3/25/14

CYE: It's Ebook Settlement Day!

Woke up to a very nice email telling me I had over $30 to spend at Amazon thanks to the ebook settlement. Then I went onto Twitter and found out I'm a total slacker in the book buying department. Either that, or I was disciplined enough not to buy a lot of Agency-Priced books during the settlement period.

What are YOU buying with your settlement money?

3/7/14

Review: The Sheikh's Last Seduction by Jennie Lucas (Harlequin Presents)

Sheikh's Last Seduction Review
Format: ebook, mass market
Pub Date: February 2014
Publisher: Harlequin
FTC: e-Review copy courtesy of the publisher

Apologies for the extended radio silence. Real life obligations just got out of control in February! I'm back!!

*****

As part of my January Harlequin Presents reading glom (and crash course in Harlequin Presents styles and tropes), I requested a few HPs from Harlequin. This was one of them.

I can't quite put my finger on what annoyed me most about this book. It is probably the extremely derivative plot. I haven't read a ton of HPs, but I've read enough of 19th century lit to spot the imperialism/exoticism trope a mile away. Yes, it's a sheikh book, but I'm certain there are tons of stories to tell that don't fall back on cardboard characters, tired plots, and the whole arranged marriage/forbidden love conflict.