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The Perks of Loving a Wallflower
The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley is $2.99! This is book two in The Wynchesters historical romance series. This one has been mentioned a couple times on the site, including a Hide Your Wallet post and Get Rec’d with Amanda.
Fans of Bridgerton will love this Regency romp in which a proper Society miss recruits a very improper lady grifter in a quest for vengeance, only to find love instead.
As a master of disguise, Thomasina Wynchester can be a polite young lady—or a bawdy old man. Anything to solve the case. Her latest assignment unveils a top-secret military cipher covering up an enigma that goes back centuries. But when Tommy’s beautiful new client turns out to be the highborn lady she’s secretly smitten with, more than her mission is at stake . . .
Bluestocking Miss Philippa York doesn’t believe in love. Her cold heart didn’t pitter-patter when she was betrothed to a duke, nor did it break when he married someone else. All Philippa desires is to rescue her priceless manuscript and decode its clues to unmask a villain. She hates that she needs a man’s help—so she’s delighted to discover the clever, charming baron at her side is in fact a woman. Her cold heart . . . did it just pitter-patter?
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Lease on Love
Lease on Love by Falon Ballard is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance with an opposites attract, forced proximity setup. I admit the heroine took some time to warm up to and the hero is dealing with the death of his parents and is fully immersed in that grief.
Beach Read meets The Flatshare in this warmly funny and delightfully sharp debut rom-com about a down-on-her-luck young woman who turns an innocent mix-up between a dating app and a roommate app into a new chance at love.
She wasn’t looking for love until it landed on her doorstep.
After getting passed over for an overdue—and much-needed—promotion, Sadie Green is in desperate need of three things: a stiff drink, a new place to live, and a one-night stand. When one drink turns into one too many, Sadie mixes up a long-ignored dating app for a roommate-finding app and finds herself on the doorstep of Jack Thomas’s gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone. Too bad she’s more attracted to his impressive real estate than she is to the man himself.
Jack, still grieving the unexpected death of his parents, has learned to find comfort in video games and movie marathons instead of friends. So while he doesn’t know just what to make of the vivaciously verbose Sadie, he’s willing to offer her his spare bedroom while she gets back on her feet. And with the rent unbeatably low, Sadie can finally pursue her floristry side hustle full-time. The two are polar opposites, but as Sadie’s presence begins to turn the brownstone into a home, they both start to realize they may have just made the deal of a lifetime.
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A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows is $2.99! This was mentioned on a previous Hide Your Wallet. It’s a fantasy novel with a queer romance. However, definitely check for trigger warnings as I know sexual assault and healing from trauma play big themes in the book.
“Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.”
Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry at all, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears he’s ruined the diplomatic union before it can even begin. But while his family is ready to disown him, the Tithenai envoy has a different solution: for Vel to marry his former intended’s brother instead.
Caethari Aeduria always knew he might end up in a political marriage, but his sudden betrothal to a man from Ralia, where such relationships are forbidden, comes as a shock.
With an unknown faction willing to kill to end their new alliance, Vel and Cae have no choice but to trust each other. Survival is one thing, but love—as both will learn—is quite another.
Byzantine politics, lush sexual energy, and a queer love story that is by turns sweet and sultry. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is an exploration of gender, identity, and self-worth. It is a book that will live in your heart long after you turn the last page.
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Kings of the Wyld
RECOMMENDED: Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames is $2.99! Queen Beverly Jenkins recommended this one on a previous podcast:
The book is amazing! It’s laugh-out-loud funny in some parts. The writing is wonderful.
Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best — the meanest, dirtiest, most feared crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld.
Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk – or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay’s door with a plea for help. His daughter Rose is trapped in a city besieged by an enemy one hundred thousand strong and hungry for blood. Rescuing Rose is the kind of mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for.
It’s time to get the band back together for one last tour across the Wyld.
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A Strange and Stubborn Endurance was well worth the read. I thought it played well with some traditional tropes that are traditionally viewed as feminine and used them well in a male/male romance with a marriage of political convenience. I also liked the world building and the juxtaposition of a fictional puritanical country stuck in the equivalent of the Victorian age in terms of gender, sexuality, repression etc. with an abutting country that’s the complete opposite, and how a person from the former who immigrates to the latter can bloom and grow once away from repression. Nearly all of the book takes place in the new country, and there’s a lot of opportunity to watch one of the main characters experience that growth and come into his own. I hope we get more in this world, as I’d loved to revisit it and spend more time with some of the characters
I found LEASE ON LOVE very enjoyable. More on the women’s fiction side of romance, but still a romance. Some Goodreads people didn’t like the main character, but I did and enjoyed the slow burn.
Kings of the Wyld was a joy to read! The creative cursing alone made me giggle out loud on a plane. I tagged it as a future re-read.
Lease On Love is showing up as $10.99 for me, unfortunately. Maybe it was on sale yesterday?
A Kelly Hunter book, Must Love Christmas, is free on Amazon and Kobo (can’t speak for other sites). I sometimes find Christmas romances a bit annoying, but Hunter’s a solid writer for me, and I trust her to not fall too deeply into the Festive Pit of Twee.
Books 1-4 of Love Belvin’s Connecticut Kings series are currently free.
Avery Flynn’s Neanderthal (Last Man Standing #2) is $.99.
Erin Nicholas’s Head Over Hooves (part of the Boys of the Bayou universe) is $.99.
CM Nacosta’s Run, Run Rabbit is $.99.
GA Aiken’s How to Drive a Dragon Crazy (Dragon Kin #6) is $1.99.
Merry Elf-ing Christmas by Beth Bolden is $.99
I haven’t read “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” because I can’t get past the one heroine being called Tommy. I have a thing (really a pet peeve) about heroines in lesfic – usually the more butch of the two – having an androgynous/traditionally masculine name/nickname. It irks me immensely.
@HeatherS It’s pretty clear that Tommy should be read as NB/GQ, if that makes a difference? One of the conversations about the book was that the cover is lovely but also completely misrepresents the characters.
I didn’t love it, but many others did, including Alexis Hall, who has a nice GR review that may help you determine whether it’s worth your while.