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You Sexy Thing
RECOMMENDED: You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo is $2.99! Carrie read this one and gave it a B+:
I recommend this for fans of Farscape, Firefly, complicated relationships, and cooking shows. If found family and food are your thing, you will like this book, although please be aware that the lighthearted tone takes a temporary swivel into scary and sad when the pirates get involved.
Just when they thought they were out…
TwiceFar station is at the edge of the known universe, and that’s just how Niko Larson, former Admiral in the Grand Military of the Hive Mind, likes it.
Retired and finally free of the continual war of conquest, Niko and the remnants of her former unit are content to spend the rest of their days working at the restaurant they built together, The Last Chance.
But, some wars can’t ever be escaped, and unlike the Hive Mind, some enemies aren’t content to let old soldiers go. Niko and her crew are forced onto a sentient ship convinced that it is being stolen and must survive the machinations of a sadistic pirate king if they even hope to keep the dream of The Last Chance alive.
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Read Between the Lines
Read Between the Lines by Rachel Lacey is $1.99! This is a contemporary f/f romance that has been mentioned on both Book Beat and Hide You Wallet. It was also an Amazon First Reads selection, so double check your ereader before buying!
From award-winning author Rachel Lacey comes a playful romance about a Manhattan bookstore owner and a reclusive author who love to hate—and hate to love—each other.
Books are Rosie Taft’s life. And ever since she took over her mother’s beloved Manhattan bookstore, they’ve become her home too. The only thing missing is her own real-life romance like the ones she loves to read about, and Rosie has an idea of who she might like to sweep her off her feet. She’s struck up a flirty online friendship with lesbian romance author Brie, and what could be more romantic than falling in love with her favorite author?
Jane Breslin works hard to keep her professional and personal lives neatly separated. By day, she works for the family property development business. By night, she puts her steamier side on paper under her pen name: Brie. Jane hasn’t had much luck with her own love life, but her online connection with a loyal reader makes Jane wonder if she could be the one.
When Rosie learns that her bookstore’s lease has been terminated by Jane’s company, romance moves to the back burner. Even though they’re at odds, there’s no denying the sparks that fly every time they’re together. When their online identities are revealed, will Jane be able to write her way to a happy ending, or is Rosie’s heart a closed book?
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The Chocolate Kiss
RECOMMENDED: The Chocolate Kiss by Laura Florand is $1.99! This is what Sarah had to say:
I love this book. When I talk about traveling through the books I read, this is a title that comes to mind first. It’s a contemporary romance set in Paris, and it’s the second in a series though I didn’t read the first and was just fine here.
The Heart of Paris
Welcome to La Maison des Sorcières. Where the window display is an enchanted forest of sweets, a collection of conical hats delights the eye and the habitués nibble chocolate witches from fanciful mismatched china. While in their tiny blue kitchen, Magalie Chaudron and her two aunts stir wishes into bubbling pots of heavenly chocolat chau.
But no amount of wishing will rid them of interloper Philippe Lyonnais, who has the gall to open one of his world famous pastry shops right down the street. Philippe’s creations seem to hold a magic of their own, drawing crowds of beautiful women to their little isle amidst the Seine, and tempting even Magalie to venture out of her ivory tower and take a chance, a taste. . .a kiss.
Parisian princesses, chocolate witches, pâtissier princes and sweet wishes–an enchanting tale of amour et chocolat.
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Miss Wonderful
Miss Wonderful by Loretta Chase is $2.99! This is the first book in the Carsington Brothers series, which I know is beloved here. Which book in the series is your favorite? Do you think they hold up?
Alistair Carsington really wishes he didn’t love women quite so much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for a place far from civilization: Derbyshire – in winter!
Once there, he hopes to avoid all temptation, and repay the friend who saved his life on the fields of Waterloo. But this noble aim drops him straight into opposition with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, a woman every bit as intelligent, obstinate, and devious as he – and maddeningly irresistible.
Mirabel Oldridge already has her hands full keeping her brilliant and aggravatingly eccentric father out of trouble.
The last thing she needs is a stunningly attractive and overbright aristocrat reminding her she has a heart – not to mention a body he claims is so stylishly clothed that undressing her is practically a civic duty.
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I just wanted to say I love the Chocolate books 🙂 The Chocolate Kiss is my favorite, I read it a few years ago now and I STILL make hot chocolate this way, with the intentions and everything
I just read the Carsington series last year, and I quite enjoyed it! For me, the best book (and the only one I kept) is LORD PERFECT — I really love a repressed, duty-bound hero. 🙂
The Chocolate Kiss is my fave of this series too! IT’S SO DELICIOUS. (Sorry.)
Just downloaded a sample of You Sexy Thing — so, former soldiers, human and not, in the far reaches of outer space, trying to get a food critic to give their struggling restaurant an all-important Nikkelin Orb? DEAR LORD YES.
I enjoyed the hero and heroine in MISS WONDERFUL, but found the villain a bit one-note and the resolution between the hero and his best friend (who employs the villain) to be unsatisfying.
I think Chase is just a bit weird about male friendships—I’ve read a couple of her books where there are what I would think of as significant breaches between the characters that are just kind of glossed over.
I found Miss Wonderful an enjoyable romp, but there were points where I kept thinking the plot was a little too busy, and had to employ suspension of disbelief a few times, especially when the heroine’s father has a well, let’s just call it a misadventure. But the dialogue is witty, and I ordered the second book in the series afterwards.
Mr. Impossible… that is all.
I’m with @Sandra. Let’s here it for the lovable sex puppy hero!
I love the sense of place in Florand’s books, enough that I think I’ve read all of them even though I never quite like them because something about the way she does gender politics really does not work for me. There’s also one book where the hero, who has been trampling over the heroine’s boundaries all over the place, decides to get mad at her because he finds out that she “let herself be abused” which… idk, I’m not really here for that.
I loved YOU SEXY THING as an absolute space romp and for its characters. Niko and her crew just want their dream restaurant and a quiet life. IIRC, the journey is both funny and sad, well worth reading.
There was too much tonal dissonance in YOU SEXY THING. The tone of the beginning of the book did not prepare me for the truly terrible torture that happens later.
@Snow: You’ve given me a lot to ponder. I agree with you and wish I had re-read Carrie’s review/warning before commenting.
Last year so much of what I read went to really dark and violent places, and it all blurred. It’s disturbing to think I’ve become inured to that. The ending, assuming I remember even that much correctly, was satisfying and that’s where I left it.
This has been a good reminder to read/pay attention rather than just consume pages. Thanks.
I loved “Read Between The Lines” SO much. It was one of my favorite romances last year. It’s blatantly derivative of “You’ve Got Mail”, doesn’t pretend otherwise, and I loved the slow, believable romance developing between the heroines. Add in the fact that they were grown ups who knew how to use their words and communicate and I was sold on their relationship 100%.