The Boyfriend Project
The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon is $2.99! Maya reviewed this one and wasn’t quite sold on the hero. However, if you’ve been waiting for this to have a reduction in price, now’s the time to grab it! I’m excited to see what’s next for Rochon and her contemporary romances.
USA Today bestselling author Farrah Rochon launches a new series about three young women who become friends when the live Tweeting of a disastrous date leads them to discover they’ve all been duped by the same man.
Samiah Brooks never thought she would be “that” girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she’s been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Suddenly Samiah-along with his two other “girlfriends,” London and Taylor — have gone viral online. Now the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next six months investing in themselves. No men, no dating, and no worrying about their relationship status . . .For once Samiah is putting herself first, and that includes finally developing the app she’s always dreamed of creating. Which is the exact moment she meets the deliciously sexy, honey-eyed Daniel Collins at work. What are the chances? When it comes to love, there’s no such thing as a coincidence. But is Daniel really boyfriend material or is he maybe just a little too good to be true?
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Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan is $1.99! This is the first book in the Hoops series and features a basketball player hero. Basketball is a severely underrepresented sport in romance and I’m always happy to see more of it. Readers warn that there is a character background involving domestic abuse, but it’s handled very well according to reviews.
A FORBIDDEN LOVE SET IN THE EXPLOSIVE WORLD OF THE NBA…
Think you know what it’s like being a baller’s girl?
You don’t.
My fairy tale is upside down.
A happily never after.
I kissed the prince and he turned into a fraud.
I was a fool, and his love – fool’s gold.
Now there’s a new player in the game, August West.
One of the NBA’s brightest stars.
Fine. Forbidden.
He wants me. I want him.
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Pastry Love by Joanne Chang is $4.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal, which includes an assortment of cookbooks and kid’s books! This is Chang’s latest baking book and we’ve featured her Flour collection on here a few times. If you’re in the Boston/New England area, you may already be fans. I know both Shana and I are!
A must-have baking bible from the James Beard award–winning baker and owner of the beloved Flour bakeries in Boston.
James Beard award–winning baker Joanne Chang is best known around the country for her eight acclaimed Flour bakeries in Boston. Chang has published two books based on the offerings at Flour, such as her famous sticky buns, but Pastry Love is her most personal and comprehensive book yet. It includes 125 dessert recipes for many things she could never serve in the setting of a bakery—for example, items that are best served warm or with whipped cream on top. Nothing makes Chang happier than baking and sharing treats with others, and that passion comes through in every recipe, such as Strawberry Slab Pie, Mocha Chip Cookies, and Malted Chocolate Cake. The recipes start off easy such as Lemon Sugar Cookies and build up to showstoppers like Passion Fruit Crepe Cake. The book also includes master lessons and essential techniques for making pastry cream, lemon curd, puff pastry, and more, all of which make this book a must-have for beginners and expert home bakers alike.
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The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie is $2.99! Leckie’s Ancillary Justice is a favorite with Carrie and SBTB commenters. Readers loved the Hamlet-inspired plot, but warn that the book contains first and second POV, which takes some getting used to.
Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this breathtaking first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven’s Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven’s watch, the city flourishes.
But the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. And they have made their own alliances with other gods.
It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo–aide to Mawat, the true Lease–arrives. And in seeking to help Mawat reclaim his city, Eolo discovers that the Raven’s Tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself…and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever.
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I have noticed that basketball is underrepresented compared to the baseball and NFL (yawn) sport romances. I’m a soccer/hockey woman myself and while there are a good number of hockey romances, I am clamoring for more soccer ones. So when I find them, my happy heart squees. So for all the basketball ladies, enjoy.
The domestic violence scenes are brutal in Long Shot, bordering on torture porn at times. I’m not that sensitive to violence in books, but I barely made it through a few scenes.
I couldn’t get through the sexual violence in Long Shot, and I thought I was a fairly hardened reader. (Hey, I read Game of Thrones back in the day.) It was just too much for me to enjoy the romance; I was always braced for horror.
Please add a trigger warning for Long Shot. The one in the book is wildly insufficient. It is the most graphic sexual violence I’ve read, in any genre.
REPEAT by Kylie Scott is 99c on Amazon. It’s supposed to be a very well done amnesia story, if you like those. It’s been on my TBR list for awhile.
@Hannah Bloom: I liked REPEAT—I thought Scott did a good job with the amnesia story, but I thought the book worked much better as a romance than it did as a mystery (there’s a whole subplot about who attacked the heroine and caused her to have amnesia). Scott’s PAUSE, with a heroine who has been in a coma, is scheduled for release on July 13–the heroes of the two books are brothers—so perhaps that is why REPEAT is on sale.
LONG SHOT needs all the trigger warnings, like on every page. But I read it and, sadly, learned more about gaslighting, financial dependence and what happens when one has no control over their life; and that’s not even touching on the physical abuse in the book. I’m 67, not likely to find myself in such a situation, but I am determined to be more aware for someone who is.
I have to say I DNF the Long Shot. The heroine was supposed to be really smart, and yet she handled her leaving the abusive relationship really stupidly. I realize it’s hard for a woman to decide to leave, but once she does, she should be smart. Does this woman really not know about resources for battered women? Did she really not anticipate her husband’s response? For that matter, I couldn’t understand how a smart woman got into the relationship in the first place. Not that she didn’t realize he would be abusive, but that she felt she had no choice to marry him when she got pregnant. Do smart, well-educated women in the 21st century really feel that their only choice when pregnant is to get married? So basically, I couldn’t get past the cognitive dissonance between the way the woman was described as being and the way she acted. I was surprised it was so well received.
@Ruth L: please educate yourself about abuse and survivors. Abusers mess with your head, make you doubt yourself, double check everything, think and re-think, because you pay so much for your mistakes. All this makes it hard to be “smart” by the standards of someone on the outside. Leaving the abuser doesn’t automatically and instantly make you whole. And the certainty of being judged is why so many people in abusive relationships, and survivors, don’t speak up.
@Ruth L. maybe you ended it too early. Yup Long Shot deserves all the trigger warnings. But’s it’s pretty spot on for the brutality of some abuser and how ANYONE can become a victim (and a survivor). She didn’t marry the abuser and he realistically cut her off financially and a lot of her family members weren’t going to be supportive. She DID find therapy support after she left him.
Yeah it was a hard read, but one of the better ones. I just finished it on KU and bought it because of the sale.
@Margarita She says she’s always plotted a course of independence and want a career, that she doesn’t want to be a baller’s trophy wife. She has doubts about him. She has whole conversations where she says she doesn’t want to be tied down to him. So why does this smart, independent woman do exactly that, especially since she doesn’t marry him but still lets herself become economically dependent on him? How is that smart and independent? When she’s getting ready to leave him, according to the book she had been plotting and planning for months. So where were those plans?
That’s what I mean about a dissonance between how she is portrayed and what she actually does. She doesn’t act like the smart, independent woman she supposedly is. Yes, anyone can become a victim/survivor, but they still have to be true to their character. She doesn’t get to be described as smart and independent and then go bungling into and out of a relationship — one she specifically says she doesn’t want — where she is completely dependent on a man she knows is controlling and prone to violent temper. If she was actually in love with him, it would be more credible, but she’s not. She’s just so meek and indecisive I want to tell her to grow a spine.
Loved The Raven Tower.
Could barely finish The Boyfriend Project but don’t remember it well- mostly felt the way people acted and talked was not realistic. I think we had a discussion about that in the comments of the review maybe?
Maya is Correct in her review of Boyfriend Project. I dnf’d that one.