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Sleepover
RECOMMENDED: Sleepover by Serena Bell is $1.99! Elyse recently read this one and loved it. She gave it an A:
I really, really love a contemporary romance that features an emotionally fluent hero and real conflict that’s handled with respect and intelligence. Sleepover by Serena Bell hit both these nails on the head, making it one of the best, most emotionally satisfying contemporary romances I’ve read this year. It’s also got some crazy-hot sex scenes which is a nice bonus.
A brand-new contemporary romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Head Over Heels.
The girl next door is the one that got away. He just doesn’t know it yet. . . .
Sawyer: After my wife died, I promised myself I’d never go through the pain of losing someone again. Now I keep my flings neat, tidy, and one-time-only. Besides, my son needs me more than ever. He’s miserable in our new town, so I’m pumped when he makes friends with the kid next door—until I recognize his mom from a one-night stand. Perky and upbeat, Elle Dunning is not my type for anything other than tearing up the sheets. So why do I keep letting myself get roped into game nights and get-togethers?
Elle: It so hasn’t been my year. That’s my first thought when I see my new next-door neighbor. I never would have hooked up with Sawyer Paulson if my husband hadn’t left me for his high-school sweetheart, but because our eight-year-old boys have become best friends, I’ve got to make nice with Mr. Tall, Dark, and Silent. Yet the more time we spend together, the more Sawyer opens up. We’ve both been hurt—badly. So it’s one thing to send the kids off to sleepaway camp together. It’s quite another to promise each other a lifetime of sleepovers. . . .
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Just One Damned Thing After Another
RECOMMENDED: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor is $1.99! Redheadedgirl recently read this one and gave it a B:
If you’re a fan of Connie Willis, I would suggest you give this series a try. It doesn’t take itself quite so seriously, and Max as a heroine and audience surrogate is a lot of fun. It’s potentially a commitment, given that there are 9 books and a bunch of novellas, but I’m looking forward to making a dent in my TBR pile to read the next book.
“History is just one damned thing after another” – Arnold Toynbee
A madcap new slant on history that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea…
Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary’s, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don’t do ‘time-travel’ – they ‘investigate major historical events in contemporary time’. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power – especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet.
Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History. Their aim is to observe and document – to try and find the answers to many of History’s unanswered questions…and not to die in the process.
But one wrong move and History will fight back – to the death. And, as they soon discover – it’s not just History they’re fighting.
Follow the catastrophe curve from eleventh-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. For wherever Historians go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake…
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Hunted
RECOMMENDED: Hunted by Meagan Spooner is $1.99! Elyse really loved this book and gave it an A:
Hunted is delightful. It’s the BatB adaptation that I didn’t know that I wanted or needed, but that kept me up reading all night. Unlike in many of versions of the fairytale, Beauty (in this case Yeva) isn’t the kindest, gentlest, “good”-est daughter of a wealthy merchant. In Hunted, she’s the strongest, the most feral.
Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering them.
So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva’s father’s misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he’d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance.
Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?
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The Prince of Midnight
The Prince of Midnight by Laura Kinsale is $1.99! This historical romance has some Beauty and the Beast elements. Readers love the angsty, broody hero, while others thought there would be more action to the story. If you’ve read this one, tell us what you thought about it in the comments! It also has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
He was once a legendary highwayman. Now he’s a recluse in a ruined French castle, with only a half-wild wolf for a companion.
When Lady Leigh Strachan comes looking for a man to aid in her revenge, she is disillusioned to find that the famed Prince of Midnight could not help even if he cared to—which he does not.
S. T. Maitland wants nothing to do with his legend, or with this fierce, beautiful, broken woman . . . until the old thrill of living on the cutting edge of danger begins to rise in his blood again.
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As regards Just One Damned Thing After Another, I would like to warn potential readers that there is, at times, A LOT of explicit violence in those books (I’ve read the first three). Also, I would not call Max a “fun” character. Childhood abuse is repeatedly hinted at, and her “romantic relationship” strikes me as utterly toxic and abusive. There is also a character that is bluntly an “evil woman scorned” trope, and a number of other characters I had a lot of trouble with. I did like the author’s ideas on time travel back into history, though.
I’ve read whole series, and the details on the abuse that Breq Toren mentioned come out throughout the series and there are sharp tonal shifts between light-hearted and deeply violent and sad. I was definitely expected a much more “fun” read from the description when I started the series. That said, it was addictive and I couldn’t stop reading them.
I own Prince of Midnight or I would have just bought all of them. I think that Hunted will be read first. In the spirit of the Winter Solstice I will thank the Bitches for the bounty, and not despair over my growing, ridiculous TBR tower. I have a week of reading coming up!
Hunted is one of the best Beauty & The Beast retellings I’ve ever read!
Booo, Hunted isn’t on sale in the UK 🙁
I really enjoyed Sleep Over by Serena Bell, so much so that I bought several of her other novels, and I thought they were very good. She is one of those authors that I will read a passage, and find myself nodding in agreement.
I *love* The Chronicles of St. Mary’s books, but agree with some of Breq Toren’s concerns. The books have a lot of humor, are full of twists, and are actually quite educational, but they also put me through the emotional wringer. I pretty much go into each book knowing I’ll be gut-punched. . . but I keep coming back.