Today’s Steals and Deals at AAR…..

This one is sweet and emotional. We wrote:
If you are looking for an emotional story, Heath delivers a wonderful one here that’s not the usual version involving one character healing from great trauma or hardship. Lauren and Tom’s vulnerabilities are a bit more subtle and so, while the average reader can’t relate to the life of a cowboy turned lord, one can certainly relate to the emotional struggles faced by the characters. And on top of all that, the ending is really very sweet – but you’ll have to read that for yourself.
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This one, too, is fun. We wrote:
I have a bit of a fondness for the breezier stuff, so this hit the spot in a lot of ways. It’s the kind of read that works for a light afternoon break, or it might be something that’s perfect for a summer afternoon at the beach. What do you think of our heroine, Anwen? I loved her cleverness, and her dry-eyed observations (“The lack of balls on a man were harder to spot.” was a favorite of mine.).
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Jenkins does something differently than many historical romance authors, and I really appreciated it. While her characters very obviously love each other, they don’t spend every second of every day together. I have gotten so tired of books where some contrivance forces the hero and heroine to live under the same roof and to be in each other’s face every single moment of the week or so it takes them to fall in love. Zahra and Archer certainly spend time together, but the reader also gets to see each of them going about their daily lives and actually being able to have rather interesting lives of their own. This made Jenkins’ characters seem richer and more vivid, and it really adds a lot to the story.
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This, we said, is an excellent comfort read.
Eclipse Bay has its own version of the Montagues and the Capulets, but thankfully these feuding families now simply ignore each other, when they’re not talking derisively about their counterparts. The new generation, Hannah Harte and Rafe Madison, can never forget they are polar opposites – or so they’re told. One night, as Hannah fends off unwanted suitor Perry Decatur, Rafe steps in to help her, having been thrown out of his own date’s car, but for slightly different reasons. Alone after midnight, Rafe walks Hannah home and listens to her very orderly and calculated set of plans for the future, a future that could never include someone like himself, who can barely aspire to do more than stay out of jail.
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