FREE/BARGAIN — Romance & Discussion

[danicca]

I reread her Bride Quartet quite often, and loved her earlier books, but the last trilogy didn't leave an impression. I was going to buy HN since comments here are pretty good. Pity sale didn't work in Europe.

[copyrite]

The Chesapeake series is a favorite reread of mine.

Year One: Chronicles of The One, Book 1 is currently free on Amazon.

[MegDreamsofBooks]

Originally Posted by copyrite

The Chesapeake series is a favorite reread of mine.

Year One: Chronicles of The One, Book 1 is currently free on Amazon.

This one is also a favorite of mine. I'm old enough to remember being SO.EXCITED when she finally wrote Seth's story.

[copyrite]

Originally Posted by MegDreamsofBooks

This one is also a favorite of mine. I'm old enough to remember being SO.EXCITED when she finally wrote Seth's story.

Still remember near the end of that book... "and then his brothers walked in".

Those Quinn brothers are hard to beat! That series is also a comfort listen for me.

[library addict]

I love a lot of her older series and trilogies. With many of her trilogies I will like two of the books and be meh on the third (not necessarily the last one, often the first or middle).

I loathed Chronicles of the One and probably rated it too high when I read it. I knew going in it wasn't a romance but sheesh. LOL.

Her newer stuff is very hit-or-miss for me. But I am enjoying her most recent trilogy about the ghost manor (I am blanking in the name and too lazy to look).

But I have been reading her since the 80s. I don't always buy her single titles straight off, but the library wait was long so I splurged this time around.

I miss being able to request books and automatically be put on hold. The Libby system vexes me.

[copyrite]

New NR is definitely hit or miss for me!

Her latest most recent trilogies don't seem to be stand alones the way they build on each other with the plots. I really liked Inheritance in this latest series, the second book not as much.

[sufue]

I'm with you on that - the first one was quite good IMO, with the exception of the cliff-hanger, which I thought was too much. Second one really felt like a middle book to me, other than getting to meet Cleo’s grand-mère, who was a treat. But mostly meh!

Oddly enough, after receiving ARCs of the first two, they turned me down for the third one, so I won't be reading it for quite a while, unless I catch another £0.99 sale in the UK, or find it via Hoopla or library.

Originally Posted by copyrite

New NR is definitely hit or miss for me!

Her latest most recent trilogies don't seem to be stand alones the way they build on each other with the plots. I really liked Inheritance in this latest series, the second book not as much.

[sufue]

The £0.99-in-the-UK-for-one-day-not-too-long-after-publication thing is so common in established mystery series, and also at least some SF/fantasy series, that I agree, I have no idea why anyone would buy most new books rather than wait, unless it's a title you're just dying for and are going to read right away. OTOH, most folks - outside of MR - probably don't check the Kindle Daily Deal every day either, and/or have eReaderIQ hits on all their favorite authors . It is price differentiation, but of such an extreme sort that it's hard to see how it makes sense. But I love it, and wish it would happen in the US too.

Oh, and then there are also the monthly sales that have a lot of books drop to £0.99 for a month - usually older titles in series, and lots of repeats, but they sometimes let you get a second bite at the apple if you missed the first one...

Originally Posted by library addict

This just released May 27th (so a few days over 6 weeks ago).

Yay for sale but publishers really aren't incentivizing readers to pre-order or buy release week. Of course you never know exactly which titles they will do this with but sheesh!

I read it the day I paid full price for the ebook so it was worth it to me, but again sheesh.

[sufue]

I'm a big fan of Rosalind James' books, especially her Escape to New Zealand series, but really, almost all of her books. And right now, Catch a Kiwi, which is the sixth and most recent in her New Zealand Ever After series, is free at Kindle US and UK. She doesn't seem to be writing books in the Escape to NZ series any more, but NZ Ever After is pretty good too.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3CDFNNW
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D3CDFNNW

Spoiler:

Breathe, smile, and move on.

When you’re writing the next chapter in your rags-to-riches-to-rags story, you need about a million quotes like that. I might have been short on inspiration, but I had determination. That was it, except for a very young cousin and a very old campervan, but I was all about starting over. Nobody knew me in New Zealand other than a series of café and motel managers, and anonymity suited me fine. Manlessness suited me even finer.

Until the day when that campervan rolled down a South Island hillside in a tropical cyclone and trapped my cousin Delilah inside, and an extremely rude stranger helped me get her out. Now, I had no campervan and possibly even less inspiration. I still had determination, though. Determination not to let one Roman D’Angelo, no matter how rich or bossy he might be, run my life or mess with my inner peace. I was serene. I was independent. I was in control.

I was in so much trouble.

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Atonement Sky (Psy/Changeling Trinity #8) by Nalini Singh (A-/5 stars)
• Benet (Badari Gladiators #4) by Veronica Scott (B-/3 stars)

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