Fix Her Up
Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey is $1.99! I’m a huge Bailey fan, but this one didn’t do it for me, mainly because it had some tropes that aren’t my bag. If you enjoyed this one, feel free to leave a comment below!
New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey launches a super sexy new series featuring the blue collar men who work for a HGTV-esque house flipping business.
After an injury ends Travis Ford’s major league baseball career, he returns home to start over. He just wants to hammer out his frustrations at his new construction gig and forget all about his glory days. But he can’t even walk through town without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his… bat. And then there’s Georgie, his buddy’s little sister, who is definitely not a kid anymore.
Georgette Castle has crushed on her older brother’s best friend for years. The grumpy, bear of a man working for her family’s house flipping business is a far cry from the charming sports star she used to know. But a moody scowl doesn’t scare her and Georgie’s determined to show Travis he’s more than a pretty face and a batting average, even if it means putting her feelings aside to be “just friends.”
Travis wants to brood in peace. But the girl he used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman who makes him feel whole again. And he wants her. So damn bad. Except Georgie’s off limits and he knows he can’t give her what she deserves. But she’s becoming the air he breathes and Travis can’t stay away, no matter how hard he tries…
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My Lady Notorious by Jo Beverley is $2.99! This is the first book in the Malloren series and features a heroine who disguises herself as a man. I feel like this is one of those books that readers have really fond memories of reading. Do you? I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t read any Beverley titles, but I’ve always been curious about this one.
Desperate to help her widowed sister and baby escape a deadly pursuer, Lady Chastity Ware dresses as a highwayman and captures the first coach to travel down the road. Coming face-to-face with its occupant, the arrogant aristocrat, Cyn Malloren, she orders him to drive her to a remote cottage.
Little does Chastity realize that after long months of recovering from his war wounds, the handsome Cyn is looking for adventure, and being abducted by a cocky highwayman—obviously a lovely woman in disguise—is even more than he had hoped for. Willingly he is drawn into her devilishly reckless plan…and helplessly he is seduced by her wonderfully wicked ways.
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Lara by Bertrice Small is $1.99 at Amazon and iBooks! Small is the queen of crazysauce books and, surprisingly, this fantasy romance was published in 2006. This is the first book in the World of Hetar series. All of them are on sale and most of them seem to follow Lara and her exploits.
New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author and master of romance Bertrice Small welcomes you to the magical, sensual World of Hetar.
For Lara, a half faerie, half human, her beauty is a blessing and a curse. Sold into a Pleasure House by her father, she commits herself to a lifetime of servitude. But even in a place where pleasure is not censured but encouraged, her otherworldly beauty proves too much for her suitors.
When Lara escapes, she is introduced to a new way of life, and an incredible man who opens her eyes to the growing unrest among their people and the extraordinary destiny that awaits her. Lara will journey the depths of desire and despair to find a love that will last an eternitya love that will change Hetar forever.
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The Sea King by C.L. Wilson is 99c! This is a fantasy romance and mullet aside, I enjoyed it. The hero comes from a matriarchal society. I also read this one out of order and while it probably helps to read the first book in the series (this one is the second), I managed without it. But also…holy mullet, Batman. Content warnings for the second half of the book for sexual assault.
He wasn’t supposed to choose her…
Seafaring prince Dilys Merimydion has been invited to court the three magical princesses of Summerlea. To eradicate the pirates threatening Calberna and to secure the power of the Sea Throne, Dilys vows to return home with a fierce warrior-queen as his bride. But politics has nothing to do with unexpected temptation.
She didn’t dare wed him…
A weathermage like her sisters, Gabriella Coruscate’s gentleness exemplifies the qualities of her season name, Summer. Yet her quiet poise conceals dangerous powers she cannot begin to wield. Better to live without excitement, she reasons, than risk her heart and lose control— until an irresistible Sealord jolts her awake with a thunderclap of raw desire.
Until evil threatens everything they hold dear…
When pirates kidnap Summer and her sisters, Dilys is in a desperate quest to save the woman he loves. Only by combining his command of the seas with the unleashed fury of Summer’s formidable gifts can they defeat their brutal enemies and claim the most priceless victory of all: true love.
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Count me in as a fan of My Lady Notorious. It’s Georgian era, and the historical atmospherics are great, there is lots of action, a road trip, and sword fighting, iirc. If you like Heyer’s “powder and patch” type books, you’ll probably enjoy it, but it’s got a lot more sex and bawdiness. Also the hero cross-dresses as a woman at one point.
TW for violence with sexual overtones by the heroine’s father, who is the bad guy in this story.
KINGDOM OF SOULS by Rena Barron is $1.99. Released in September and shortly thereafter optioned for film by Michael B. Jordan. Daughter of powerful witchdoctors with no magic of her own resorts to a forbidden ritual to save her people.
I read the first book second, so while I liked the Malloren series, it was Bryght and Portia that I fell in love with first in Tempting Fortune. I read the rest as they came out, and somewhere still have a “Waiting for Rothgar” pin (I liked his book, but it didn’t quite meet up to the high expectation level). Cyn and Chastity’s book is good, and I do recommend the original series (I haven’t read the books after Devilish).
I’ve been wanting to try The Sea King since it was mentioned in a post awhile back. I choose to believe that he has the top portion of his hair braided back and don’t count it as a mullet.
Just a warning about The Sea King: certain important secondary characters are left in distress at the end of the book, and there’s no sign of the next book in the series coming for a while. So if it bothers you to think of good people going through bad things indefinitely, maybe skip this one for now!
Another warning about The Sea King: it’s got on-page sexual assault and torture of the heroine, pretty gross othering/exoticism of the hero, and is also way too fucking long. And since the setup for book three almost certainly features another non-white hero, I have 100% noped out of the series.
I read all of the Malloren books, but really only liked the Elf Malloren book. Um, was it “Something Wicked?” I disliked the Company of Rogues books, though. I kept reading her books in the hopes I would find something I liked as much as “Something Wicked,” but it never happened.
You may have made this stylistic decision on purpose, but given that Beatrice Small died in 2015, it’s weird to see her referred to in the present tense. I haven’t read her since her classics in the 1980s though so it’s also awesome to be reminded that she had stuff come out in this millennium.
I desperately want to read The Sea King!
The Beverly was great.
Small went into an interesting territory at the end of her career – more fantasy erotica.
@Floating Lush
Whelp, there goes my enthusiasm RE the Sea King.
Though I’m obviously here for non-white heroes I should say! But I’m not here for the othering/rape plotlines.
Dilys is a girl’s name in the real world.
@Lisa F sorry? It just made me *so* uncomfortable; I had read and liked book one well enough, but. BLeh.
I hated Fix Her Up. Boring and tired tropes.
My Lady Notorious is one of my favorite Beverley titles. Cyn is great hero — willing to dress up as a lady to help HIS lady love, but also an excellent swordsman not afraid to go that route if need be.
The use of food as erotic foreplay was eye-opening to me at the time — I never looked at certain foods the same way again.
Also, it was one of the first Georgians that I read.
It’s been several (ok, many) years since I last read a Jo Beverley book so I’m not sure how they’d hold up now, but I really liked My Lady Notorious back in the day–shoutout to the other Cyn fans. Lady Beware was another favorite. That said, some of her books really missed the mark with me (Skylark). I’m thinking I need to do series re-reads of the Mallorens and Rogues books sometime…you know, in my spare time, lol.
I read The Winter King by CL Wilson a few years back because I’m a meteorologist. The weather magic was by far the best part. There was some serious crazysauce in the romance and sex and some abuse, as I recall. I second the comments above about othering. If you really like weather magic, you might want to give her series a chance, but The Winter King was nearly a DNF for me.
@Floating Lush – No need to apologize, I’m glad you gave your thoughts so I could avoid wasting my time on it!