A Girl Like Her
A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert is $2.99! This is the first book in the Ravenswood series. The book description has a content warning, as there are mentions of past domestic violence. Readers loved the grumpy, prickly heroine, which is totally my catnip. However, others mentioned having difficulties investing in the romance.
Everyone has secrets. He wants all of hers.
Meet the man next door…
After years of military service, Evan Miller wants a quiet life. The small town of Ravenswood seems perfect—until he stumbles upon a vicious web of lies with his new neighbour at its centre.
Ruth Kabbah is rude, awkward, and, according to everyone in town, bad news. Thing is, no-one will tell Evan why. Does she perform ritual sacrifices? Howl at the moon? Pour the milk before the tea? He has no clue.
But he desperately wants to find out. Because Ruth doesn’t seem evil to him; she seems lonely. And funny, and clumsy, and secretly quite sweet, and really f*%king beautiful…
The more Evan’s isolated, eccentric neighbour pushes him away, the more he wants her. Her—and all her secrets. Because there’s no way a girl like Ruth truly deserves the town’s scorn.
… Is there?
Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
This book is on sale at:
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
We also may use affiliate links in our posts, as well. Thanks!The Lady and the Laird
The Lady and the Laird by Nicola Cornick is 99c! This is a historical romance with an enemies to lovers and marriage of convenience romance. Readers loved the Highland setting, but found the book stalls during the middle. Have you read this one?
An Indecent Proposal!
Lady Lucy MacMorlan may have forsworn men and marriage, but that doesn’t mean she won’t agree to profit from writing love letters for her brother’s friends – letters that become increasingly racy as her fame grows. That is, until she deliberately ruins the betrothal of a notorious laird, Robert, Marquis of Methven.
Past centuries of bloodshed have left the Methven and MacMorlan families bitter enemies and Robert is furious that Lady Lucy’s letters have cost him the bride he needs so urgently to save his ancestral clan lands. Now he makes Lucy a shocking proposal; in return for his silence she must become his wife and provide him with the heir he needs. It is an inconvenient marriage of convenience but can the rugged laird and the bluestocking beauty fight against the power of love?
Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
This book is on sale at:
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
We also may use affiliate links in our posts, as well. Thanks!The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow is $3.99! This is a price-matched Kindle Daily Deal. I read this one and gave it a B+:
If you’re in the mood for a lovely, tender fantasy novel about belonging and one that feels more like a long, relaxing bath than a hot, intense shower will all of the fancy pressure and pulsating settings you can imagine, you’ll love this one. It’s a soothing pick for when you hope to take comfort in a book
In the early 1900s, a young woman searches for her place in the world after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.
Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
This book is on sale at:
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
We also may use affiliate links in our posts, as well. Thanks!Practice Perfect: The Complete Series
Practice Perfect: The Complete Series by Ruby Lang is $2.99! This series collects all three books in the Practice Perfect series, which features both diverse protagonists and hot doctors! The complete set is around 750 pages, so the romances may be a teeny bit on the shorter side.
Three couples discover love is the best medicine in Ruby Lang’s acclaimed medical romance series, now available in a value-priced ebook collection.
Acute Reactions: The man with allergies never gets the girl, but that may change for restaurateur Ian Zamora when he makes an appointment with Dr. Petra Lale. When sparks fly, a little romance just might be chicken soup for their hearts. But do two career-driven people inexperienced in relationships stand a chance of finding the right prescription for love?
Hard Knocks: Neurologist Helen Chang Frobisher is writing op-eds against Portland’s new hockey rink to try to prevent concussive brain injuries like the one that plagues her father. Oregon Wolves player Adam Magnus is fighting to build a successful career on the ice. But while the two spar in public over the future of a sports franchise on the brink, in private, they battle an impossible attraction.
Clean Breaks: Sarah Soon’s brush with cancer shook this usually confident OB/GYN. Jake Li, her brother’s annoying high school BFF who betrayed her trust, is the last person she wants to see, but the now disturbingly hot social worker has begun hanging around. Newly divorced Jake knows he shouldn’t look for a serious relationship already, but he’s always been helplessly drawn to Sarah’s vivaciousness. Can he show her that he’s worthy of a second chance?
Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
This book is on sale at:
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
We also may use affiliate links in our posts, as well. Thanks!
Don't want to miss an ebook sale? Sign up for our newsletter, and you'll get the week's available deals each Friday.
I’m one of the people A Girl Like Her did not work for. I DNFd it. She read as someone on the autism spectrum, but to me it was not a good representation and I could not finish the book. (I have an autistic child and I have had difficulty with many books with autistic characters – they don’t work for me, and I often find them upsetting. I now don’t read them if I know in advance that one of the characters is autistic. Your mileage may vary.)I know lots of people love it, and it is hard being on the wrong end of that kind of book squee that everyone else seems to love. I know a lot of people love this author, but I have been hesitant to try any of her other books because of my experience with this one.
I’ve been meaning to read the Lang!
I just spotted Temporary Wife Temptation on sale for $1.99 on Kobo. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/temporary-wife-temptation. Lara gave it an A- rating https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/reviews/temporary-wife-temptation-by-jayci-lee/.
Hi @Laurel! I’m also a proud mom of a neurodiverse person (age 22.)
As mine is growing into adulthood, I have found reading romance (& other genres) by ownvoices neurodiverse authors like Talia Hibbert & Xan West to be a great way to open up my thinking about the autism spectrum experience. For example, stuff I encountered in Xan West’s novels led me to ask my young adult some questions about whether their experience of stimming & weighted blankets was similar to what was depicted in the book. It turned into a really enlightening conversation.
If/when you feel up for possibly trying out some other titles. Author Xan West has a list on their review blog, https://coreysbookcorner.wordpress.com/2019/04/25/recs-for-autistic-representation-in-books-and-stories/
That has links to other reviewers’ lists of autism rep books at the end. Happy reading!
For the readers in Germany: K. S. Villoso’s _The Wolf of Oren-Yaro_ is €0,99 at amazon.de and kobo.de .
@Laurel & @AllisonR-B: another mother of a neurodiverse adult here. My daughter is 28 and has high-functioning ASD (which was previously called Asperger’s Syndrome, but has now been incorporated under the autism umbrella). I think the saying, “If you meet a person who has autism, you’ve met one person, not every person, who has autism,” is totally correct: autism spectrum disorder manifests itself differently with different individuals—so one person’s experience with ASD will be different from another’s. A couple of things my daughter complains about in fiction featuring neurodiverse individuals is there’s often an impression that love will suddenly make a neuro-atypical person start processing sensory/emotional information in the way a neurotypical person would. Doesn’t happen. She also loathes the “magical aspie” character who has amazing insights into patterns or behavior because of the way they process information. Again—totally false. She prefers UF when she reads fiction, although I will occasionally see her reading a romance, but she prefers nonfiction. Her favorite book recently is BAD BLOOD.
The Cornick is good historical romance; her stuff usually is. She’s also a British writer so there are no horribly-written faux Scots accents (reason #1 why I usually avoid Highland romances).
As an autistic woman I now have to check out a girl like her. Most books that feature autistic characters make me want to chuck my kindle against the wall! But I’m willing to subject myself to more punishment! As long as the author sees the character as a person with feelings rather than a set of traits and stereotypes I’m willing to try it.
@Laurel, I read A Girl Like Her and it made so little impression on me that I didn’t realize from the description that I previously read it. But.. Get a Life, Chloe Brown enchanted me, which is the reason I was looking for other books by the author.