the intention of suicide by botulism.
I had a host of other issues with this book, but suffice it to say this was the first and last book I read by Morsi. She is on my permanent “Do Not Read” list, no matter how much people rave about her other books. Gah. I still get angry when I think about this book, man.
I hate that she is cast as the librarian stereotype in attempting to go the opposite of her “slutty Spring
Break party girl” past. Because drunkenly banging some hot guy at random on vacay is The Worst Thing You Can Do In The World. And like that guy is gonna be sober enough to remember and pine after the one night stand years later. Just… no.
Also annoying was the way the older librarian was cast as the “mean old lady who hates change and the heroine for ‘taking her place'”. Can we not have awesome professional mentoring? Can we not have the heroine waltz in on day one and try to “fix” everything and everyone around because she, as newcomer, obvs knows better than everyone else as to How Things Should Be Done?
Don’t even get me started on how the whole town just up and rallies behind the heroine – a total stranger who is also totally undeserving of the support – against “mean, bitter, old librarian” for no better reason than that she is the heroine and that’s what second string characters are supposed to do.
Gah. And now I am mad at this book all over again.
A Regency heroine named Fallon??? There are not enough eye-rolls for that. Someone watched a bit too much Dynasty back in the end, methinks.
I am ten pages into The Deep End and the writing is astonishingly, jaw-droppingly bad. I’m annoyed by the combination of sentence fragments, one-sentence paragraphs, and massive overuse of the words ‘that’ and ‘this.’ This book desperately needs an editor with more backbone.