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RITA Reader Challenge Review

Earls Just Want to Have Fun by Shana Galen

by Guest Reviewer · Jul 14, 2016 at 10:00 am · View all 9 comments

Earls Just Want to Have Fun

Oof. You guys. I apparently did not know what I was doing when I was picking my RITA review books. I honestly probably would have DNFed it, but I’d already DNFed my other pick and I was feeling weirdly self-conscious that the Bitchery would judge me for not being able to finish a book. So I pushed through. And now I just feel depressed and negative. Earls Just Want to Have Fun was never going … Continue reading Earls Just Want to Have Fun by Shana Galen →

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RITA Reader Challenge Review

Earls Just Want to Have Fun by Shana Galen

by Guest Reviewer · Jul 2, 2016 at 2:00 pm · View all 11 comments

Earls Just Want to Have Fun

Trigger warning: mentions of violence. Maxwell Derring, Earl of Dane hates the poor. They’re lazy, stupid, immoral, and “barely human.” He blames them for his father’s death—not because a poor person shot or stabbed his father, but because somebody robbed one of his father’s houses, and two weeks later he died of pneumonia. Now, you might be thinking, as I did, that that seems a very weak and specious chain of logic for deciding to … Continue reading Earls Just Want to Have Fun by Shana Galen →

Books On Sale

Historical Romances from Shana Galen, Grace Burrowes, & More!

by SB Sarah · Jun 20, 2016 at 11:30 am · View all 8 comments

Books on Sale: Tremaine’s True Love by Grace Burrowes & More

Tremaine’s True Love by Grace Burrowes is 99c! This is the first book in her newest series and a RITA nominee. A few readers found the romance a bit boring and slow, while others loved the characterization of the heroine and hero.

Reader Qualisign gave it A-:

When I saw Grace Burrowes’ Tremaine’s True Love on the 2016 RITA review list, I grabbed it like a can of insect repellant in high bug season in the Northeast back-country. While I love a well written historical, until this review, I had never read anything by Burrowes. However, I had accidentally purchased a couple of her books a year ago when I was getting ready to write a 2015 RITA review of one of Tonya Burrows’ books. After realizing that the 2015 Burrows’ (no e) book dealt with SEALs and PTSD, I let the Burrowes’ (with an e) books sink down the list of my tbr e-pile, where they then faded into the ether. That was an error!

And Reader K Smith gave it an A-:

I beg you: read the book, don’t think about it. It is delightful, it is entrancing, it is perfectly crafted, emotionally satisfying entertainment. It is not morally improving. Art doesn’t have to be.

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Historical Romance, Steampunk, & Joy the Baker!

by Amanda · May 23, 2016 at 11:30 am · View all 8 comments

Books on Sale: Mad About the Marquess by Elizabeth Essex & More

RECOMMENDED: Mad About the Marquess by Elizabeth Essex is 99c! Elyse recently read and loved this book, giving it an A:

This book is delightful. It’s actually fucking delightful now I think about it, which is like delightful times ten. The dialogue is wonderful and sass wars are just about my favorite thing ever. The plot is just enough crazysauce layered on top of historical goodness. There was literally nothing about Mad About the Marquess that I didn’t like.

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Books On Sale

Historical Romances from Karen Hawkins, Elizabeth Boyle, & More!

by Amanda · Dec 8, 2015 at 11:30 am · View all 5 comments

Books on Sale: Destiny’s Captive by Beverly Jenkins & More

RECOMMENDED: Destiny’s Captive by Beverly Jenkins is $1.99! This is the third book in the Destiny series and Carrie gave it a B grade, who had an overall good experience with the book but advises reading the previous two:

I have a love/hate relationship with Destiny’s Captive.  It’s a sheep in wolves’ clothing.  It has all the accoutrements of a story with a warrior woman character who takes charge but it’s actually a story about domestication, and it made me kind of depressed.

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Books on Sale: Holiday Sets & Anthologies

by Amanda · Dec 3, 2014 at 11:30 am · View all 7 comments

Books on Sale: Kiss of Christmas Magic by Eve Langlais & More

Kiss of Christmas Magic is 99c! For less than a dollar, you can get twenty (yes, twenty!) paranormal holiday romances. The set includes your standard fare of werewolves and vampire, but also has stories with fey, dragons, and ghosts. There’s something for everyone, which is totally in the spirit of the holidays. Some GR reviewers are saying it’s one of the best holiday anthologies that they’ve read, while a few said there were only a small handful of stories out of the collection that they liked. It has a 4.1-star rating on GR.

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