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Slightly Married
Slightly Married by Mary Balogh is $2.99! This is the first book in the Bedwyn Saga, which is a favorite amongst romance readers. Seriously, I get some many requests on Instagram for similar books to this series. Have you read this one?
Meet the Bedwyns…six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality…Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction…where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal…and where Aidan Bedwyn, the marriage-shy second son, discovers that matrimony may be the most seductive act of all.…
Like all the Bedwyn men, Aidan has a reputation for cool arrogance. But this proud nobleman also possesses a loyal, passionate heart—and it is this fierce loyalty that has brought Colonel Lord Aidan to Ringwood Manor to honor a dying soldier’s request. Having promised to comfort and protect the man’s sister, Aidan never expected to find a headstrong, fiercely independent woman who wants no part of his protection…nor did he expect the feelings this beguiling creature would ignite in his guarded heart. And when a relative threatens to turn Eve out of her home, Aidan gallantly makes her an offer she can’t refuse: marry him…if only to save her home. And now, as all of London breathlessly awaits the transformation of the new Lady Aidan Bedwyn, the strangest thing happens: With one touch, one searing embrace, Aidan and Eve’s “business arrangement” is about to be transformed…into something slightly surprising.
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I Hate You
I Hate You by Ilsa Madden-Mills is $2.99! This is a new adult romance with an enemies-to-lovers and opposites attract romance. I’m very curious about this one, but I’m always wary about new adult. A few of the reviews mentioned that they couldn’t get over the characters’ names and I suspect some of you may feel the same.
WSJ bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills returns with an all-new, enemies-to-lovers second chance romance between the football hottie and the feisty nerd girl he can’t forget.
I want you . . . even when I hate you.
Blaze Townsend: I hate you.
Charisma Rossi: I hate you more.She’s been expecting this ever since their latest showdown. She had good reason.
Hottest guy she’s ever seen.
Former fling.
Dumped her in front of all her friends.
At her own party.So no, she’s not about to forgive and forget just because he sits next to her in class. He thinks all he has to do is turn on those baby blues, and she’ll melt right back into his arms. Please. She’d be crazy to let this cocky player affect her again. (Tell that to her body.)
Charisma Rossi.
Brainy girl with a dash of bad.
The one who got under his skin.
The one he cut loose.Blaze knows she’s the riskiest prospect at Waylon University, but none of the interchangeable girls he hooks up with have ever made him feel the way she did. There’s absolutely no way he can have the girl and the game.
So why can’t he stop trying to win her back?
Can this wide receiver score the girl or will he make the biggest fumble of his life?
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A Study in Charlotte
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro is $1.99! Some readers liked the spin of reading about Holmes & Watson’s descendants. However, others found the characterizations weren’t terribly deep in relating to their predecessors. I’m very curious about this series!
The last thing Jamie Watson wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away from his estranged father. But that’s not the only complication: Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the famous detective’s great-great-great-granddaughter, who has inherited not only Sherlock’s genius but also his volatile temperament. From everything Jamie has heard about Charlotte, it seems safer to admire her from afar.
From the moment they meet, there’s a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else. But when a Sherringford student dies under suspicious circumstances, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance. Jamie and Charlotte are being framed for murder, and only Charlotte can clear their names. But danger is mounting and nowhere is safe—and the only people they can trust are each other.
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
RECOMMENDED: Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon is $1.99! Carrie reviewed this book a B-:
If you have an interest in Edwardian history and the changes brought about by WWI, then I think you’ll find this book readable and enjoyable. If you are a fan of Downton Abbey, I think you’ll love this book since it directly addresses that place and period of time. If you like your history to be well rounded and gritty, then this book won’t do it for you.
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has written a transporting story of this fabled home on the brink of war.
Much like her Masterpiece Classic counterpart Lady Cora Crawley, Lady Almina was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Alfred de Rothschild, who married his daughter off at a young age, her dowry serving as the crucial link in the effort to preserve the Earl of Carnarvon’s ancestral home. Throwing open the doors of Highclere Castle to tend to the wounded of World War I, Lady Almina distinguished herself as a brave and remarkable woman.
This rich tale contrasts the splendor of Edwardian life in a great house against the backdrop of the First World War and offers an inspiring and revealing picture of the woman at the center of the history of Highclere Castle.
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Blaze & Charisma?? Check, please!
A collection of novels by mid-century British writer Margery Sharp (author of CLUNY BROWN) is on sale in the kindle store today:
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@DiscoDollyDeb Plus it looks like he hates his penis…I would not be able to read those names with a straight face.
Blaze and charisma? Still not as ridiculous as a jr Ward novel!
@Sophydc: But he loooves his abs—so it all balances out.
LMAO. Blaze and Charisma are such Bertrice Small names.
I have read all of the “Slightly” Balough books and really enjoy them. Aiden’s story is a nice, warm fuzzy read. It also introduces Wulfric, the eldest brother, who is one of my all-time favorite Heroes.
Lol, bad character names have led to more DNF’s for me. My favorite was Jenika Snow’s “Her Beast, His Beauty.
His name is Rofus Foxwerth. (Just let that sink in. Roll around in it. Rofus. Foxwerth.) She’s Britta Carleson. It’s like Snow picked their names from a Scrabble set that was missing half the letters. Even if Rofus was a name, it’s the name of an 1890’s prospector or an early, rejected Muppet. Believe me, you don’t want to read “Oh god, yes, Rofus” in your erotica. It’s hilariously off-putting, to say the least. Other names Snow should avoid:
Felix
Elmer
Herman
Clyde (turtle name only)
Otis
Maybe we should do a “name snark” instead of Cover Snark one month. I’m sure we all have our favorites. Especially when you add in “the Duke of [blank]” names and they’re all Dukes of the craziest place names you’ve ever heard…and certainly not any place that ever existed on Google Maps.
I’ve read the entire Bedwyn Saga by Mary Balogh. They were all enjoyable reads, but the only one on my keeper shelf is the last one, Slightly Dangerous.
I agree completely with you Kareni. The last slightly, slightly dangerous, is lovely. I wish it was available on kindle. I look periodically to see if it is but it never seems to be, at least in the UK.
Of all the other books in the series, Slightly married is not bad but the rest are so so.
I adore the Bedwyn series and while SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS is my favorite, I love how she subtly develops Wulfric’s character through the previous novels. A minor character, little Becky, is key to watching Wulfric through his interactions with her. Such a masterful writer!
Thanks, @DiscoDollyDeb for the tip on the Sharp novels. I fell in love with CLUNY BROWN when I saw the classic Jennifer Jones film, then I read the book. I look forward to discovering more from this talented author.
I feel like authors can get away with one character having a more out there name, but when both main characters do it’s just distracting. Like, Charisma and James is okay, or Blaze and Grace, and even Blaise and Charisma isn’t that bad bc it’s a more traditional spelling.
I’m willing to tolerate bad names if I’m sufficiently intrigued by the storyline, but… “interchangeable women” just offends the hell out of me. It’s bad enough if a male author writes something like that, but female authors should know better. Women aren’t interchangeable, and yes that does include women who put out, okay? And while it’s true that the author may not have written the cover copy herself, I’m sort of unwilling to hold out the possibility that the copy is a radical departure from how the hero’s other women have been treated in the book, because it usually isn’t.
Names can throw me completely out of a story. I just finished struggling through one by an author I usually enjoy because the hard-charging heroine was named Tiffany. Now, Tiffany isn’t a bad name, per se, but my brain kept screeching to a halt because “Tiffany” just did not fit a tough, aggressive sports agent. Which was maybe the point – we all contain multitudes – but not the best choice for a smooth & easy read.
I loved A Study in Charlotte, although I’m not a Sherlock Holmes fan in general, so to the extent that it doesn’t hew enough to the originals, I’m fine with that. It is a bit dark, but the dynamic between Charlotte and Jamie is really good. It was on my “best books read in 2018” list.
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Yes yes yes!
I knew a couple who named their daughter Kharyzma (after Charisma Carpenter – one of their other kids had a name in honor of Star Trek). So it could happen. But try to avoid it.
charisma is a real Greek name I believe.
Perhaps, but I think Charisma Carpenter was named after perfume.
Re, the slightly books: I like Slightly Scandalous (Freyja’s book) and Slightly Dangerous (Wulfric’s). The Bedwyns interested me when they originally showed up in A Summer to Remember.
I got rid of all the other Bedwyn books. The premise of the second one struck me as particularly silly, but YMMV.