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Slightly Married
Slightly Married by Mary Balogh is $1.99! This is the first book in the Bedwyn Saga, which is a favorite amongst romance readers. It also has a cover updated, which is…fine? I kind of miss the red and gold.
Meet the Bedwyns…six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality…Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction…where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal…and where Aidan Bedwyn, the marriage-shy second son, discovers that matrimony may be the most seductive act of all.…
Like all the Bedwyn men, Aidan has a reputation for cool arrogance. But this proud nobleman also possesses a loyal, passionate heart—and it is this fierce loyalty that has brought Colonel Lord Aidan to Ringwood Manor to honor a dying soldier’s request. Having promised to comfort and protect the man’s sister, Aidan never expected to find a headstrong, fiercely independent woman who wants no part of his protection…nor did he expect the feelings this beguiling creature would ignite in his guarded heart. And when a relative threatens to turn Eve out of her home, Aidan gallantly makes her an offer she can’t refuse: marry him…if only to save her home. And now, as all of London breathlessly awaits the transformation of the new Lady Aidan Bedwyn, the strangest thing happens: With one touch, one searing embrace, Aidan and Eve’s “business arrangement” is about to be transformed…into something slightly surprising.
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A Rogue of Her Own
A Rogue of Her Own by Grace Burrowes is $1.99! This is the fourth book in the Windham Brides series. Readers loved the writing and impending marriage of convenience. But, others wished they felt more chemistry between the main characters. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
For Miss Charlotte Windham, the best way to maintain her spinsterhood-and her independence-is a teeny, tiny brush with scandal. She chooses wealthy, handsome upstart Lucas Sherbourne as her unwitting accomplice. He’s intelligent, logical, and ambitious. What Charlotte doesn’t count on is that one kiss will lead them straight to the altar.
Sherbourne has no love for polite society, nor is he keen on being anybody’s husband of last resort. He is attracted to Charlotte’s boldness, though-and her family’s influence. Without a title, he knows he’ll never truly be part of their world, even as he and Charlotte inch closer to a marriage that means much more than convenience. But a scheming business partner is about to test that tenuous trust, forcing Sherbourne to make a drastic choice: his wealth or his wife.
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A Fashionable Indulgence
A Fashionable Indulgence by KJ Charles is $1.99! This is a m/m historical romance about class differences. Readers loved the start to a new series, though some felt the romance took a backseat to setting up the next books. Charles fans, what’d you think of this one?
In the first novel of an explosive new series from K. J. Charles, a young gentleman and his elegant mentor fight for love in a world of wealth, power, and manipulation.
When he learns that he could be the heir to an unexpected fortune, Harry Vane rejects his past as a Radical fighting for government reform and sets about wooing his lovely cousin. But his heart is captured instead by the most beautiful, chic man he’s ever met: the dandy tasked with instructing him in the manners and style of the ton. Harry’s new station demands conformity—and yet the one thing he desires is a taste of the wrong pair of lips.
After witnessing firsthand the horrors of Waterloo, Julius Norreys sought refuge behind the luxurious facade of the upper crust. Now he concerns himself exclusively with the cut of his coat and the quality of his boots. And yet his protégé is so unblemished by cynicism that he inspires the first flare of genuine desire Julius has felt in years. He cannot protect Harry from the worst excesses of society. But together they can withstand the high price of passion.
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How to Love a Duke in Ten Days
How to Love a Duke in Ten Days by Kerrigan Byrne is $2.99! I read this and want to warn that the book starts with a graphic rape scene and the hero is a huge asshole. However, I did pull a Bad Decisions Book Club while reading this one, but did I enjoy it? Who knows!
These men are dark, bold, and brave. And there is only one woman who can bring them to their knees…
Famed and brilliant, Lady Alexandra Lane has always known how to look out for to herself. But nobody would ever expect that she has darkness in her past—one that she pays a blackmailer to keep buried. Now, with her family nearing bankruptcy, Alexandra strikes upon a solution: Get married to one of the empire’s most wealthy eligible bachelors. Even if he does have the reputation of a devil.
LOVE TAKES NO PRISONERS
Piers Gedrick Atherton, the Duke of Redmayne, is seeking revenge and the first step is securing a bride. Winning a lady’s hand is not so easy, however, for a man known as the Terror of Torcliff. Then, Alexandra enters his life like a bolt of lightning. When she proposes marriage, Piers knows that, like him, trouble haunts her footsteps. But her gentleness, sharp wit, independent nature, and incredible beauty awakens every fierce desire within him. He will do whatever it takes to keep her safe in his arms.
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Well, according to my records I own the first three of these… I only remember the KJ Charles one though. So today I am saving EVEN MORE by not buying anything and maybe going and reading books I own.
@JoanneBB, I love when that happens lol
“ the book starts with a graphic rape scene and the hero is a huge asshole”.
Gee, who wouldn’t want to read that?
A Fashionable Indulgence is definitely my least re-read KJ Charles. It’s absolutely worth it to complete your collection, but I don’t think it’s necessary to have read it for the remainder of the books in the series to make sense.
I have a hard time parsing why it doesn’t quite work for me, and I think it comes down to whether or not you think Harry deserves to be loved by Julius. And that’s tricky! Because Harry is immature and feckless, and his good qualities don’t really seem to add up to a worthy partner for Julius. BUT, you do firmly believe that Julius loves Harry and Harry makes him happy, so it kind of comes down to a whole, “My friend’s partner is kind of a dud, but makes my friend really happy, so, okay! Whatever works for them!”
But you can see why it doesn’t hang out on the Keeper Shelf.
@Omphale: I strongly disagree with you about Harry. Yes, he is a bit immature at the beginning, but he grows up beautifully over the course of the book. From about the point where he goes to see Silas after the quarrel at Quex’s, he behaves like a proper romance hero. He treats Verona better than she (at first) deserves (and benefits greatly by that in the end), he loves Silas and stands by him when the going gets rough, at considerable risk to himself, and while he shouldn’t have said what he said at that dinner party, it was well put and very much to the point. For me, it’s more a question of whether Julius is worthy of Harry, and to me he is mostly because he appreciates Harry.
I love the Society of Gentlemen series! This series was one of my starts into m/m romance. Yes, Harry takes some growing up, but I like him. And this series should definitely be read in the right order, because you get so much more out of it. The whole setup is really clever I think and the story really isn’t quite finished until the fourth book, even if each features a different couple.
I’d say reading ‘A Fashionable Indulgence’ is advisable to fully appreciate the depth and complexity of the series through-plot, which treats historical conflicts in an unsympathetic (to both sides) way that not a lot of historical romances do.
That said, the world-building and Harry’s coming-of-age arc take some time and space away from Julius. He at first appears a Heyer-esque jaded dandy and the Julius + Harry attraction could well have run out of juice. I would’ve liked more of Julius; we don’t get to see him develop the way we see Harry.
And *that* said, every time I re-read the ‘Society of Gentlemen’ series I’m more blown away by it.
I second the point that you will enjoy A Seditious Affair much more if you’ve read A Fashionable Indulgence — their timelines are tightly interwoven. I also strongly recommend the Society of Gentlemen audiobooks. I got the first one because I couldn’t settle on a pronunciation of ‘Frey,’ and I was hooked. Matthew Lloyd Davies’s Silas and Harry are particularly good.
I don’t really like coming of age stories but I still liked Fashionable Indulgence. I mean, it’s KJ Charles, of course I did. Even her worst is fantastic and this is definitely not her worst.
Harry is …eh, he’s decent. Julius is entertaining, at least. Individually I like them fine. But together! Lovelovelove.
Silas has my whole heart. I can forgive Dom for being a Tory even, because if ever any two people belong together, it’s them. Cyprian is perfection, and I was so excited for the final book and then Richard. Fucking Richard. Ugh. He was just such a drip. Repeatedly. Ash at his most extreme wasn’t ever as unacceptably stupid as Richard. That one…might be her worst? Still love it.
I think that KJ Charles is the one where one of the characters notes the other’s calloused hands, so different from his, etc., and it throws me off every time because my experience with callouses is they sort of slough off after you stop doing whatever it was that gave you callouses in the first place. This has nothing to do with quality of the book, it’s just weird what you end up remembering about some books.
Mm, I rowed (crew) for seven years back in the 2000s and I can still feel the callouses on my palms where I used to get giant blisters from the blade handle which then burst messily before turning into tough yellow callouses… They’re not hugely visible, but definitely still there.
Slightly Married is an all-time favorite Balogh of mine. The characters are so evenly matched although they do not realize it, of course. Her writing in this one is particularly lyrical, I think. And the dialogue feels very real for two strangers thrown together for honor and the security of others.
@Tam and @Emily – I too rowed crew in high school and fifteen years later still had fairly tough skin at the base of my fingers. I also knew girls on my team who ripped continually and lost their calluses in the off season almost immediately – so I think it’s one of those things that’s very much person-dependent.
@etV13 I pulled up my copy to check my memory, and credit where it is due, Harry’s epiphany happens earlier in the story than I had remembered. I still don’t quite buy into their relationship but I was a little unfair to Harry’s journey in my original comment.
@kkw I totally hear where you are coming from re Richard, but I kind of love that Richard takes so long to get it because it gives Dom and Silas and everyone the chance to tell him about himself in a way that resets the whole group dynamic.
The parts of A Gentleman’s Position with Dom or Silas in them are my favorite parts.