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Jane Doe
RECOMMENDED: Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone is $1.99 at Amazon! Content warning for this book. If you’re unsure if it’s for you, read Elyse and Sarah’s joint review (it earned a B+) and, as a bonus, check out Sarah’s podcast episode with the author. Not that I’m biased, but it’s one of my favorites.
A double life with a single purpose: revenge.
Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes—meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven.
But plain Jane is hiding something. And Steven’s bringing out the worst in her.
Nothing can distract Jane from going straight for his heart: allowing herself to be seduced into Steven’s bed, to insinuate herself into his career and his family, and to expose all his dirty secrets. It’s time for Jane to dig out everything that matters to Steven. So she can take it all away.
Just as he did to her.
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The Royal We
RECOMMENDED: The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan is $2.99! Elyse and Redheadedgirl did a joint review of this book and they gave it an A:
RHG: So I’m giving this an A, because it was delightful and I adore the Fug Girls’ version of Harry and Kate and Wills that they’ve created in their heads (“He’s basically Great Britain’s answer to a red squirrel anyway”) and I like how they used that in writing this book. It also passed the “Did I stay up until 3 am to finish this? YES I DID” test. How about you?
Elyse: Totally an A. It wasn’t as heavy in the romance as I wanted but made up for it by being addictive. I too pulled the 3 a.m. read. Plus it’s really funny and heartfelt.
In their first adult novel, authors Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan take on a story of romance and rivalries inspired by today’s most talked-about royal couple: Will and Kate.
“If I’m Cinderella today, I dread who they’ll think I am tomorrow. I guess it depends on what I do next.”
American Rebecca Porter was never one for fairy-tales. Her twin sister Lacey was always the romantic, the one who daydreamed of being a princess. But it’s adventure-seeking Bex who goes to Oxford and meets dreamy Nick across the hall – and thus Bex who accidentally finds herself in love with the eventual heir to the British throne. Nick is everything she could have imagined, but Prince Nicholas has unimaginable baggage: grasping friends, a thorny family, hysterical tabloids tracking his every move, and a public that expected its future king to marry a native. On the eve of the most talked-about wedding of the century, Bex reflects on what she’s sacrificed for love — and exactly whose heart she may yet have to break.
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The Cold Between
RECOMMENDED: The Cold Between by Elizabeth Bonesteel is $1.99! This is a scifi mystery with romantic elements and Elyses gave the book a B+:
By the end of the book I was attached enough to the various supporting characters that make up the Galileo’s crew that I’m hoping if Bonesteel continues this series, she keeps them all in place.
If you want something a little different or enjoy lighter Sci-Fi with a suspense edge, then I’d recommend The Cold Between. If you need a guaranteed HEA with your romance, then you might want to tread cautiously.
Deep in the stars, a young officer and her lover are plunged into a murder mystery and a deadly conspiracy in this first entry in a stellar military science-fiction series in the tradition of Lois McMaster Bujold.
When her crewmate, Danny, is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps chief engineer, Commander Elena Shaw, is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko Zajec. She knows Trey is innocent—he was with her when Danny was killed. So who is the real killer and why are the cops framing an innocent man?
Retracing Danny’s last hours, they discover that his death may be tied to a mystery from the past: the explosion of a Central Corps starship at a wormhole near Volhynia. For twenty-five years, the Central Gov has been lying about the tragedy, even willing to go to war with the outlaw PSI to protect their secrets.
With the authorities closing in, Elena and Trey head to the wormhole, certain they’ll find answers on the other side. But the truth that awaits them is far more terrifying than they ever imagined . . . a conspiracy deep within Central Gov that threatens all of human civilization throughout the inhabited reaches of the galaxy—and beyond.
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The Bet
The Bet by Rachel van Dyken is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance with a fake relationship (but not between the heroine and hero). I’ve only read one of van Dyken’s books, but that one was pretty melodramatic and reviews for this one seem to say the same. You know, in case that is or isn’t your thing.
“I have a proposition for you.”
Kacey should have run the minute those words left Seattle millionaire Jake Titus’s mouth. It’s been years since Kacey’s seen her childhood friend Jake, but the minute Jake mentions his ill grandmother, Kacey is ready to do anything for the sweet old woman. And if that means pretending they’re engaged for her sake-so be it.
But Kacey wasn’t counting on Jake’s older brother Travis still being there. She calls him “Satan” for a reason: she’s never forgotten the way he teased and taunted her. Yet when they meet again, Travis’s gorgeous smile is a direct hit to her heart . . . and Kacey’s more confused than ever.
As the days pass, only one thing starts to become alarmingly clear-she never should have accepted Jake’s deal . . .
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I read Jane Doe in one sitting. It’s black comedy at its best. (I know it’s billed as a thriller and it is,but man, there are some really amusing bits. Why can’t it be both? Or maybe that’s just me.)
@hng23 – I loved the snarky comments she makes to herself and comments on how women are expected to behave. I found myself, more than once, muttering you go girl.
On the US version of Amazon that I’m seeing it looks like Jane Doe is on sale for $1.99 at Audible as well. I gotta tell you, the audio narration is AMAZING. The book itself is dark, twisted, and hilarious, and Nicol Zanzarella kicks it up not just another notch, but into the stratosphere.
I recommend this book to anyone and everyone, and the audio even more strongly.
You know how people say it’s important to see yourself represented on the page? I loved Jane Doe.
HATE TO WANT YOU by Alisha Rai, also oft-recommended here, is a Kindle Monthly Deal for $1.99.
For the underserved fantasy romance crowd who haven’t yet ventured back to the olden times (otherwise known as 2010), C.L. Wilson’s LORD OF THE FADING LANDS is likewise $1.99.
Janie Crouch has a Harlequin Intrigue cringily titled DADDY DEFENDER for $0.99. I haven’t read this one yet, but other books of hers have had a good action/romance mix. This one’s also in KU.
For $2.99, you can choose-your-own-adventure of love with MY LADY’S CHOOSING by Kitty Curran and Lissa Zageris.
!00% agree with all the love for Jane Doe. Anyone else picture Villanelle from Killing Eve as Jane,snarky voice and all?
Also, is there a word kinda like schadenfreude where you take delicious pleasure in a woman utterly killing it against all the patriarchal sexist bullshit we experience every day?
ALSO, Thea de Salle’s THE KING OF BOURBON STREET is $2.99. She describes it as a “naughty romance with all the naughty words featuring a fat girl and a decadent bi dude with a lot of money and a New Orleans hotel.” THE COVER AND BOOK DESCRIPTION CONTRADICT THIS, and the author is currently explaining on Twitter that the heroine is “about 5′ tall, thus petite, but she’s explicitly fat, is on page fat, the word fat is used” and publishing just sucks when it comes to fat rep.
@Ren Benton: C. L. Wilson’s books are some of my favorites and almost never go on sale. Thanks for the heads up, I’ll have to check the stack.
“The Cold Between” was excellent; the other two in the trilogy are somewhere in my ever-expanding TBR list. Lighter on the romance than the mystery & the SF world-building, but well worth reading!
I got Jane Doe and loved it. Ugh, Steven is such a tool, and I’ve met far too many of his type. They’re rampant in the Manosphere.
Loved Jane Doe too. Weirdly refreshing to read a first-person narrative by a woman unworried by shame or guilt.