A Week to Be Wicked
RECOMMENDED: A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare is $1.99! This is the second book in the Spindle Cove series and Carrie gave this book an A-:
If you are also a person who perks up at the sound of the word “Tessellation” or who longs to travel through Britain with a viscount and a dinosaur foot, then check this book out right away.
When a devilish lord and a bluestocking set off on the road to ruin…Time is not on their side.
Minerva Highwood, one of Spindle Cove’s confirmed spinsters, needs to be in Scotland. Colin Sandhurst, Lord Payne, a rake of the first order, needs to be…anywhere but Spindle Cove.
These unlikely partners have one week to:
• fake an elopement
• convince family and friends they’re in “love”
• outrun armed robbers
• survive their worst nightmares
• travel four hundred miles without killing each other
All while sharing a very small carriage by day and an even smaller bed by night.What they don’t have time for is their growing attraction. Much less wild passion. And heaven forbid they spend precious hours baring their hearts and souls.
Suddenly one week seems like exactly enough time to find a world of trouble. And maybe . . . just maybe . . . love.
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Flirting with the Frenemy by Pippa Grant is $2.99! Two people mentioned this new release in March’s Whatcha Reading and said it was cute and had some great banter. It also seems to be bursting with catnip. Have you read any of Grant’s romances? What do you think?
Mission: Survive my best friend’s wedding, where I must play nice with my ex and his perfect new girlfriend.
Strategy: Bring the hottest fake boyfriend on the planet.
Target: Grady Rock. Master Baker. Dimples. Muscles. The unicorn of fake boyfriends.
Complication: Wyatt Morgan. My brother’s best friend. My sworn enemy. Military man. Sexy as hell single dad. The man I let into my panties for one night of hot hate sex after my ex dumped me.
And the man who just scared off that perfect fake boyfriend.
By pretending to be my real boyfriend.
I can roll with this though. What’s the harm in Flirting with the Frenemy if it helps me get the job done?
Complete my mission and move on.
Or so I thought.
Until Wyatt kisses me again and I start feeling things I shouldn’t.
The thing about weddings…nothing ever goes as planned.
Flirting with the Frenemy is a rollicking fun romantic comedy featuring a single dad military man, an irritatingly attractive blast from his past, pirates, cursing parrots, and a wedding gone wild. It stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers.
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Indiscreet by Mary Balogh is $2.99! This is the first book in the Horseman Trilogy. Readers found the romance to be pretty darn sweet, though Balogh also balances these things with pretty serious issues like PTSD. However, some found the romance a bit slow going at times. This is also a rerelease, as the original book was published in 1997.
In the country visiting his twin brother, Viscount Rawleigh longs for a little diversion and beautiful young widow Catherine Winters seems like easy prey. But Rex’s target is a lady of virtue, and when she roundly rejects his improper proposal to become his mistress, Rex finds himself faced with a delectable challenge.
Catherine knows she must fight the indecent feelings the Viscount arouses within her—feelings that bring to life a past she had sought to escape—even as the handsome lord refuses to relent in his amorous attentions.
But even though she knows one kiss could bring her to ruin, temptation proves an insurmountable foe—and Catherine can not ignore the beating of her treacherous heart…
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Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley is $1.99 at Amazon! This is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Readers say that McKinley’s Beauty is a better take on the retelling, but others loved the character relationships in the book. Which book do you think is better for Beauty and the Beast lovers? It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
Award-winning author Robin McKinley returns to one of our most enduring fairy tales to tell an enthralling story of love and redemption
Once upon a time, a wealthy merchant had three daughters . . . and when the merchant’s business failed, he and his three daughters left their grand house in the city and moved to a tiny cottage buried deep in the countryside. The youngest daughter, Beauty, is fascinated by the long, thorny stems of an unknown plant that overwhelms the neglected cottage, and she tends it until, the following summer, its rich, fragrant flowers are the most glorious things the sisters have ever seen: roses.
An old woman tells Beauty: “Roses are for love. Not . . . silly sweethearts’ love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole. . . . There’s an old folk-tale . . . there aren’t many roses around any more because they need more love than people have to give ’em . . . and the only thing that’ll stand in for love is magic, though it ain’t as good.”
There’s no magic in the town of Longchance, but, the old woman adds, Beauty may not know that this is the result of a sorcerers’ battle that happened many years ago, a battle that left a monster, or perhaps a beast, in an enchanted palace somewhere in the deep forest . . . and a curse concerning a family of three sisters.
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When you try to buy two books on this list and Barnes & Noble says you already own both of them……
Both TD’s A Week… and Balogh’s Indiscreet are two of my favorite HRs! I believe I literally LOL’ed reading the first one, and the second is very poignant (TW for mention of a stillbirth).
A Week To Be Wicked is pretty much my favorite Tessa Dare book.
Thanks for the Pippa Grant. I am in such a stress tornado that I have not picked up a book since MONDAY. I know!! But I’ll have lots of time tomorrow on planes and in airports, and that may do the trick. Otherwise it’s back to my I hate flying go tos: Courtney Milan and Sherry Thomas rereads.
I just finished the Spindle Cove series! I thought some of the heroes we’re kind of frustrating (they’ve built a women’s Utopia and then men come in and try to ruin it), but I liked A Week to be Wicked and The Beauty and the Blacksmith novella.
I don’t even like the “brother’s best friend” trope, but I’ll buy Flirting With the Frenemy since Pippa Grant is the author. It’s hard to find romantic comedy that clicks with my own sense of humor, but Pippa’s does. Her books invariably make me smile. Her books are kind of like if Shelly Laurenston were writing contemporary romance – they are zany and sometimes a bit over the top, although not quite to the degree of Shelly’s books (needless to say I love Shelly also).
Rose Daughter is $6.60 now 🙁
Indiscreet is not a “sweet” romance IMO. It is a very good book about a hero who relentlessly pursues a heroine and FOR ONCE (and in 1997!) this is presented as a bad thing, and when he gets that he really does get it. I recommend it but not for when you want something light.
Yeah, Rawleigh is a complete jerk when first presented. He’s a classic arrogant alpha who needs an awful lot of work (which I think Balogh does quite well by the end.)
Tessa Dare’s A Week to Be Wicked is my second favourite romance book. I spent my time reading it feeling warm inside, with a smile on my face and often squirmed and hummed with happiness.
A Week To Be Wicked is tied for my favorite Dare! (Hard to pick between that and When A Scot Ties The Knot).
I’ll voice a dissenting opinion and say that I prefer Rose Daughter over Beauty. I think that Beauty is definitely a YA book, and I preferred the adult characters and relationships in Rose Daughter (plus the ending, but I won’t spoil that).
I just started ‘A Week To Be Wicked’. It’s one of those books where it hurts my soul to put down because I must do real life things.
I’m with ClaireC – “A Week to Be Wicked” & “A Scot Ties the Knot” are my favorite Tessa Dare books! Go. Read them. NOW.
Just finished “Flirting With the Frenemy”. So much to love! The pirate themed wedding, the town itself (reminded me of both Chincoteague & Key West), the Air Force officer hero.
RE: A Scot Ties the Knot
The Heaving Bosoms podcast review of this book is hysterical. They’re both so overcome with swooning over Logan Mackenzie and lobster sex. It made me want to reread it.
Indiscreet is, IMO, one of the best romances ever written about toxic masculinity. Cannot recommend that book enough.
Indiscreet is stunningly good. The exposition is slow and full and meaningful, and by the end I felt punched in the gut. The hero is a jackass at the beginning and by the end he actually gets it – just amazing, especially for twenty years ago.
I started Indiscreet based on the recs here and OMG I want to punch everyone in the face but it is so good.
‘A Week’ was too fluffy and far-fetched for me, and I suspect Tessa Dare’s other books would fall into the same category. Which is a shame, as I was looking forward to some crustacean-related sexytimes.