Amanda has discovered some hidden gems during her first year of home ownership.
The Wedding Ringer by Kerry Rea is $1.99! The cover gives me major Audrey Hepburn vibes and that’s probably intentional. A woman, down on her luck, agrees to be a bridesmaid for a stranger, it sounds like. I don’t have any strong affinities for weddings, but I can’t imagine needing a bridesmaid so badly that I hire one?
Don’t start Our Crooked Hearts unless you have time to finish it. It’s such a wonderful, spooky, thrilling story that it’s hard to put down. It’s a book about imperfect parents, teenage dissatisfaction, and female empowerment and it unfolds beautifully. It’s also a remarkable ghost story. While this book has horror elements to it, it wasn’t especially scary and would be appropriate for a teen. I do want to warn readers about some violence to … Continue reading Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert
Undercover Duke by Sabrina Jeffries is $1.99! This is book for in the Duke Dynasty series and is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals. It was also mentioned on a previous Hide Your Wallet. Have you enjoyed the series?
This HaBO request is from Michelle, who is trying to find this book: Husband thinks his wife is dead, movies on, and then she returns. The female main character goes to another country for some reason. There is an accident (bus accident, I think), and the FMC is presumed dead. She actually has amnesia and is taken in by some older couple who uses her as unpaid labor. Eventually she remembers and makes her way … Continue reading HaBO: Hero Thinks She’s Dead; Dates Her Best Friend
This is a book about loneliness, about living a life when constantly dealing with death, and about being seen and heard and understood. If you like grumpy, taciturn characters with squishy, gooey insides, characters who struggle to become who they are or be recognized for who they are, and, above all, you like a major epistolary element to your stories (I have raised all my hands to that list) you will really like this. Hart … Continue reading The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
RECOMMENDED: Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory is $1.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! Maya loved this one and gave it an A:
In the end, this story is overwhelmingly about saying yes to good things put directly in your path. If all you want to do is wrap yourself up in a Christmas love story with two adults just admirably adulting all the way through the book, I say grab a Christmas sweater and a hot chocolate, and get ready to have a stranger ask you why you look so happy reading the book you have in your hand!
Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films was balm to my nerdy little heart. I got into horror much the same way I got into romance, which is to say I thought I didn’t like it, then realized I had been liking it all along somehow without noticing, and then I couldn’t get enough of it. There are some interesting intersections between romance and horror as genres, and I know we have some fans here … Continue reading Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth
RECOMMENDED: Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski is $2.99! Sarah and Elyse jointly reviewed this one and gave it an A:
This book is nonfiction about the science behind stress, what it is, and how we deal (or don’t deal) with it effectively. Between the science and the practical applications, it’s incredibly informative, useful, soothing, and empowering.
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Kink Camp: Hunted by Adriana Anders is 99c! Big thank you to everyone who told us about this sale. I mentioned this on a previous Hide Your Wallet and seems like the perfect choice for just some quick, smutty reading. Have any of you read it yet?
