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The Red
Updated: Deal no longer valid.
RECOMMENDED: The Red by Tiffany Reisz is $1.19 at Amazon! This is a Kindle Daily Deal, though it doesn’t seem to be price matched at the moment. This earned a B+ grade from Elyse:
Fans of Reisz’s Original Sinners series will gobble this book up. For those looking for erotica without a ton of emotional angst, The Red is right up your alley. It’s a delightful, wicked fairytale and it’s a ton of fun.
Never make a promise you don’t intend to keep…
Mona Lisa St. James made a deathbed promise that she would do anything to save her mother’s art gallery. Unfortunately, not only is The Red painted red, but it’s in the red. She soon realizes she has no choice but to sell it.
Just as she realizes she has no choice but to sell it, a mysterious man comes in after closing time and makes her an offer: He will save The Red if she agrees to submit to him for the period of one year.
The man is handsome, English, and terribly tempting…but surely her mother didn’t mean for Mona to sell herself to a stranger. Then again, she did promise to do anything to save The Red…
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The Will
The Will by Kristen Ashley is $2.99! A contemporary romance, this is the first book in her Magdalene series. Reviewers found this to be an emotional read, and recommend that if you’ve never read Ashley, this is a good place to start. However, some thought the heroine desperately needed a backbone and some self-confidence. It has a 4.3-star rating on GoodReads. Any Ashley fans out there?
Early in her life, Josephine Malone learned the hard way that there was only one person she could love and trust: her grandmother, Lydia Malone. Out of necessity, unconsciously and very successfully, Josephine donned a disguise to keep all others at bay. She led a globetrotting lifestyle on the fringes of the fashion and music elite, but she kept herself distant.
While Josephine was trotting the globe, retired boxer Jake Spear was living in the same small town as Lydia. There was nothing disguised about Jake. Including the fact he made a habit of making very bad decisions about who to give his love.
But for Josephine and Jake, there was one person who adored them. One person who knew how to lead them to happiness. And one person who was intent on doing it.
Even if she had to do it as her final wish on this earth.
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The Sun Is Also a Star
RECOMMENDED: The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon is $1.99! This is a contemporary YA romance that Elyse really loved and gave it an A:
Every relationship in this book is complex and nuanced. Yoon also head-jumps into bystanders, including Natasha’s immigration lawyer and a security guard she passes, creating this complex framework of lives that are all interwoven in tiny but significant ways. All of this makes for an incredibly satisfying read.
The Sun is Also a Star was enough to change my opinion on YA romance. It’s an outstanding, immersive, delicious book, and I urge those wary of YA fiction to give it a try.
Be the first to read the dazzling new novel from Nicola Yoon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything
Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.
Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us.
The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?
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Orchid
Orchid by Jayne Castle is $1.99! This is a paranormal romance with suspense elements and is the third book in the St. Helens series. It was also first published in the late nineties. Readers say that Castle has built an interesting world with paranormal characters. However, others felt the pacing of the book was a bit off. It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
The wildly popular alter ego of bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz creates “delectably entertaining paranormal romantic suspense” (Booklist) in the “unique, synergistic world of St. Helens (Library Journal), the not-so-distant space colony where hearts and minds are gloriously in sync!
A top psychic for exclusive Psynergy Inc., Orchid Adams has her hands full with a baffling murder, which doesn’t exactly allow time for husband hunting. Is it even possible there’s a man on St. Helens who measures up to her dreams of wedded bliss? Take her new client, Rafe Stonebraker: primitive and elemental, an unlicensed P.I. with some serious secrets, Rafe is hardly marriage material. So why does his powerful presence have Orchid imagining the most outrageous affair?Rafe is embroiled in solving a strange theft while thwarting a hostile takeover of Stonebraker Shipping; he needs a wife, and fast, to salvage his credibility. Orchid Adams doesn’t fit the profile he had in mind, but she fits in his arms. Will their electrifying connection end up getting them burned?
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I grabbed LOVE ME TO DEATH by Marissa Clarke for 99 pennies. Medical research scientist heroine. Immortal vampire slayer hero sent to slay her — but she’s not a vampire, so complications ensue.
“Orchid” (actually, the whole series) is horrible world building. It reads like someone decided to do a sci-fi romance because it was trendy. The world doesn’t make any sense at all (there are some key differences between that world and ours and there is little to no thought as to how those differences would actually shape their society). Her way of talking about new things (flora, fauna, technology, customs, etc.) is to jam two English words together with a hyphen. (It’s been twenty years since I read this and I still remember thinking “That’s not how language works!” over and over and over again. It was that jarringly awful.)
That said, the romance itself was pretty good for a 90s style romance.
*Stonebraker* Shipping?! Guess I’ll have to buy Orchid, since I’ve never seen my last name in print!
Wanted to buy Orchid but it seems the deal is over, or else was never available outside the US.
@MsCellanie – I haven’t read them in years but my memory was that Orchid and the other two St Helens books had better world building than her Harmony series which has ridiculous things like the hot beverage coff-tea. Harmony does have dust bunnies, however. Hard to argue with cute critters.
I remember enjoying the St Helens books with their original flower book covers, although I also found them a bit silly. But in a good way.
In the Avon newsletter, I just saw that The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian is 99 cents @ Amazon as a limited deal, not sure how long/where besides the US this will be on sale.
Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins is 99 cents at Amazon via Avon as well!
Elyse if you are reading this please under a spoiler tag tell me how The Red ends/is resolved, I loved Reisz’s Men at Work series for Harlequin Blaze, but the Red just isn’t for me. However, I have been scouring the internet for the ending – is he the devil, is he giving her drugs, does this take place in an alternate universe, is the whole thing a dream? I have read multiple reviews which included warnings of a twist and a rushed ending, but no one has given it away – not even under a spoiler tag and I am so curious!
Hi Katie!
One day Malcolm’s grandson, the current earl, shows up to buy the painting and tells Mona that his debauched grandfather allegedly sold his soul to the devil in order to once again spend time in the bed of the woman he loved (a woman named Mona). It’s implied that Mona and the current earl will wind up together
Elyse – thanks so much! My brain can stop wondering now!
@MsCellanie
Wishing I paid more attention to your warning, but wow you weren’t kidding.
Aspara-cado.
I preferred the Harmony books I’ve read, because at least there’s dust bunnies.