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Books On Sale

Beverly Jenkins, Assassins, & Matchmakers

Books on Sale: Beautiful Wreck by Larissa Brown & More

RECOMMENDED: Beautiful Wreck by Larissa Brown is 99c at Amazon and iBooks! It’s $2.99 elsewhere. Elyse really enjoyed this book and gave it a B+:

If you like historical detail, slow burn romance, and virgin heroes, you need to click buy right now. Some readers will definitely find Beautiful Wreck too slow or dislike the futuristic element, but for me, this book was exactly what I needed.

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Recapping June’s Best Sales!

Books on Sale: The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean & More

The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean is $2.99 right now. This is book 1 in the Scandal & Scoundrel series, and book 2, A Scot in the Dark, comes out 30 August 2016. Elyse reviewed this book and gave it an A, saying,

Let me start by saying that The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean is my favorite book of hers to date. If you’ve read her, or know me, then you know that I just said a thing.

I mean, there is a scene in this book where the hero sensually rubs honey on the heroine’s body while she dreamily describes the bookstore she’ll own one day.

Damn.

And if you want a drink to go with your reading, I did a Covers & Cocktails post for it as well!

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Books On Sale

Historicals with Dukes, Time Travel, & More!

Books on Sale: Don’t Tempt Me by Loretta Chase & More

Don’t Tempt Me by Loretta Chase is $1.99! This is a historical romance, which Candy reviewed waaaay back in 2009. She gave it a B:

I think I can sum up the problems with this book thusly: it needed about 40 more pages, or about 20,000 more words. The book was tasty, but it was insubstantial, and it killed me that it could’ve been so much more—could’ve been GREAT, in fact, one of Chase’s best; as good as her best work so far, or even better. It could’ve been Chanel No. 5, and it ended up being yet another cheap body splash.

However, in Which One First post, Reader Ellielu advises against the book:

The writing felt hurried, the heroine made me cringe, and the married-to-a-sultan-but-still-conveniently-a-virgin-with-ridiculous-amounts-of-theoretical-knowledge-about-sex trope required more disbelief than I was willing to suspend.

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