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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