Brooklynaire
Brooklynaire by Sarina Bowen is 99c at Amazon right now, though is $4.99 elsewhere. This is the fourth book in the Brooklyn Bruisers series and the first book in the spin-off Brooklyn series. Though this could be reads as a standalone, readers say there’s a lot of build up to this romance in the previous books. It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
A sexy new standalone from USA Today bestseller Sarina Bowen.
You’d think a billion dollars, a professional hockey team and a six-bedroom mansion on the Promenade would satisfy a guy. You’d be wrong.
For seven years Rebecca has brightened my office with her wit and her smile. She manages both my hockey team and my sanity. I don’t know when I started waking in the night, craving her. All I know is that one whiff of her perfume ruins my concentration. And her laugh makes me hard.
When Rebecca gets hurt, I step in to help. It’s what friends do. But what friends don’t do is rip off each others’ clothes for a single, wild night together.
Now she’s avoiding me. She says we’re too different, and it can never happen again. So why can’t we keep our hands off each other?
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READER RECOMMENDED: A Seditious Affair by KJ Charles is $1.99! This is a gay historical romance and was the subject of one of our very first Squee from the Keeper Shelf was about this book:
Many congratulations to K.J. Charles proving that it can be done. Romance can incorporate meaty socio-economic and political context into the story-telling. And the resulting tale can be riveting and most definitely hot.
K. J. Charles turns up the heat in her new Society of Gentlemen novel, as two lovers face off in a sensual duel that challenges their deepest beliefs.
Silas Mason has no illusions about himself. He’s not lovable, or even likable. He’s an overbearing idealist, a Radical bookseller and pamphleteer who lives for revolution . . . and for Wednesday nights. Every week he meets anonymously with the same man, in whom Silas has discovered the ideal meld of intellectual companionship and absolute obedience to his sexual commands. But unbeknownst to Silas, his closest friend is also his greatest enemy, with the power to see him hanged—or spare his life.A loyal, well-born gentleman official, Dominic Frey is torn apart by his affair with Silas. By the light of day, he cannot fathom the intoxicating lust that drives him to meet with the Radical week after week. In the bedroom, everything else falls away. Their needs match, and they are united by sympathy for each other’s deepest vulnerabilities. But when Silas’s politics earn him a death sentence, desire clashes with duty, and Dominic finds himself doing everything he can to save the man who stole his heart.
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The Frame-Up by Meghan Scott Molin is 99c at Amazon! This is a quirky mystery with lots of nerdery and I love the bright colors of the cover. However, I gave this one a read and was overwhelmed by all the pop culture references being bandied about. The second book is also out and on sale.
By day she writes comic books. By night, she lives them.
MG Martin lives and breathes geek culture. She even works as a writer for the comic book company she idolized as a kid. But despite her love of hooded vigilantes, MG prefers her comics stay on the page.
But when someone in LA starts recreating crime scenes from her favorite comic book, MG is the LAPD’s best—and only—lead. She recognizes the golden arrow left at the scene as the calling card of her favorite comic book hero. The thing is…superheroes aren’t real. Are they?
When the too-handsome-for-his-own-good Detective Kildaire asks for her comic book expertise, MG is more than up for the adventure. Unfortunately, MG has a teeny little tendency to not follow rules. And her off-the-books sleuthing may land her in a world of trouble.
Because for every superhero, there is a supervillain. And the villain of her story may be closer than she thinks…
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Tempting the Marshal by Julianne MacLean is 99c at Amazon! This is an American historical romance with a heroine who disguises herself as a man. While some readers mentioned that the suspense element of the plot wasn’t very suspenseful, but others really loved the chemistry between the hero and heroine.
ALL SHE WANTS IS JUSTICE
Disguised as a man, Josephine O’Malley strolls into a Dodge City mercantile with one thing on her mind: to even the score with the man who murdered her husband. What she doesn’t count on is Fletcher Collins—the handsome and irresistible new marshal in town—bursting through the doors of the mercantile with guns blazing…and a plan to stop her from pulling the trigger.HE ONLY WANTS TO PROTECT HER
There’s a new marshal in town, but he’s fighting inner demons of his own. Fletcher Collins is a man who has known his share of heartache, and when he finds himself apprehending a gorgeous widow for murder, he begins to re-evaluate what it means to be a lawman. But if Fletcher is going to keep the widow out of prison—and figure out what’s really going on in Dodge—he’s going to have to learn how to follow his gut. Unfortunately his gut is telling him that Josephine O’Malley is exactly the kind of woman who could make him break all the rules…Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Me, on seeing the title of this post: KJ CHARLES, KJ CHARLES, KJ CHARLES! GIMME GIMME GIMME!
Ahem.
Glad to have a new book in my TBR pile!
I love A Seditious Affair! It’s so good. It’s also the 2nd book in a trilogy. It works as a stand-alone but it definitely has spoilers for the mystery/suspense plot in book 1.
After reading BROOKLYNAIRE, I started using the term “Brooklynaire Syndrome” for any time I’ve been waiting for (and shipping) a particular couple’s story in a long-running series that, when I finally get their story, it’s a bit of a letdown. Also, I don’t think BROOKLYNAIRE can be read as a stand-alone, the previous Brooklyn Bruisers books need to be read first.
I had the same issue with THE FRAME UP. I got about twenty pages in and couldn’t take it anymore.
I remember liking and reading all of these – liked The Frame Up a little better.
Over use of pop culture can date a book very quickly so should be used sparingly if not at all.
A Seditious Affair is so good. One of my favorite historical romances ever. The entire Society of Gentlemen series is pretty much perfection.
I just read the Society of Gentlemen series for the first time earlier this month, and it was easily one of the best series I’ve ever read from any genre.
@Kit: Kind of hard to use generics in a book that specifies on the tin it’s *about* geek culture. Some books are meant for a specific audience at a specific time, and that’s no less valid than writing toward the imaginary target of universal appeal.
I think I’m in the minority but I really liked Brooklynaire. I thought Nate and Rebecca’s happy ending was well deserved, though the book was a bit short, not quite novella length but not quite as full length as Bowen’s other books. It shouldn’t be read as a Stand-alone though – it’s timeline is partially concurrent with other events from previous books and I think you get so much more out of it if you’ve seen the buildup of the characters from the previous books.
I was disappointed with Brooklynaire. The other books in the series were great. I didn’t feel like this lived up to the build up. It definitely can’t be read as a standalone.
A Seditious Affair was my first KJ Charles, and it was a DNF for me. So I stupidly ignored the rest of the oeuvre for way too long, and I have gobbled up everything else (except The Price of Meat, which was also a DNF–yecch). Maybe I should give Sed Affair another go, but I seem to have some block against it.
Just a heads up that Jackie Lau’s “The Ultimate Pi Day Party” is currently free!
I really liked Brooklynaire also and it is one of my comfort reads. I did read the series out of order though so there wasn’t so much build up.
I love the brooklyn bruisers and my favourites are Patrick and Ari’s story and … Brooklynaire!
Brooklynaire is one of the few books with an billionaire hero that I enjoyed. I liked the preceding stories in the series so I was already invested in Nate and Rebecca getting together. Nate’s AI butler was great fun.
Also want to recommend Jackie Lau’s Ultimate Pi Day Party. Great story and characters.
I realize this is a bit late to add to the comments, but Brooklynaire is the only book in its series that I’ve read – I’m not usually one for sports romances, & I think I only bought this one originally because it was on sale & because I liked Bowen’s “Man Card” series. My memory of it didn’t indicate that I felt I was missing something by not having read the previous books in the series. So I reread it, finished it last night, &… nope, still don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything.
@Deianira: You bring up an interesting point. Perhaps I would have like BROOKLYNAIRE more if I hadn’t read all the previous books in the Brooklyn Bruisers series. Nate & Becca are background (and not so background) characters in the other books and I thought Bowen did a good job of getting readers excited for their story. But when I finally read the book, I felt it meandered and didn’t deliver on the build up created by the earlier books.
(All I can say is, I’ve been waiting four years for Kati Wilde’s LOSING IT ALL and, when it finally gets here, I’ll be devastated if it’s as lukewarm as BROOKLYNAIRE.)