Love and Other Words
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren is $2.99! Listen, Christina Lauren’s books rarely go on sale. This is a rare occurrence. Their standalones are a bit of a departure from their Beautiful and Wild Seasons series (less explicit sex). However, there is a content warning for the book. If you want to read the spoiler, you can find it here.
The heart may hide, but it never forgets.
The first women’s fiction novel from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren (Autoboyography, Dating You / Hating You).
Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.
But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly teen friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother…only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.
Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco reading books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.
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A New Leash on Love by Debbie Burns is $2.99! This is the first book in the Rescue Me series. Readers say this book has a slow burn romance and lots of cute animals. However, some felt the slow burn was a little too slow. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
First in a fresh contemporary romance series from award-winning debut author Debbie Burns.
Every heart has a forever home.
Megan Anderson loves the animals at her no-kill shelter. She’ll do anything for them-even go toe-to-toe with a handsome man who’s in way over his head. She’ll help him sort out his troubles, but getting too close to an adorable puppy’s human counterpart? Been there, done that, got burned.
When Craig Williams arrived at the local shelter for help, he didn’t expect a fiery young woman to blaze into his life. But the more time they spend together, the more he realizes it’s not just animals Megan is adept at saving-she could be the one to rescue his heart.
Soon, Craig and Megan find that the magic of unconditional love can do anything…even lead to their forever home.
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High Heels and Haystacks by Erin Nicholas is $1.99 at Amazon! It’s available elsewhere, but at full price. Though I haven’t seen anyone mention this series, Nicholas is often recommended on the site if you want some great dialogue and character chemistry.
A boss-employee romance… kind of.
Only three things stand between Ava Carmichael and her twelve billion dollar inheritance:1. A year of living in Bliss, Kansas.
2. A relationship that lasts six consecutive months.
3. And pie.Ava has run a multi-billion-dollar company, negotiated with shark investors, and hobnobbed with business royalty, but she’s about to be defeated by her inability to turn sugar, flour, and apple pie filling into something edible.
Conveniently, the owner of the diner next door, Parker Blake, is magic in the kitchen. And he technically works for her. So she can make him teach her to bake. And, hey, if everyone assumes they’re heating up more than the oven during their time in the kitchen…well, that’s called multitasking.
Parker Blake likes his women the way he likes his coffee: not in his diner. But gorgeous, strong-willed, type-A Ava clearly isn’t going to stop messing up his kitchen—or his simple, stress-free small town life—until the conditions of her daddy’s will are met. So, sure, he’ll teach his “boss” to bake.
But once the kitchen door closes, it’s pretty clear who’s really in charge.
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How to Tame a Modern Rogue by Diana Holquist is 99c! This contemporary romance was first published in 2009 and the description makes the hero sound like a superficial jerk. However, others say this one is a good contender for a fluffy, over the top romance.
Commitment-phobic Sam Carson has only dated model-gorgeous women. But one stolen kiss from a plain-Jane schoolteacher and he’s hell-bent on stripping away her floral dresses and teaching her the art of being bad. If only her good-girl ways didn’t make him want to be a better man…
Ally Giordano is at the end of her rope. Her beloved grandmother actually believes that she’s living in her favorite romance novel in Regency England and Ally doesn’t have the heart to set her straight. But now Granny Donny’s last wish is for a retreat to the country and Ally can’t refuse her…until she demands that Sam accompany them. And though his smiles turn her knees into jelly, Ally knows better than to trust a playboy…and she definitely knows better than to try to change one. Or does she?
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I loved Love and Other Words so much and then it just did not stick the landing for me. Still worth the read at the sale price though, especially if “childhood sweethearts second chance” is your catnip. Their books never go on sale.
I don’t know how to spoiler tag – but spoilers for the Christina Lauren book ahead –
I really want to own their ebooks (at least of the ones I have read so far). But this one…I haven’t read it and was avoiding it because of that spoiler. I just can’t deal if the book didn’t treat (spoiler tag?) a character being obviously too drunk to consent rape? Or was the level of drunkenness not obvious? Because it seems from the spoiler that the book doesn’t take a that-was-rape stance.
If it doesn’t treat that as (spoiler?) rape, then it might ruin Christina Lauren books for me (this is why I will never read another (spoiler again?) Julia Quinn book after The Duke and I). But even if it didn’t – it wasn’t the heroine committing the wrongdoing, so maybe I’d be okay? Or maybe I should just avoid it and enjoy their other works and not risk ruining an author I love.
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I hated Love and Other Words. I thought it was incredibly emotionally manipulative. The whole time we’re waiting for Macy and Elliot to deal with whatever happened in their past to drive them apart. When I finally learned the truth, I could not believe the events actually went down that way or understand why these two hadn’t dealt with it from the moment they decided they were going to try to be friends again.
Chris, you’re better off skipping it because of your concerns related to the spoiler.
It also needs a content warning for death of a parent and grief. Probably a few others I can’t remember as well. This was marketed as women’s fiction, even if people refer to it as a contemporary romance.
Well, and my question, as a former peds resident, is that treated at all realistically? I love lady doctor romances that get it right and find lady doctor romances that get it wrong excruciating. That question plus the spoiler which would have to be handled very carefully make me pause on this.
I’m not a fan of contemporaries in which women are on the verge of marrying financially-secure guys they don’t much like. I’m particularly flummoxed when the heroine has a good job. I mean, I know med school debt is a lot and pediatrics doesn’t pay plastic-surgeon money, but a doctor doesn’t have to marry for financial security. That’s weird.
Thanks Leigh. I’ll pass on this. I hadn’t even realized the professional woman is marrying someone she is emotionally tepid with because – she was heartbroken once before? Blech. Couldn’t these heartbroken heroes and heroines just get some therapy to deal with their relationship issues, adopt a kitten, and focus on their career/friends/family/hobbies instead? That wouldn’t have been a hard pass for me, but it would have probably bugged me, and my TBR is full enough. 🙂
Rock Hard, a Nalini Singh contemporary romance is on sale for 3,29$: https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Hard-Kiss-Book-ebook/dp/B00T6BPLQM/
In this one a business tycoon and his personal assistant fall for each others.
Hottie Lumberjack by Tawna Fenske is currently FREE at Amazon.
(I’ve heard the book praised in Whatcha Reading comments, and free is the right price point to get me past my negative reaction to the title and cover.)