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Dirty Exes
Dirty Exes by Rachel Van Dyken is $1.99 at Amazon! It’s a Kindle Daily Deal and check out the other sales. There’s romance, fantasy, and more. The heroine runs a P.I. firm and there are some second chance elements here. Readers loved the humor in this one and how fun it was. However, others mentioned they were tempted to DNF early on, but felt it was worth pushing through. Your mileage may vary.
They’re serving up some red-hot revenge. A sizzling series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel van Dyken.
Blaire has never quite gotten over Jessie Beckett, the ex–NFL star whose kisses were hot enough to ignite the entire Eastern Seaboard. When he chose work over her, Blaire was left brokenhearted. Why else would she have married a skeezy two-timer, just to divorce him less than a year later?
Now Blaire is getting even by becoming one half of Dirty Exes, a PI firm fully committed to humiliating cheating jerks. If only the new jerk she’s been hired to uncover wasn’t Jessie Beckett himself.
Exposing Jessie isn’t going to be easy, especially when she still daydreams about his sexy smile. Further complicating matters is Colin, Jessie’s best friend. He’s gorgeous, a little bit cunning, and willing to help Blaire get the inside scoop on Jessie—for a price.
Now caught between two men—one totally right and the other totally wrong—Blaire will need to decide just how much she’s willing to risk…and whom she’s willing to risk it for.
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How to Be a Normal Person
READER RECOMMENDED: How to Be a Normal Person by T.J. Klune is 99c! Thank you to everyone you commented about this book yesterday! It also reminded me that someone in my romance book club talked about it this month. At the beginning of each meeting, we go around and talk about the best thing we read since the last time we met up, and this book got a mention.
Gustavo Tiberius is not normal. He knows this. Everyone in his small town of Abby, Oregon, knows this. He reads encyclopedias every night before bed. He has a pet ferret called Harry S. Truman. He owns a video rental store that no one goes to. His closest friends are a lady named Lottie with drag queen hair and a trio of elderly Vespa riders known as the We Three Queens.
Gus is not normal. And he’s fine with that. All he wants is to be left alone.
Until Casey, an asexual stoner hipster and the newest employee at Lottie’s Lattes, enters his life. For some reason, Casey thinks Gus is the greatest thing ever. And maybe Gus is starting to think the same thing about Casey, even if Casey is obsessive about Instagramming his food.
But Gus isn’t normal and Casey deserves someone who can be. Suddenly wanting to be that someone, Gus steps out of his comfort zone and plans to become the most normal person ever.
After all, what could possibly go wrong?
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The Duke’s Fallen Angel
The Duke’s Fallen Angel by Amy Jarecki is 99c! This is a prequel to the Devilish Dukes series, but it’s still a full-length romance. Some readers felt the hero was a bit over the top, while others said they couldn’t put this one down. It has a 4.4-star rating on Goodreads.
When passion begins to boil, fame and fortune no longer seem to matter.
The Duke of Ravenscar intended to debut the most acclaimed ballerina in the civilized world to open his London theater. But when the ship arrives with an understudy, Drake is convinced the fortune he has invested will be forfeit. Until he sees the woman dance.
Britannia LeClair arrives in London excited to be performing the lead in La Sylphide. A foundling, she has had to work harder and with more determination than anyone in the corps. At last, her debut in London proves her worth despite her lowly birth. Until she meets the smoldering gaze of the Duke of Ravenscar.
Determined not to become anyone’s mistress, Britannia keeps the duke at arms-length while she sets to uncovering the mystery of her parentage. With only a miniature painting and a monogrammed handkerchief, her inquiries lead to a series of escalating accidents and threats.
When Drake realizes Britannia is in danger, he will move heaven and hell to protect her…if the strong-headed ballerina will let him. As they traverse through the mire of skullduggery and hidden shame, events unravel to endanger them both. Will the truth prove worth uncovering, or will it sever the deep love that has come to bond their very souls?
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Bringing Delaney Home
Bringing Delaney Home by Lee Kilraine is $1.99! This book was mentioned in a previous podcast and in February’s Hide Your Wallet post. Some complaints on Goodreads were that the scenes and chapters felt disjointed at times, which kept readers from connecting with the characters. However, others loved the hero and heroine’s personalities. Is this on your TBR list?
In the sleepy town of Climax, North Carolina, all five Cates brothers are known for being tall, dark, and delicious. But each has his own incomparable love story…Quinn Cates has known Delaney Lyons forever. But after years away from home, Delaney’s a changed woman. A mysterious accident she refuses to talk about has left her hurting–in body and soul–and acting out in dangerous, and occasionally entertaining, ways.
Quinn’s on the local police force, so he’s used to dealing with troublemakers. This one’s pretty incorrigible–but he suspects her flippant exterior is hiding something softer and deeper inside. Every time he has to rescue Delaney from herself, his heart and his hormones both go into overdrive. But he owes it to Delaney’s sister to keep an eye on her. He’s got some experience with that after spending so much time at it back in high school…
Delaney just wants to fend off the gossips, fight off the pain of her past, and make her escape once again. But Officer Cates is ordering her not to leave town, and his interrogation techniques can be very persuasive…
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How to Be a Normal Person is adorable.
Apparently I’m an outlier, but “How to Be a Normal Person” just didn’t click for me; I bailed after the first chapter. Quirky and offbeat can be great, but this felt forced and overdone. Klune gets tons of rave reviews, so YMMV.
I love How to be a Normal Person. But The Lightning Struck Heart is my favorite book by Klune and my favorite book. The audio for TLSH is even better. I will now listen to anything Michael Lindsey reads. I also like the Tell Me it’s Real series. The second book is my favorite, so far, but start at the beginning. 🙂
Elizabeth Kingston’s medieval romance The King’s Man is currently free on Amazon (in the US, at least). I haven’t it read it yet, but I’ve seen several positive reviews of it.
I just can’t get past the heroine of The Duke’s Fallen Angel being named Britannia. Rule, Britannia?
@Melanie: I’m sure they call her “Brittany” for short.
@Amanda, TJ Klune was mentioned at my romance book club meeting this month too! There must be something in the air. I’ve decided I really need to try one, but I think I’ll start with The Lightning-Struck Heart since it came highly recommended.
The first and only Danielle Steel I ever read was Granny Dan, about a Russian ballerina. I was 13. I forgot about my ballerina catnip until now, but I’m having issues with the names “Ravenscar” and “Britannia.”
Are there any other ballet romances?
@EJ: Goodreads has several lists, including one with 100+ ballerinas, one for historicals, and one for male ballet dancers. To keep from angering the spam filter, the link is for the search results, and you can peruse all the options.
https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=✓&search_type=lists&q=Ballet+romance
@EJ: Ravenscar was the name of a Heyer hero (Faro’s Daughter). Only he was just a Mister. But I agree about Britannia. Why?
Thanks for pointing me at TJ Klune. How to Be a Normal Person is excellent. Gus & Casey’s romance is so sweet!
I don’t have any problem with Ravenscar, which is a real place in North Yorkshire, but … Britannia? Odd names throw me right out of the story, even in fantasy where you expect to find odd names. When Amazon gently hinted that C L Wilson’s ‘The Sea King’ would be right up my alley my finger strayed to the one-click button, but further investigation revealed that the hero’s name was Dilys. Dilys is a female name – British actresses Dilys Laye and Dilys Watling spring to mind. Oh, and the heroine’s surname was Coruscate (‘to flash or sparkle’).
I’m a newcomer to the romance genre (at the age of 59!) and I can’t help feeling that daft names, together with book covers that bear little or no resemblance to the story, help to bring the genre into disrepute.
EJ- On pointe, ballet novella reviewed here recently, is on sale for FREE!
I dissolve into snickers every time I read The Lightning Struck Heart by Kline. So funny.
Klune – stupid autocorrect