Love Lettering
RECOMMENDED: Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn is $1.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! As of right now, it’s not being price-matched. Aarya gave this one an A:
Love Lettering is a special book that I’ll hold close to my heart for a long time. It’s a quiet romance with quiet protagonists, but sometimes it’s the quiet moments that echo the loudest.
In this warm and witty romance from acclaimed author Kate Clayborn, one little word puts a woman’s business—and her heart—in jeopardy . . .
Meg Mackworth’s hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals for her New York City clientele. She has another skill too: reading signs that other people miss. Knowing the upcoming marriage of Reid Sutherland and his polished fiancée was doomed to fail is one thing, but weaving a secret word of warning into their wedding program is another. Meg may have thought no one would spot it, but she hadn’t counted on sharp-eyed, pattern-obsessed Reid.
A year later, Reid has tracked Meg down to find out how she knew that his meticulously planned future was about to implode. But with a looming deadline and a bad case of creative block, Meg doesn’t have time for Reid’s questions—unless he can help her find her missing inspiration. As they gradually open up to each other, both try to ignore a deepening connection between them. But the signs are there—irresistible, indisputable, urging Meg to heed the messages Reid is sending her, before it’s too late . . .Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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RECOMMENDED: Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova is 99c! Sarah read this book and gave it a B grade:
Overall, I think this book contains a fabulous world with a terrific, galloping adventure through a vivid and wrenching underworld. While I was reading it, I had a hard time putting it down. But the story has most of its strength in the plot and the world-building than in the characters and their emotional development and consistency, and I missed those aspects even while I enjoyed the rest.
Nothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives.
I fall to my knees. Shattered glass, melted candles and the outline of scorched feathers are all that surround me. Every single person who was in my house – my entire family — is gone.
Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she can’t trust. A boy whose intentions are as dark as the strange markings on his skin.
The only way to get her family back is to travel with Nova to Los Lagos, a land in-between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland…
Beautiful Creatures meets Daughter of Smoke and Bone with an infusion of Latin American tradition in this highly original fantasy adventure.
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The Emperor’s Arrow by Lauren D.M. Smith is $1.99! This is a fantasy romance, so if you’re on that genre kick, pick this one up! It was winner of Harlequin’s 2015 So You Think You Can Write contest and features a warrior/archer heroine. Readers really loved the heroine, while others wanted a stronger romance.
Grand Prize Winner of Harlequin’s 2015 So You Think You Can Write contest
Debut author Lauren D.M. Smith delivers an epic fantasy romance in this soaring tale of a kickass warrior and the emperor she’s honor-bound to defend.
The bride candidates have been summoned. Their numbers are many, yet only one is an Amazzi warrior. Only one would give her life to protect him.
Evony of Aureline, warrior of her people, has no intention of becoming a hideous old man’s bride. Though her people have sworn their loyalty to the legendary emperor Galen, Evony knows little of courts and intrigue. It’s simply not her world.
Yet it’s on the palace training grounds where Evony’s archery skills gain her the respect of soldiers and legates alike. The emperor himself takes notice of the beautiful, ruthless warrior. In turn, the young, steely eyed Galen is nothing at all what Evony expected.
This man could very well conquer her heart. But does he feel the same?
As the rivalry among the remaining bride candidates intensifies and the plot for the throne unfolds, Evony must make a grave choice: fulfill her destiny and protect her people or follow her heart and pursue true love.
Either way, the honor of the Amazzi people and the future of the empire now rests with Evony of Aureline. For she is the Emperor’s Arrow.
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The Locker Room by Meghan Quinn is 99c at Amazon! This is a new adult sports romance and I have a few of Quinn’s sports titles on my TBR, though haven’t read them. If you have, what did you think? Is this a good place to start?
Have you heard the rumor around campus about the locker room?
If you haven’t, let me enlighten you: Legend has it if you bring a girl into the sacred after-game domain of the baseball locker room, it will end with a walk down the aisle. One rowdy and naked encounter against the lockers with the girl of your dreams will make her your wife.
Translation: baseball players are stupidly superstitious and believe the locker room has magical powers.
But not all baseball players are superstitious, me included.
So when the girl I’ve fallen for brushes me off, I start to question if I need to switch my way of thinking. Maybe it’s time I finally hand out a coveted invitation to the locker room.
The only question is, will she accept?
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The Locker Room is the first in Meghan Quinn’s baseball series, so it’s a great place to start! Love these <3
Love Lettering: I ****************adored***************** it
@DiscoDollyDeb – ahh, the series that launched Krantz and paved the way for Jackie Collins!
Kate Clayborn has never disappointed me once, and that’s my pick of this batch, though TEA and the Quinn are fun.
Love Lettering was a DNF for me… it just dragged. It was the book equivalent of the kind of film where everyone stands in a beautiful surrounding and looks poignantly through the mist at the horizon. It wasn’t bad, I just needed a little more action in the plot.
Emperor’s Arrow was more lively, but a huge “Not Like Other Girls” thing.
@TripleD, Spider is still in the top ten of my book boyfriend list.
@MsCellanie: Whew, I thought I was the only one who DNF’d it; I got so bored waiting for something to actually happen.
Love Lettering is one of my all-time favorite books! And Labyrinth Lost is such a good way to launch that series—very much looking forward to reading book 3!
@Leigh Kramer:
I saw where the sequel to Labyrinth Lost is on sale for $1.99, and picked it up along with the first book. I’m looking forward to reading these based on comments I’ve seen.
I ended up liking Love Lettering, but my goodness do you spend a LOT of time in Meg’s head. There were times I just wanted to yell at her to make a choice and do something.
I started Meghan Quinn’s Stroked with an Olympic swimmer hero. I DNFed after chapters and chapters of him sexually harassing the heroine, who was his assistant, after she told him multiple times to stop. Hard pass.
The Emperor’s Arrow was kind of awful. The heroine was soooooo extra special and not at all like other girls and was above all of the girlish nonsense and was from the bestest matriarchal culture and and and. It was over the top.
I adored Reid, the hero of “Love Lettering”. That brilliant brain so focused on Meg practically caused my own brain (and heart) to melt.
Love Lettering was my favorite book last year, and it’s probably my favorite of Clayborn’s books. Her books just get better and better with each new one. I loved so many things about it, including what Susan/DC said about Reid’s attentiveness to Meg and all of her complexities. I love calligraphy as an art form and was pulled into this artistic world and Meg’s vision of the art of signs all around us. I have to say too that as a long-time romance reader, I really appreciated an urban romance. I sometimes feel as if the genre expends so much energy on rural life or small town life and here is a book that unabashedly loves a big city for all its strengths and flaws.
“The Emperor’s Arrow” was amazeballs as an audiobook. Very much outside my usual, but I was so glad I took the advice of the Smart Bitches.
Were there more in the series? If so, I have sadly missed them.