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A Wedding One Christmas
A Wedding One Christmas by Therese Beharrie is $1.99! I believe today is the last day to get this sale, so grab it while you can. Lots of tropes here: holiday romance, fake relationships, and it takes place mostly in the span of 24-hours. Have you read this one?
Of all the weddings in all the world, Angie Roux had to be mistaken for a bridesmaid in this one.
Caledon, South Africa, is supposed to be just a stop on the way to Christmas in Cape Town, part of Angie’s long-avoided homecoming. She never expected to star in a bizarre comedy of errors, but here she is: convincing a handsome stranger to be her fake boyfriend for the day.
Ezra Johnson, the handsome stranger in question, turns out to be a pleasant distraction from both the wedding and thoughts of her first family Christmas without her father. And he seems to loathe weddings just as much as she does. He’s the perfect temporary companion.
But a lot can happen in twenty-four hours. Including a connection so strong it tempts them both into thinking of something more permanent…
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Headliners
RECOMMENDED: Headliners by Lucy Parker is $1.99! This is the fifth book in Parker’s London Celebrity series and Sneezy gave it a B:
I LOVE Parker’s style, and it’s absolutely worth picking this book up for her snark and wit alone.
Sparks fly when two feuding TV presenters are thrown together to host a live morning show in Lucy Parker’s latest enemies-to-lovers contemporary romance.
He might be the sexiest man in London, according to his fan site (which he definitely writes himself), but he’s also the most arrogant man she’s ever met.
She might have the longest legs he’s ever seen, but she also has the sharpest tongue.
For years, rival TV presenters Sabrina Carlton and Nick Davenport have traded barbs on their respective shows. The public can’t get enough of their feud, but after Nick airs Sabrina’s family scandals to all of Britain, the gloves are off. They can barely be in the same room together—but these longtime enemies are about to become the unlikeliest of cohosts.
With their reputations on the rocks, Sabrina and Nick have one last chance to save their careers. If they can resurrect a sinking morning show, they’ll still have a future in television. But with ratings at an all-time low and a Christmas Eve deadline to win back the nation’s favor, the clock is ticking—and someone on their staff doesn’t want them to succeed.
Small mishaps on set start adding up, and Sabrina and Nick find themselves—quelle horreur—working together to hunt down the saboteur…and discovering they might have more in common than they thought. When a fiery encounter is caught on camera, the public is convinced that the reluctant cohosts are secretly lusting after one another.
The public might not be wrong.
Their chemistry has always been explosive, but with hate turning to love, the stakes are rising and everything is on the line. Neither is sure if they can trust these new feelings…or if they’ll still have a job in the New Year.
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Angels’ Blood
Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh is $1.99! It’s part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals and is being price-matched. This is the first book in the very popular Guild Hunter series. I remember reading this a long time ago, but didn’t continue with the series because I prefer my series to be one couple per book. I know Singh switches to other couples later on, but I am impatient.
Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she is the best – but she does not know if even she is good enough for this job. Hired by the dangerously beautiful archangel Raphael, a being so lethal that no mortal wants his attention, Elena knows failure is not an option—even if the task is impossible.
Because this time, it’s not a wayward vamp she has to track. It’s an archangel gone bad.
The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other—and pull her to the razor’s edge of passion. Even if the hunt does not destroy her, succumbing to Raphael’s seductive touch just might. For when archangels play, mortals break.
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A Little Bit Wild
A Little Bit Wild by Victoria Dahl is 99c at Amazon! This is the first book in the York Family series. This is a historical romance with a marriage of convenience. Some readers didn’t like the heroine very much, which they found very uncharacteristic for Dahl’s writing. It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
HE IS NOT WHAT SHE HAD IN MIND.
Jude Bertrand is not an excellent dancer. Nor does he wear the most fashionable coats. But when Marissa York’s brother approaches him, desperate to preserve Marissa’s tenuous reputation, Jude does prove heroic enough to offer to marry the girl. In fact, the union should more than make up for his lack of social graces — and his own scandalous past…
BUT MINDS CHANGE …
Marissa knows that betrothal to the son of a duke — even one as raw and masculine as Jude — will save her from ruin, but that doesn’t mean she’s happy about it. Soon, though, she finds that Jude has a surprisingly gentle touch — and plans to use it to persuade Marissa that their wedding day cannot come soon enough…
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There should be a content warning on the Singh book. I like her writing, but the book is dark and violent, with torture scenes and lots of blood. The second book in the series,Archangels’s Kiss, is even worse, as I said in my review, “stuffed full of really sick torture and scenes of cruelty.” I stopped reading after that one.
You can’t go wrong with Lucy Parker’s books! She’s on autobuy for me.
Headliners is my fave among the picks here! It’s marvelous!
I love the Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh!!! Yes, there are intense scenes in her books, but the stories are fantastic!!! I’ve re-read all of them and cannot wait for Archangel’s Sun to get published!!!
I didn’t really care for the Dahl, but while I do vaguely remember finding her annoying, because she was young and immature, I remember more strongly feeling bad for her, and also mad about some sort of metatextual things that were technically also about her but really more about some authorial choices.
Basically, Marissa has had sex with someone either she can’t marry or her parents don’t want her to marry, but she has to marry someone now or she’s completely ruined, so her parents recruit the hero, who, as a duke’s son, is an appropriate and eligible fellow, to marry her instead. Given everything, I couldn’t blame her for being less than pleased about any of this; it would have been weird if she weren’t. I totally wished she had been less annoying about it, sure, but she was young and immature, so… it kind of all checked out.
The metatextual thing that made me angry was: the guy Marissa had sex with was of a fairly slight build; the hero was your standard Giant Manlier Than Life Romance Hero. Her “character arc” seemed to come down to realising that Real Men Are Manly Muscular Giants and her previous lover was, gracious, practically effeminate by comparison. Hence, she is a more mature person now! And… I can’t with that. Slightly-built men are men. Slightly-built men can be attractive men. It’s not a sign of improved character to find yourself ogling a big tall brawny muscular dude or a sign of deficient character if you prefer to ogle smaller men, or rounder men, or bluer men, or not men. People’s tastes do tend to mature as we mature, sure, but that’s not the same thing.
Admittedly I’m biased, because I do often find myself attracted to smaller men, but I just find this deeply problematic. I’ve seen plenty of undercurrents of this “smaller men can’t be attractive” line of thinking running through plenty of romance novels, but in this case it wasn’t subtext.
A adore the Guild Hunter series. I love it more than the better known Psy-Changling books. As to the violence? I like that beings with infinite power punish transgressions the way beings of infinite power would, not like human beings would. As with Ann Bishop’s Others, the supernatural seem to understand that human beings are infinitely stupid and even when you give them a million examples of what the consequences will be, they still abuse each other, break the law, steal, lie, cheat, murder etc. If you’re squeamish, yes, stay away. If you like your PNR or UF with a visceral touch, jump on. This is a great series. Of course, I grew up in a house full of boys, so that probably explains a lot.
Personally, having a supernatural being break every bone in a certain someone’s body without killing him and then dropping him in the middle of Times Square would be pretty cathartic right now.
I don’t think not enjoying explicit torture scene equals squeamish or has anything to do with growing up with boys. Especially considering I’m not squeamish, my work history would prove that, and I was what in my day was called a tomboy: snakes, frogs, horses, dogs, love them all. I simply think content warnings are helpful.
@Star I recommend staying away from alien romances as almost every one is full of six foot plus muscular alphas! Despite this subgenre being read a lot by me I’d welcome any variation in hero (Strange love has been the closest so far, but he’s not humanoid).
I don’t know what came over me today (difficult week at work, kiddo edging towards manic, bed collapsed at 5 am) but I actually one-clicked THREE of these books. Of course, Parker is a fav and I have been waiting for this to go on sale. I am interested to try a new Singh series. And hiding from a Christmas wedding sounds like a good escape. I just don’t know if I really need more books (HA!, of course I do.)
BTW, I am with Star; I do not believe that attraction to specific body types is a sign of maturity. I am a grandmother and I still like those runners’ body, slimmest but with those strong legs.
And, as for the work thing, let me say: wear your masks, friends.
Ahh, I remember absolutely adoring Archangel’s Blood when it first came out. I thought it was such a cool take on Angels and Vampires. Very inventive like her Psy/Changeling series was.
I wonder if some of the issue with the violence in Archangel’s Blood & The Guildhunter series is that prior to the publication of this the author was so closely identified with her PNR series and maybe the expectation was that this series would also be PNR? But instead it is Urban Fantasy so is very much in alignment with the conventions of UF which do tend to include more explicit violence.
In that vein, I find that with one or two exceptions, I don’t like the forays into the books that focus on other romances. I like the central story through-line that runs through the all the books and Elena and Raph’s books the best.
@Tina Noir, I agree. And I also prefer the Guild Hunter books that focus on Rafael & Elena best. The books about the ancillary characters are good, but not as engaging. Except Dimitri’s book. That one almost killed me. So, yeah if graphic writing about horrible things is outside your comfort zone, stay away from that one.
I tried reading the first Guild Hunter book, but I loathed both Elena and Raphael. (There was a novella preceding it with different characters that I liked better.). If I don’t like the main characters, I’m out. I used to plow through three or four books before abandoning series, but I’d rather not invest that much time and money in something I dislike these days.
(In all fairness, I have a love/hate relationship with the Psy-Changeling books as well. If I think about them, the way vast quantities of people die and we’re over it a page or two later is disturbing. And do I believe the assassins are really redeemable if I take a half second to think? No. But they are great fun as long as I don’t examine them too deeply.)
Thanks for the warning about the Dahl. My dad is a Short Dude and I feel like books are too picky about a guy’s tallness. Short dudes deserve love!