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  • Opening Up

    Opening Up by Lauren Dane

    RECOMMENDEDOpening Up by Lauren Dane is 99c! I love the covers of this entire series. This is the first book in the Ink & Chrome erotic contemporary series. Elyse gave the book an A-:

    This book was incredibly sexy and often very funny. It made me duck out on the coworker I was traveling with: “I’d love to go to TGI Fridays with you, but PJ and Asa have a new leather cane they’ve been dying to try out and also I need to know how his weenus piercing feels without a condom, so I’m gonna just head up to my room, ‘kay, thanks.”

    The men of the Twisted Steel custom motorcycle shop are great with their hands… and they’re not afraid to get dirty.

    PJ is exactly the kind of woman Twisted Steel owner Asa Barrons doesn’t need. The last thing he wants to do is mix business with pleasure, and PJ has some of the best custom detailing he’s ever seen. But the chemistry between them won’t be denied, and soon he’s introducing her to a whole new world in the bedroom, pushing her far beyond anything she’s ever experienced. PJ finds she can’t get enough, but how far is too far before he consumes her completely?

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  • Hired

    Hired by Zoey Castile

    Hired by Zoey Castile is $2.99! This is the second book in the Happy Endings series and I enjoyed this one! I actually think it might be my favorite book in the trilogy, as both the hero and heroine just genuinely love being around one another. My only complaint was that I felt the heroine’s relationship with her mother could have used more of a resolution.

    For a man who makes his living pleasuring women, what happens when the only pay-out worth having is love? 

    Faith Abigail Charles has always done the right thing. So when her mother runs for mayor of New Orleans, Faith puts her law career on hold to help her win. But when tensions run high, Faith trades one kind of heat for another—in the arms of a hard-bodied stranger. He’s everything a woman dreams of in a lover. So much so that her one-night stand turns into two, then three, then four . . .

    For Aiden Rios, meeting smart, sexy Faith feels like fate. After being ditched by his client in the Big Easy, the high-paid male escort needs a little company himself. Aiden knows he’ll have to come clean about his line of work, and he plans to—right after another taste of Faith’s sweetness—and another and another. . . . Until a chance meeting with his client leaves Aiden exposed—and Faith shocked and hurt. Now the hired hottie must show Faith that the love they share is bigger than the scandal threatening to destroy them . . .

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  • Plain Bad Heroines

    Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth

    Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth is $1.99! This is a Gothic horror with a sapphic relationship and a hint of dark comedy. I’ve also heard there are epistolary elements. Have you read this one?

    The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit.

    Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, The Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.

    Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded-Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.

    A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period illustrations, Plain Bad Heroines is a devilishly haunting, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny, spellbinding, and wonderfully luxuriant read.

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  • To Catch a Stolen Soul

    To Catch a Stolen Soul by R.L. Naquin

    To Catch a Stolen Soul by R.L. Naquin is $1.99! This is book one in the Djinn Haven paranormal romance series. Interestingly, there also seem to be both suspense and foodie elements here.

    Fans of the Monster Haven series by R.L. Naquin will love this beguiling spin-off, featuring a trapped djinn caught in a hot mess of lost souls, fast food and otherwordly murder.

    Kam is a soul chaser for the Hidden Government, a much harder job now that the Hidden look like everyone else. Broke, out of magic and sick of playing waitress in a pirate-themed dive bar, Kam jumps at a chance for an out-of-town mission.

    A reaper—and his loaded soul stone—have gone missing. The stone contains souls that might get permanently stuck if Kam doesn’t find it, like, yesterday. She tracks the reaper down to a food truck outside Kansas City, only to find a dead reaper and no soul stone in sight. Which means that someone who should be dead killed the reaper and is running around with a powerful magic item. Not good.

    And apparently the killer is targeting food-truck owners that also happen to be Hidden. So the only thing to do is open her own truck and go undercover—goodbye Kam the Djinn, hello Mobile Food Entrepreneur—and hope that she and her new runaway friend won’t be the next targets…

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  1. Emily B says:

    Hired felt unfinished to me – it was on the shorter side, but I felt like another 50 pages might have fleshed out the characters a bit more and made the whole story more satisfying.

  2. FashionablyEvil says:

    I did not enjoy OPENING UP and found it pretty boring. There’s insta-chemistry (and lots of piercings), but no real conflict except the age difference between the main characters and the fact that everyone needs therapy and isn’t getting it. All the men in the heroine’s family are awful to her and the hero was abused by his grandparents (who had custody until he was 7 at which point he was reclaimed by his mother who had given birth at 15). The hero is an overbearing asshole at least 50% of the time. Seriously, get thee all to therapy and then try this again. Maybe.

  3. Jacki says:

    I loved Plain Bad Heroines, and the page count to price ratio is excellent here. It has a big sprawling story and it made me even more nervous about yellowjackets. Disclaimer: I’m a hetero woman, and this book is about queer women, so I can’t speak to the authenticity of the representation.

  4. OuchOuchOuch says:

    I loved Emily M Danforth’s _The Miseducation of Cameron Post_ so pounced on _Plain Bad Heroines_ when I found it. It’s pretty good, and as @Jacki said, the price:page is great, but the downside of that is that pacing is all over the place so sometimes it requires patience.

  5. LucretiaM says:

    I absolutely loved Plain Bad Heroines. Read it twice, once on my own, and the second when I recommended it to the book club, all of whom adored it as well. I will say, the footnotes throughout are a must-read because the narrative commentary on the action taking place is funny as hell. I can be a jarring read to get used to because the pace does hop around a bit. I did get used to it, though, and there were a few nights I read well into the wee hours because I couldn’t put it down.

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