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How Not to Fall
RECOMMENDED: How Not to Fall by Emily Foster is $1.99! We had two reviews of this book, one from me and one from a guest reviewers. We both really enjoyed it. Foster had plans for more romance novels in a the podcast episode we did with her, but I have a feeling those plots are on hiatus.
I would recommend this book, honestly. The smart characters and Annie’s earnestness as a heroine are so refreshing, despite the emotional shift in the narrative. I’m glad I read it and I’m going to scramble for the continuation because I want to know what Emily Foster will do with these characters.
And guest reviewer, Sabra Nicole, gave it an A:
I highly recommend this book to people (all genders, everyone) who are maaaybe, possibly interested in exploring BDSM themes in contemporary romantic-comedy, but are a little intimidated by the genre, or unsure where to even find that unique genre mish-mash.
In her witty and breathtakingly sexy novel, Emily Foster introduces a story of lust, friendship, and other unpredictable experiments. . .
Data, research, scientific formulae–Annabelle Coffey is completely at ease with all of them. Men, not so much. But that’s all going to change after she asks Dr. Charles Douglas, the postdoctoral fellow in her lab, to have sex with her. Charles is not only beautiful, he is also adorably awkward, British, brilliant, and nice. What are the odds he’d turn her down?
Very high, as it happens. Something to do with that whole student/teacher/ethics thing. But in a few weeks, Annie will graduate. As soon as she does, the unlikely friendship that’s developing between them can turn physical–just until Annie leaves for graduate school. Yet nothing could have prepared either Annie or Charles for chemistry like this, or for what happens when a simple exercise in mutual pleasure turns into something as exhilarating and infernally complicated as love.
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Dream Maker
Dream Maker by Kristen Ashley is $1.99! This book released in last year and is the first in a new series. I’m very curious about the heroine, who takes up erotic dancing to help pay for her engineering degree. I’m all for more positive representations of sex work, though Ashley’s books don’t always work for me. Have you read this one?
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Dream Man and Rock Chick series comes a brand new story about love, friendship, and the bonds of sisterhood.
Evie is a bonafide nerd and a hyper-intelligent chick who has worked her whole life to get what she wants. Growing up, she had no support from her family and has only ever been able to rely on herself. So when Evie decides she wants to earn her engineering degree, she realizes she needs to take an alternative path to get there. She takes a job dancing at Smithie’s club thinking this would be a quick side gig, where she can make the money she needs. But with her lack of dancing skills and an alpha bad boy who becomes overly protective, Evie realizes this might not be as easy as she thought.
Daniel “Mag” Magnusson knows a thing or two about pain, but the mask he wears is excellent. No one can tell that this good-looking, quick-witted, and roguish guy has deep-seated issues. Mag puts on a funny-guy routine so he can hide his broken heart and PTSD. But when Evie dances her way into Mag’s life, he realizes that he needs to come face-to-face with the demons of his past if he wants a future with her.
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The Reluctant Highlander
The Reluctant Highlander by Amanda Scott is $1.99! This is the first book in the Highland Nights series and features an opposites attract romance. However, reviews say this book leans more toward the historical part and less on the romance part.
An uncertain bride looks for love with a man as wild and mysterious as his Highland home in this new Scottish romance from a USA Today–bestselling author.
Ordinarily, Lady Fiona Ormiston wouldn’t think of forming an alliance with an ungroomed, barbaric Highlander, despite the protection he offers. But now, by request of the king, Sir Adham MacFinlagh, a brazen stranger and outsider unlike anyone she has met before, is to be her husband. Torn from solitude and the comfort of her family to make a home with the rugged knight, Fiona surrenders to Adham’s powerfully passionate—and shockingly tender—touch, only to discover her new husband’s family ties may lie with an enemy of the king.
A sense of duty may have brought Adham to the marriage bed, but it’s his powerful feelings for his beautiful, willful wife that will be his undoing. Ultimately, the bold knight will have to decide: Does his allegiance lie with his blood ties to the man who hopes to bring down the king or with the bride who has stolen his heart?
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Moonrise
PODCAST RECOMMENDED: Moonrise by Ines Johnson is FREE! This is a paranormal romance that was recommended by Alyssa Cole on a previous podcast. If you have an opinion on PNR characters or creatures, this one has shifters! Cole also mentioned this series is inspired by 90s movies, with this one having elements of While You Were Sleeping.
Sometimes love at first sight needs a second glance.
It’s love at first sight when Lucia rescues a charming wolf shifter from certain death. She’s sure he feels the same way and will tell her so—just as soon as he wakes up from his coma. To remain by his side at the emergency room, she pretends she’s his mate. But her resolve is tested when she gets a glimpse of her fake-mate’s brother.
For months, Jackson has sensed that his fated mate was near. When he enters his unconscious brother’s hospital room, he instantly pounces on the beautiful, curvaceous woman he finds there, ready to mark her as his. Until he learns his brother got there first. Jackson’s skepticism about their mating grows the more he gets to know Lucia. She has nothing in common with his wayward brother, but she checks everyone of Jackson’s boxes.
As Jackson and Lucia fight their attraction, the rest of the family embraces Lucia as one of their own. But what will happen when his brother, her fake-mate, wakes up?
Moonrise is the first in a paranormal romance series full of alpha men and the strong, capable women that bend them to their knees. If you like a touch of magic in your romance novels, then you’ll love the witches, fairies, and wolves in the dystopian world of the moonkind.
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Anya Seton’s AVALON, set in 10th century England in the late Anglo-Saxon/Viking era, is a $2.99 KDD today. AVALON, first published in 1965, focuses on two people (Rumon and Merewyn), but they are not actually a couple and are both involved with others during the course of the book. Anya Seton was one of my favorite writers of historical romance (her KATHERINE is a keeper shelf favorite) and $2.99 is a good price for a book from one of the founding mothers of the genre.
Paranormal shifters inspired by While You Were Sleeping?! And it’s free?! This is definitely my lucky day.
In the KA, the hero reads the heroine’s text messages when he’s known her for literally a few minutes. Then he tells her that if she doesn’t let him read her messages, he’ll have her hacked. (Let’s not get into the poor understanding of telecom infrastructure)
That’s about as red flag behaviour as it gets.
@DDD: I loved KATHERINE, too, and I’ve always been struck by how a writer can shape one’s view of a character; John of Gaunt was a villain essentially, the most hated man in England at the time, but I don’t remember that portrayal from the book. Katherine loved him, that’s all I knew then.
GREEN DARKNESS was my introduction to Seton as a teen and I embraced the idea of past lives (along with conflict, romance, religious persecution, history) completely. That led me to BRIDEY MURPHY, THE CANTERVILLE GHOST, THE NONSUCH LURE, and so on. Good times.
My first Seton was Devil Water when I was ten. Loved it and re-read it a couple of times Sadly, my parents didn’t believe in fiction reading and I was home schooled at the time so eventually it was found and trashed. However, I remembered it and, when we moved to America and I had access to libraries again, I did hunt up and enjoy more of Ms. Seton’s work. Maybe I should put some of her works on my ereader.
@Darlynne: so true! I remember reading Thomas B. Costain’s Plantagenet books and just couldn’t square his version of ambitious, amoral John of Gaunt with the version of him in KATHERINE (to this day, I still prefer to think of him the way Seton portrayed him—proud, but passionate and honorable). I remember reading GREEN DARKNESS in a Reader’s Digest condensed version (I’m really showing my age with that reference) when I was about 15 and it was also my first introduction to the concept of reincarnation. Seton was an excellent writer with a very wide range of interests and subject matter, but sadly, other than KATHERINE, she isn’t read much today.
I loved Anya Seton when I was a teenager. My mom introduced me to her and Victoria Holt when I was 13 and I still have my old copies from the various library book sales.
Must share the Seton in love. My grandmother’s copy of The Green Darkness has been on my keeper shelf since 1972.
HOW NOT TO FALL and the conclusion, HOW NOT TO LET GO are both on my keeper shelf. A really unique w book romance, with enjoyable protagonists (& VERY high heat.) The HEA is not until book 2, if that is importantto you.
All kinds of tropes are played with subversively: virgin heroine, hot for teacher, damaged aristocratic hero, to name a few off the top of my head. CW for the hero’s father’s verbal abuse of his children, & verbal + physical abuse of his wife.
I hope the author continues this arc someday. I crave HEA’S for Simon & Bex.
@DiscoDollyDeb I remember those condensed books! I also remember when Good Housekeeping would do a condensed novel in colored pages in the middle of the magazine…