What a Wallflower Wants
What a Wallflower Wants by Maya Rodale is $2.99! This is the third book in the Wallflower trilogy. I’m unsure if there’s a need for the books to be read in order. I found the trilogy to be meh generally, but I feel like I’m harder to “wow” when it comes to historical romance.
Miss Prudence Merryweather Payton has a secret.
Everyone knows that she’s the only graduate from her finishing school to remain unwed on her fourth season—but no one knows why. With her romantic illusions shattered after being compromised against her will, Prudence accepts a proposal even though her betrothed is not exactly a knight in shining armor. When he cowardly pushes her out of their stagecoach to divert a highwayman, she vows never to trust another man again.
John Roark, Viscount Castleton, is nobody’s hero.
He’s a blue-eyed charmer with a mysterious past and ambitious plans for his future—that do not include a wife. When he finds himself stranded at a country inn with a captivating young woman, a delicate dance of seduction ensues. He knows he should keep his distance. And he definitely shouldn’t start falling in love with her.
When Prudence’s dark past comes back to haunt her, John must protect her—even though he risks revealing his own secrets that could destroy his future.
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Prisoner of the Crown by Jeffe Kennedy is $1.99 at Amazon! This is the first book in The Chronicles of Dasnaria and came out last week. Reviews mention that this is a rather dark fantasy with no romance in this installment. Also, be prepared for it to start slowly. I’m very interested in this! Are you?
She was raised to be beautiful, nothing more. And then the rules changed . . .
In icy Dasnaria, rival realm to the Twelve Kingdoms, a woman’s role is to give pleasure, produce heirs, and question nothing. But a plot to overthrow the emperor depends on the fate of his eldest daughter. And the treachery at its heart will change more than one carefully limited life . . .
THE GILDED CAGE
Princess Jenna has been raised in supreme luxury—and ignorance. Within the sweet-scented, golden confines of the palace seraglio, she’s never seen the sun, or a man, or even learned her numbers. But she’s been schooled enough in the paths to a woman’s power. When her betrothal is announced, she’s ready to begin the machinations that her mother promises will take Jenna from ornament to queen.But the man named as Jenna’s husband is no innocent to be cozened or prince to charm. He’s a monster in human form, and the horrors of life under his thumb are clear within moments of her wedding vows. If Jenna is to live, she must somehow break free—and for one born to a soft prison, the way to cold, hard freedom will be a dangerous path indeed…
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The Next Best Bride by Merry Farmer is 99c at Amazon! What is up with these sales today. This is a historical romance with the heroine stepping in for her twin after she bails on her wedding. The hero, though, is fully aware he’s marrying the twin, so no mistaken identity here.
This USA Today bestseller is the tale of an unrepentant rake’s marriage of convenience turned upside down when twins switch place at the altar.
When his fiance informs him that she can’t go through with their marriage of convenience Rand Mallon, Earl of Dalby, agrees to marry her twin sister in her place. After all, what difference does it make to him, an unrepentant rake in need only of a legitimate heir?
Helena Fenster looks forward to the earl’s promise to allow her her freedom once he has his heir. She draws the line at giving in to his desire to make sure their attempts for an heir bring her pleasure. Neither one of them can afford to complicate their practical plan with the dangerous fall into true love.
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Seven Kinds of Hell by Dana Cameron is 99c at Amazon! This is the first book in the Fangborn series. Readers say this feels more like a thriller than urban fantasy. However, I found it super interesting that a few reviews note the main character isn’t your typical badass urban fantasy heroine. Instead, she’s just a young woman really trying to get her shit together.
Archaeologist Zoe Miller has been running from a haunting secret her whole life. But when her cousin is abducted by a vicious Russian kidnapper, Zoe is left with only one option: to reveal herself.
Unknown to even her closest friends, Zoe is not entirely human. She’s a werewolf and a daughter of the “Fangborn,” a secretive race of werewolves, vampires, and oracles embroiled in an ancient war against evil.
To rescue her cousin, Zoe will be forced to renew family ties and pit her own supernatural abilities against the dark and nefarious foe. The hunt brings Zoe to the edge of her limits, and with the fate of humanity and the Fangborn in the balance, life will be decided by an artifact of world-ending power.
Zoe’s mission takes her and her friends across the globe on a frenetic quest for no less than Pandora’s Box.
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There’s a sale going on until the 28th to celebrate bi visibility week. The only author I recognized is Tanya Chris – I generally like her work although I didn’t love one of hers on sale that I’ve read (You, Me, Her? The title is something like that).
https://storyoriginapp.com/bundles/656779d8-c930-11ea-8232-0b980856a0ae?bundleLinkId=siDg8EZ
@cleo – correction the sale ends the 27th.
I DNF’d Prisoner of the Crown halfway through. It’s a lot of physical abuse and rape, and at the halfway point, the protagonist didn’t even have a goal of escaping, completely apathetic about whether she’d be killed or kill or herself first. Obviously, she was depressed, but at some point before HALFWAY, a story’s sole POV character needs at least a will to live. There’s dark, and there’s relentlessly bleak—this book was the latter.
Also take note that each of the books in the trilogy is around 160 pages and the subsequent two are $9.49 apiece, so even with the sale, completing the series would be a $21 investment for under 500 pages.
Appears to me that Amazon has Maya Rodale’s Wallflower series all jumbled up. Two books are described as second in series, two more books are described as third. Different titles, covers and prices.
I love love love that series by Rodale – LML is right about Amazon though!
I read the first of the Rodale Wallflowers books and found it very disappointing as a historical. It says it’s set in the Regency period. Trust me; it’s not. Read the 1-star reviews on Amazon; they’re accurate. If you read Regencies to have them vaguely plausibly set in Regency England, you don’t want to read these.
There are probably multiple book 2s because each one of these has a paired contemporary romance with the same plot that is nominally part of the same series. I had no interest in reading any of the others after the first one.
I read the Fangborn series, which also included several short works, way back when (anything more than a few months ago seems “way back” these days). I liked it, but remember being somewhat confused by the ending. IIRC, it felt ambiguous, like there should have been another book. It could have been just me, tho.
But that seemed to happen a lot with UF series I was into. Sometimes the publishers dropped the series, sometimes the authors had things going on in their personal lives, and sometimes the authors just wrote verrry slowly. All understandable, but it could be frustrating from a reader’s standpoint.
CW for the Rodale: mentions of past rape of heroine.
Goodreads reviews have this: The author’s introduction contains this warning: This novel includes a graphic depiction of sexual violence.
(I haven’t read it, but I wondered about the “with her romantic illusions shattered after being compromised against her will”)
Seven Kinds of Hell is totally catnip, but all the 99c purchases of the month are starting to add up….
The cover of The Next Best Bride says it’s by Kelly McClymer, but the blurb says it’s by Merry Farmer.
I’m pretty Merry Farmer is a romance heroine (although not the heroine of The Next Best Bride), but then Kelly McClymer could be too.
Also I’m not the cover matches the title.
I read the Wallflower series several times.
I love them! Wonderful, wonderful stories! Witty, intelligent and sexy, with strong heroines and sweet, sweet heroes. Highly recommended!
I enjoyed the first two Wallflower books as “fluffy & fun.” I DNF’ed this one a mere 3 weeks ago, and I’m still a little mad at it. For a fake marriage plot to work, it has to solve a problem. This fake marriage solved nothing, even if everything has gone perfectly (which of course it didn’t). If zero other problems arose, they pretend to be married for the party, and after they party they aren’t married, and everyone involved is worse off than they started, including the mistress of the school and the friends & family of the two main characters.