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The 12 most bad-ass heroines in romance today

6/30/2017

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The 12 most bad-ass heroines in romance today
If you’ve read any of our romance novel reviews, you know that if there’s one thing we hate here at Romance Rehab, it’s weak, spineless heroines. (And also country music, camping, big hairy spiders and reality TV, but we digress...) But fortunately, for every too-stupid-to-live heroine we’ve encountered on our reading adventures, we’ve found at least one outstanding, super-smart, bad-ass woman—the kind of woman who can overcome any obstacle and generally grabs life by the balls and makes it her bitch. The kind of woman who kicks the crap out of the romance stigma. So, without further ado, here are our top 12 favorite bad-ass heroines:

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First Fruits and Second Coming

6/29/2017

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PARANORMAL ROMANCE
 
Title: First Fruits and Second Coming
Author: Amanda Carney
Publication date: 12/13/2015  
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Kindle Unlimited: No
Cliffhanger: Yes (in First Fruits, none in Second Coming)
Rating: 4 out of 5
 
Amazon blurb (First Fruits)
Reading minds can be dangerous.
Parsley Walker can hear people’s thoughts and it’s made her a target. As a natural-born telepath who’s also telekinetic—two things that can be disturbingly lucrative in the wrong person’s hands—she’s learned to hide who she is. To be always moving and never at ease. To run from that inevitable moment of discovery. She’s a nomad in a waitress’s uniform. This is how she survives.

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America's Next Reality Star

6/28/2017

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ROMANTIC COMEDY

Title:
America’s Next Reality Star

Author: Laura Heffernan
Publication date: 03/07/2017
Publisher: Lyrical Shine
Kindle Unlimited: No
Cliffhanger: No
Rating: 4 out of 5
 
Amazon blurb
Twenty-four-year-old Jen Reid had her life in good shape: an okay job, a tiny-cute Seattle apartment, and a great boyfriend almost ready to get serious. In a flash it all came apart. Single, unemployed, and holding an eviction notice, who has time to remember trying out for a reality show? Then the call comes, and Jen sees her chance to start over—by spending her summer on national TV.
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Luckily The Fishbowl is all about puzzles and games, the kind of thing Jen would love even if she wasn’t desperate.

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Finding Home

6/27/2017

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NEW ADULT ROMANCE

Title:
Finding Home

Author: Lauren Baker and Bonnie Dee
Publication date: 05/25/2017
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Cliffhanger: No
Rating: 5 out of 5
 
Amazon blurb
Forbidden passion blooms on the gritty street.

Copy editor Megan works to make her journalistic dreams come true, but her piece on homeless teens brings unexpected consequences. A hustler with the street name Mouth rocks her to the core with his sad story, world weary air, and overwhelming magnetism.

Mouth aka Sean has dreams of his own, big plans to rise above his circumstances and forge a real career. 

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The Foxe and the Hound

6/26/2017

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ROMANTIC COMEDY
 
Title: The Foxe & the Hound
Author: RS Grey
Publication date: 06/01/2017
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Cliffhanger: No
Rating: 5 out of 5
 
Amazon blurb
When your life is a hot mess at twenty, it’s cute. At twenty-seven…well, not so much.

It’s just that my lofty dreams—making it as a real estate agent, paying rent on time, showering daily—have stayed just that: dreams. Oh, and love? I’ve decided love might be a little ambitious for me at the moment. Instead, I’ve settled for the two guys who will never leave me: Ben & Jerry.

That is, until Dr. Adam Foxe takes up residence as the town’s new vet.

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13 Heartwarming second-chance romances

6/23/2017

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13 Heartwarming second-chance romances
Any avid romance reader can tell you that the road to happily ever isn’t always smooth. Sometimes, it’s years and years in the making. But that certainly doesn’t make the journey any less exciting! For all you readers out there who, like us, can’t get enough second-chance romance reads, here are our picks for the best-of-the-best:

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Hidden in the Stars

6/22/2017

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CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Title:
Hidden in the Stars

Author: Sadie Grubor
Publication date: 08/13/2015
Publisher: Book Nerd Revelations
Kindle Unlimited: No
Cliffhanger: No
Rating: 4 out of 5
 
Amazon blurb
When you're Jackson Shaw, guitarist of The Forgotten, and your hearts been broken, shattered by the deception of a woman you thought was the one. You can't hide from cameras and millions of fans hanging on every dirty detail printed and posted.

What you can do, is swear off love and dull the ache with gorgeous women who look nothing like that girl who tore you apart. A supermodel girlfriend and sexplicit escapades splashed across the tabloids is the ultimate revenge.​
It's also the perfect way to hide your pain in the media. But when the ache turns to a hollow pit, and there isn't enough sex, drugs, or alcohol to fill the emptiness, what do you do?

You cut your losses and head to L.A. to mentor the latest reality talent show. You follow an old friend into a world where the art of the tease and bump and grind were perfected. Where the sound of her voice calls to every primal instinct buried within your body and makes the demand for your attention.
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Jackson's an addict, and just one taste puts him back in the precarious position of falling in love with a woman who's mastered the art of ensnaring and teasing.

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Never Say Never Again

6/21/2017

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CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
 
Title: Never Say Never Again
Author: WS Carmichael
Publication date: 06/01/2017
Publisher: Queen of the World Publishing
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Cliffhanger: No
Rating: 4 out of 5
 
Amazon blurb
Emma Campbell never had an easy life. Growing up with an alcoholic mother and an absentee father, she learned early in life there were few people she could rely on. Once, she took a chance on love, only to discover firsthand how painful – literally – love could be. After her disaster of a marriage fell apart, she swore off love forever.

Matt Montgomery has a job to do. Find and deliver one Frank Tanner to the motorcycle club hunting him. Tanner is the last job he will ever do for them.

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Ruckus

6/20/2017

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CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
 
Title: Ruckus
Author: LJ Shen  
Publication date: 05/23/2017
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Cliffhanger: No
Rating: 5 out of 5
 
Amazon blurb
Rosie
They say that life is a beautiful lie and death a painful truth. They're right.
No one has ever made me feel more alive than the guy who serves as a constant reminder that my clock is ticking.
He is my forbidden, shiny apple.
The striking fallacy to my blunt, raw, truth.
He is also my sister's ex-boyfriend.
One thing you should know before you judge me;
I saw him first. I craved him first. I loved him first.

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How to help (and motivate) your favorite authors

6/19/2017

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Helping your favorite author
Writing is hard work, and it doesn’t always pay as well as you might assume. (Unless you’re Stephen King, or JK Rowling. Then we’re sure it pays just as well as you might assume.) The last thing in the world we want is for our favorite authors to lose hope and quit writing, particularly before that next book in our favorite series is finished. So, with that in mind, here are a few things readers can do to help their favorite authors and keep them motivated to write more books, faster:

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The Top 14 trend-busting historical romances

6/16/2017

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The Top 14 trend-busting historical romances
Not your grandma’s historical romance
Think historical romance is all about ripped corsets and good girls who are only interested in wrestling randy dukes into matrimonial submission? Well, think again! Here are our picks for the top 14 historical romances that kick the crap out of the romance stigma.

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Archer's Voice

6/15/2017

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NEW ADULT ROMANCE

Title:
Archer’s Voice

Author: Mia Sheridan
Publication date: 01/15/2014
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Cliffhanger: No
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
 
Amazon blurb:
When Bree Prescott arrives in the sleepy, lakeside town of Pelion, Maine, she hopes against hope that this is the place where she will finally find the peace she so desperately seeks. On her first day there, her life collides with Archer Hale, an isolated man who holds a secret agony of his own. A man no one else sees.
 
Archer's Voice is the story of a woman chained to the memory of one horrifying night and the man whose love is the key to her freedom.
It is the story of a silent man who lives with an excruciating wound and the woman who helps him find his voice. It is the story of suffering, fate, and the transformative power of love

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The Bad Guy

6/14/2017

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CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

​Title:
The Bad Guy

Author: Celia Aaron
Publication date: 05/19/2017
Publisher: Celia Aaron
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Cliffhanger: No
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
 
Amazon blurb
My name is Sebastian Lindstrom, and I’m the villain of this story.

I’ve decided to lay myself bare. To tell the truth for once in my hollow life, no matter how dark it gets. And I can assure you, it will get so dark that you’ll find yourself feeling around the blackened corners of my mind, seeking a door handle that isn’t there.

Don’t mistake this for a confession. I neither seek forgiveness nor would I accept it. 
My sins are my own. They keep me company. Instead, this is the true tale of how I found her, how I stole her, and how I lost her.

She was a damsel, one who already had her white knight. But every fairytale has a villain, someone waiting in the wings to rip it all down. A scoundrel who will set the world on fire if that means he gets what he wants. That’s me.

I’m the bad guy.

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On Second Thought

6/13/2017

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CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Title:
On Second Thought

Author: Kristan Higgins
Publication date: 02/01/2017
Publisher: Harlequin
Kindle Unlimited: No
Cliffhanger: No
Rating: 5 out of 5
 
Amazon blurb:
Ainsley O'Leary is so ready to get married—she's even found the engagement ring her boyfriend has stashed away. What she doesn't anticipate is being blindsided by a breakup he chronicles in a blog…which (of course) goes viral. Devastated and humiliated, Ainsley turns to her older half sister, Kate, who's struggling with a sudden loss of her own.
 
Kate's always been the poised, self-assured sister, but becoming a newlywed—and a widow—in the space of four months overwhelms her.​
Though the sisters were never close, she starts to confide in Ainsley, especially when she learns her late husband was keeping a secret from her.
 
Despite the murky blended-family dynamic that's always separated them, Ainsley's and Kate's heartaches bind their summer together when they come to terms with the inevitable imperfection of relationships and family—and the possibility of one day finding love again.

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The Romance Rehab guide to talking about sex without getting weird about it

6/12/2017

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The official list of words and phrases we NEVER want to read again in romance novels
 
We get it. In the writing world, few things are harder (Ha! Get it? See what we did there?) to create than an engaging sex scene. As authors, particularly you romance authors out there, you are forced to walk a dangerously thin tightrope when it comes to writing these scenes. Write a classy, “fade to black before penetration” sex scene and some readers feel cheated. Write a realistic sex scene using clinical, accurate terminology and it ends up reading like an instructional manual.

The sweet spot (Ha! We did it again. We’re on fire over here) is somewhere in between the two extremes. But in the quest for realistic and titillating sex scenes, some authors get a little too creative (in our opinion) with terminology, causing things to get...weird. Since we read a lot (like, seriously, a lot) here at Romance Rehab, we’re pretty sure we can help you authors find that sex scene sweet spot. Here is a quick cheat-sheet of words and phrases we’ve come across that we’d be happy to never see again in books (or anywhere else for that matter):

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