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Bombshell
RECOMMENDED: Bombshell by C.D. Reiss is $1.99 at Amazon! This was a new-to-me author and feature a trope I don’t read very often: single parents. But I would up really enjoying it. The romance is light on angst and has a great “found family” feel to it. I gave it a B+ in a Lightning Review.
From New York Times bestselling author CD Reiss, a standalone romance about a nanny, a Hollywood star, and a love they never expected.
Hollywood bad boy Brad Sinclair always gets his way, whether it’s the role he wants or the bikini-clad model he has to have. But when a bombshell gets dropped in his lap in the form of a dimpled five-year-old from a forgotten relationship, he knows his life is about to change forever.
Cara DuMont isn’t exactly thrilled when she gets assigned to be the nanny for the latest box-office king. She has one rule: no celebrity fathers, especially single ones with devilish good looks and rock-hard abs.
But as soon as Cara meets Brad and his adorable little girl, she knows she’s in for a world of trouble. Because there’s something about the way Brad looks at her that makes her believe that some rules are meant to be broken…
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The Star-Touched Queen
The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi is $2.99! This was mentioned on a previous Hide Your Wallet. This YA fantasy takes elements from Indian mythology and readers really enjoyed the worldbuilding. However, some felt the pacing was rather slow and the plot meandered rather than progressed. Have you read this one?
Cursed with a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, sixteen-year-old Maya has only earned the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her world is upheaved when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. But when her wedding takes a fatal turn, Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Yet neither roles are what she expected. As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar’s wife, she finds friendship and warmth.
But Akaran has its own secrets – thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Beneath Akaran’s magic, Maya begins to suspect her life is in danger. When she ignores Amar’s plea for patience, her discoveries put more than new love at risk – it threatens the balance of all realms, human and Otherworldly.
Now, Maya must confront a secret that spans reincarnated lives and fight her way through the dangerous underbelly of the Otherworld if she wants to protect the people she loves.
THE STAR TOUCHED QUEEN is a lush, beautifully written and vividly imagined fantasy inspired by Indian mythology.
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My Highland Rebel
My Highland Rebel by Amanda Forester is $1.99! This is the second book in the Highland Trouble series, but it can be read as a standalone. Readers loved the book-loving, Highlander hero. Other readers mention that the romance is fun, but rather predictable. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
Second in a passionate, fast-paced Scottish Highlander romance series from critically acclaimed author Amanda Forester
A conquering hero
Cormac Maclean would rather read than rampage, but his fearsome warlord father demands that he prove himself in war. Cormac chooses what he thinks is an easy target, only to encounter a fiery Highland lass leading a doomed rebellion and swearing revenge on him.Meets an unconquerable heroine
Jyne Cambell is not about to give up her castle without a fight, even though her forces are far outnumbered. She’s proud, hot-blooded and hot-tempered, and Cormac falls for her hard.It’s going to take all of Cormac’s ingenuity to get Jyne to surrender gracefully-both to his sword and to his heart…
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Countess So Shameless
Countess So Shameless by Liana LeFey is 99c at Amazon! This is the first book in the Scandal in London series and features a second chance romance. The other two books in the series are also 99c each! Yay, sales! Some readers felt the cast of characters could have used more development, while others loved the elements of intrigue paired with the romance.
No one can compete for Lady Mélisande’s coveted affections like the Italian rogue she met five years prior during a visit to Versailles. Her encounter with Lord Alessandro Orsini awakened a passion so fierce that the mere memory of it still ignites her senses. So when the celebrated rake resurfaces in London, Mélisande succumbs to temptation and shamelessly proposes an affair for the Season.
Alessandro has never forgotten the girl he met in Versailles—his perfect match. Though the fiercely independent lady has sworn off marriage, it doesn’t stop him from vowing to make her his wife. While seducing her body, he wages tender warfare on her heart’s defenses. But a bitter rival also burns to possess Mélisande, and luck has provided the means to bend her to his will: a scandalous secret that could ruin her. The price of his silence is nothing less than her hand in marriage, forcing Mélisande to choose between the desires of her heart and everything else she holds dear.
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I haven’t read this one yet, but this series (and the author in general) has been recced highly to me by reader friends. 🙂
I read a sample of BOMBSHELL and loved the first few pages.
Also for Amazon UK readers, Joanna Bourne’s Spymaster books are priced between .99 and 2.99, including the newest.
@Darlynne: The fact that the book opens up with a pretty precarious poop situation had me laughing so hard in Starbucks.
I thought this was a fascinating reflection on The Star-Touched Queen by Indian (subcontinental) author Samira Nadkarni.
If you’re subscribed, and I’m guessing if you go and subscribe, to the Amazon Romance Newsletter, you get a $3 credit for select romance books to use this month. The selection is mainly of one’s available on KU, but Bombshell is one of the ones eligible.
@Vasha: That was a really fascinating read. Thank you for sharing!
I will also note that if you haven’t read the book, The Star-Touched Queen, the article does contain spoilers.
BOMBSHELL must be a change-of-pace for Reiss. Everything I’ve read by her so far has been very well-written but angsty, with complicated characters involved in dom/sub relationships and lots of bdsm.
@CelineB, I can’t figure out how to subscribe or even how to ask Amazon because the help categories are pre-designated. Are you able to provide a link or a “road map”?
@LML I had to do some googling because I have no idea when or how I got subscribed to the newsletter but this link should work.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/gss/browse/17820
Further instructions, I think you may have to click the plus sign by Amazon Devices, it looks like Romance is a subcategory under that. My page automatically shows all the subcategories, but in case yours doesn’t that should work.
The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Choksh
Wonderful Fabulous Great Writing Fascinating I LOVED it
@DiscoDollyDeb: No BDSM in this book! And I didn’t think it was terribly melodramatic. Maybe she’s trying something new.
Rosalind James’s Silver-Tongued Devil is FREE!I haven’t read it yet but I’ve heard is pretty good 🙂
Laura Griffin’s UNFORGIVABLE (Tracers #3) is $2.99 in Canada at Amazon and Kobo.
Here’s a link to tha Amazon offer. You can just sign in to your Amazon account and get the credit.
https://smile.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/promoLanding/ref=pe_363270_248599280_pe_button/?promoCode=b8076fc3-a6ea-4d99-bc4a-14a3ea9ed689&campaignId=b8076fc3-a6ea-4d99-bc4a-14a3ea9ed689
@CelineB, thank you! & thanks to Charl also. Subscription accomplished.
@CelineB thanks for the tip. I skimmed my newsletter and didn’t see that.
There are some excellent 1990s crazysauce covers in that list.
Bombshell was a DNF for me. It is also a Kindle Unlimited title and I was incredibly happy it was “read for free”. The story line was interesting but the people are immature asshats. sigh. Maybe I just got old when I wasn’t looking.
@chrisz Thank you! That’s what I came here to report as well. I paid the 99 cents (thankfully from a gift card) and had to force myself to the 53%-ish mark, in the hopes that it would get better. Brad is an immature, manipulative, self-centered dickwad (he wants her, so he must have her, and he doesn’t give a damn that she doesn’t want to get involved or what their relationship could mean for her professionally). Cara is supposed to be so professional and refuses to get involved with a dad, yet she doesn’t slap him with a massive sexual harassment suit when she catches him in her bathroom?! I should have put it down then. I’m so bummed.