So I have compiled a list of some of my favourite books - from many different aspects of the romance spectrum - for perusal on World Book Day. Choices are mine, the words from the blurbs... Enjoy!
Historical
Romance
Julia Quinn, Eloisa
James and Connie Brockway - The Lady Most Willing: A Novel in Three Parts
Laird Taran Ferguson is more than fed up of his nephew's refusal to wed and secure his
birthright. His reaction? To hijack a ball and kidnap no less than four likely brides - a rather forthright young lady, an heiress with a slight
reputation problem, a rich English beauty, and a maiden without name
or fortune. But which one is ready to fall in love with the Scottish
lord? And what will happen to the others?
Erotica
(Hardcore BDSM)
Tiffany
Reisz – The Siren (First in the Original Sinners Series)
Notorious Nora Sutherlin is famous for her delicious works of erotica,
each one more popular with readers than the last. But her latest
manuscript is different—more serious, more personal—and she's sure it'll
be her breakout book…if it ever sees the light of day.
Zachary Easton
holds Nora's fate in his well-manicured hands. The demanding British
editor agrees to handle the book on one condition: he wants complete control. Nora must rewrite the entire novel to his exacting standards—in six weeks—or it's no deal.
Her grueling writing sessions with Zach are draining…and shockingly
arousing. And a dangerous former lover has her wondering which is more
torturous—staying away from him…or returning to his bed?
She thought she knew everything about being pushed to your limits. But in a
world where passion is pain, nothing is ever that simple.
Erotica
(Emotive)
Megan Hart –
Switch
don't think don't question just do
The anonymous note wasn't for me.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not in the habit of reading other people's
mail, but it was just a piece of paper with a few lines scrawled on it,
clearly meant for the apartment upstairs. It looked so innocent, but
decidedly - deliciously - it was not.
Before replacing the
note - and the ones that followed - in its rightful slot, I devoured its
contents: suggestions, instructions, commands. Each was more daring,
more intricate and more arousing than the last...and I followed them all
to the letter.
Before the notes, if a man had told me what to
do, I'd have told him where to go. But submission is an art, and there's
something oddly freeing about doing someone's bidding...especially when
it feels so very, very good. But I find that the more I surrender, the
more powerful I feel-so it's time to switch up roles.
We play by my rules now.
Online
Serial
Leanna Renee
Hieber – The Double Life of Incorporate
Things
The shadows deepen on the gaslit streets of New York City in the year
1880. Curses and spirits, demons and rituals, blood and faith, love and
danger; such is the stuff of Magic Most Foul. Find
your voice... or else. The final book in theMagic Most Foul series is being posted on Hieber's blog in a weekly serialization.
Teen Romance
Anna Godbersen
– The Luxe (First in The Luxe Series)
(One of my favourite series)
Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn.
Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.
White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.
This is Manhattan, 1899.
Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan's social scene. Or so it appears. When the girls discover their status among New York City's elite is far from secure, suddenly everyone—from the backstabbing socialite Penelope Hayes, to the debonair bachelor Henry Schoonmaker, to the spiteful maid Lina Broud—threatens Elizabeth's and Diana's golden future.
With the fate of the Hollands resting on her shoulders, Elizabeth must choose between family duty and true love. But when her carriage overturns near the East River, the girl whose glittering life lit up the city's gossip pages is swallowed by the rough current. As all of New York grieves, some begin to wonder whether life at the top proved too much for this ethereal beauty, or if, perhaps, someone wanted to see Manhattan's most celebrated daughter disappear...
In a world of luxury and deception, where appearance matters above everything and breaking the social code means running the risk of being ostracized forever, five teenagers lead dangerously scandalous lives. This thrilling trip to the age of innocence is anything but innocent.
Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.
White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.
This is Manhattan, 1899.
Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan's social scene. Or so it appears. When the girls discover their status among New York City's elite is far from secure, suddenly everyone—from the backstabbing socialite Penelope Hayes, to the debonair bachelor Henry Schoonmaker, to the spiteful maid Lina Broud—threatens Elizabeth's and Diana's golden future.
With the fate of the Hollands resting on her shoulders, Elizabeth must choose between family duty and true love. But when her carriage overturns near the East River, the girl whose glittering life lit up the city's gossip pages is swallowed by the rough current. As all of New York grieves, some begin to wonder whether life at the top proved too much for this ethereal beauty, or if, perhaps, someone wanted to see Manhattan's most celebrated daughter disappear...
In a world of luxury and deception, where appearance matters above everything and breaking the social code means running the risk of being ostracized forever, five teenagers lead dangerously scandalous lives. This thrilling trip to the age of innocence is anything but innocent.
Quintessentially
British Romance
Eva Rice – The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
(One of my favourite books)
Penelope longs to be grown-up and to fall in love; but various rather
inconvenient things keep getting in her way. Like her mother, a stunning
but petulant beauty widowed at a tragically early age, her younger
brother Inigo, currently incapable of concentrating on anything that
isn't Elvis Presley, a vast but crumbling ancestral home, a severe
shortage of cash, and her best friend Charlotte's sardonic cousin
Harry...
Fantasy
Kim
Harrison – Dead Witch Walking (First in The Hollows Series)
(One of my favourite series)
The underground population of witches, vampires,
werewolves—creatures of dreams and nightmares—has lived beside humans
for centuries, hiding their powers. But after a genetically engineered
virus wipes out a large part of humanity, many of the "Inderlanders"
reveal themselves, changing everything.
Rachel Morgan, witch and bounty hunter with the Inderland Runner Services, is one of the best at apprehending supernatural lawbreakers throughout Cincinnati, but when it comes to following the rules, she falls desperately short. Determined to buck the system, she quits and takes off on the run with an I.S. contract on her head and is reluctantly forced to team up with Ivy, Inderland's best runner . . . and a living vampire. But this witch is way out of her league, and to clear her name, Rachel must evade shape-changing assassins, outwit a powerful businessman/crime lord, and survive a vicious underground fight-to-the-death . . . not to mention her own roommate.
Rachel Morgan, witch and bounty hunter with the Inderland Runner Services, is one of the best at apprehending supernatural lawbreakers throughout Cincinnati, but when it comes to following the rules, she falls desperately short. Determined to buck the system, she quits and takes off on the run with an I.S. contract on her head and is reluctantly forced to team up with Ivy, Inderland's best runner . . . and a living vampire. But this witch is way out of her league, and to clear her name, Rachel must evade shape-changing assassins, outwit a powerful businessman/crime lord, and survive a vicious underground fight-to-the-death . . . not to mention her own roommate.
Old
School Romance
Mary
Stewart – This Rough Magic
(One of my favourite books)
When Lucy's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet
holiday on the island of Corfu, Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an
actress has temporarily come to a halt. But the peaceful idyll does not
last long. A series of incidents, seemingly unconnected - but all
surrounded in mystery - throws Lucy's life into a dangerous spin, as
fear, danger and death - as well as romance - supplant the former
tranquillity.
Crime
Camilla
Chafer - Armed and Fabulous
All Lexi wants to do is get through the day at her boring temp job with
Green Hand Insurance. That’s until she discovers the vice president,
Martin Dean, in a pool of blood and herself at the center of an
investigation into insurance fraud.
Millions of dollars are missing, the chief suspect is dead and her mysterious, sexy, new boss is not what he seems.
Recruited by the joint task force working on the case, all Lexi has to do is work out who killed Dean and where the missing millions are. That’s easier said than done when her sister insists upon the baby shower to end all baby showers, her wise-ass cop family just wants to keep her safe, someone keeps leaving her creepy gifts, and all the clues point to a seedy sex club on the wrong side of town.
As the bodies start to pile up, Lexi is on a race against time to find the killer and the money, before she’s the next one in the murderer’s sights.
Millions of dollars are missing, the chief suspect is dead and her mysterious, sexy, new boss is not what he seems.
Recruited by the joint task force working on the case, all Lexi has to do is work out who killed Dean and where the missing millions are. That’s easier said than done when her sister insists upon the baby shower to end all baby showers, her wise-ass cop family just wants to keep her safe, someone keeps leaving her creepy gifts, and all the clues point to a seedy sex club on the wrong side of town.
As the bodies start to pile up, Lexi is on a race against time to find the killer and the money, before she’s the next one in the murderer’s sights.
Lost
Loves Romance
Mhairi
McFarlane – You Had Me At Hello
‘Think of the great duos of history. We're just like them.’
‘You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?’
‘I think you’ve missed the point, Rachel.’
‘You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?’
‘I think you’ve missed the point, Rachel.’
Rachel
and Ben. Ben and Rachel. It was them against the world. Until it all
fell apart. It’s been a decade since they last spoke, but when Rachel
bumps into Ben one rainy day, the years melt away.
They’d
been partners in crime and the best of friends. But life has moved on:
Ben is married. Rachel is not. Yet in that split second, Rachel feels
the old friendship return. And along with it, the broken heart she’s
never been able to mend.
Current
Favourite Book
Neil Gaiman
– American Gods
After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time
until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days
before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in
adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter
the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a
former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very
strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders
which have occurred every winter in one small American town. But the
storm is about to break... Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange,
Gaiman's epic novel sees him on the road to the heart of America.
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