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Wrong to Need You
RECOMMENDED: Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai is $1.99! This is the notorious cat pee book. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read Elyse’s review:
I do not think I can possibly endorse Wrong to Need You more strongly than “it will make you forget you’re sitting in cat pee,” but if I could, I would, because this book is everything wonderful. It’s angsty and cathartic and sexy…Alisha Rai returns with the second novel in her sizzling Forbidden Hearts series!
He wasn’t supposed to fall in love with his brother’s widow…
Accused of a crime he didn’t commit, Jackson Kane fled his home, his name, and his family. Ten years later, he’s come back to town: older, wiser, richer, tougher—and still helpless to turn away the one woman he could never stop loving, even after she married his brother.
Sadia Ahmed can’t deal with the feelings her mysterious former brother-in-law stirs, but she also can’t turn down his offer of help with the cafe she’s inherited. While he heats up her kitchen, she slowly discovers that the boy she adored has grown into a man she’s simply unable to resist.
An affair is unthinkable, but their desire is undeniable. As secrets and lies are stripped away, Sadia and Jackson must decide if they’re strong enough to face the past…and step into a future together.
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On Dublin Street
On Dublin Street by Samantha Young is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance and recently got a new, illustrated cover. It’s cute, but I don’t think it matches the contents of the book because (if I recall), it’s a pretty angsty read. This one is more on the erotic side and has an Alpha hero, who divided some readers.
Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare…
Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well—until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.
Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and he’s determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship, Braden proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached.
But after an intrigued Jocelyn accepts, she realizes that Braden won’t be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her… down to the very soul.
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Wake of Vultures
RECOMMENDED: Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and is being price-matched! Carrie really liked this book and gave it an A-:
This book succeeds because Nettie is such a compelling character. Nettie is incredibly vibrant, prickly, compelling, flawed, exciting, and interesting. She feels like a real person, with a real personality and hopes and dreams and confused feelings and agendas. She’s incredibly interesting not only because of her unusual racial situation (which, in the Old West, wasn’t actually very unique but has been under-represented in fiction) nor in her genderqueer status, nor in her ability to hunt monsters. She’s compelling because all her experiences and aspects of her personality and her sharp mind come together to create a complex person who you just have to root for.
A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface.
Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She’s a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don’t call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the eye can stop him, Nettie stabs him through the heart with a chunk of wood, and he turns into black sand.
And just like that, Nettie can see.
But her newfound sight is a blessing and a curse. Even if she doesn’t understand what’s under her own skin, she can sense what everyone else is hiding — at least physically. The world is full of evil, and now she knows the source of all the sand in the desert. Haunted by the spirits, Nettie has no choice but to set out on a quest that might lead to her true kin… if the monsters along the way don’t kill her first.
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Stargazer Alien Mail Order Brides: Collection One
Stargazer Alien Mail Order Brides: Collection One by Tasha Black is 99c! Yeah, you read that title correctly. It does what it says on the tin. Sometimes, we all need a bit of a quick, bonkers read and now you can get three of them for under a dollar.
Educated about humankind by the 1980s movies that came to them in an interstellar time capsule, these gorgeous gentlemen are eager to meet Earth girls…
Grab all three sizzling SciFi Romance books for one low price!
Book One: Bond
Bond is on Earth to fill one human female with as much pleasure as she can bear, a mission he’s finding very agreeable. But he’s not here to fall in love. Tasked with using his powers of human seduction to glean what he can about Earth and its inhabitants, Bond knows that if the planet’s resources are worthy and its residents aren’t, his days of pleasing Posey will soon be at an end.Book Two: Rocky
Coolheaded Georgia Taylor dreams of becoming a police officer. But her orderly world goes into a tailspin when she and her friends answer an ad looking for egg donors and she winds up the intended bride of an honest-to-goodness alien. Georgia is convinced she can leave the brave new world behind and get back to her life plan, if she can just keep Rocky at arm’s length. If only he weren’t so infernally good-looking and thoughtful…Book Three: Magnum
Magnum has a secret. It’s darker than his lust for Rima, and deeper than his respect for the planet that has become his new home. But his needs are getting harder to restrain. How far will he go to protect the woman he loves? Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Wrong to Need You and Wake of Vultures are excellent (though very different) books and I recommend both highly.
Be careful about when you read Wrong to Need you, though. Maybe save it for a weekend or your next day off. I ended up reading it in one sitting, had a book hangover with a bad case of gibbering fangirl, and devoured the other two books in the series in the next 24 hours. It’s the GOOD STUFF.
I unfortunately started Wrong to Need You on a Monday and couldn’t stop reading. I did not finish until 3am Tuesday morning. Work the next day was not good but the book was very much worth it! I highly recommend. I completely agree with @NomadiCat, it’s probably best to read on a weekend. Haha!
How stand alone is Wrong to Need You? I own book one but I’m not as interested in reading it as I am in book 2.
Recently picked up On Dublin Street in part because of all of the positive reviews on Amazon. At chapter ten I closed the book to double check how old it was given the level of Alphahole controlling behavior exibited by the hero and consent issues. Personally, I have a problem with over the top jealous behavior and dictates from characters before they are even in a relationship. Just FYI. Obviously it works for some people.
@Cleo: I read Wrong to Need You first and while it does a great job of unobtrusively catching you up on what you need to know and standing on its own merits, they are pretty enmeshed. Wrong to Need You picks up either the same day or a day or two after Hate to Want You ends and involves many of the same characters. That said, I’m actually glad I read them out of order because some parts in both books were that much more hilarious having gotten to know the hero of book 2 before I got to know the hero of book 1.
tl;dr: You may a tiny bit annoyed at the callbacks but won’t have any trouble keeping up. You’ll also likely be grateful you have Hate to Want You on hand the moment you finish.
Agree that the cover of On Dublin Street is really cute, but I would definitely not be expecting angst, erotic scenes, or an alpha hero from that cover! I’m getting light, fluffy rom-com vibes from it. Seems like a weird marketing choice!
@cleo: although I’m a self-confessed “read out-of-order and deal with spoilers and characters you don’t know” gal, I strongly recommend reading the Alisha Rai series in order because there are several plot points that are developed and resolved over the course of the books (including a fire ten years ago that set many of the events in the books in motion). I do like the second book the best of the three, but I think reading the story is a richer experience if you read the books in order.
I love Wrong to Need You – I’ll admit to not totally getting the Alisha Rai hype until I read this one (and dead brothers widow is an oddly specific catnip of mine). That being said, I do think this series is best read in order given the storylines that run through all 3.
Omens by Kelley Armstrong, the first Cainsville book, is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle. Don’t know about other places.