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Radiance
Radiance by Grace Draven is $1.99! This was a previous book club pick on the site and a fantasy romance. I remember really liking this one, especially the beginning dynamics between the hero and heroine. Have you read it?
THE PRINCE OF NO VALUE
Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined.
THE NOBLEWOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn’t just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she’s known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light.
Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart.
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Hit Me With Your Best Scot
Hit Me With Your Best Scot by Suzanne Enoch is $2.99! This is the third book in the Wild Wicked Highlanders series. I think these historical covers are pretty dreamy, but I’ve never read a single book by this author. Have you? Thoughts?
The MacTaggert brothers have one task:
Find English brides or lose their land!Coll MacTaggert, Viscount Glendarril, is a big, brawny Highlander who doesn’t like being told what to do—not even by his exasperated English mother who is determined to see her eldest son wedded and bedded. However, when he comes to the rescue of an irresistibly beautiful woman, Coll discovers that he may have found his perfect match…
The challenge isn’t that Persephone Jones is famous, wealthy, independent, and smarter than anyone he knows. The problem is that she is not interested in marrying any man—especially not a hot-headed Scot—even if he is the only man who seems to understand who she really is even when she’s not sure herself. When Coll learns that Persephone is actually a lady-in-hiding and someone is willing to kill her for what she stands to inherit…Well, Coll has never been one to turn down a fight. When hearts are involved, nothing comes between a Highlander and his lady.
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My Darling Duke
My Darling Duke by Stacy Reid is $1.99! This is the first book in the Sinful Wallflowers series. Shana wrote a Lightning Review for this one and gave it C-. If you’ve read this one, how did you like it (or not)?
Miss Katherine Danvers has always been a wallflower. But now, with her family on the brink of financial ruin, she finds herself a desperate wallflower. To save her family, she’ll do anything. Luckily, she has the perfect plan…
She’ll impress the ton by simply announcing she is engaged to the reclusive and mysterious Duke of Thornton, Alexander Masters, and secure strong matches for her sisters. No one has heard from the duke in years. Surely he’ll never find out before her sisters’ weddings, and she can go back to her own quiet life.
Soon, though, everything is out of control. At first, it’s just a few new ball gowns on the duke’s accounts. Then, it’s interviews with reporters eager for gossip. Before she knows it, Katherine has transformed herself into Kitty Danvers, charming and clever belle of the ton—with everyone eager to meet her thankfully absent fiancé.
But when the enigmatic Alexander Masters suddenly arrives in the city, dashing and oh so angry, he demands retribution. Except not in the way Katherine expected…
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Tokyo Ever After
Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean is $2.99! This has been featured on the side for both Book Beat and Hide Your Wallet. Definite Princess Diaries vibes here in the best way! However, some readers questioned the plausibility of the setup.
The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in Emiko Jean’s Tokyo Ever After, the irresistible story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan!
Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in—it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it’s always been Izumi—or Izzy, because “It’s easier this way”—and her mom against the world. But then Izumi discovers a clue to her previously unknown father’s identity…and he’s none other than the Crown Prince of Japan. Which means outspoken, irreverent Izzy is literally a princess.
In a whirlwind, Izumi travels to Japan to meet the father she never knew and discover the country she always dreamed of. But being a princess isn’t all ball gowns and tiaras. There are conniving cousins, a hungry press, a scowling but handsome bodyguard who just might be her soulmate, and thousands of years of tradition and customs to learn practically overnight.
Izumi soon finds herself caught between worlds, and between versions of herself—back home, she was never “American” enough, and in Japan, she must prove she’s “Japanese” enough. Will Izumi crumble under the weight of the crown, or will she live out her fairy tale, happily ever after?
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I wish I could read Grace Draven’s Radiance for the first time all over again. It broke me out of a prolonged reading slump. The main characters are each considered physically appealing by their own people, but repellent by the others. Attraction can occur only from the inside out. And by gum, Draven is a master at building that appeal.
I think Radiance is the best book Grace Draven has written – I loved it so much I also bought it on audio. A really good book.
As an aside, I believe she has been recently diagnosed with cancer. I remember seeing something on Twitter about it. Sending healing thoughts her way.
Somewhere between SBTB, DA and the world, several posters squeed about Victoria Goddard’s THE HANDS OF THE EMPEROR (Lays of the Hearth-Fire Book 1). I can’t find any reference to it on either site, but this 969-page book is now available at Amazon US for $4.99. Many comparisons to THE GOBLIN EMPEROR fwiw.
Yes! I just read Radiance last month after making myself wait because…whY?? But I loved it: slow-burn, deep takes, hot! and a pair that ended up really knowing and loving each other. What’s not to love? Enjoyed reviewing it for YT, where it’s not as well known as on Tiktok.
Some days I really wish for book amnesia so I can have that first read joy all over again. RADIANCE will always be a pleasure to read, but oh, that first read high.
I’ve read the first 2 in the Wild Wicked Highland series and thought they were good. Been waiting for the 3rd to go on sale.
I have not read this particular Enoch, but I ADORED her contemporary Samantha Jellicoe series when I read it many years ago (h is a semi-reformed cat-burglar, H is a millionaire who falls in love with the woman who was trying to steal from his and ended up saving his life instead). I also read and liked one of her other historical series (Lessons in Love). She tends to write man-meets-his-match type stories with really intelligent/competent women, if that helps anyone else?
I love Radiance! Reading it was my treat for completing grad school tasks. It’s definitely on my reread list!
Another recommendation for Radiance!
I liked Victoria Goddard’s THE HANDS OF THE EMPEROR (it is a tome though!), but I REALLY REALLY liked THE GOBLIN EMPEROR.
In romance novels its hard to find any book truly different but RADIANCE surpasses all the romance troupes. Neither the hero or heroine considers the other attractive physically and their cultures are dramatically different but in this arranged royal marriage respect turns into love. I can’t recommend this book highly enough. A definite keeper!