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Walk of Shame
Walk of Shame by Lauren Layne is $1.99! I’ve seen this one mentioned in the comments here, so if you’ve read it, do chime in with your thoughts. This is an opposites attract, enemies to lovers contemporary romance. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
Sparks fly between a misunderstood New York socialite and a cynical divorce lawyer in this lively standalone rom-com from the USA Today bestselling author of Blurred Lines and Love Story.
Pampered heiress Georgianna Watkins has a party-girl image to maintain, but all the shopping and clubbing is starting to feel a little bit hollow—and a whole lot lonely. Though Georgie would never admit it, the highlights of her week are the mornings when she comes home at the same time as her uptight, workaholic neighbor is leaving to hit the gym and put in a long day at the office. Teasing him is the most fun Georgie’s had in years—and the fuel for all her naughtiest daydreams.
Celebrity divorce attorney Andrew Mulroney doesn’t have much time for women, especially spoiled tabloid princesses who spend more time on Page Six than at an actual job. Although Georgie’s drop-dead gorgeous, she’s also everything Andrew resents: the type of girl who inherited her penthouse instead of earning it. But after Andrew caps one of their predawn sparring sessions with a surprise kiss—a kiss that’s caught on camera—all of Manhattan is gossiping about whether they’re a real couple. And nobody’s more surprised than Andrew to find that the answer just might be yes.
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Chasing Red
Chasing Red by Isabelle Ronin is $1.99! It’s also a Kindle Daily Deal. This one was originally published on Wattpad and has a homeless heroine who winds up living with the hero. Readers say this one is high on angst and drama; it also ends on a cliffhanger.
They said she was going to be my ruin…
Then let her ruin me.Caleb Lockhart has everything—wealth, adoration, a brilliant future. Until a chance encounter with a siren in a red dress changes everything. Until he meets the woman he dubs Red.
Veronica Strafford’s past makes it hard for her to trust anyone. Now, kicked out of her apartment, she reluctantly accepts Caleb’s offer for a place to stay.
Caleb feels intensely drawn to Veronica. And, for the first time in his life, he really wants something—someone. Too bad Veronica’s heart might just be the one thing Caleb can’t win.
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Countess of Scandal
Countess of Scandal by Laurel McKee is $2.99! This is the first book in the Daughters of Erin series and the second book is also listed at this price. Readers loved the departure from the typical London setting, though they wished the romance were a bit stronger.
As children, Eliza Blacknall and William Denton ran wild over the fields of southern Ireland and swore they would be friends forever. Then fate took Will away to England, while Eliza stayed behind to become a proper Irish countess.
Years later, Will finally makes his way home—as an English soldier sent to crush the Irish uprising. When he spies the lovely Eliza, he is captivated by the passionate woman she has become. But Eliza’s passions have led her to join the Irish rebel cause, and Will and Eliza now find themselves on opposite sides of a dangerous conflict.
When Ireland explodes in bloody rebellion, Will’s regiment is ordered to the front lines, and he is forced to choose between his duty to the English king and his love for Eliza and their Irish homeland.
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Dark Matter
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is $1.99! This is a bestselling science fiction novel and readers say this has some breakneck pacing that will keep the pages turning. However, one of my very trust book friends said she didn’t get the hype for this one. Have you read it?
“Are you happy with your life?”
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.
Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.
Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.”
In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.
Is it this world or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could’ve imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.
From the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human—a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.
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I’m a Blake Crouch fan. He comes up with big, mind-boggling ideas and executes them well. I liked the Pines series more than I liked Dark Matter, but it was still original and interesting. I’m really looking forward to the new book next month.
The cover models in WALK OF SHAME may have similar poses, but the message seems completely different. He looks kind of wry, possibly a little embarrassed, rubbing his jaw; she’s giving me a “my goodness” happy vibe. For the life of me, I can’t say why, but it’s bugging the shit out of me. Maybe I need a life, or to start drinking coffee.
@Darlynne: I thought they both looked bizarrely pleased after getting slapped.
From the description of Walk of Shame….
“—all of Manhattan is gossiping about whether they’re a real couple.”
NOPE! Lived in NY my whole life, and that would never happen. We’re talking about a city of 8 million people, not a small town in Hallmarkville.
I think we NYers generally do not pay too much attention to what the socialites are doing unless they’ve committed murder or have truly humiliated themselves in some way. Then we’re there to gossip.
Lazy cover copy shouldn’t bother me this much, but it does.
I read Walk of Shame almost a year ago, and while I don’t remember a lot of it, I do remember liking it. Am I going to read it again? Probably not, but I did put other Lauren Layne books on hold afterwards, if that’s helpful.
@NCK: That’s my experience, too. I recognized the cover, remember the basic plot & not much else, but do remember that it was my introduction to Lauren Layne’s oeuvre, for which I am grateful.
I was surprised that I liked Walk of Shame. I thought I was going to hate it when I realized the heroine’s chapters are 1st person POV, and the hero’s (I think there were fewer of his) were 3rd person. But it worked somehow.
The heroine loves the Disney movie Enchanted (and their relationship mirrors it with a divorce lawyer and a pollyanna) so I ended up renting that movie to fully understand a couple of scenes from the book, and loved Enchanted. So I may have Disney happiness carrying over, but I would definitely recommend Walk of Shame, especially on sale.
Re: Dark Matter
My two-line review: “Liked it. Uneven engagement: some twists were sooo obvious, some were really unexpected yet made perfect sense.” TW/CW: Rape by Fraud (Character A makes Character B believe that A is B’s husband, and gets her to bed. B had never seen A before in her life)
Bit longer plot summary:
I mean you have a guy with a mostly average life who gets asked if he is happy with it, then wakes up to a life he could have had, and then has to keep fighting for the life he wants.
Starts well, then goes slow as the character has to make sense of what happened, and it’s around the middle of the book when it became interesting to me again.
The science is solid, with most of the mounting tension coming from unexpected but totally plausible consequences of what the characters are messing around with.
@LM Lauren Layne tells a good story, but she often gets NYC wrong. In the first book of hers that I read, the WASPy heroine came from Scarsdale– nope.
@Ms M. Haha. Classic!
I got Walk of Shame from the library (yay, e-books) because I thought it had some of the same vibes as “The Hating Game” which I really liked. I thought it was very light and charming but the romance happened really quickly–the hero and heroine had been acquaintances for awhile but they didn’t spend a whole lot of substantial time together before the HEA arrived.