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Wrong Bed, Right Roommate
Wrong Bed, Right Roommate by Rebecca Brooks is 99c! Elyse mentioned this one in January 2019’s Hide Your Wallet, and I appreciate the hero cover model’s chest hair. Readers found this to be a cute, sexy romance, but there were some reviews that mention being divided on the hero.
It’s not every day you wake up to a stranger getting into your bed.
Only, he isn’t a stranger at all, he’s my best friend’s hot older brother…and apparently my new roommate.
Having him in my space, driving me crazy, isn’t a problem at all. Nope.
All I need to do is keep control of the situation…But that’s easier said than done. Shawn Lassiter is the kind of distraction I don’t need.
First he accidentally gets into my bed, half-naked, the night before my first day at my new job.Hello, muscles and tattoos!
Then he’s there, in nothing but a towel, making me coffee in the morning. It’s more than any girl can resist. Right? But Shawn is off-limits, even if his eyes are saying differently.
Years ago, back when I still had my crush, he destroyed friendships with his reckless playboy antics. There’s no way I’m touching those perfectly formed abs now. I don’t care how nice and responsible he’s acting. I don’t want a boyfriend anyway. That’s what my trusty vibrator is for.
I’m the smart girl—the glasses-wearing, book-reading workaholic. I can totally do this. After all, it’s only for two and a half months.
I’ll be on my best behavior…even if Shawn isn’t.
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Arctic Sun
Arctic Sun by Annabeth Albert is 99c! This is a relatively recent release and features an opposites attract romance. Fans of Albert say this one has a slower burn of a romance than Albert’s usual stuff and content warning for disordered eating and discussion of sobriety.
Everything’s bigger in Alaska, especially the HEAs. Annabeth Albert kicks off the brand-new Frozen Hearts series with Arctic Sun, an opposites-attract romance between a rugged outdoorsman and a smoking hot former male model.
He’s built a quiet life for himself in Alaska. But it doesn’t stand a chance against the unrelenting pull of a man who’s everything he shouldn’t want.
Ex-military mountain man Griffin Barrett likes his solitude. It keeps him from falling back into old habits. Bad habits. He’s fought too hard for his sobriety to lose control now. However, his gig as a wildlife guide presents a new kind of temptation in superhot supermodel River Vale. Nothing the Alaskan wilderness has to offer has ever called to Griffin so badly. And that can only lead to trouble…
River has his own methods for coping. Chasing adventure means always moving forward. Nobody’s ever made him want to stand still—until Griffin. The rugged bush pilot is the very best kind of distraction, but the emotions he stirs up in River feel anything but casual, and he’s in no position to stay put.
With temptation lurking in close quarters, keeping even a shred of distance is a challenge neither’s willing to meet. And the closer Griffin gets to River, the easier it is to ignore every last reason he should run.
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The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband
The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn is $3.99 at Amazon! Was this part of the Kindle Daily Deals yesterday? Either way, grab this while you can! This is a historical romance that is inspired heavily by While You Were Sleeping. Some readers didn’t enjoy the heroine very much, while others loved the emotional punch this one packed.
While you were sleeping…
With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He’s unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier’s life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie…
I told everyone I was your wife
When Edward comes to, he’s more than a little confused. The blow to his head knocked out six months of his memory, but surely he would recall getting married. He knows who Cecilia Harcourt is—even if he does not recall her face—and with everyone calling her his wife, he decides it must be true, even though he’d always assumed he’d marry his neighbor back in England.
If only it were true…
Cecilia risks her entire future by giving herself—completely—to the man she loves. But when the truth comes out, Edward may have a few surprises of his own for the new Mrs. Rokesby.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas is $1.99! This book and series is insanely popular and has Beauty and the Beast elements. However, some felt it didn’t live up to the hype and say this is more New Adult than Young Adult, given the sexual content. I’m determined to finally read this one in 2019.
A thrilling, seductive new series from New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas, blending Beauty and the Beast with faerie lore.
When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.
As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she’s been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.
Perfect for fans of Kristin Cashore and George R. R. Martin, this first book in a sexy and action-packed new series is impossible to put down!
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I thought the Annabeth Albert was OK but not great.
I gave it 3.5 stars on GR.
Here’s part of my review:
I generally enjoy Annabeth Albert’s tropey m/m romance, with the exception of several of her attempts at hurt / comfort. Like this one. I’m starting to think she’s too optimistic a writer to pull it off in a way that works for me.
I did really like that after the Dark Moment, when they both realize that they didn’t have their respective stuff as together as they’d thought, they each reach out to other people for support, including professionals, before getting back together.
In terms of the CW – both MCs are in recovery and there’s no on page drinking or disordered eating but both of their recoveries get shaky at points.
Overall I felt like the timeline and the emotions were rushed and I had trouble connecting with them as a couple. And because the hea felt rushed to me, I don’t really trust it. I’m not convinced they belong together long term.
I picked up Wrong Bed, Right Roommate from the sale yesterday since the best friend’s brother setup is something I usually like. And there were some things I really enjoyed, especially Shawn’s reflections on who he’d been in the past and why he wants to change. But there were other things that just didn’t work for me so I ended up giving it a C–ok, but not great. I don’t think I’ll read the next book in the series.
Any experiences for the Court of thrones and roses book here? I’ve just hears of Maas yesterday and wanted to try out her Throne of glass series. But I stopped after the preview because the protagonist (badass assassin and enslaved in a mine for a year) kept musing on how pretty she’d been before vs how ashamed she was for not looking pretty now, and then noticing all the pretty hair and muscles of the two men who can offer her a way out of the mines (but are also blackmailing her)… And apparently there is a love triangle between them. That all felt rather yikes to me.
So I guess what I’m asking is… Is Court of thrones like this? o__o
Please give a Court of Thorns and Roses a miss. The pacing is very slow and the main character’s interest in art is barely brought up despite it being a key characteristic. The author also tends to switch pairings between books for no apparent reason. The former lovers than either become not needed or villains. She also has a penchant for very animal like mating behavior or unrealistic sex scenes. I never read throne of glass but heard complains about the main character being very unlike an assassin. She also rackets up the sex stuff a lot in later books and likes to pair off everyone in the end.
I didn’t love “A Court of Thorn and Roses” however, I got on board with the second book “A Court of Mist and Fury” I found it to be totally awesome. With a hero I could really get behind. I love a redeemed villain story (Devil in Winter, The Dedicated Villain etc.). I don’t really remember the sex scenes in the book but as an adult who reads fantasy and paranormal I don’t remember anything being particularly deviant in comparison to others in the genre. Perhaps not for a youngish crowd?
I really enjoyed “A Court of Thorns and Roses.” I liked that the MC was basically a really hard and unforgiving person who kind of blossomed throughout the series. Pacing is slow but I thought that was very true to the source material for the first book (its a beauty and the beast retelling).
I actually also thought the switching up of the romance pairings was handled very well and I found it to be kind of a nice break from the trope in fantasy that the first love interest introduced is always the final choice. It’s not really a love triangle so much as a natural evolution of the relationships. Also her writing has gotten much better over time so it’s much better-written than the first couple throne of glass books.
She’s not great at writing sex but like Judy said it’s not really outside the norm for your average paranormal sex scene tropes in particular.
A Court of Thorns and Roses is good; the 2nd book in the series is GREAT; with an unforgettable hero. Stick with it and you won’t regret it. Maas does some great stuff in this series subverting the tropes of YA romance. I love it to pieces.