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Body Check
Body Check by Elle Kennedy is $1.99! This was Kennedy’s first hockey romance and released in 2009 under Harlequin Blaze. It’s since had a re-release for obvious reasons and I don’t love the new cover.
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Off Campus series, don’t miss Elle Kennedy’s first hockey romance, now including bonus scenes! More story, more hockey—and more heat!
After a childhood spent being dragged around the country by her hockey coach father, Hayden Houston intends to take some time to figure out her future. Whether that future will include her currently off-again boyfriend remains to be seen. What it certainly won’t include is the for-one-night-only guy she just met at a bar.
It seems hockey star Brody Croft did not get the memo about being temporary. Big, bold and driven, he’s dedicated in everything he does. Up till now, that’s been his team—the one owned by Hayden’s dad. But his night with Hayden has sparked something he didn’t expect. The two of them are good together. Really good. There’s a connection he’s never experienced before, one he knows they’d be wrong to ignore. Even with a game-fixing scandal testing both their loyalties—to teammates, to friends…to family.
Part of Hayden wants to turn tail and run. A complicated relationship with a bad boy hockey player is exactly what she never wanted. But when it comes to Brody, Hayden is realizing that people can be so much more than what they seem.
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How to Summon a Fairy Godmother
How to Summon a Fairy Godmother by Laura J. Mayo is $4.99! This is book one in the Fairies and Familiars series. Book two is also available for $4.99. Have you read this one?
If a fairy godmother can get one sister into a marriage, getting another out of one should be easy…
Lady Theodosia Balfour has certainly gotten the short end of the stick—her stepsister, the newly crowned Princess Beatrice, is telling everyone in polite society that Theo, her sister, and their mother are evil, wicked, and horrid people who treated her like a slave. Though Theo knows this isn’t exactly true, it seems her life is thoroughly ruined by the rumor. With the Balfour family estate on the verge of bankruptcy, Theo’s only path forward is a forced betrothal to the Duke of Snowbell, a foul-tempered geezer who wishes only to use her as a brood mare for spare heirs.
Desperate for help, Theo clings to the only thing that might save the rumor of a fairy godmother, one that supposedly helped her stepsister secure a prince. After discovering a way to summon a fairy in Beatrice’s old room, Theo thinks her prayers have been answered. But the fairy she meets isn’t at all what she imagined. Drop-dead gorgeous, incredibly cunning, and slightly devious, Cecily of the Ash Fairies is much more interested in gathering powerful favors and smoking her pipe than providing charitable magic for humans in a bind.
Before she receives magical assistance, Cecily sets Theo to three tasks, seemingly to prove that Theo is a selfless and kind person. Helping her along the way are Cecily’s familiars, the flirty human-turned-mockingbird Phineas and the aloof Kasra, a fox shapeshifter who should not be as handsome as he is for someone with such cutting remarks. As Theo works on her tasks, she shockingly finds kinship with the magical creatures she’s helping, and starts to wonder if a continued life among her human peers is what she really wants after all.
From debut author Laura J. Mayo comes a hilarious new spin on the Cinderella tale!
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Read Between the Lines
Read Between the Lines by Emily Kerr is $2.99! This is a bookish contemporary romance. It also appears to be a standalone.
Romance might be closer than she thinks…The brand new escapist Oxford-set bookish romance from award-winning author, Emily Kerr
Kat Fisher wishes her parents had thought harder before they chose her name. A self-confessed romantic, she dreams of finding a guy who can live up to her book boyfriends,
Former police officer Leo Taylor is trying to decide his next step following his departure from the force. His habit of spreading his belongings around the library where she works has been niggling at Kat for days, and his joke about her name is the final straw.
Kat and Leo might not seem like the perfect match, but romance might be closer than they think. If only they could read between the lines…
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Love on Lexington Avenue
Love on Lexington Avenue by Lauren Layne is $1.99! This is an opposites attract romance and book two in the Central Park Pact series. Book three received a B grade on the site.
“Fans of The Devil Wears Prada will flip over Love on Lexington Avenue.” —Karen Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author
From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne comes the second delightfully charming installment in the Central Park Pact series, following a young widow whose newfound cynicism about love is challenged by a sexy, rough-around-the-edges contractor.
There are no good men left in New York City.
At least that’s Claire Hayes’s conviction after finding out her late husband was not the man she thought he was. Determined to rid her home of anything that reminds her of her cheating husband, Claire sets out to redesign her boring, beige Upper East Side brownstone and make it something all her own. But what starts out as a simple renovation becomes a lot more complicated when she meets her bad-tempered contractor Scott Turner.
Scott bluntly makes it known to Claire that he only took on her house for a change of pace from the corporate offices and swanky hotels he’s been building lately, and he doesn’t hesitate to add that he has no patience for a pampered, damaged princess with a penchant for pink. But when long workdays turn into even longer nights, their mutual wariness morphs into something more complicated—a grudging respect, and maybe even attraction…
Filled with laugh-out-loud scenes that blend perfectly with the touching friendships Layne brings to life on the page, this “hugely entertaining” (USA TODAY) novel is perfect for fans of Lauren Weisberger.
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Wow, the illustrated cover of that Elle Kennedy is incredibly boring, bland, and terrible in a not-fun way. It’s so bad, I think the Old Skool covers made with Poser back in the day would be preferable (at least they were funny!).
Definitely prefer the OG Blaze cover over that. Model covers are my jam.
Oof. The minimal expression on that hockey cover makes it look like he’s assaulting her. Not great. Whoever okayed it needs to rethink their career.
The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan (A Gentle Apocalypse) by M. H. Foster is 2.99 right now – not a romance*, but this book was SO DAMN MUCH FUN. A demon overlord figures out a way to retire after 443 deaths – he jumps into the body of a wannabe goat farmer and tries to live the simple life. Between the demonic goat he ends up with, the wacky small-town politics, and the children who decide he is “Uncle Willem” and adopt him unwillingly, I was very amused. If you need a break from *gestures at everything* this was a lovely diversion.
* there actually is a set-up for a potential future romance in the following books, but the former Demon is oblivious and really mystified by courting rituals and kissing —-> Sally’s recation to this cracked me up!
How to Summon a Fairy Godmother — I read this and found it inconsistent tonally and plot-wise. It started our very Cinderella-esque, then went full tilt into faerie court politics, by the end I felt like things were just happening to move the plot along. The romance didn’t convince me much either. YMMV.
@drewbird: I came here to mention the Foster book. An absolutely lovely diversion and so much fun to see a clueless character becoming more invested in a community that will not leave him alone. In bygone days, I’d say “becoming more human,” like Data for example, but I’m not so fond of humans today.
Also want to squee over Gene Doucette’s THE SPACESHIP NEXT DOOR for $1.99. Not a romance, but another complete delight about a spaceship landing in a small town and 16-year-old Annie who understands more than anyone. The audio book is hilarious. Probably one of my favorite ever series.
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Not to be That Guy but MH Foster author of The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan has admitted to using AI during the writing process:
https://www.joditaylorbooks.com/p/author-interview-with-mh-foster
I truly hate this AI era. In the past, I could trust that even if a book was bad, at least a human had written it. Clanker trash is EVERYWHERE now.
@arden: Considering I know not-much about AI, I personally don’t have an issue with how Foster described its use in their books. As a starting point? As inspiration? Is there no daylight between that and “AI wrote the whole thing?” Wouldn’t Jodi Taylor have objected? My reaction to the book was how incredibly fresh it all seemed. Maybe I’m less discerning than I thought.
I did not like HOW TO SUMMON A FAIRY GODMOTHER and DNFd.
The main character was unlikeable and not fun to read about either. Maybe try a sample before buying.
@Darlynne, I think using AI the way the article mentions is not actual writing from scratch, and I consider it fair use.
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This is by no means me trying to kick anything off but I assume MH Foster means Gen AI like Chat GPT and considering what those apps are built on, the plagiarism and the threat to the environment from data centres and taking into the account the boyos behind those companies, I’m not sure there can be any true “fair use” of Gen AI. And I certainly think it needs to be kept well away from thought processes and researching when it comes to creating art of any kind.
I’m well aware that I’m a research nerd who worked with book collections for an antiquarian book company: my way wasn’t everyone’s even before Gen AI!