Today’s Steals and Deals at AAR…..
I am a big fan of Bell’s and readers love this series. In my review, I wrote:
I enjoyed this book. Bell is a terrific witty writer and her characters, despite being tropey types, are interesting and have just enough quirks that they’re kinda adorable. The sex is hot and the family dynamics–I especially like the Wilder women–are well-done and believable. And given that Jill Shalvis, Sarah Morgan, and Kristan Higgins have all moved to women’s fiction, Bell is a good replacement for those looking for sexy, fun, contemporary romance.
You can get it for free here.
We like this series–it’s sexy, gritty, and intriguing. This is the first book–here’s the blurb:
There’s sin, and then there’s literally going-straight-to-hell sin…
Being in lust with my dead brother’s wife pretty much guarantees that one day I’ll be the devil’s bitch. But Eden Gordon works with me, so it’s getting harder and harder to stay away. I promised my family—and him—I would, though.
My days as an MMA champion are behind me. But whenever I see her, with those wicked curves and soft mouth created for dirty deeds, it’s a knock-down fight to just maintain my distance. “Hard Knox” becomes more than just the name of my tattoo shop. However, surrendering to the forbidden might be worth losing everything…
You can get it for 0.99 here.
This book was published twenty years ago–here’s our review. We wrote:
No matter how many Regency-set historical novels you’ve read, you haven’t yet met two characters exactly like the protagonists in this story. So refreshing are Scott military hero Liam Lockhart and young mother Ellen Farnsworth that the breath of invigorating air they bring with them is more than enough to overcome their occasionally (okay, more than occasionally) frustrating behavior.
The first of a new trilogy for the author featuring the Lockhart family, the story centers around the quest for a bejeweled statue (always called “the beastie”) stolen from the Scots branch of the Lockhart family hundreds of years earlier. Now in the possession of the estranged English branch of the family, 35-year-old Captain Lockhart sets out for London in order to steal it back, sell it, and restore his family’s flagging fortunes.
It’s on sale for 1.99 here.
OK–this isn’t a romance but it is such a good book! In our DIK review, we wrote:
Utopia Avenue is one part Backbeat, two more of the bracing whimsical wit of A Hard Day’s Night, several parts Head-like support of social upheaval and psychedelics, with maybe a skosh of That Thing You Do! thrown in. The rest is the story – detailing the struggles and joys of the titular psych-rock band that David Mitchell’s latest novel concerns itself with – is entirely itself, kitchen-sink real and fanciful in alternating measures.
The members of Utopia Avenue could not be more different from one another. It’s 1966 and the book’s main narrator, Dean Moss, is a sleep-around bassist obsessed with the blues whose day gig at a coffee shop leads to him meeting Levon Frankland, a man looking to put together a band. It’s Levon who brings together Dean and sad-souled Elf Holloway, a refugee of the folk circuit and a keyboard player and lead singer dealing both with period-typical sexism and a break-up with her ex-bandmate-and-romantic-partner. She soon becomes Utopia Avenue’s leader and steers its musical direction. They’re joined by guitar wiz Jasper de Zoet (descendent of the hero of a previous Mitchell novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet), who struggles with schizophrenia and suicidal ideation which he hides from the band (his mental illness is portrayed in a harrowingly realistic way), and Griff Griffin, the jocular, confident drummer.
It’s on sale for 2.99 here.