Love, Chai, and Other Four Letter Words
Love, Chai, and Other Four Letter Words by Annika Sharma is $1.99! This is book one in the Chai Masala Club series. Another book has been announced in the series and it’s due out in May. Have you read this one?
Kiran Mathur knows firsthand just how dangerous love can be. After all, her sister’s marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran’s family. So she’s decided to redeem romance herself—by not falling for anyone who might disappoint her parents. That is, until she meets her new neighbor Nash Hawthorne…
Nash is a dedicated doctor and dedicated to being alone. His family life has taught him abandonment and he isn’t ready for more. But in spending time with Kiran, he starts to believe in a love he’s never felt before.
For both, love feels like a risk. But when the future only starts to make sense with each other, it might be time to follow their hearts…
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I’m So (Not) Over You by Kosoko Jackson is $2.99! Shana and Carrie joint reviewed this one and gave it C+:
Shana: As romance fans, our expectations often felt out of sync with the story. If this was marketed as witty new adult fiction, we might have enjoyed it more. I think readers who like pop culture-inflected romances, angst, and wealth p0rn, but don’t mind opaque heroes might like this.
A chance to rewrite their ending is worth the risk in this swoony romantic comedy from Kosoko Jackson.
It’s been months since aspiring journalist Kian Andrews has heard from his ex-boyfriend, Hudson Rivers, but an urgent text has them meeting at a café. Maybe Hudson wants to profusely apologize for the breakup. Or confess his undying love. . . But no, Hudson has a favor to ask—he wants Kian to pretend to be his boyfriend while his parents are in town, and Kian reluctantly agrees.
The dinner doesn’t go exactly as planned, and suddenly Kian is Hudson’s plus one to Georgia’s wedding of the season. Hudson comes from a wealthy family where reputation is everything, and he really can’t afford another mistake. If Kian goes, he’ll help Hudson preserve appearances and get the opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the biggest names in media. This could be the big career break Kian needs.
But their fake relationship is starting to feel like it might be more than a means to an end, and it’s time for both men to fact-check their feelings.
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Tall, Dark, and Vampire by Sara Humphreys is $1.99! This is the first book in the Dead in the City paranormal romance series and it seems like most of the series is at a reduced price. It has a hero and heroine who are both vampires, which I think is a great change. It’s also a second chance romance.
He’s dying to have her…
She always knew Fate was cruel…
The last person Olivia Hollingsworth expected to see at her Greenwich Village vampire club was her one true love, Doug Paxton—whom she believed to be dead for centuries. Olivia thought she had moved on, but when Doug reappears, her heart knows she’d rather die than lose him again.
But this is beyond the pale…
Ever since Doug can remember, a red-haired siren has haunted his dreams. He never thought she could be real until he goes to investigate a murder at Olivia’s night club. However, as the bodies keep piling up at her feet, he must fight to prove her innocence—even if it costs him his life…
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The Romance of the Turf Series by Theresa Roman is $2.99! This set includes three historical romance novels and two novellas. I know at least one of these has been favorably reviewed on the site, maybe even two of them!
Enjoy five adventurous and witty love stories set in the Regency horse-racing world!
In one boxed set, Theresa Romain brings you the complete Romance of the Turf series featuring three novels and two novellas.
The Sport of Baronets
Hannah Chandler knows better than to trust the handsome baronet who heads the rival Crosby horse-racing dynasty. But when a prize colt goes missing, her enemy just might become her ally—and her lover…
A Gentleman’s Game
Rosalind Agate is a secretary with secrets. Nathaniel Chandler is a golden boy with a dark side. As they travel together across England for a fortune-making horse race, they find adventure together—and an impossible love.
Scandalous Ever After
Just as widowed Lady Kate Whelan ends her mourning, her old friend Evan Rhys reappears in her life—bringing unexpected passion along with a mystery that alters everything she holds dear.
The Way to a Gentleman’s Heart
After being jilted, Marianne Redfern rebuilt her life as a cook at an exclusive girls’ academy. When her first love visits her in London, will he win her heart for the second time…or break it?
His Wayward Bride
Irene Chandler takes secret missions to help troubled women, a calling that has parted her from her husband. When scandal brings them together again, it’s time to rebuild their marriage—or part forever…
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I DNF’ed I’m So Not Over You. If he ever writes “Hot Mess Comes of Age, Learns How to Use Their Words and Disentangle from Toxic Relationships” I am there, because his voice is wonderful. But there’s only so much “HONEY, NO” you can say in the first 50 pages before you realize you are out of sync with the author.
(Also, AutoCorrect the Colonizer got you, but it’s “Love, *Chai* and Other Four-Letter Words” in the text)
Tall Dark & Vampire is in my DNF folder. I got about a third in and gave up. Paranormal romance is definitely my jam but this one did not grab me, I did not engage with either main character and found the “mystery” distracting not interesting. But at this price if you like urban vampire romance it doesn’t hurt to try it, maybe it will work better for you.
I find Theresa Romain to be underrated as a historical romance author—I’ve read two of the books in that collection plus a novella found them to be enjoyable and competent. Romain often focuses on non-aristocrats, which is a welcome change. (My favorite book of hers, sadly not in this series is SECRETS OF A SCANDALOUS HEIRESS.)
Theresa Romain is absolutely one of my favourite historical romance authors, but her books are oddly high variance for me. I usually love them, but if I don’t love them, I hate them. Usually this means that there’s one book in each series I don’t like, but for some reason I really did not like the entire Romance of the Turf series.
Part of this was just thwarted expectations: I was looking forward to the horse-racing setting because it’s so unusual, but unfortunately, although the first novella is firmly set in the horse-racing world, each of the other books has less to do with horse-racing than the book before, so I felt a bit swindled. But even setting that aside, the books just didn’t really work for me.
Kindle Vella is having a “Read Everything Free” event Oct. 5-11. This lets you read up to 100 episodes/day. Anyone have any recommendations? I’ve been enjoying Eloisa James’ The Seduction Series (season 2 is better than season 1).
I’m a PNR reader who much prefers shifters and witches to vampires, but I enjoyed Tall, Dark and Vampire and went on to read the entire series. I think one of the things I liked about it was that the heroine is not a naive virginal 20 year old whom the several hundred YO vampire hero just can’t resist, but rather a 300 YO vamp who is well-established and runs a successful business.
I thought Love, Chai, and Other Four Letter Words was okay. It was hard to get through because I was very bored. The LO felt very generic.
The rating for I’m So (Not) Over You makes me sad! I’m going to read it soon for a book club, and now I’m nervous.
I was also not a fan of the Romances of the Turf series despite liking Theresa Roman’s other books.
Regarding the Vella event, Yoon Ha Lee (Ninefox Gambit) wrote Fox You using the Jaye Fox pen name. I read about eight episodes but I’m just not much of a serial person. (In general – the number of TV shows where I never got around to the last season/last three episodes is epic.)
“Korean fox spirits once seduced people and feasted on their livers. Eunice, a modern-day fox, is determined to give up her party girl ways–but can she resist the beautiful waitress who’s teaching her the magic of cooking? Waitress Mary Jean is supporting her sick ma. She’s falling for the Asian woman who offered her much-needed income–but she doesn’t want to take advantage of Eunice’s generosity. Can two women find romance together while reinventing Southern cuisine? This story is complete.”
If you’re up for trying something different, this one, written by it four different authors largely in letters between their characters, has all the episodes available:
The Four Winds: Regalia of Power – A Young Adult fantasy that reimagines the world’s history
Four friends live in a dangerous world. They learn martial arts and magic, skills they take back to their war-torn homes: in a Europe overrun by violent gangs following the fall of Rome; an Australia where racist elites oppress Chinese miners; a Salt City in the Saharan desert, where a power-hungry dictator overthrows the matriarchy; and the American colonies, ruled by the grasping Brython Empire. Bound by friendship, these young people rally to protect The Regalia that control the elements.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093MD6QP7
I write horse books with a contemporary setting, and I honestly haven’t found a historical romance set purely in the 29th century racing world that I enjoyed. I think part of it may be the fact that there isn’t an enormous amount of research about what life was actually like behind the scenes of a racetrack or training, so writers try to fudge things.