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Hot and Badgered
Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston is 99c! This is the first book in the Honey Badger Chronicles. Sarah read this one and gave it a B grade:
Among my favorite things about Laurenston’s writing is how very affirming and inspiring and a whole lot of fun it is, because angry, fearless women make room for themselves, they get shit done, and they’re the heroines. More honey badgers, please.
It’s not every day that a beautiful naked woman falls out of the sky and lands face-first on grizzly shifter Berg Dunn’s hotel balcony. Definitely they don’t usually hop up and demand his best gun. Berg gives the lady a grizzly-sized t-shirt and his cell phone, too, just on style points. And then she’s gone, taking his XXXL heart with her. By the time he figures out she’s a honey badger shifter, it’s too late.
Honey badgers are survivors. Brutal, vicious, ill-tempered survivors. Or maybe Charlie Taylor-MacKilligan is just pissed that her useless father is trying to get them all killed again, and won’t even tell her how. Protecting her little sisters has always been her job, and she’s not about to let some pesky giant grizzly protection specialist with a network of every shifter in Manhattan get in her way. Wait. He’s trying to help? Why would he want to do that? He’s cute enough that she just might let him tag along—that is, if he can keep up . . .
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Star Dust
Star Dust by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner is $2.99! This is book one in the Fly Me to the Moon series, which I know Carrie has enjoyed. I’m always hesitant to define this as a historical romance because the time period isn’t that long ago, though it does focus on a historic period in history. What do you think?
Houston, 1962
Anne-Marie Smith wanted normal: a loving husband, two beautiful kids, and a well-kept house. But when she catches her husband cheating, she decides that normal isn’t worth it. Now in a new city with a new job, she’s trying to find her new normal—but she knows it doesn’t include the sexy playboy astronaut next door.
Commander Kit Campbell has a taste for fast: fast cars, fast planes, and even faster women. But no ride he’s ever taken will be as fast as the one he’s taking into orbit. He’s willing to put up with the prying adoration of an entire country if it will get him into space.
But Anne-Marie and Kit’s inconvenient attraction threatens both normal and fast. As the space race heats up, his ambitions and their connection collide and combustion threatens their plans… and their hearts.
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Heiress in Red Silk
The Heiress in Red Silk by Madeline Hunter is $1.99! This is book two in A Duke’s Heiress series and Catherine gave it a B-:
Heiress in Red Silk is a book that hooked right into my emotions and gave me what I wanted and needed from a story right now. While it was by no means a flawless romance, I adored the heroine, and there was one scene that hit me straight in the heart.
A sparkling new love story from a historical romance legend, perfect for Bridgerton fans and readers of Sabrina Jeffries, Eloisa James, and Grace Burrowes.
In one life-changing windfall, Rosamund Jameson goes from struggling shopkeeper to heiress—and co-owner of a new business. Not only will her sudden fortune allow her to move her millinery shop to fashionable London, but Rosamund will be able to provide her younger sister with a proper entry into society. The only hitch for resourceful Rosamund is her arrogant, infuriatingly handsome business partner…
Kevin Radnor is shocked that his late uncle, the Duke of Hollinburgh, bequeathed half his company to a total stranger—worse, a beguiling beauty who can only hinder his enterprise. But Rosamund insists on an active, equal partnership, so Kevin embarks on a plan: a seduction that will lead to a marriage of convenience, giving Rosamund the social status she needs, and guaranteeing him the silent partner he desires. Yet as this charismatic gentleman sets his flirtation in motion, he begins to wonder who is seducing whom—and if he can learn to share himself body and mind, without losing his heart . . .
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Getting Schooled
Getting Schooled by Emma Chase is 99c! It’s available at other vendors, but not at the sale price. For the most part, I enjoy Chase’s writing and the balance of humor and romance. I haven’t read this one, though, and people mentioned that the friendships and teacher/student dynamics were the best part. However, the romance was rather weak.
The newest novel from New York Times bestselling author Emma Chase.
Head of the class…
Garrett Daniels has this whole life thing figured out.
The cocky, charismatic former high school star quarterback is an idolized football coach and “cool” teacher in the hometown where he’s not just a golden boy — he’s platinum. He has good friends, a great house on the lake, and the best damn sidekick a man could ask for: Snoopy, the albino beagle.
Then…Callie Carpenter comes home.
And knocks him right on his tight end zone.
Back to school…
Callie has a pretty sweet life herself…on the other side of the country. But circumstances — that she’d prefer to never speak of again — have brought her back home, helping out her parents and substitute teaching at her old high school.
Now she’s facing bickering, raging hormones, constant gossip, awkward weirdness, and drama galore…and that’s just the teachers.
Just like old times…
When Garrett offers to show his former high school sweetheart the secrets of his winning teacher ways, Callie jumps at the chance – and then has to stop herself from jumping him.
Good friends are all they can ever be.
Or…these teachers just might end up getting schooled — by love.
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I liked the previous cover on Hot and Badgered, but I guess they changed them with the book 4 release & new cover art (now that I go look), and it’s definitely clearer the type of shifter pairing you’re getting.
And I think mid-20th century can be a historical… so much has changed!
SBTB introduced me to Barry/Turner’s Fly Me to the Moon series and I enjoyed pretty much all the books to varying degrees. Definitely worth checking out. They’re historical in a sense, but the somewhat alternate history setting should also be noted. The setting is based on the early US space program, but it’s…slightly different. So don’t let that throw you.
I liked the Fly Me to the Moon series. When there are two generations born after a period setting, I think we have to concede to it being historical, or at least near-history. 🙂 Tweaks to actual history don’t extend so far as to make it fantasy.
I enjoy the Fly Me to the Moon series, but twitch at describing it as a historical. While this is a somewhat alternate history, it’s also what I grew up with. My dad worked for NASA on Apollo starting in ‘63, and, yes, we lived in Houston (I’m a native), so the space program was a big part of my childhood. It doesn’t feel like historical but kinda nostalgia for me, if that makes sense.
I agree with everyone else, Star Dust is well worth grabbing.
I quite enjoyed the Heiress in Red Silk. I found myself yelling at Kevin in my head using Catherine O’Hara’s Home Alone voice. This is trilogy with a mystery element, which I liked. Looking forward to the third book.
While I have trouble seeing a book set within my lifetime as historical, I have to concede that this does sound like a historical.
I picked up Star Dust on a whim years ago but have never made any headway with it. Now, having read Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars, I worry that it will suffer by comparison– but they just have the same setting! TCS isn’t even a romance! My brain is nonsense.
For the record, I believe the rule for ‘historical’ novel is 20+ years in the past. It is, of course, deeply offensive, but I let that one go the first time I saw a question about the aftermath of 9/11 on a state US History exam. (But, believe you me, I was offended.)
The entire Fly Me to the Moon series is fantastic- highly recommended!
I like this new cover for “Hot and Badgered”. The old one made my neck hurt.
@wingednike, that old cover bothered me for the same reason.
I just finished the audiobook of Getting Schooled. I agree that the romance was underdeveloped but I loved the interactions between the two main characters and their students. Zachary Webber’s portrayal of Garrett was just perfect, and I’ll be listening to more of him….
Re: Historical fiction
When I was a kid, I knew that the Depression and WWs I & II were history even though my parents and grandparents had lived it. By the same token, Vietnam, the Challenger Disaster, and 9/11 were recognizable as history in the moment without the lens of time passed.
My definition of what makes a book “historical” is a little different than generational increments, i.e., 20 yrs. I tend to focus on the author’s intent. Hence both the Barry and Kowal series would be at least altered history to me. The fact that I was growing up during this time period doesn’t cause me offense, because the author is playing with a time period not their own. Everybody being dead isn’t what makes it history; having live people walking around who don’t know about it is more to the point.
This definition really impacts my reading and my response to a book when I’m reading something older. I recently read a number of Nora Roberts’ older books in her MacGregor series–originally published in the 80s & 90s. To me these are not historical, because they were written in the time they describe, yet those authentic contemporary details make the stories seem so alien. The up side? They remind me not of how old I am, but rather how much I’ve grown and am still growing.
Sorry for rambling, but the topic fascinates me.
To paraphrase the late, great film critic Roger Ebert: “You have to wait long enough for a book to move from being ‘dated’ to being ‘history’ to see its true value.”