Once and Always by Julia Harper (Elizabeth Hoyt) is $1.99! We were just talking about forced proximity/inclement weather books, and this seems to fit the bill. Some readers loved the element of suspense in the story, but many found that this contemporary romance was trying to do way too many things at once. Have you read this one?
RECOMMENDED: Dark Wild Night by Christina Lauren is $5.99! This books are rarely on sale, so a $3 price drop is a big deal. The hero is an Aussie who owns a comic book store, while the heroine has a successful graphic novel. It’s also a friends to lovers story. It was also recommended for readers of nerdy romance on our Couples Who Read Together podcast episode!
RECOMMENDED: Love on My Mind by Tracey Livesay is $1.99! I haven’t finished this book yet, but I’m loving it so far. The heroine is amazing. So much competence porn! However, some readers felt the details about software development were inaccurate. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
Even Odds by Elia Winters is $1.99! I’m not sure if this is the sale price or standard price, but it just came out today. I also mentioned it on this month’s Hide Your Wallet post! Early reviews of the book say that readers loved the setting of the gaming industry, but found the hero and heroine lacked chemistry. Any takers?
RECOMMENDED: Frisk Me by Lauren Layne is 99c! I reviewed this book last year and I obviously enjoyed it, seeing as how I gave it an A grade:
I really loved this book. It’s a nice break from the insta-love/lust that I’ve been reading lately, and I appreciated that the romance was the payoff of the book, rather than it being the driving force to deal with outside, external issues. This is a slow romance, too. No wham, bam, thank you ma’ams here. And admittedly, I spent a good portion of the book grinning like an idiot on the subway. I’ll give it to Layne; she can write some great dialogue.
Wild Child by Molly O’Keefe is $2.99 right now. This is a contemporary romance, and the first book in the Boys of Bishop series. It has a 3.6-star average, but I really liked this review from Michelle:
Ignore the cover. The cover is miles away from what this book actually is, which is fucking BRILLIANT. Not that it isn’t sexy. It is. O’Keefe writes some seriously hot sex scenes. But the thing about this book is that she just claws her way right through the usual shallow, barely realized romance tropes to the stripped down core of her characters, and then she digs some more. She reaches in and digs around and pulls out great bloody handfuls of REAL.
