In this week’s podcast episode, we’re looking at the glorious ads and features for the October/November 1988 issue of RT Magazine. Thank you to Amy M. for this issue! You can also find all the RTRW content at our category page for Romantic Times Rewind. If you want to listen and follow along with this entry, we have more detail in the audio, but you can click play and listen and read and absorb all … Continue reading Romantic Times Rewind: October 1988 Ads & Features →
RECOMMENDED: Hope Flames by Jaci Burton is $2.99! This is the first book in the contemporary romance Hope series. Elyse read this one and it earned a B grade:
The hero of this book is a police officer with a police dog named Boomer. The heroine is a vet with a pit-bull puppy named Annie and a lab named Daisy.
Hope Flames was light and fun and a nice break from the angsty stuff I’ve been reading. And also PUPPIES!
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RECOMMENDED: The Black Lily by Juliette Cross is 99c! Despite the nips-on-display cover, I really enjoyed this book. Vampires are the ruling class and the heroine is the leader of a human uprising. She first meets the vampire prince hero when she infiltrates a masked ball and tries to assassinate him. It’s Cinderella-esque and the rest of the series has fairy tale influences. You can grab all the books in the series for less than $7!
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Between the Devil and the Duke by Kelly Bowen is $2.99! This is book three in the Season for Scandal series, but it can be read as a standalone. Readers really liked both main characters, though others felt the hero had a serious case of insta-love, or at the very least…insta-lust. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
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RECOMMENDED: The Ghost by Monica McCarty is $2.99! This is the final book in the Highland Guard series and Elyse gave it a B+:
Alas, all good things come to an end. The Ghost by Monica McCarty is the 12th and final book in the Highland Guard series. I loved this series and The Ghost does not disappoint.
A couple of notes: this series does not need to be read in order although characters reappear throughout the series (this book ties in closely with The Viper, Lachlan and Bella’s book). This book also contains an attempted rape scene and mention of a prior rape that some readers may find triggering.
Overall this is a great wrap-up to the series: it left me bittersweet that it was all coming to a final happily ever after.
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Sweet Disorder by Rose Lerner is 99c at most vendors and has been recommended at SBTB in the past. This is a unique historical featuring the son of an earl, and a heroine who has one piece of power: two votes. She can’t cast them (pesky ovaries) but her husband can, so her hand in marriage makes her a political pawn. This book has a 3.7-star average and you can grab the second one too for 99c!
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MacRieve by Kresley Cole is $1.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble! Now you can officially complete the set! This book has an athlete heroine, which a lot of people enjoyed. So feel free to comment and tell us why you liked it! However, for me, this is actually one of my least favorite books in the series. This is my review from Goodreads:
While I loved how the book handled the themes of abuse and how it can perpetuate a cycle, the rest of the content was merely okay. The plot was predictable and both MacRieve and Chloe were rather…boring. MacRieve was nothing more than a big ball of hurt, rarely anything more, and Chloe’s bark was worse than her bite.
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