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17 Free Harlequin romances
It's Harlequin's 60th anniversary this year, and to celebrate, they're giving away 17 free ebooks in a nice selection of formats: PDF, Mobi, MS Lit, ePub, and eReader. All without DRM, so you can read any of them on free-download software, or convert to other format of your choice. (Although I tagged this "temporary," I believe they're available all year.)
Our gift to you, it says.
"From steamy passion to tender romances to tales of suspenseful adventure, you'll find exactly what you're looking for with our wide variety of FREE books below! Simply click on your favorite format, download and read the 17 full books below—a total value of $60 U.S. dollars!"
Funny, a few weeks ago when it was only 16 books, it was still a $60 value. I suppose the Medical romance wouldn't be worth anything if they weren't giving it away. While I'd love to believe they'll add a book every week or two until the end of the year, I suspect it's more that the Medical Romances are a new line, and this is a way to promote them.
If you like mainstream romance--or you remember liking it in the past, and wanted to find out if you now think it's pointless tripe--here's your chance for a wide selection for free.
Quick partial reviews:
The Blaze title (Slow Hands) would be rated NC-17 if it were fanfic. Was yummy. Oh, and the lead girl? Not skinny. Yay for diversity in romance; Harlequins have branched out from what I remember from my teen years.
The Supernatural book (Kiss Me Deadly), if it were paper, I'd've thrown against the wall and not picked up again. But hey, maybe someone else likes witch/vampire romances with no trace of real occult lore.
Baby Bonanza and Price of Passion were both nicely steamy, and decent reads; ignore covers & titles; I think after 60 years, they've quite run out of clever titles and accurate covers.
Speed Dating was about what I remembered from Harlequins: dude says, "Hey, I need a pretend girlfriend/fiance for a while, how about you get to run with the party crowd for a while, and at the end of the season, we'll part amicably, and in the meantime I'll get my ex off my back?" And of course, they fall madly in love, and neither wants to tell the other they're not sticking to the "no commitments" bargain they made.
Homespun Bride was surprisingly inoffensive, for an "uplifting story of faith." I expected to flinch at overwhelming Christianity; I didn't. (Which makes me think that maybe the Christianity is just as accurate as the occultism.) There were sappy undertones of "the Lord's plan for us" and whatnot, but that was about all. My biggest complaint was the total lack of smut, but I suppose I can't expect that in a "faith-inspired" book.
I haven't read them all, but I'm not sure why not; they're short. I read a lot of long fanfic; I'm used to "a solid romance story" being 75,000 words. I think most of these top out at 50k words; some may be shorter.
Our gift to you, it says.
"From steamy passion to tender romances to tales of suspenseful adventure, you'll find exactly what you're looking for with our wide variety of FREE books below! Simply click on your favorite format, download and read the 17 full books below—a total value of $60 U.S. dollars!"
Funny, a few weeks ago when it was only 16 books, it was still a $60 value. I suppose the Medical romance wouldn't be worth anything if they weren't giving it away. While I'd love to believe they'll add a book every week or two until the end of the year, I suspect it's more that the Medical Romances are a new line, and this is a way to promote them.
If you like mainstream romance--or you remember liking it in the past, and wanted to find out if you now think it's pointless tripe--here's your chance for a wide selection for free.
Quick partial reviews:
The Blaze title (Slow Hands) would be rated NC-17 if it were fanfic. Was yummy. Oh, and the lead girl? Not skinny. Yay for diversity in romance; Harlequins have branched out from what I remember from my teen years.
The Supernatural book (Kiss Me Deadly), if it were paper, I'd've thrown against the wall and not picked up again. But hey, maybe someone else likes witch/vampire romances with no trace of real occult lore.
Baby Bonanza and Price of Passion were both nicely steamy, and decent reads; ignore covers & titles; I think after 60 years, they've quite run out of clever titles and accurate covers.
Speed Dating was about what I remembered from Harlequins: dude says, "Hey, I need a pretend girlfriend/fiance for a while, how about you get to run with the party crowd for a while, and at the end of the season, we'll part amicably, and in the meantime I'll get my ex off my back?" And of course, they fall madly in love, and neither wants to tell the other they're not sticking to the "no commitments" bargain they made.
Homespun Bride was surprisingly inoffensive, for an "uplifting story of faith." I expected to flinch at overwhelming Christianity; I didn't. (Which makes me think that maybe the Christianity is just as accurate as the occultism.) There were sappy undertones of "the Lord's plan for us" and whatnot, but that was about all. My biggest complaint was the total lack of smut, but I suppose I can't expect that in a "faith-inspired" book.
I haven't read them all, but I'm not sure why not; they're short. I read a lot of long fanfic; I'm used to "a solid romance story" being 75,000 words. I think most of these top out at 50k words; some may be shorter.
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