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A Girl Like Her
A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert is $2.99 at Amazon! This is the first book in the Ravenswood series. The book description has a content warning, as there are mentions of past domestic violence. Readers loved the grumpy, prickly heroine, which is totally my catnip. However, others mentioned having difficulties connecting with the characters.
Everyone has secrets. He wants all of hers.
Meet the man next door…
After years of military service, Evan Miller wants a quiet life. The small town of Ravenswood seems perfect—until he stumbles upon a vicious web of lies with his new neighbour at its centre.
Ruth Kabbah is rude, awkward, and, according to everyone in town, bad news. Thing is, no-one will tell Evan why. Does she perform ritual sacrifices? Howl at the moon? Pour the milk before the tea? He has no clue.
But he desperately wants to find out. Because Ruth doesn’t seem evil to him; she seems lonely. And funny, and clumsy, and secretly quite sweet, and really f*%king beautiful…
The more Evan’s isolated, eccentric neighbour pushes him away, the more he wants her. Her—and all her secrets. Because there’s no way a girl like Ruth truly deserves the town’s scorn.
… Is there?
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Diablo Lake: Moonstruck
RECOMMENDED: Diablo Lake: Moonstruck by Lauren Dane is $1.99! Sarah reviewed this one and thought it was a great start to the series. Here are some of her thoughts:
This paranormal small Southern town of shifters and witches and rival pack tensions between the Dooleys and Pembrys is immersively fun, sexy, and thoughtful. Protected just came out, but the balance of power in the Pembry pack is shifting (hur hur) from assumed power achieved from physical strength toward strategic and diplomatic strength – prescient and interesting reading on top of (hur hur) the sexxytimes. Bonus points: witches AND vivid, loving female friendships.
In Diablo Lake, Washington, a town populated by werewolves, witches, and more, magic woven deep into the earth protects the town’s secrets from outsiders.
Katie Grady left Diablo Lake to get over a humiliating breakup; but her family needs her help, so she’s back, in a sublet right across the hall from the guy she’s lusted after for years. Jace Dooley is hotter than ever, and their friendship picks up along with massive doses of grown-up chemistry.
The very scent of Katie sharpens Jace’s canines, makes the wolf within him stir. There’s nothing more alluring to a Pack Alpha than a sexy female who is so very in charge. She won’t be coddled, but if he plays his hand just right she might be convinced to become his.
Katie presents a challenge to Jace’s wolf nature, whose chief instinct is to protect. Especially now that she’s coming into the magic that is her birthright – and suddenly Jace isn’t the only one who’s interested in Katie, or the raw power she’s just learning to use.
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A Dangerous Liaison with Detective Lewis
A Dangerous Liaison with Detective Lewis by Jillian Stone is $1.99! This is a historical romance with a second chance element. Readers enjoyed the suspense element, while others felt the book didn’t exactly deliver on the plot. It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
The fates had been perversely mischievous of late—case in point, Raphael Lewis. . .
When Fanny Greyville-Nugent’s father suffers a gruesome death in the clutches of his own machine, mourning his loss is not the beautiful heiress’s only heartbreak. Scotland Yard is convinced he was targeted in a plot to halt the rise of industry, and Fanny’s former fiancé, dashing and dubious detective Raphael “Rafe” Lewis, has been assigned to the case.
For the estranged ex-lovers, bringing the notorious assassins to justice proves as tumultuous as quelling pent-up desires. Fighting peril and passion at every turn of a dangerous journey from Edinburgh to London, they are pursued by an anarchist group hell-bent on destroying her father’s mysterious entry into the London Industrial Exposition.
When an astonishing discovery about the couple’s failed engagement surfaces, the sleuthing duo realize they can trust no one. Rafe confesses new details about his infidelity and Fanny risks all to avenge her father’s murder. But will Rafe and Fanny triumph over the pain of their past?
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Trance
Trance by Kelly Meding is 99c! This is the first book in the urban fantasy MetaWars series. Readers mentioned that the book is rather predictable, but recommend it if you’re looking for a book that’s fun and action-packed. I believe one review called it perfect for “popcorn reading.” Have you read this one?
Kelly Meding’s war-ravaged Los Angeles is ground zero for the ultimate Meta human showdown in this sexy, action-packed new series.
Fifteen years ago, Teresa “Trance” West was a skilled telepath and a proud member of the Ranger Corps. But ever since the Rangers were inexplicably rendered powerless at the climax of the devastating Meta War, she’s bounced from one dead-end job to another. Now her powers have reappeared just as mysteriously as they vanished— only they’re completely transformed and more potent than ever. And they’re threatening to destroy her.
Trance heads to Los Angeles to track down the surviving Rangers and discover who restored her powers—and why—but a phantom enemy is determined to kill them before they can reassemble. As they dodge his deadly attacks and come to terms with their new role as heroes, Trance and the rest of the team set out to annihilate the sinister madman . . . only to discover their own powers are his greatest weapons.
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This was my first Talia Hibbert and arguably still my favourite now that I’ve read all her books. The interview with her for the SBTB podcast was my introduction to her and she was so hilarious and effervescent that I one clicked the book. Her portrayal of England outside London is amazingly spot on and her men are delicious. Evan is one of my top book boyfriends!
I’m two chapters into A Girl Like Her and I’m here to to give you guys some Very Important Information that for some reason was not included in the blurb. Our heroine does webcomics for a living, and our hero is a blacksmith. My lions thought your lions might want to know.
I quite liked the stuff I read from Jillian Stone, but I feel like she disappeared. I haven’t seen anything new in several years.
@Teev:
Yes that is Very Important Information. I now know to one-click.
Thank you for the Most Important Information, @Teev! A Girl Like Her has been one-clicked.
@Gillian, she’s doing mostly ebooks, and those all seem to be paranormal genre, no historicals. There was supposed to be another Gentlemen of Scotland Yard book, but I haven’t seen an update on it in years. Have to believe it was mothballed. So disappointing. It was a must read series for me.
Talia Hibbert can do no wrong in my eyes! I loved A Girl Like Her and Undone By The Ex-Con and I’m saving the rest for a rainy day because they are impossibly perfect and sure to brighten any horrible awful no good day.
I absolutely adore Talia Hibbert’s books. Always an immediate pre-order or one click for me. She writes complicated nuanced women so well and also writes sweet lovestruck GOOD men. Samir in Damaged Goods = all the sighs. So dreamy.
There is obviously something wrong at Pocket Books and they’re desperately trying to signal for help from outside the US by setting ridiculous prices because why else would they ask me to pay $20.24 for a kindle edition of a years-old paperback original that’s out in both Trade and Mass Market?
Yes! “A Girl Like Her” is excellent & everyone should read it RIGHT NOW. The second one in the series – “Untouchable” – is in my TBR list & I should get to it by December.
The only other one of hers I’ve read is “The Princess Trap”, which was both implausible (prince of a fictional Scandinavian-ish country) & delightful (signature Talia Hibbert writing), although I hate the new cover Amazon is telling me it has. Its only downside was the heroine’s name (Cherry), & the many, MANY “cute” nicknames spawned from it.
So I’m hearing that I should read all the books, yes?
@Teev-Thank you so much for your public service announcement! I one-clicked that so fast…
Does anyone watch the show Forged in Fire? I’m a big fan, and I would love for someone to write a romance with that kind of show as the setting. Two blacksmiths (or bladesmiths as I believe they are called) competing to be the champion-yet sparks fly (HA!) at the forge.
@Maureen: Have you read Alyssa Cole’s “A Duke by Default”? Scottish swordsmith, American apprentice, Ren Fair, even a Doctor Who reference. Not set around a show, but sounds like you’d like it.
@Deianira-Happily I have A Duke by Default on my Kindle, waiting to be read!! Thank you!
I always enjoy reading others works.