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Love is Blind
RECOMMENDED: Love is Blind by Lynsay Sands is $1.99! I have such a soft spot in my heart for this book, but I have no clue if it holds up and many reviews mention anachronistic language.
He’d been warned that Lady Clarissa Crambray was dangerous. Stomping on toes and burning piffles, the chestnut-haired beauty was clearly a force with which to be reckoned. But for Adrian Montfort, Earl of Mowbray, veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, this was just the challenge he needed. He could handle one woman and her “unfortunate past.” Could any woman handle him?
Lady Clarissa Crambray wanted a husband, but maybe not as much as her stepmother wanted one for her. Really! Doffing her spectacles might make a girl prettier, but how would she see? She’d already caused enough mayhem to earn a rather horrible nickname. Yet, as all other suitors seemed to shy away in terror, there came a man to lead her to the dance floor. A dark, handsome, blur of a man.
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How to Bang a Billionaire
How to Bang a Billionaire by Alexis Hall is 99c! This is book one in the Arden St. Ives series and is a M/M BDSM romance. I know Hall is an auto-buy author, but I haven’t heard much about this series. Any thoughts in the comments would be great!
Rules are made to be broken . . .
If England had yearbooks, I’d probably be “Arden St. Ives: Man Least Likely to Set the World on Fire.” So far, I haven’t. I’ve no idea what I’m doing at Oxford, no idea what I’m going to do next and, until a week ago, I had no idea who Caspian Hart was. Turns out, he’s brilliant, beautiful . . . oh yeah, and a billionaire.
It’s impossible not to be captivated by someone like that. But Caspian Hart makes his own rules. And he has a lot of them. About when I can be with him. What I can do with him. And when he’ll be through with me.
I’m good at doing what I’m told in the bedroom. The rest of the time, not so much. And now that Caspian’s shown me glimpses of the man behind the billionaire I know it’s him I want. Not his wealth, not his status. Him. Except that might be the one thing he doesn’t have the power to give me.
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The Simplicity of Cider
The Simplicity of Cider by Amy E. Reichert is $1.99! Reichert mainly writes women’s fiction with foodie elements, and I’ve mostly enjoyed them. But again, I’m a sucker for anything with yummy food descriptions. Have you read this one?
Fall in love with The Simplicity of Cider, the charming new novel about an aloof but gifted cider-maker whose quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of a handsome man and his young son at her family’s careworn orchard by the author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake and Luck, Love & Lemon Pie.
Focused and unassuming fifth generation cider-maker Sanna has one desire: to live a simple, quiet life on her family’s apple orchard in Door County, Wisconsin. Although her business is struggling, Sanna remains fiercely devoted to the orchard, despite her brother’s attempts to convince their aging father to sell the land.
Isaac Banks has spent years singlehandedly trying to shield his son Sebastian from his troubled mother. Fleeing heartbreak, Isaac packed up their lives and the two headed out on an adventure, taking odd jobs as they drove across the country from California, pulling up to Sanna’s orchard at exactly the right time…
Isaac’s helping hands are much appreciated at the apple farm, even more when Sanna’s father is injured in an accident, leaving her as his sole caretaker. As Sanna’s formerly simple life becomes increasingly complicated, she finds solace in unexpected places—friendship with young Sebastian and something more deliciously complex with Isaac—until an outside threat infiltrates the farm. Can Sanna save the orchard and her budding romance? Or will she lose more than she knew she had?
From the warm and funny Amy E. Reichert, The Simplicity of Cider is a charming love story with a touch of magic, perfect for fans of Sarah Addison Allen and Gayle Forman.
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Forbidden Promises
Forbidden Promises by Synithia Williams is $2.99! This was a previous Hide Your Wallet pick and the first in the Jackson Falls small town romance series, which features a lot of complicated and dramatic family dynamics, judging from the comments last time it was on sale.
What do you do when you want the one person you can never have?
Get in and get out. That was India Robidoux’s plan for this family visit. But when her brother needs her help with his high-profile political campaign, India has no choice but to stay and face the one man she’s been running from for years—Travis, her sister’s ex-husband. One hot summer night when Travis was still free, they celebrated her birthday with whiskey and an unforgettable kiss. The memory is as strong as ever—and so are the feelings she’s tried so hard to forget.
Travis Strickland owes everything to the Robidoux family. There’s nothing he wouldn’t do for them—his divorce could never change that. Still, he has one regret. Impulsive and passionate, India always understood him better than anyone else. And the longer they work together on the campaign, the more torn he is. Coming between her and her sister is out of the question. But how can he let love pass him by a second time?
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I loooved How to Bang a Billionaire and the entire trilogy but it’s definitely not for everyone. Here’s a bit from my GR review:
If I didn’t know this series was a retelling of the Fifty Shades of Grey series I would not have been able to read it without my eyes rolling right out of my head. But as a retelling it really rocks. This is the trauma informed and kink positive and queer reclaiming of the tortured billionaire Dom trope that I didn’t know I needed.
Caspian Hart is the tortured kinky billionaire stand in for Christian Grey. Arden is the narrator and he is not exactly a stand in for Ana. He’s like her in that he’s a clumsy manic pixie dream person but he’s dirty and kinky and sex positive and he’s like who Christian might end up with after Ana divorces him ten years after the books end if he’s really lucky.
This book and the entire series and all the characters in it are ridiculous and over the top and I think that’s why it worked so well for me as a reclaiming.
Many of the things that I normally don’t care for in Alexis Hall’s writing really works here. The self indulgent descriptions. The over the top tortured thinking about feelings. The literary and pop culture references from Roland Barthes to Star Wars to obscure board games.
@cleo – forgot to mention that you have to read the whole series to get the HEA. Book 1 ends with an HFN, book 2 ends without any happy anything (UFN – unhappy for now? and book 3 has a very satisfying HEA.
I’ll just say that for readers who are only familiar with Alexis Hall from his more recent “semi-closed door” books like BOYFRIEND MATERIAL the level of sex and kink in many of his earlier books may come as a surprise. Be prepared!
Kat Latham’s Unwrapping Her Perfect Match is available for free today! (And maybe tomorrow?) If you loved Brienne from Game of Thrones and wish she got a happier ending, this is the book for you to read. It’s a modern setting but the heroine is very Brienne.
Absolutely agree with all the comments related to Alexis Hall’s How To Bang a Billionaire series. Loved it but it is definitely a lot more explicit if Husband Material or Rosalind Palmer Takes the Cake are your only reference to his writing. Content warnings really should be considered before starting this trilogy.
I would read the phone book if Alexis Hall wrote it! His Spires series is just as good, I inhaled them but they don’t necessarily have to be read in sequence. Some are explicit and some are no on page sex.
FORBIDDEN PROMISES was really good, especially if family drama/complications appeal to you. A tricky subject was handled effectively, I thought, and the characters were very likable.
Heatherly Bell’s Lucky Cowboy (The Men of Stone Ridge, book 1) is free today
@DiscoDollyDeb – that’s a really good point.
Alexis Hall is such a quirky writer with a very wide range. I’m curious about two things – both what his new fans think of his backlist (some is a lot more explicit and some is just downright weird) and what he’ll write next. I hope he can stay weird and keep writing his experimental and/or very niche works as well as more mainstream romances.
How to Bang a Billionaire is fine, but since 50 Shades didn’t do it for me, neither did this trilogy. I’ve enjoyed Alexis Hall’s other works,and it wasn’t the level kink in the books that bothered me, but that problematic middle book with no happy anything, as @cleo aptly put it.
But, that said, if you’re interested and an audiobook fan, Chirp (chirpbooks.com) also has this first book on sale (for $4.99), narrated by the very talented Joel Leslie.
@cleo – so true about Hall’s range! On Kindle, the next one to be published is “Something Fabulous” which looks to be a Regency m/m romance. Maybe shades of Austen/Heyer? I can’t wait to see what this one will be like!
Hall has written (but I can’t find it of course) about the level of heat in his work and why it seems as though he’d been moving away from explicit sex. Basically, he writes with the amount of sex he thinks is appropriate to the characters, but when he was starting out the stories that were getting picked up tended to be for the more explicit work. Now that his options have expanded he’s publishing a wider range.
One of the things that I like about Alexis Hall is that he’s so unapologetically literary. Many of his characters are hyper-literate in a way most American romance characters are not. The cultural references in his books range from The Great British Baking Show to classic (Greek & Roman) literature. I also like that he seems to be consciously trying his hand at different sub-genres; he’s written everything from what I’d call horror to steampunk to contemporary to paranormal mystery. Not all of those are my sub-genres of choice, but I’m always interested to see what he’ll do.