Manic Pixie Dream Earl
Manic Pixie Dream Earl by Jenny Holiday is $1.99! I’m hoping this one isn’t an expiring deal. Fingers crossed! It came out this spring and I know many of you were excited for it.
Ted Lasso meets Bridgerton for a 19th century spin on The Hangover in USA Today bestselling author Jenny Holiday’s laugh-out-loud bromantic comedy featuring three Regency-era Earls on their annual trip—ride-or-die buddies offering one another unconditional support in everything from Lady problems to family woes—especially when this trip is crashed by one earl’s pen pal. The complicated fallout from his alter ego being exposed may just be the most challenging problem the boys have to solve yet!
From the author of CANADIAN BOYFRIEND, the perfect romp for fans of Evie Dunmore, India Holton, Virginia Heath, Manda Collins, and Suzanne Allain!
An annual earls’ trip should provide an escape from a gentleman’s cares, but in this refreshingly modern Regency-era series, three handsome BFFs find that wherever they go, romantic complications follow . . .
When not writing, poet Edward Astley, Viscount Featherfinch, spends his time fending off the young ladies of the ton—and some of its young men—and avoiding his cruel father. As heir to the earldom, Edward knows he must marry someday. Alas, he is already hopelessly in love with someone. Hopeless because not only is Miss Julianna Evans not a member of the aristocracy, she is employed. She is a magazine editor—the only one to publish his work. Also, in all their years of increasingly personal correspondence, they’ve never met.
Also, she thinks he’s a woman. Named Euphemia.
Julianna is baffled. How can her soul mate not want to meet? Could it be that Euphemia is not the simple country girl she claims to be? Perhaps she’s wealthy. After all, she’s never cashed any of the bank drafts Julianna has sent. Perhaps Euphemia simply doesn’t want rank to come between them. Well, no more. Having extracted the details of a trip Euphemia is planning, Julianna squanders her meager savings and surprises her at the scene.
He is very, very surprised. As is she.
Now the two will have to decide what is true, what is not, and whether the truest thing of all—love—just might be worth an earldom . . .
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The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning is $1.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! This is a Gothic romance and the first in a trilogy. Elyse mentioned this in a previous Whatcha Reading.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning is back with a gripping, imaginative, and seductive new series in which a young woman moves to Divinity, Louisiana, to inherit a large fortune and a Gothic mansion full of mysteries and ominous secrets…
Zo Grey is reeling from the sudden death of her mother when she receives a surprising call from an attorney in Divinity, Louisiana, with the news she has been left an inheritance by a distant relative, the terms of which he will only discuss in person. Destitute and alone, with nothing left to lose, Zo heads to Divinity and discovers she is the sole beneficiary of a huge fortune and a monstrosity of a house that sits ominously at the peak of Watch Hill—but she must live in it, alone, for three years before the house, or the money, is hers.
Met with this irresistible opportunity to finally build a future for herself, Zo puts aside her misgivings about the foreboding Gothic mansion and the strange circumstances, and moves in, where she is quickly met by a red-eyed Stygian owl and an impossibly sexy Scottish groundskeeper.
Her new home is full of countless secrets and mystifying riddles, with doors that go nowhere, others that are impossible to open, and a turret into which there is no visible means of ingress. And the townspeople are odd…
What Zo doesn’t yet know is that her own roots lie in this very house and that in order to discover her true identity and awaken her dormant powers, she will have to face off against sinister forces she doesn’t quite comprehend—or risk being consumed by them.
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And They Were Roommates by Page Powars is $1.99! This is a YA (perhaps bordering on NA?) where the main characters are roommates at a boys academy. The title made me laugh, though I feel like the statement is often levied at women who were “best friends” and roommates. Maybe I’m wrong!
You can’t resist this hilarious, unputdownable second-chance-romance about the most unlikely, gay roommate mishap.
Romance is the last thing on Charlie’s mind.On his first day at Valentine Academy for Boys, Charlie’s carefully crafted plan to hide his identity as the school’s only trans student is set in motion. Only to be immediately destroyed. Charlie has been assigned the worst roommate in the world (possibly the universe): Jasper Grimes, the boy who broke Charlie’s heart the year before he transitioned.
Except, Jasper doesn’t recognize Charlie.
Who knows how long until Jasper realizes the truth? Charlie has one shot at freedom and a dorm room all to himself, but only if he helps Jasper write love letters on behalf of their fellow students first. No problem. Charlie can help Jasper with some silly letters.
Long nights spent discussing deep romantic feelings with Jasper? Surely, no unintended consequences will arise…
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Enchanted to Meet You by Meg Cabot is $1.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! This is book one in The Witches of West Harbor small town paranormal romance series. Have you read this one?
It’s Magic When You Meet Your Match
In her teenage years, lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously wrong, and brought her all the wrong kind of attention—as well as a lifetime ban from the World Council of Witches.
So no one is more surprised than Jess when, fifteen years later, tall, handsome WCW member Derrick Winters shows up in her quaint little village of West Harbor and claims that Jess is the Chosen One.
She’s the Chosen One
Not chosen by West Harbor’s snobby elite to style them for the town’s tricentennial ball—though Jess owns the chicest clothing boutique in town. And not chosen finally to be on the WCW, either—not that Jess would have said yes, anyway, since she’s done with any organization that tries to dictate what makes a “true” witch.
No, Jess has been chosen to help save West Harbor itself . . .
As Summer Ends, Her Power Grows
But just when Jess is beginning to think that she and Derrick might have a certain magic of their own—and not of the supernatural variety—Jess learns he may not be who she thought he was.
And suddenly Jess finds herself having to make another kind of choice: trust Derrick and work with him to combat the sinister force battling to bring down West Harbor, or use her gift as she always has: to keep herself, and her heart, safe.
Can she work her magic in time?
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The House on Watch Hill was one of the most disappointing ‘gothics’ I’d read in a long time. Also one of the most angry-making in some regards. I honestly think they just smacked ‘gothic’ on the copy because there’s a slightly spooky house, and it’s not even that spooky! It’s frustrating when we’re told that this house is evil, that it wants the MC for some unknown reason and will ruin her, and then it goes nowhere. So honestly it’s more witch-‘politics’ infighting. I know it’s part of a trilogy, but the fact that we get zero answers in book one isn’t great. It’s fine to have an overarching story, but at least give us a little satisfaction.
Also the angry-making part: One of the character off-handedly mentions that some witch families started some of the Witch Hunts in order to eliminate rival families! This is just accepted as normal, and they suffered zero consequences for doing so, even though thousands of innocent women died! Just no! It’s the same problem of ‘we’re the daughters of the Salem ‘Witches’ you didn’t kill.’
Ann Aguirre’s “I Think I’m in Love With an Alien” is $2.99 (I think everywhere), it’s her new one.
I think the title of And They Were Roommates is playing off a popular fanfic tag.
I DNF’d The House on Watch Hill pretty early. I had read some of the author’s earlier work and enjoyed it, so thought I’d give it a try. It was terrible. If you are tempted, I encourage you to read the sample first.
99 cents on kindle: Cat Dragon by Samantha Birch (r/cozyfantasy rec, with a sweet romance)
I DNF’d House at Watch Hill at 14% when the MC spent over 10 pages monologuing about looking for casual sex; the hunt for which she describes as “the elusive fruit for which I hungered”. I love a romance subplot, but this came out of nowhere and felt completely disjointed from the first few chapters. There’s also some weird descriptions of the men she’s considering, that she loves older men (always has ), and knows she needs to be the aggressor because men “hitting on a women too aggressively can get in loads of trouble”. Honestly, those 10 pages alone had some absolutely cringeworthy lines, it was painful to read and completely pulled all of my interest away from the mystery; which wasn’t even explored enough for me to push through. The MC screams Not Like Other Girls and I have no patience for that kind of lazy writing.
My favorite book by Marie Sexton, Winter Oranges, is currently free for US Kindle readers.
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Can we please go back to having real book titles? Tropes in book titles seems lazy.
Free:
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– Plaid to the Bone: A Scottish RomCom (Bad in Plaid Book 1) by Caroline Lee
$.99:
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I’ve been enjoying the feel-good Earls Trip series—happy to snap that up.
I know a lot of people have loved Meg Cabot’s books. I’ve only read one, No Judgements. Obv ymmv, and maybe Enchanted to Meet You is wonderful! But tbh the only thing I found memorable about No Judgments is I still can’t believe a book about a “storm of the century“ could be that boring. Just, uh. Fwiw.
Worse than a trope, And They Were Roommates is a VINE reference ! While I don’t mind it in fanfic, it feels weird to use it in a published work.
$1.99:
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Free:
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To be fair, “they were roommates” went viral because it was already such a cliché. Definitely not the first memespeak title I’ve seen, but I appreciate that it’s being used for a queer romance.
I enjoyed A Gentleman’s Gentleman by TJ Alexander that flchen1 mentioned above.
$.99:
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by Larissa Ione
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The twelve books in the Diner Days series are on sale–I believe many if not all the books include trans characters
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– Written at Randy’s (Diner Days) by Katherine McIntyre
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