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Top UK Kindle Deals: Adult Romance

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All of these books are currently under £2 on the UK kindle store right now - I hope you find something you enjoy! Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston £1.89 The Hating Game by Sally Thorne £0.99 The House Swap by Jo Lovett £1.99 The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang £0.99 Because of Miss Bridgerton (Bridgerton Prequel) by Julia Quinn £0.99 Corrupt by Penelope Douglas £0.79 The Chase (Briar U) by Elle Kennedy Free! The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic Free! The Deal by Elle Kennedy Free! I really hope you've found a bargain amongst this list, and perhaps your next favourite book! Let me know in the comments if you've read any of these already. Books and bouquets. x Bloglovin       Goodreads       Twitter       Instagram

Review: Sweet Temptation by Cora Reilly

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Rating :  ★ ★ ★ Release Date : 8th March 2020 Genre(s) : New Adult Romance "You showed me how important it is to live in the moment, to experience my children's life and not just plan for their future." This is the first Cora Reilly book I’ve read, and it was fun! It’s a mafia romance, which follows Cassio, a recent widow and the ruthless underboss of Philadelphia, and Giulia, who is his soon-to-be wife, who just happens to be 14 years his junior. It has some of the best tropes: arranged marriage,  age gap,  single dad, brooding alpha male. My favourite thing about this book has to be the characters. They all felt like well-rounded, unique characters which I gained a connection with. Giulia was a really nicely developed character - she had a lot of personality: her own hobbies (painting, which you get to see quite a bit of) and style (she loves sunflowers, how cute) and she was  powerful . If Giulia wanted something, she’d get it; if she didn’t like something a chara...

Review: Bully by Penelope Douglas

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  Rating :  ★ ★ ½ Release Date : 17th June 2013 Genre(s) : New Adult Romance I just want to start off by saying I  really  wanted to like this book, especially after reading Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas and  loving  it. But in my opinion, it’s just not on the same level unfortunately.  Bully follows Tate and Jared, childhood best friends and now enemies. Jared makes it his life mission to bully, humiliate and  borderline emotionally torture  Tate - until one day, after spending a year in France, she begins to fight back. How will Jared cope? First of all, the plot was great: a fast-paced bully romance which features enemies to lovers -  fabulous.  The angst, the drama, the tension, was all executed perfectly. I had a throughly great time reading this book, but I just cannot ignore all of the bad aspects.  The biggest downfall of this book was the  characters ; the majority (if not all) did not feel well developed and ...

Review: Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

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Rating:  ★ Release Date: 26th May 2011 Genre: New Adult Romance This review does contain spoilers - take caution reading. Right ok, where do I start... I picked this book up because one of my favourite youtubers said it was one of her favourite adult romance novels, so I thought I'd give it a try, that was my first mistake.  This book follows Travis 'Mad Dog' Maddox and Abby aka 'Pigeon' (what kind of nickname is that anyways? He never even justifies it..) and the course of their friendship (if you can call it that) and whirlwind relationship. Travis appears to be this alpha male type character - but ultimately he's just an abuser.  I'm just going to go ahead and write a list of every single thing wrong with this book, so here goes: ~ It is inherently  sexist and misogynistic ~ Travis is the ultimate 'bad' boy (not even in the kinda good way) arsehole stereotype who has serious anger issues. Examples include: Him beating up his friends for simply mak...