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A Notorious Vow
RECOMMENDED: A Notorious Vow by Joanna Shupe is $1.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals and it’s being price-matched. This was my first Shupe and I loved it. Feel free to read my review, where I gave it an A-:
This book is a gem. It gave me those starry-eyed, book-drunk feelings that were very reminiscent of when I finished my first Lisa Kleypas historical.
Joanna Shupe returns to New York City’s Gilded Age, where fortunes and reputations are gained and lost with ease—and love can blossom from the most unlikely charade
With the fate of her disgraced family resting on her shoulders, Lady Christina Barclay has arrived in New York City from London to quickly secure a wealthy husband. But when her parents settle on an intolerable suitor, Christina turns to her reclusive neighbor, a darkly handsome and utterly compelling inventor, for help.
Oliver Hawkes reluctantly agrees to a platonic marriage . . . with his own condition: The marriage must end after one year. Not only does Oliver face challenges that are certain to make life as his wife difficult, but more importantly, he refuses to be distracted from his life’s work—the development of a revolutionary device that could transform thousands of lives, including his own.
Much to his surprise, his bride is more beguiling than he imagined. When temptation burns hot between them, they realize they must overcome their own secrets and doubts, and every effort to undermine their marriage, because one year can never be enough.
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99 Percent Mine
99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne is $2.99! This is a stand alone contemporary romance. For many people who read The Hating Game, this was a highly anticipated release. (It came out in late January.) However, some of my close friends and romance readers didn’t think this captured the same enjoyment as the previous book. How do you feel?
Crush: a strong and often short-lived infatuation, particularly for someone beyond your reach…
… If Darcy Barrett hadn’t met her dream man when she was eight years old, the rest of the male population wouldn’t be such a let-down. No one measures up to Tom Valeska, aka the best man on Earth, not in looks, brain or heart. Even worse is the knowledge that her twin brother Jamie saw him first, and claimed him forever as his best friend.
Tom’s off limits and loyal to her brother, 99%. One percent of Tom has had to be enough for Darcy, and her adoration has been sustained by his shy kindness. And if she’s honest, his tight t-shirts.
Now Darcy’s got three months left to get her life together before her twin insists on selling the tumble-down cottage they inherited from their grandmother. By night, she’s working in a seedy bar, shooting down lame pickups from bikers. By day, she’s sewing underwear for her best friend and wasting her award-winning photography skills on website shots of pens and novelty mugs. She’s enjoying living the messy life, and a glass of wine or ten… until that one night, when she finds a six-foot-six perfect package on her porch.
Tom’s here, he’s bearing power tools—and he’s single for the first time in a decade.
As a house flipper extraordinaire, Tom has been dispatched by Jamie to give the cottage a drastic facelift that will result in a ton of cash. Darcy doesn’t appreciate Tom’s unsentimental approach to knocking down walls, and he really, really doesn’t approve of her current burnout boyfriend. They can’t be in the same room together without sparks flying – and it’s not the faulty wiring. One bedroom wall separates them at night, and even that’s looking flimsy.
Will Tom ever see Darcy as anything other than a little-sister obstacle to get around? And can she stand up to her most formidable opponent—her twin? This time around, she’s determined to make Tom Valeska 99 percent hers, and he’s never managed to say no to her yet…
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The Perfect Play
The Perfect Play by Jaci Burton is $2.99! This is her first book in her sports contemporary Play by Play series and I’ve been very vocal about my love for the series in general. I also have a poster of one of her book covers because hot damn! I found this book to be a little slow and the hero is a bit too perfect at times. But for me, this was a decent start to a series that kept getting better and better.
From the national bestselling author of Riding the Night comes an erotic story about love and the games people play.
The last thing event planner Tara Lincoln needs is the jet-set lifestyle of a football pro like Mick Riley; even though their steamy and passionate one-night stand proved that Mick is an all-star-both on the field and in the bedroom.
Tara played the game of love once and lost big, and she doesn’t intend to put herself out there again, especially with a certified heartbreaker. But when Mick sets his mind to win, nothing will stop him. And he has the perfect play in mind to catch this sultry vixen.
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Wicked Lords of London: 4-6
Wicked Lords of London: 4-6 by Tammy Andresen is 99c! This set collects books four through six in the Wicked Lords of London series. The first bundle for this series was recently on sale and, if you took advantage of that, you can now round out the collection.
Meet these decidedly wicked yet enticingly delicious lords in desperate need of taming.
My Earl’s Entrapment
Lord William Addington has been forced into retirement as one of the Prince Regent’s domestic spies. But he still has one case to solve while attending a house party when an adorably feisty lady enters him room in the middle of the night. He now has another delicious mystery on his hands. Why is Lady Roselyn Pennington snooping about?
Rose is sure Lord Addington is a dullard at best and a criminal mastermind at worst. So why does her heart beat so rapidly every time he is near? And why does he rescue when she insists on landing herself into trouble time and again? It’s as though he isn’t the man everyone thinks he is or even the one he claims to be.
My Duke’s Desire
Lady Violette knew two things for certain. She must make an advantageous match to save her family and the lord who agreed would be less than desirable. It didn’t matter that she wished to sail off on a great adventure. It wasn’t her choice to make.
His Grace, The Duke of Waverly, had no intention marrying, no matter what his mother expected. That was one of the few advantages of being a duke and he’d sailed back from Barbados to inform her. On his journey home, however, a beautifully proper lady rescues him when his horse is injured. He can’t help but notice that Lady Violette is in need of rescuing herself. Much as she tempts him, he can’t be the man that saves her.
My Wicked Earl
Lord Rex Abelman, Earl of Casterly, has no intention of marrying. His life is that of an adventurer. But he cannot deny that Lady Daffodil is as sweet and funny as she is beautiful. Nor can help but wonder what life might be like if he were a better man.
Rex is a rake and a rogue who has sworn off marriage. He is the last man Daffodil should give her attention. So why do her eyes drift to him at every opportunity?
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I did enjoy 99 Percent Mine! It started a little unevenly for me, but I pushed through and started enjoying it more once the story really started swinging. Just get past the first 10-15% of the book. I think I ended up giving it 4 out of 5 stars.
I finished 99 Percent Mine yesterday. It was just okay in my opinion. The Hating Game, I loved. This one had pacing issues, the lust was poured on too thickly, and the ending played out in a very odd way.
I didn’t really enjoy 99 Percent Mine. Darcy was just so unlikeable, and I’m usually a fan of unlikeable heroines.
+1 Karen D
99% mine definitely had pacing issues and a few chunks of it got repetitive, but i really liked the weird relationships (both familial and romantic) and how they were allowed to be weird and fucked up–also, none of the characters, IMHO, were “likeable”.
i don’t know. i like that about sally thorne’s writing. and the “sibling’s best friend” trope is a classic for a reason.
NOTORIOUS VOW was so promising, the hero was great and the plot and setting unique. But I gave up on the heroine and DNF even though I was 70% through. She was such a spineless wet noodle that I wanted to reach through the page and shake her multiple times and only read so much because I enjoyed the hero. But ymmv, my friend thought the heroine did exhibit growth and enjoyed the book.
@Grace
I thought the heroine’s passiveness was understandable considering the emotional abuse her parents put her through, and she does overcome her fears to help *SPOILER* save her husband
My issue with Notorious Vow is that everyone except the main characters and the servants were overtly evil. Like, didn’t even try to hide it for the sake of appearances, which was a thing people supposedly cared about in Gilded Age New York.
A Notorious Vow has almost the same cover as Tessa Dare’s The Duchess Deal.
The funniest book I have ever read, which also has a sweet romance, Artistic License by Elle Pierson(Lucy Parker) is free today https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IQXRKIS/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_JynMCbZR8Q4Y2
Dirty Talk by Megan Erickson is $0.99 today. The other books in the series are $1.99. I read them back in 2015 and really liked them. I don’t know for sure if they’d stand up to 2019 (so many things have happened in that time!), but I did buy the rest of Erickson’s books at the time.
For those who care about ABB, Megan Erickson was a Santino Hassell enabler.
These three books from Lucy Parker are 1.99 today – a very good deal for very good reads.
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Echoing the others on 99 Percent Mine. I liked its parts but they didn’t come together well.
I was especially bummed out by the best friend’s ending. She was that cool and she ended up with that turd? What a bummer.
I didn’t think Darcy was unlikable, she was miserable and depressed, and understandably given her family’s treatment of her! I didn’t like the book because all that unhappiness was too much for me.
@Ren, there is a whole pack of authors behaving badly tied to the Santino mess that I refuse to buy anymore, or will never try. But at this point in Romancelandia (RWA blatant racism) I think it may be easier to put together “who to buy” list than who not to…it’d be much more manageable, and less stressful.