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The Boxing Baroness
RECOMMENDED: The Boxing Baroness by Minerva Spencer is $2.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal. Carrie reviewed this and gave it B+:
The more grounded in history the novel was, the more I liked it. For instance, I enjoyed seeing how Marianne trained every day. However, people with more patience for plot than I will love the same increasing complications that just made me want to take a nap. There’s something here for everyone and I look forward to the next book, The Dueling Duchess.
Inspired by the real-life Boxing Baroness, acclaimed author Minerva Spencer sparkles with this brilliantly imagined story of her romance with an infuriating duke in the first of a witty, Regency-set, feminist series exploring the role of women in a rigidly patriarchal society. A new generation of readers and Bridgerton fans will delight in the rapier sharp wit, sexual fireworks, and thought-provoking entertainment of The Boxing Baroness.
Magnetic and educated, Marianne Simpson has the manner of a lady and the looks of a lover, not a fighter. Neither of which explains her occupation as a boxer in her uncle’s circus, Farnham’s Fantastical Female Fayre. Nonetheless, when St. John Powell, the exquisitely handsome Duke of Staunton, begins turning up at her shows, she finds herself dangerously distracted by the powerful peer’s mysterious presence. With her safety at stake, Marianne’s days in the ring are numbered. But how long can she fight her attraction to the man the ton calls Lord Flawless?
St. John Powell doesn’t just want Marianne Simpson, he needs her … to rescue his brother, who is being held for ransom by a treasonous English baron—the man all of Britain knows as the Rake of Rakes.
No matter how little Marianne wants to see her duplicitous ex-lover, the man responsible for the humiliating nickname the Boxing Baroness, St. John must convince her. Even if it means climbing into the ring with the beautiful boxer and taking everything she’s got . . .
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By the Book
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory is $1.99! This is a Beauty and the Beast inspired contemporary romance and we’ve had the cover on Cover Awe before. Have you read this one?
A tale as old as time—for a new generation…
Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. So when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author who has failed to deliver his long-awaited manuscript, Isabelle sees an opportunity to finally get the promotion she deserves.
All she has to do is go to the author’s Santa Barbara mansion and give him a quick pep talk or three. How hard could it be?
But Izzy quickly finds out she is in over her head. Beau Towers is not some celebrity lightweight writing a tell-all memoir. He is jaded and withdrawn and—it turns out—just as lost as Izzy. But despite his standoffishness, Izzy needs Beau to deliver, and with her encouragement, his story begins to spill onto the page. They soon discover they have more in common than either of them expected, and as their deadline nears, Izzy and Beau begin to realize there may be something there that wasn’t there before.
Best-selling author Jasmine Guillory’s reimagining of a beloved fairy tale is a romantic triumph of love and acceptance and learning that sometimes to truly know a person you have to read between the lines.
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Every Heart a Doorway
RECOMMENDED: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire is $1.99! I love this series. The writing is so beautiful and I would happily send 300+ pages in the world McGuire has created. However, I will warn that these books have a haunting sadness to them.
Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children
No Solicitations
No Visitors
No QuestsChildren have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere… else.
But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.
Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced… they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.
But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.
No matter the cost.
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Sunshine
Sunshine by Robin McKinley is $1.99! McKinley has been recommended several times at SBTB HQ. I always love featuring this one because we get some really lovely comments.
“Her feet are already bleeding – if you like feet…”
There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it’s unwise to walk. Sunshine knew that. But there hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years, and she needed a place to be alone for a while.
Unfortunately, she wasn’t alone. She never heard them coming. Of course you don’t, when they’re vampires.
They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. And they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned mansion – within easy reach of a figure stirring in the moonlight.
She knows that he is a vampire. She knows that she’s to be his dinner, and that when he is finished with her, she will be dead. Yet, as dawn breaks, she finds that he has not attempted to harm her. And now it is he who needs her to help him survive the day…
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Sunshine is fabulous. I know people bugged her for a sequel for years but alas, she didn’t want to go back there. It can be a bit ‘wordy’ but a great, great story that I highly recommend if you have never read it before.
Sunshine is my favorite vampire books ever, and one of my favorite love stories too even if some people don’t consider it a love story. I do! Definitely!
*pout* I’m still geo blocked from the digital edition(s) of SUNSHINE. As I have been for years. *pout* (I have the mmpb, but digital is so much more convenient!)
Sunshine is incredible world building. There’s a lot of “this will go somewhere” thoughts that aren’t followed. I think that’s why there’s been requests for a sequel.
The Guillory is not her strongest work—more telling than showing.
I picked up SUNSHINE the last time it was on sale and enjoyed it.
I think this is the first time I have read and enjoyed all four books!
SUNSHINE of course shines out, here. McKinley is one of my favourite authors of all time and SUNSHINE is one of the reasons for that. I do agree that it’s pace is slower than most books now, but I loved that about it.
The Guillory and Spencer were both enjoyable reads.
I loved EVERY HEART A DOORWAY, but think it requires a warning that there is also a lot of truly tough stuff there and not just sadness. The series is great, though, so evocative and well-written.
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Sunshine is one of my all time favorites. And while I would love a sequel, it still absolutely stands on its own.
Sunshine was amazing and I would pay so much money that I don’t have for a sequel
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Vampires are extremely not usually my thing (I’m more of a general fantasy fan, not very interested in paranormal stuff at all, and very much not into anything too dark or horror-ish), but I read Sunshine anyway because Robin McKinley is one of my all time favorite authors, and ended up loving it and have reread frequently (and like everyone else, would kill for a sequel, though it stands fine on its own).
So worth giving it a shot even if you might not normally go for vampire stuff, especially at that price!
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A friend of mine who has been a bookseller for decades and read tons of vampire books says “Sunshine” is the best vampire book she’s ever read. Period.
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