FREE/BARGAIN - Romance + Discussion - 2016

[danicca]

Did any of you read Shifters Unbound series?

[Blossom]

It's on my tbr list but I believe a couple here have read them.

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[worktolive]

I love the Shifters Unbound series. I've read all of them, including the novellas. You really can't go wrong with Jennifer Ashley. Plus they have bear shifters as well as big cats and wolves.

Her worldbuilding started out pretty simple, but she's really fleshed it out over the course of the series, and they aren't all sex the way so many shifter books are. The first book was good, but the series has continued to improve as it goes on, rather than dropping off the way so many do.

[Blossom]

I've finished Gone too Far which was 4 stars for me. I'm now on book seven Flashpoint.

Here's the thing Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbanks are the narrators for the first eleven books. I absolutely love them. Patrick is the first male narrator I've heard reading romance that does a great job. No monotone and does a wide arrange of voices including okay female voices. His voice range is amazing. Melanie does a great job too. I've listened to them for six books and now on number seven and the quality it's like night and day. On book seven Melanie sounds like a sports announcer doing the Kentucky Derby. She's reading that fast. Patrick is also reading faster. After doing some research it turns out the first six books were done later and the seventh is their very first book they narrated of the series. The difference is phenomenal. So you go from hearing professional voice acting to first attempts they even sound younger too. It's bizarre. So keep that in mind if you decide to listen to the series. I had to lower the speed to even keep up hearing what they are saying.

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[kg3]

FREE at Amazon:

Wanted Woman - Parris Afton Bonds
-Originally published by Silhouette (Silhouette Intimate Moments) in 1987

Amazon US---Amazon UK---Amazon Canada---Not at Kobo

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by kg3

FREE at Amazon:

Wanted Woman - Parris Afton Bonds
-Originally published by Silhouette (Silhouette Intimate Moments) in 1987

Amazon US---Amazon UK---Amazon Canada---Not at Kobo

Thanks. Oh my those covers. Now for #2 to go free.

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[Blossom]

Those of you that have read Flashpoint...did you get the feeling that the story was written before the first six books? That she took a story and reworked it a bit adding a few cameos to fit it into the series? The writing is just so different not as polished and there is no storyline going other than the h/h. I'm having trouble believing this was written after Gone Too Far. My first thought was ghostwriter but there are places there that does seem like Brockmann's writing. I'm struggling to get through.

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[kg3]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Thanks. Oh my those covers. Now for #2 to go free.

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--> #2 was last free Aug. 30, 2014, darn, I must have forgot to post it here
--> Blossom, let me know if you want me to lend it to you (if you don't want to wait to see if it goes free again).
--> I think they might be all standalones (?), though she has them currently listed as part of a series & #1 was free July 21, 2014

[Blossom]

I have #1 they are KU. So it's no biggie. In 2014 I was in transition so more than likely missed a lot of freebies.

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[ScalyFreak]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Thanks. Oh my those covers. Now for #2 to go free.

Oh my, indeed. I laugh so hard at this particular cover that my husband actually came into my little den to see what the big deal was.

His reaction? "That's... memorable."

[library addict]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Those of you that have read Flashpoint...did you get the feeling that the story was written before the first six books? That she took a story and reworked it a bit adding a few cameos to fit it into the series? The writing is just so different not as polished and there is no storyline going other than the h/h. I'm having trouble believing this was written after Gone Too Far. My first thought was ghostwriter but there are places there that does seem like Brockmann's writing. I'm struggling to get through.

Flashpoint marked a turning point in the writing syle of the series. It's the book in which she introduced a lot of new characters so as to move away from the at-the-time active duty Navy SEALs since it was the first book written and published after the Iraq War started. She was very much against the war and felt she couldn't write her heroes participating it. I don't believe it was written before the other books in the series. She may have reworked the plot from something she'd done earlier. I can't speak to that. But she definitely wrote it afterwards. The country where the book is set wasn't real, she decided on a fake setting so she could do whatever she wanted.

I enjoyed Nash & Tess's romance when I first read it but warning

Spoiler:

she kind of takes away their HEA in later books. Supposedly this was fixed in Dark of Night, only not really IMO

. She was also tired of writing the older couples (not age wise, I mean the way she had couples from WWII etc in the first few books). So she stopped including those "background" romances.

Though I liked many of the later couples more than some of the earlier ones, the series really does turn into a hot mess and Flashpoint was the beginning of the end. As I said earlier, I gave away all of my print copies of the series and deleted my digital ones. That's the first--and I am really hoping only--time I've ever done that with a series. I mean I purged a whole lot of print books when I moved and again after I bought this house (as I have a serious lack of shelf space). But going digital helped with that as I was able to replace some of the books I regretted giving away.

[Blossom]

Ah you mean no more WWII stories? Man that's what made her books stand out. It's just you get use to a format for six books and then it feels like a complete reboot. I knew the country was fiction, it was also where book three took place.

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[Blossom]

Afire Complete Historical Romance Collection by Gina Robinson

https://www.amazon.com/Hearts-Comple.../dp/B00DE3XK3Y

I had no idea she did historicals. I've been collecting her spy series for years.

Spoiler:

From award-winning author Gina Robinson comes an American-set historical romance collection steeped in passion and rich in historical detail. Hearts Afire Complete includes all three of Gina's historical romances set in the wild Pacific Northwest of the late 1800s when prostitutes ruled the streets, mining kings ruled the land, and true love ruled the heart.

The Last Honest Seamstress—Seattle 1889 Seamstress Fayth Sheridan needs a husband of convenience. Sea captain Con O'Neill needs to win her love. But winning her heart might just cost Con everything.

The Union—Private detective John Deitz knew the dangers of going undercover to infiltrate the renegade mining union. But falling in love with Keely Byrne, the fiancée of the union thug he killed, was never part of the plan.

The Escort—On the way to meet her husband, Italian mail-order bride Angelina Allessandro falls in love with Tonio Domani, her handsome, enigmatic escort. Now she's torn between duty to a man she's never met and desire for a man she can't have.

All three stories for a discounted price! It's like buying two and getting one free. If you love marriage of convenience stories, mail-order brides, and stories where love triumphs over every adversity, this collection is for you

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[Blossom]

Stephanie Rowe freebie
Modern Western
Book 1 of 4

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Cowboy-N...dp/B00XS0Q65C/

She use to write paranormals for Sourcebooks.



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[Blossom]

It looks like Linda Howard's Troublemaker is marked down to $3.99 today only at the Kindle store. There are a couple other romances as this is a Gold Box deal.

Amazon US

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