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The Hot Shot
The Hot Shot by Kristen Callihan is 99c at Amazon! What the heck price-matching! This is the fourth book in the Game On series. I, for one, love Callihan’s writing, and the previous book in the series, The Game Plan, is one of my favorites. However, reviewers say the second half of this one is full of lots of drama and angst.
First we were friends. Then we were roommates. Now I want more…
What can I say about Chess Copper? The woman is capable of bringing me to my knees. I know this about five minutes after getting naked for her.
No one is more surprised than me. The prickly photographer my team hired to shoot our annual charity calendar isn’t my usual type. She’s defense to my offense, a challenge at every turn. But when I’m with her, all the regrets and darkness goes away. She makes life fun.
I want to know Chess, be close to her. Which is a bad idea.
Chess is looking for a relationship. I’ve never given a woman more than one night. But when fate leaves Chess without a home, I step up and offer her mine. We’re roommates now. Friends without benefits. But it’s getting harder to keep our hands off each other. And the longer we live together the more I realize she’s becoming my everything.
Trick is…Now that I’ve made her believe I’m a bad bet, how do I convince her to give this player a true shot at forever?
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Trophy Husband
Trophy Husband by Lauren Blakely is $2.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble! This is the third book in the Caught Up in Love series, but it can be read as a standalone. There’s a fake relationship element to the romance and some geekery, while some didn’t like the heroine very much. Have you read this one?
Sometimes you can’t help falling in love, even when you try to do the opposite…
Successful fashion blogger McKenna Bell has spent far too long protecting herself after the way her ex-fiancé left her at the altar for a college chick he met the night of his bachelor party. Loving again, trusting again, well, that’s just not in the cards. Especially now that her ex is back in town with his new woman, demanding custody of McKenna’s favorite creature in the whole world–her dog. No effing way. McKenna’s had enough of him, and she decides to even the score by finding her own hot young thing — a Trophy Husband. Sure, she’s only twenty-seven, but doesn’t that make it even more fun — and infuriating to her ex — to pursue a younger man?
When she declares her intentions on her daily blog, her quest quickly skyrockets in popularity, and that’s when Chris enters the picture, and he’s got all the assets. He’s handsome, successful, and turns her inside out with a kiss to end all kisses, the kind that makes you feel like a shooting star. But loving again could mean losing again, and it’s so much easier to focus on getting even, isn’t it? Unless, you just can’t help falling in love. Which means McKenna will have to come face to face with what she really wants in life — protecting her heart from hurt, or letting go of her fears of a new beginning.
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Only You
Only You by Denise Grover Swank is 99c! Elyse did a Lightning Review of this book and gave it a C-, citing a pretty frustrating and agonizing secondary character. However, she also notes that there are readers who would really like this book:
There’s a lot of reasons why readers will like this book. The romance is hot and funny, there’s a ton of home renovation/HGTV pr0n, and Kevin adopts a tiny kitten he finds. Plus the relationship between Holly and her grandma, and the subject of dealing with dementia, was genuine and well-done.
If Nicole hadn’t been in this book I would have given it a B+, as it was, whenever she was on the page I wanted to punch her.
Never say never . . .
Romance isn’t an option for Holly Greenwood. With her wedding planner career on the line she needs to stay focused, and that means pleasing her demanding boss, not getting distracted by her mind-alteringly hot neighbor . . .
Ex-Marine Kevin Vandemeer craves normalcy. Instead, he has a broken-down old house in need of a match and some gasoline, a meddling family, and the uncanny ability to attract the world’s craziest women. At least that last one he can fix: he and his buddies have made a pact to swear off women, and this includes his sweetly sexy new neighbor.
After one hot night that looks a whole lot like a disaster in the light of day, Kevin and Holly are about to learn that true love doesn’t play by the rules . . .
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Practice Perfect: The Complete Series
Practice Perfect: The Complete Series by Ruby Lang is $2.99! This series collects all three books in the Practice Perfect series, which features both diverse protagonists and hot doctors! The complete set is around 750 pages, so the romances may be a teeny bit on the shorter side.
Three couples discover love is the best medicine in Ruby Lang’s acclaimed medical romance series, now available in a value-priced ebook collection.
Acute Reactions: The man with allergies never gets the girl, but that may change for restaurateur Ian Zamora when he makes an appointment with Dr. Petra Lale. When sparks fly, a little romance just might be chicken soup for their hearts. But do two career-driven people inexperienced in relationships stand a chance of finding the right prescription for love?
Hard Knocks: Neurologist Helen Chang Frobisher is writing op-eds against Portland’s new hockey rink to try to prevent concussive brain injuries like the one that plagues her father. Oregon Wolves player Adam Magnus is fighting to build a successful career on the ice. But while the two spar in public over the future of a sports franchise on the brink, in private, they battle an impossible attraction.
Clean Breaks: Sarah Soon’s brush with cancer shook this usually confident OB/GYN. Jake Li, her brother’s annoying high school BFF who betrayed her trust, is the last person she wants to see, but the now disturbingly hot social worker has begun hanging around. Newly divorced Jake knows he shouldn’t look for a serious relationship already, but he’s always been helplessly drawn to Sarah’s vivaciousness. Can he show her that he’s worthy of a second chance?
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Putting in a plug for the Ruby Lang! Some of her characters might tend towards the, I don’t know, Vulcan-esque (apparently I do too, or so some of my patrons have said), but I found them complex and real and I really, really loved them. I also enjoyed having scientists take pride of place in some of them.
I am waiting for her to put out something new now. 🙂
“A Lady Awakened” by Cecilia Grant is $2.99 for Kindle right now.
Someone to Hold (Westcott #2) by Mary Balogh is $1.99 @ amazon.
Book #1 was meh for me, so I will pass on this one — a shocking moment of book-buying-restraint here!!. Full disclosure: I loved her Survivor’s Club Series and Westcott Book #1 just didn’t quite measure up.
@Peggy I also adored the Survivors (and the Bedwyns when I went and found those afterwards) and didn’t much care for Westcott book 1, but Someone to Wed (#3) is sweet and definitely worth a shot. Someone to Hold is better than the first book as well but the couple is a bit forgettable.
Westcott series definitely gets better. #1 wasn’t very good, #2 was decent, #3 was really rather lovely.
@GraceElizabeth and @Caitlin – thank you both so much for the Westcott series info!
I am generally a Balogh fan (I LOVE the Bedwyns! *happy sigh*) and will definitely check out Westcott book#3. I will blame you both (and possibly my psychological inability to skip book 2 in a series) for my crumbling book-buying restraint!.
@Peggy I didn’t finish the first Wescott book, but I did go ahead and get the second book when I found out it was on sale. I’ve heard a lot of people who liked the second one and love the third. It might sit on my kindle for a while, but I’ll get to it eventually.
@CelineB. Glad to hear more good things about book#2!
I’ve read a few of Callihan’s books in the series and really liked THE HOT SHOT. It hit all the right notes for me.
I loved The Hot Shot. It’s on my (very short) re-read list. And props for styling the cover model to match the description in the book. Ridiculous California tattoo and all.
Well, I’ll put forward a dissenting view. To me, The Hot Shot felt like a rehash of parts of the first two books in the series. If it had been the first Callihan I’d read I would have enjoyed it a lot more, but since it wasn’t, it lacked freshness and took me a long time to finish.
Anne Rice/A.N. Roquelaure’s Beauty’s Punishment is on sale for $1.99. If you can’t get enough of spanking (turns out I can) this is the erotic novel for you.
I thought the first half of HOT SHOT was really good, but I thought Callahan tried waaay too hard to generate angst in the second half with the appearance of an old girlfriend—but at least she wasn’t demonized in order for the heroine to shine brighter. Which brings me to Denise Grover Swank: I haven’t read ONLY YOU, but I did read THE SUBSTITUTE which had the most misogynistic presentation of a flight attendant about fifteen pages in. Ugh and DNF. I imagine the unlikeable character in ONLY YOU might be of a similar stripe.
Yay for Ruby Lang! I was happy to buy them at full price. Excellent prickly heroines.
How is there an ex girlfriend when he only does one night? (Hot Shot)
Those kinds of things throw me out of a story. I’m sure the author could have made him complicated enough all on his own.
Definitely one-clicked that Ruby Lang set. I’ve been craving medical romances with female doctors (hoping for life to imitate fiction, maybe?) and this sounds right up my alley. Plus it’s $2.99!!
I feel like my PT would be telling the Hot Shot model to get his hips up.
I am tempted by practice perfect. However, Drs getting together with patients is an ethical no-no and I find that it bugs me to read about it. Can someone let me know if this is handled in an appropriate way?
@HL The one night stand/not exactly ex-girfriend (not that they’re still together but it’s not really the most accurate term) makes sense in the context of the book, but it involves a big spoiler.
@Vicki This was actually a significant plot point/conflict in the first book (Acute Reactions) but handled very well IMO. I’m also squicked out by doctors getting with their patients – nothing romantic about professional and ethical misconduct, honestly.
Echoing all the love for Ruby Lang and Practice Perfect! Fingers crossed for new material from Lang soon.
Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge is $1.99, for fans of Beauty being sent to slay the Beast and deciding she’d rather snog him.
Molly O’Keefe’s Tempted is currently free on Amazon – its the second book in her historical western series.
Oooh, medical contemporaries with diverse protagonists…click! I can relate to the allergies…year round, ya’ll.
Sarina Bowen’s Falling From the Sky is currently 99 cents on Amazon. Book 2 of the Gravity series, which is winter-sports-centric. This one looks like it’s about a doctor and a snowboarder.
@Vicki It was the major plot point and a source of conflict between her/him AND her BFF. I actually got tired of it when she didn’t feel like it was resolved and kept up the angst…