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Deep End
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood is $2.99! Hazelwood’s STEM romances haven’t worked for me for a variety of reasons, but I’ve heard good things about this one. Have you read it?
A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.
Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships—at least, that’s what she tells herself.
Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.
So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water…
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Can’t Get Enough
Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan is $2.99! This is book three in the Skyland contemporary romance series. Have you read any of these? Do you have a favorite?
“Kennedy Ryan pours her whole soul into everything she writes, and it makes for books that are heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming.” ―EMILY HENRY
Hendrix Barry lives a fabulous life. She has phenomenal friends, a loving family, and a thriving business that places her in the entertainment industry’s rarefied air. Your vision board? She’s probably living it.
She’s a woman with goals, dreams, ambitions—always striving upward. And in the midst of everything, she’s facing her toughest challenge caring for an aging parent.
Who has time for romance? From her experience, there’s a low ROI on relationships. She hasn’t met the man who can keep up with her anyway. Until…him.
Tech mogul Maverick Bell is a dilemma wrapped in an exquisitely tailored suit and knee-melting charm. From their first charged glance at the summer’s hottest party, Hendrix feels like she’s met her match. Only he can’t be. Mav may be the first to make her feel this seen and desired and appreciated, but he’s the last one she can have. Forbidden fruit is the juiciest, and this man is off limits if she plans to stay the course she’s set for herself.
But when Maverick gives chase—pursuing her, spoiling her, understanding her—is it time to let herself have something more?
“One of the finest romance writers of our age.” –Entertainment Weekly
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Blood of Hercules
Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas is $2.99! This is the first book in a duology and is a Why Choose romance. I may pick this one up because I’ve been on a Why Choose kick lately, though I am dubious of anything that is marketed as a “viral sensation.”
Step into the Coliseum at the Spartan War Academy where monsters are made, immortality is won, and even a god can die…
Alexis Hert isn’t a hero, and she certainly isn’t a god. All she’s ever been is a survivor.
But the Fates disagree.
When a blood test leads to her admittance at the Spartan War Academy, she’ll have to do more than merely survive.
Alexis will have to claim her birthright: immortality.
But immortality is a privilege, one earned in the crucible of the academy, where the heroes are villains and classrooms battlegrounds. While gladiators Achilles and Patro, her demanding mentors, hone her into a warrior, Augustus and Kharon, her professors and the brooding heirs to the underworld, haunt her steps and her thoughts.
Because where there are gods, there are bound to be monsters, and there is more than one hunting Alexis…
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The Second Death of Locke
The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino is $3.99! This came out last September and was mentioned on Hide Your Wallet. I remember being pretty excited for this one and I’ve heard good things from those who’ve read it.
Love. Loyalty. Sacrifice.
Grey Flynn has dedicated her life to her mage, Kier. She will be his blade on the battlefield, his healer and protector. The deep well of raw power inside her is Kier’s to wield. They are bound together by blood and magic, but there is one truth Grey dare not reveal . . . not even to Kier.
When a quest to protect the child of an enemy kingdom pulls them into a dangerous mission, Grey will need to decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to protect her secret.
For Grey is no ordinary magical well, and if she dies, all magic dies with her.
The Second Death of Locke is a devastatingly romantic epic fantasy about the undying bond between a knight and their mage, perfect for fans of Rachel Gillig and Alix E. Harrow.
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I liked the Second Death of Locke – it had some really good world building in it and some surprises I didn’t see coming. It was not my favorite fantasy this year (that bar was set really high by The Everlasting), but compared to the fantasy book I just rage-DNFd, The Second Death of Locke was a 5-star read.
I enjoyed Deep End by Ali Hazelwood, but it’s not a book I’ll likely reread.
I’m actually reading DEEP END right now—and while it reads a bit “young” (MCs are college athletes in their early twenties), I’m enjoying it so far. There is a bdsm element, but I’m not far enough in to the book to see how that factors into the plot.
DEEP END is not an easy read, although I enjoyed it very much. I don’t know much about “discipline,” but the MCs really worked towards understanding and consent. Recommended.
@drewbird: Well now I’m nosy and want to know what you DNFed!
@Kareni: I am not a re-reader by nature anyway. 😛
Blood of Hercules is kind of incoherent and characters take actions that are inconsistent and confusing at best. There’s also a lot of verbal abuse and weaponized power imbalance. I think the duology would make a decent comic book, but as novels they make no sense.
@Amanda: Upon a Starlit Tide. I was already not enjoying the naivete of many characters (falling for guys who were ca flotilla of red flags, being told there was danger and not believing it and walking RIGHT INTO THE DANGER), but then a really cruel violent thing happened almost 75% into the book and that was it, no more chances, I rage quit. And I can handle violence – one of my favorite series is the Scholomance series, and I got A Deadly Education thanks to a sale post on this site! But monsters and fighting for survival I can do, pure malicious psychopathic cruelty I cannot, especially when I felt the fmc and at least 1 love interest were a little TSTL. AS ALWAYS YMMV! I don’t want to yuck on someone’s yum – this one was actually rec’d by a friend and now I know we do not have the same taste in books 😆
I too have heard not great things about Blood of Hercules. Also I genuinely want to know who coined the phrase ‘why choose?’ which feels redundant when ‘polyamory’ is right there and is a perfectly good term. I mean I do sort of get why I guess, but it seems needlessly obfuscating of what it would be in real life, and that irritates me.
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@Kael: To me, Why Choose communicates a specific kind of relationship. Often, the heroine is the only one with multiple partners and rarely do the heroes form romantic bonds (though not always!), so one person (the heroine) could be considered poly but not her romantic interests. I see polyamory as more of a complex web of romantic relationships where multiple people have more than one partner and varying degrees of commitment.
Why Choose feels almost more like a fantasy or wish-fulfillment to me. I can see some poly people not exactly wanting a Why Choose romance to be indicative of their relationship style.