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Lady Derring Takes a Lover
Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long is $1.99! This is the first book in The Palace of Rogues series and Carrie gave it a B-. Carrie really loved the heroine and the introduction to some awesome and strong women. However, she felt the romance was rather weak and there was a plot twist she didn’t quite care for.
A mistress. A mountain of debt. A mysterious wreck of a building.
Delilah Swanpool, Countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, “Dear Dull Derring,” is a lot more interesting—and perfidious—dead than alive. It’s a devil of an inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the one building Derring left her, are the seeds of her liberation. And she vows never again to place herself at the mercy of a man.
But battle-hardened Captain Tristan Hardy is nothing if not merciless. When the charismatic naval hero tracks a notorious smuggler to a London boarding house known as the Rogue’s Palace, seducing the beautiful, blue-blooded proprietress to get his man seems like a small sacrifice.
They both believe love is a myth. But a desire beyond reason threatens to destroy the armor around their hearts. Now a shattering decision looms: Will Tristan betray his own code of honor…or choose a love that might be the truest thing he’s ever known?
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Bellewether
Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley is $2.99! We did a Cover Reveal for this one, since it was such an interesting departure from Kearsley’s usual covers. Some readers felt this one was slow to start, while others loved Kearlsey’s beautiful writing. This is a Kindle Daily Deal and is being price-matched at select vendors.
“The house, when I first saw it, seemed intent on guarding what it knew; but we all learned, by the end of it, that secrets aren’t such easy things to keep.”
It’s late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest. As he begins to pitch in with the never-ending household tasks and farm chores, Jean-Philippe de Sabran finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house. Slowly, Lydia Wilde comes to lean on Jean-Philippe, true soldier and gentleman, until their lives become inextricably intertwined. Legend has it that the forbidden love between Jean-Philippe and Lydia ended tragically, but centuries later, the clues they left behind slowly unveil the true story.
Part history, part romance, and all kinds of magic, Susanna Kearsley’s latest masterpiece will draw you in and never let you go, even long after you’ve closed the last page.
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Semiosis
Semiosis by Sue Burke is $2.99! This scifi novel was featured in a previous Hide Your Wallet. Readers love all the science-y aspects of this book, while others felt it dragged down some of the momentum. It has a 3.9 star rating on Goodreads. This has been on my TBR pile for a while, though I heard the audiobook is great.
In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance.
Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet’s sentient species and prove that mammals are more than tools.
Forced to land on a planet they aren’t prepared for, human colonists rely on their limited resources to survive. The planet provides a lush but inexplicable landscape—trees offer edible, addictive fruit one day and poison the next, while the ruins of an alien race are found entwined in the roots of a strange plant. Conflicts between generations arise as they struggle to understand one another and grapple with an unknowable alien intellect.
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Bombshell
RECOMMENDED: Bombshell by C.D. Reiss is 99c at Amazon! The second book is also on sale and has a bodyguard romance. This was a new-to-me author and features a trope I don’t read very often: single parents. But I would up really enjoying it. The romance is light on angst and has a great “found family” feel to it. I gave it a B+ in a Lightning Review.
From New York Times bestselling author CD Reiss, a standalone romance about a nanny, a Hollywood star, and a love they never expected.
Hollywood bad boy Brad Sinclair always gets his way, whether it’s the role he wants or the bikini-clad model he has to have. But when a bombshell gets dropped in his lap in the form of a dimpled five-year-old from a forgotten relationship, he knows his life is about to change forever.
Cara DuMont isn’t exactly thrilled when she gets assigned to be the nanny for the latest box-office king. She has one rule: no celebrity fathers, especially single ones with devilish good looks and rock-hard abs.
But as soon as Cara meets Brad and his adorable little girl, she knows she’s in for a world of trouble. Because there’s something about the way Brad looks at her that makes her believe that some rules are meant to be broken…
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I absolutely loathed Bombshell. It’s really well-written, but the hero came off as abusive (he has temper tantrums, isolates the heroine, forces her to live her worst nightmare, and he destroys her career because he can’t handle the idea of being without her) and by the end of the book I wanted the hero in jail and the heroine in therapy.
YMMV, and I know it’s highly rated elsewhere, but Bombshell made me so mad I had to re-read the entire Call of Crows series by Shelly Laurensten just to feel better.
I read SEMIOSIS a few months back—I even mentioned it in my WAYR post even though it’s not a romance (although there is a character named Higg who, in a different genre, definitely has romantic hero potential). I enjoyed it, but there is an eye-glazing amount of plant/chemical/biological information provided throughout the book, sometimes in info dumps that, frankly, I had to skim over.
Also, I know, as the old saying goes, everybody reads a different book, but I did not have the same response to BOMBSHELL that @NomadiCat did. OTOH, CD Reiss is one of my favorite writers and, possibly, I’m more forgiving of certain elements than I would be of a new-to-me writer. I will also say that even her lightest work has some dark elements.
Lady Derring was a B+ to lower A-level for me. Not perfect, but pretty good.
“by the end of the book I wanted the hero in jail and the heroine in therapy.”
Yikes! My motto is, “If your novel makes me want to take the heroine (or hero, although I haven’t run into that) to a domestic violence shelter, ur romancing wrong”
Grady Hendrix ‘Paperbacks from Hell’ is 2.99. If you grew up on VC Andrews and John Saul, you’ll enjoy this.
Julie Garwood’s THE SECRET is on sale for $1.99. My very favorite Garwood (tied with Castles).
https://smile.amazon.com/Secret-Highlands-Lairds-Book-ebook/dp/B0050ON37S/
For some reason, Amazon thinks that “Julie of the Wolves” (remember that book you read in 8th grade?) is the other book in the Palace of Rogues series.
That would be an interesting mix – from the found (human) family after the heroine is separated from London civilization to the found (lupine) family after the heroine is separated from Native Alaskan civilization. It probably involves a shifter.
I would read that series.
I absolutely loved Bellewether! It was a really interesting time to explore. With the French and Indian war as the backdrop and a significant storyline about slavery on Long Island made for a very memorable read. The story and the characters stuck with me for a very long time. From my non-expert eye it seemed very well researched.
Thank you @Ren Benton for the heads up on the Amazon offer. I had already spent $15 this weekend -a new Lesli Richardson, new Kaye Draper, new Ilona Andrews, and new to me Annabeth Albert and three whole days off work – so it was a lovely Labor Day lagniappe.
I quite enjoyed Lady Derring Takes A Lover. Book 2 in the series will be Angel in a Devil’s Arms & it’s slated for the end of October.
Vita Nostra by Sergey and Marina Dyachenko is $1.99 on Amazon US. I put it on my watchlist after hearing Amanda mention it in a previous podcast. Described as a mix of The Magicians meets The Historian. I actually just picked it up at my library the day before I got an email alert that it was on sale.
Also The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar is $1.99. It’s a historical (with romance but not sure how much the focus is on the love story) about a woman who joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots program during WWII. I just put a hold on this and it was going to be a several weeks wait, so I was happy to scoop it up for such a great deal.
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Amazon thinks that “Julie of the Wolves” (remember that book you read in 8th grade?) is the other book in the Palace of Rogues series.
I can just see the series review. “I found both books interesting but the connection between them was rather thin.” 🙂