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These Vicious Masks
These Vicious Masks by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas is $2.99! I mentioned this book in the February 2016 Hide Your Wallet post and it was described as Jane Austen meets X-Men! Many readers loved the main character. However, there seem to be some complaints about the ending and its lack of resolution, but that could be because it’s part of a series.
Evelyn has no interest in marriage and even the dashing Mr. Kent can’t make her want to live up to society’s expectations. She’d much rather assist her beloved sister Rose in becoming the world’s first female doctor. But everything changes the night she meets Sebastian Braddock – not only is the reclusive lord both vexing and surprisingly attractive, he’s also quite possibly mad, and his interest in Rose is galling. So when Evelyn wakes up to discover that Rose has disappeared, she immediately suspects Sebastian.
But then she discovers that Sebastian’s strange tales of special powers are actually true, and that Rose’s kidnappers have worse in mind for her than simply ruining her reputation. Surrounded by secrets, lies, and unprecedented danger, Evelyn has no choice but to trust Sebastian, yet she can’t help but worry that Sebastian’s secrets are the most dangerous of all…
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Queens of Geek
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde is $2.99! Sarah and I recommended this on a most recent podcast for a reader looking for bisexual heroines in lesbian relationships. Readers love the convention setting, but some felt the book didn’t live up to the hype they heard or their own expectations.
Three friends, two love stories, one convention: this fun, feminist love letter to geek culture is all about fandom, friendship, and finding the courage to be yourself.
Charlie likes to stand out. She’s a vlogger and actress promoting her first movie at SupaCon, and this is her chance to show fans she’s over her public breakup with co-star Reese Ryan. When internet-famous cool-girl actress Alyssa Huntington arrives as a surprise guest, it seems Charlie’s long-time crush on her isn’t as one-sided as she thought. Taylor likes to blend in. Her brain is wired differently, making her fear change. And there’s one thing in her life she knows will never change: her friendship with her best guy friend Jamie—no matter how much she may secretly want it to. But when she hears about a fan contest for her favorite fandom, she starts to rethink her rules on playing it safe.
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Darkest Flame
Darkest Flame by Donna Grant is $1.99! This is a paranormal romance with a dragon hero and an MI5 agent heroine. Some readers were a little annoyed at the hero and his Alpha-ness, but others liked the action blended in with the romance. Several of the subsequent books are also on sale! Have you read this series?
The Dark Kings have fought for centuries to preserve their dragon magic. But one of the most powerful warriors of his kind will be put to the ultimate test. Is he strong enough to resist his greatest temptations? Or will he be forced to surrender—body and soul?
Denae Lacroix is a beautiful MI5 agent on a deadly mission. Sent to the Scottish Highlands to spy on the mysterious Dreagan Industries, she discovers too late that she’s been set up—as human bait. She is an irresistible lure for a man who has not seen or touched a woman for centuries. He is a man with a destiny—and a desire—that could destroy them both…
It’s been twelve hundred years since Kellan has walked among humans—and there’s no denying the erotically charged attraction he feels for Denae. But as a Dragon King, he is sworn to protect his secrets. Yet the closer he gets to this smart, ravishing woman, the more her life is in danger. All it takes is one reckless kiss to unleash a flood of desire, the fury of dragons… and the fiercest enemy of all.
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Dignity
Dignity by Jay Crownover is $2.99! This is the second book in The Breaking Point series, but it can be read on its own. Readers loved the chemistry between the hero and heroine and I believe this is a darker, grittier romance than just a standard contemporary. However, others felt the pacing was too slow and made for a surprisingly boring reading experience. It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
Looks can be deceiving. I knew that most people took one look at the ink and the impossibly big and strong body it covered and decided I was a brawler…a bruiser…a beast. However, I was hardwired to be a thinker, not a fighter.
I should have chosen to use my brain and talents to be one of the good guys, a hero, a man with dignity and worth. I turned my back on dignity and sold my soul to the highest bidder, deciding to dance with the devil, instead. I couldn’t figure out how to help myself, so there was zero chance I knew how to save someone else.
That someone else was Noe Lee. She was the unkempt, unruly thief who was just as smart as I was and twice as street savvy. She was annoyingly adorable beneath the dirt and grime, and she was in trouble. In way over her head, I told myself it wasn’t my job to keep her from drowning. In the Point, it was sink or swim, and I wasn’t the designated lifeguard on duty.
I shut the door in her face, but now she’s gone…vanished…disappeared without a trace. It took less than a second for me to realize that I wanted her back. When a woman comes along that melts all the frozen, hard things you’re made of; you’ll do anything you have to, to bring her home.
What you see is not always what you get…and with a man like me, what you get is more than anyone ever bargained for.
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Ink Witch by Lindsey Fairleigh (mentioned by Vicki in the Watcha Reading comments — that’s not a money pit at all…) is 99 pennies.
Why does Dignity have a lady in his tummy?
For those of you needing an Australia Day selection for the SBTB Challenge on Goodreads, Dreamspinner is doing 30% off all AUS/NZ authors through tomorrow. There are also several related titles listed there at a deeper discount (though a couple may be too short for the challenge)…
For Outlander fans, volume one of the Outlandish Companion is $2.99 at Amazon.
Why does the MI5 agent have to be beautiful? Why can’t/won’t/don’t we admit that attraction takes many forms and is so much more interesting and complex than a perfect face or body?
I swear, Bitchery, if I write a romance novel, my characters will be initially attracted to each other because of everything else. It will be a watch on a wrist; hair turned up in a bun and secured with an awl; the book s/he is reading; a kindness revealed; an infectious laugh; the person who lets you have the last bag of Trader Joe’s Scandinavian Swimmers.
Not that I’ve thought about this or anything.
/Grumpy Darlynne is off to grump more elsewhere.
Recently read Darkest Flame and was deeply disappointed. I love dragon shifters. I wanna be one.
First thing I didn’t like about it was it is full of “donna”, “ken” and other fake Scottish accent words.
Second thing, this is supposed to be the first in a series but the world-building has way too many gaps. I feel strongly as if there must be a whole series that was really first in the series because there is way Darkest Flame works as a standalone.
So… what are some really good dragon shifter stories, please?
My problem with Dignity is the Sally Jesse Raphael glasses that have been obviously photoshopped onto his face! Well, that and the fact that the “voice” of the blurb is annoying to me. I figure if the blurb has me rolling my eyes, I’m just going to keep walking
@Darlynne, I would read the heck out of any one of those things. Please turn your “if” into a “when.”
For some reason I really can’t stand blurbs done in the first person. They automatically make me dislike the book.
@Gloriamarie I’m not a huge shifter romance fan so you might have come across these already, but I did enjoy Isabel Cooper’s dragon books, which were reviewed here a while back. I seem to remember there’s a bit of Romance Novel Scots going on though. I really want to recommend Rachel Aaron’s Heartstrikers series, which isn’t romance, but it has dragon shifters and a very cute romance subplot. I raced through all of the books in that series.
@Gloriamarie, @GraceElizabeth
GA Aiken (Shelly Laurenston) Dragonkin series–crude, rude, and hilarious. Also the best portrayal of the loving aggression that can occur in perfectly imperfect families.
Thea Harrison Elder Races series, particularly the ones focused on Pia and Dracos and their inner circle.
Lindsay Buroker Dragon Blood and related series–I cannot attest to their wonderfulness or whether they involve shifters, but but my husband loves them.
I have been reading Lindsay Buroker’s Dragon Blood books just recently, and they don’t involve shifters as romantic characters. The dragons are capable of shifting, and have made babies with humans in the past, but are very very dragony and are mainly side characters or antagonists. The series title comes from the fact that many of the main characters are descended from long-ago human-dragon pairings.
Having said that, I totally recommend the books! I started getting them on KU, but ended up flat out buying as many as my budget allowed. They are fantasy with LOTS of adventure & strong romance elements.
Also, Buroker’s romance alter ego Ruby Lionsdrake does have a dragon romance, but I haven’t read it yet and can’t remember the title!