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So We Meet Again
So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park is $2.99! This is a contemporary romance and was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet. As an aside, I’ve done a few events with Park for their books and they are a damn delight.
When up-and-coming investment banker Jess Kim is passed over for a promotion, laid off in a virtual meeting, and then overhears why (“she’s already being overpaid anyway for a woman” and “Asians are worker bees, not someone who can drum up new deals”) she delivers an “eff you guys” speech and storms out of the building. Not sure what’s next, she moves back home to Tennessee with her domineering Korean mom, who tries to set her up with her pastor’s son Daniel Choi, an M&A lawyer by day and a successful video game streamer by night. Turns out he’s swoony and smart, not the awkward preacher’s kid she remembers. With his help, Jess launches a Korean cooking YouTube channel focused on easy meal prep for busy professionals.
All is going well until her mom walks on the show mid-live recording and argues about cooking technique. While she hates being berated by her mother in front of the world, it actually works in their favor—they go viral!
Soon her cooking channel becomes an actual media company and brand. When a client is suddenly interested in buying Jess out, she finds herself sitting across the table from the very investment firm she quit not so long ago. But there’s just one other problem: Daniel, the guy whose been helping her and that she’s been falling for, is the firm’s new general counsel.
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The Charm Offensive
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun is $1.99! I mentioned this on a previous Get Rec’d! It’s a m/m romance set in a reality dating show. One main character is a producer and the other is the Bachelor-esque contestant.
In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy—reminiscent of Red, White & Royal Blue and One to Watch—an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.
Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star.
Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off.
As Dev fights to get Charlie to open up to the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they’ll have to reconsider whose love story gets told.
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Dragon Actually
Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken is $2.99! This is the first book in the Dragon Kin series, which many praise for having kickass heroines. It also looks like the book has a new cover. I apparently read this book according to my Goodreads, but I remember next to nothing about it.
It’s not always easy being a female warrior with a nickname like Annwyl the Bloody. Men tend to either cower in fear – a lot – or else salute. It’s true that Annwyl has a knack for decapitating legions of her ruthless brother’s soldiers without pausing for breath. But just once it would be nice to be able to really talk to a man, the way, she can talk to Fearghus the Destroyer.
Too bad that Fearghus is a dragon, of the large, scaly and deadly type. With him, Annwyl feels safe – a far cry from the feelings aroused by the hard-bodied, arrogant knight Fearghus has arranged to help train her for battle. With her days spent fighting a man who fills her with fierce, heady desire, and her nights spent in the company of a magical creature who could smite a village just by exhaling, Annwyl is sure life couldn’t get any stranger. She’s wrong…
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How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf
How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper is $1.99! This is book one in paranormal romance series from over a decade ago. I remember my mom had this series and liked it, though I never gave it try.
orthern Exposure
Even in Grundy, Alaska, it’s unusual to find a naked guy with a bear trap clamped to his ankle on your porch. But when said guy turns into a wolf, recent southern transplant Mo Wenstein has no difficulty identifying the problem. Her surly neighbor Cooper Graham—who has been openly critical of Mo’s ability to adapt to life in Alaska—has trouble of his own. Werewolf trouble.
For Cooper, an Alpha in self-imposed exile from his dysfunctional pack, it’s love at first sniff when it comes to Mo. But Cooper has an even more pressing concern on his mind. Several people around Grundy have been the victims of wolf attacks, and since Cooper has no memory of what he gets up to while in werewolf form, he’s worried that he might be the violent canine in question.
If a wolf cries wolf, it makes sense to listen, yet Mo is convinced that Cooper is not the culprit. Except if he’s not responsible, then who is? And when a werewolf falls head over haunches in love with you, what are you supposed to do anyway? The rules of dating just got a whole lot more complicated. . . .
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So We Meet Again is adorable. It’s a good foodie book, and a sweet romance, and just a lot of fun.
Each of the three books in the series “How to flirt with a Naked Werewolf” is 99p at the moment, so all three books for less than £3.
Molly Harper is one of my comfort reread romance authors. I just finished re-reading most of the Jane Jameson and Half Moon Hollow series. Love the first and the third Naked Werewolf books. The second is ok. I get a little annoyed with the heroine.
I understand that The Charm Offensive has many fans. This review from an Indian-American reader points out some of its potential shortcomings: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4010422738
The Brightest Star In Paris by Diana Biller is $2.99.
@flchen1 that’s interesting commentary. I kind of didn’t expect Dev to present as more Indian than American (given his background and his very obvious perceived need to assimilate) but I agree – if you’re not going to make a character’s cultural or ethnic background important to the story, then describing them as anything other than ‘white’ can feel like tokenism.
Had an eye on The Charm Offensive for a while and picked it up on this sale. I was entertained and I liked the main characters but in retrospect it’s more about mental health than about the evolution of a credible romance. The love affair got lost in the minutiae of the Bachelor-esque framing device and all the secondary characters. Which of course is the primary obstacle to the love affair, but …
Personally, I like to see characters working it out TOGETHER on the page, not a big drama moment followed by swift resolution. These guys had too many issues for a swift resolution.
I’ve been wanting to pick up The Charm Offensive for a while but honestly this just reminded me how annoying it is to buy ebooks now. (I have a tablet with both Kindle and Nook apps and they no longer allow in-app purchases so I have to mark it on a wishlist, then go to the website and purchase it there and hope it downloads properly. Frankly its annoying as hell and not making me look favorably on ever purchasing anything over $3.00. First world problems but…what is the point?)
I just bought How To Flirt with a Naked Werewolf, and I’m on chapter 4. I had to laugh when the main character, trying to buy local in a small Alaskan town is shocked that wheat bread is $3.65, how expensive that is. I live in Anchorage and that is cheap for bread, and out in the Bush? She should stock up! Cute book so far, I am enjoying it.
For anyone annoyed at the Google Play store kindle app, you can delete it, download the Amazon Appstore, and get the Amazon version Kindle app from there. As long as you turn off Google’s “auto-update apps” option on the play store, you get back the ability to buy stuff within your Kindle app.
I admit to loving the Charm Offensive a lot – and while I agree that the actual cultural representation was not there for Dev, for me the focus is on mental illness and the struggles of neurodivergents in a neurotypical society was a draw – the kindness and empathy that Dev (and other characters) showed toward Charlie over his issues completely won me over and was so comforting for me to read. And also as someone who reads all of Elyse’s Bachelor recaps there were some hilarious bits in the book that reminded me of that (“food they cannot eat!!”).
Toni Anderson’s box set#3 of her Cold Justice books 7-9 is currently free: https://books2read.com/cjs7-9