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Opening Up
RECOMMENDED: Opening Up by Lauren Dane is 99c! I love the covers of this entire series. This is the first book in the Ink & Chrome erotic contemporary series. Elyse gave the book an A-:
This book was incredibly sexy and often very funny. It made me duck out on the coworker I was traveling with: “I’d love to go to TGI Fridays with you, but PJ and Asa have a new leather cane they’ve been dying to try out and also I need to know how his weenus piercing feels without a condom, so I’m gonna just head up to my room, ‘kay, thanks.”
The men of the Twisted Steel custom motorcycle shop are great with their hands… and they’re not afraid to get dirty.
PJ is exactly the kind of woman Twisted Steel owner Asa Barrons doesn’t need. The last thing he wants to do is mix business with pleasure, and PJ has some of the best custom detailing he’s ever seen. But the chemistry between them won’t be denied, and soon he’s introducing her to a whole new world in the bedroom, pushing her far beyond anything she’s ever experienced. PJ finds she can’t get enough, but how far is too far before he consumes her completely?
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One Day to Fall
RECOMMENDED: One Day to Fall by Therese Beharrie is $1.99! Aarya loved this one and gave it an A:
I could go on and on about all the things I loved about this book. How Sophia’s snarky and sometimes mean (I say “mean” with the highest of compliments) humor made me bend over laughing. How delighted I was with the assurance of a child-free HEA. One Day to Fall is a delight and a marvel, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a romance novel to escape into.
Of all the taxis in all of Cape Town, Sophia Roux had to stumble into his.
She should be at her “perfect” sister’s bedside, awaiting the arrival of the newest member of her family. But the thought of spending hours at the hospital with her suffocating relatives has Sophia hailing the first taxi she sees. Only to realise too late that the man at the wheel of her getaway car is the most unpleasant one she’s ever had the misfortune to meet.
Parker Jones, the handsome yet surly driver in question, is used to dealing with baggage of the family variety. And it just so happens he’s in need of temporary escape from his own. Witty banter with a beautiful—if exasperating—woman while chauffeuring her around the city on a gorgeous spring day makes for an ideal break from reality.
But a lot can happen in twenty-four hours: babies can be born, family can reconnect. And maybe the most unlikely pair can fall in love.
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The Frangipani Tree Mystery
RECOMMENDED: The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu is $3.99! You may have seen this mentioned on the site recently because Sarah is reading through the series. Here’s what she has to say:
I really enjoyed this one – the setting, historical period, and mix of cultures were new to me and wonderfully absorbing, and I really like the heroine, who is trying to see through everyone’s BS, and learning that she has some barriers to her own BS detection that need to be removed. She also has master levels of polyglot, so she can communicate across so many cultural lines, and translate through and beneath them – it’s a terrific story.
First in a delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, introducing amateur sleuth SuLin, a local girl stepping in as governess for the Acting Governor of Singapore.
1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat seem very far away. When the Irish nanny looking after Acting Governor Palin’s daughter dies suddenly – and in mysterious circumstances – mission school-educated local girl SuLin – an aspiring journalist trying to escape an arranged marriage – is invited to take her place.
But then another murder at the residence occurs and it seems very likely that a killer is stalking the corridors of Government House. It now takes all SuLin’s traditional skills and intelligence to help British-born Chief Inspector Thomas LeFroy solve the murders – and escape with her own life.
‘Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life, without ever getting in the way of a classic puzzle plot. But what’s a setting without a jewel? Chen Su Lin is a true gem. Her slyly witty voice and her admirable, sometimes heartbreaking, practicality make her the most beguiling narrator heroine I’ve met in a long while.’ Catriona McPherson
‘Charming and fascinating with great authentic feel. Ovidia Yu’s teenage Chinese sleuth gives us an insight into a very different culture and time. This book is exactly why I love historical novels.’ Rhys Bowen
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Only You
Only You by Denise Grover Swank is $1.99! Elyse did a Lightning Review of this book and gave it a C-, citing a pretty frustrating and agonizing secondary character. However, she also notes that there are readers who would really like this book:
There’s a lot of reasons why readers will like this book. The romance is hot and funny, there’s a ton of home renovation/HGTV pr0n, and Kevin adopts a tiny kitten he finds. Plus the relationship between Holly and her grandma, and the subject of dealing with dementia, was genuine and well-done.
If Nicole hadn’t been in this book I would have given it a B+, as it was, whenever she was on the page I wanted to punch her.
Never say never . . .
Romance isn’t an option for Holly Greenwood. With her wedding planner career on the line she needs to stay focused, and that means pleasing her demanding boss, not getting distracted by her mind-alteringly hot neighbor . . .
Ex-Marine Kevin Vandemeer craves normalcy. Instead, he has a broken-down old house in need of a match and some gasoline, a meddling family, and the uncanny ability to attract the world’s craziest women. At least that last one he can fix: he and his buddies have made a pact to swear off women, and this includes his sweetly sexy new neighbor.
After one hot night that looks a whole lot like a disaster in the light of day, Kevin and Holly are about to learn that true love doesn’t play by the rules . . .
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I really liked the Beharrie!
I loved Yu’s The Frangipani Tree Mystery (and the other books in the Crown Colony series). Her fourth novel, The Mimosa Tree, just came out and is absolutely couldn’t-put-the-book-down fabulous!
I love the historic Singapore we see through Su Yin’s eyes – how the various ethnic groups in Singapore deal with each other and the ruling English class (and the subclasses within that group). Singapore is such a rich setting with so many stories hidden inside.
The mysteries definitely get better with each book, but the intimate look into Singapore’s melting pot, the hints of the build-up to WWII, and especially Su Yin’s family and her character really make this a very special series.
I have the first Crown Colony book checked out from the library and I’m very curious to see how I fare with it. I hope it’s awesome! I really had a deep dive into colonial Singapore history during my last visit to family, the National Museum of Singapore is doing some great work.
I wasn’t thrilled with the Ovidia Yu book I read, _Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials: A Singaporean Mystery_, it’s sense of place didn’t really match up with my experience of Singapore and I wondered maybe if it was because I experience it as an outsider who has married into a Singaporean family.
After Martha Wells mentioned her, my spouse (who is Singaporean and a fellow big Murderbot fan) chose a different book of hers and didn’t find it to resonate either- some details were jarring and made it hard to suspend disbelief. Now we are wondering if we’re just not into the whole cozy mystery vibe?
And I hesitate to recommend this book only because it is so harrowing and maybe not the right time for it, but I’m so grateful _The Weight of Our Sky_ was published. If you’re interested in one facet of the whole melting pot idea of Malaysia and Singapore, it’s worth a read. The reason it’s so heavy– it covers the time of the 1969 race riots (Chinese v. Malay) and the protagonist has an undiagnosed mental illness. It wasn’t the easiest read this summer but I was SO HAPPY to see her choices when it came to how to include the Hokkien and Malay words and can’t wait to read what she writes next. But it’s no romance.