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Any Rogue Will Do
Any Rogue Will Do by Bethany Bennett is $1.99! This is book one in the Misfits of Mayfair series and features a fake relationship. Book two was recently featured in an edition of Cover Awe. I’m actually pretty curious about this series, if anyone has read it and would like to share their thoughts.
He ruined her reputation―now he’s the only one who can save it.
For exactly one season, Lady Charlotte Wentworth played the biddable female the ton expected―and all it got her was society’s mockery and derision. Now she’s determined to be in charge of her own future. So when an unwanted suitor tries to manipulate her into an engagement, she has a plan. He can’t claim to be her fiancĂ© if she’s engaged to someone else. Even if it means asking for help from the last man she would ever marry.
Ethan, Lord Amesbury, made a lot of mistakes, but the one he regrets the most is ruining Lady Charlotte’s reputation. He’s older and wiser now, but his attraction to Lottie never wavered. Going along with her charade is the least he can do to clean the slate and perhaps earn her forgiveness. And, if he’s lucky, her love.
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A Good Duke is Hard to Find
A Good Duke is Hard to Find by Christina Britton is $1.99! This is the first book in the Isle of Synne series and I’m sure it’s pronounced “sin” but my mind went to “sine” and I, for one, will avoid an island of calculus. No thank you!
Get swept away by a Regency romance of broken engagements, second chances, and stolen kisses from the author whom Publishers Weekly calls “irresistible”.
After her third fiancĂ© leaves her at the altar, Lenora Hartley is beginning to think she’s cursed. One thing’s for certain: she needs to escape London and her father’s tyrannical attempts to find her yet another suitor. The Isle of Synne, an isolated and idyllic retreat off Britain’s northern coast, is blessedly far from society’s gossip, but it also carries haunting reminders of her first fiancĂ©. Letting go of the past to find happiness seems impossible—until Lenora is thrown in the path of a gruff, mysterious blue-eyed man who makes her pulse race.
Next in line for a dukedom he doesn’t want to inherit, Peter Ashford is only on the isle to exact revenge on the man who is responsible for his mother’s death. Once he’s completed the task, he’ll return to America where his life can finally be his own. Yet when he meets the beautiful and kind Miss Hartley, he can’t help but be drawn to her. Can Peter put aside his plans for vengeance for the woman who has come to mean everything to him?
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Vicious
RECOMMENDED: Vicious by V.E. Schwab is $2.99! Though I have not read this, several of my friends (four to be exact, two of whom have rated it five starts on Goodreads) have and absolutely loved it. With rivalries, super powers, and experiments gone wrong, Vicious has been compared to being a literary comic book.
A masterful, twisted tale of ambition, jealousy, betrayal, and superpowers, set in a near-future world.
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?
In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn’t automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.
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Holidays with the Wongs: The Complete Series
Holidays with the Wongs by Jackie Lau is $2.99! Thank you to everyone who let us know about this sale. This set collects all four holiday novellas in the Holidays with the Wongs series, which have been favorably mention on the site.
Four holiday romance novellas about the Wong siblings!
Book 1: A Match Made for Thanksgiving
Advertising executive Nick Wong enjoys living in Toronto. He loves late nights partying and taking women back to his penthouse. And so it is with great reluctance that he returns to his boring hometown of Mosquito Bay for Thanksgiving.
This year, however, is even worse than usual. His interfering parents and grandparents, frustrated with the lack of weddings in the family, have invited blind dates for him and his three siblings. Nick’s brother Greg has been set up with Lily Tseng, who just so happens to be Nick’s latest one-night stand, the one he can’t get out of his mind.
Although Nick has never been interested in settling down, Lily has him reconsidering. Perhaps he’s good for more than a single night of sex, dumplings, and bubble tea after all. But first, he has to get through this painful weekend with his family and convince her that she should be with him, not Greg…
Book 2:Â A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas
Greg Wong hates when things don’t go according to plan, so he definitely doesn’t appreciate it when his mother insists he drive Tasha Edwards back to Mosquito Bay for the Christmas holidays. He likes peace and quiet when he’s in the car, and that’s the opposite of what he’ll get with Tasha, his high school sweetheart. The first woman he ever loved.
Not that he has feelings for her now. Of course not. Though while he’s trying not to smile at her laughter and terrible singing, he can’t help noticing how beautiful she is.
And then his plans veer further off course when a snowstorm forces them to spend the night in an unheated motel room with only one bed…
Book 3:Â A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year
After his family’s matchmaking extravaganza at Thanksgiving, high school teacher Zach Wong is terrified of what his parents might do for Chinese New Year. Surely they’ll try to set him up yet again, especially now that his older brothers are in relationships. Zach, however, has no interest in dating, not since his fiancée left him.
The solution? Find a fake girlfriend to avoid his parents’ matchmaking.
Jo MacGregor, the town dentist, is the obvious choice. They both live in Mosquito Bay and have been friends for years, ever since they bonded over broken engagements. A few kisses and dates around town, and everyone will believe they’re in a relationship. No problem.
Except their fake relationship is starting to feel more and more real…
Book 4:Â A Big Surprise for Valentine’s Day
Amber Wong has landed her dream job at the Stratford Festival, and life is looking good. Sure, she hasn’t had sex in so long that her condoms have expired, but she’ll just pick up some new ones, along with some discounted Christmas chocolate, at the grocery store.
And that’s where she runs into Dr. Sebastian Lam, the son of her parents’ close friends, whom she hasn’t seen in years. He’s moved back to Ontario, newly single, and… Oh my God. He’s really hot.
The attraction is mutual and no-strings-attached sex is the perfect arrangement for both of them, since Amber has sworn off dating after a string of terrible boyfriends.
But what if their families find out they’re spending time together and start interfering in their lives? That would be a disaster.
Even worse? If they develop feelings for each other, given a relationship is the last thing Amber wants right now…
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I bought Any Rogue Will Do after seeing it in Cover Awe—I’m a sucker for “they knew each other in the past and he wronged her somehow and now he’s sorry.” Mostly I really liked it. It seemed different somehow, like when the protagonists spoke to each other they seemed more like real people than like characters in a historical romance novel. And at times it just didn’t go the way they usually go, which was refreshing. Also it mentioned menstruation and demonstrated the use of historical French condoms, which I thought was cool. Toward the end, it started to drag for me but I’m not sure why. Also the sex scenes only kind of worked for me—they seemed maybe a little flowery? But I liked both protagonists a lot.
The opening scene involves a carriage accident including blood and an eye injury which, if you’re at all squeamish about that, was a bit much, but once it’s over it’s over.
I too would avoid the Island of Calculus! Ha! Clicked the Lau Series. Thanks
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Although “sine” might suggest it’s really the Island of Trigonometry.
Which may or may not be an improvement.
Of course, this could just be me going off on a tangent…
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I enjoyed Any Rogue Will Do enough to immediately buy the next book in the series. January was a long time ago book-wise, and that’s all I remember.
Question: Does Vicious have any romance in it?
I liked ANY ROGUE WILL DO— Lottie and Ethan are charming and funny and I enjoyed the secondary characters. I was a bit worried about how far the plot had progressed by the half way mark (it seemed to ripe for a Big Misunderstanding Because People Can’t Use Their Words), but fortunately! there is a villain who becomes increasingly villainous and drives the plot forward. I didn’t like the second one as much because the conflict felt too contrived.
I loved VE Schwab’s Shades of Magic series, but had to DNF VICIOUS because I found it too dark and violent. (My husband loved it though, so a YMMV situation for sure.
I could not get through “Vicious”. I was listening to the audiobook and I just couldn’t care about the main characters. The world seemed interesting, at least.
Mari Carr’s Wild Irish box set of the first four in her contemporary series is free: https://maricarr.com/wild-irish-boxed-set/
I feel similarly to FashionablyEvil re: Any Rogue Will Do. Great characters, lovely second-chance romance, and Jane is also right about the opening. I comes in with a bang and is pure competency porn on both sides. I read it when it came out and actually got a yen to re-read it earlier this year. The West End Earl was OK, but was not an ‘I’m gonna reach for this one again and again’ book. The story was fine, just not my tropes. The second book sets up a third that has yet to be written. I want Ms. Bennett to complete Misfits of Mayfair so that I can see what else she may have brewing.