Books on Sale: Kobo Coupons, Rainbow Rowell on Sale, Plus Shiloh Walker’s Grimm Series

COUPON ALERT!

First, heads up: there's a 50% coupon code at Kobo for a selection of books, including books by Courtney Milan, Melissa Foster, Barbara Freethy, and Bella Andre. The coupon code is SAVE50, and it should be usable outside the US (but I'm having a hard time testing that, so if it doesn't work for you, let me know?. You can see the complete collection of eligible books at the Kobo site.

 

RECOMMENDED BY MANY: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell is $4.99 right now at Amazon – the usual price is about $10, so that's not bad. When I tweeted about this book last fall when it was on sale for a rather ridiculous price, I received SO many squeeful recommendations, I bought myself a copy. 

Here are some of the reader recs I received:

 @Mz_Hobbs: “Loved book, just borrowed it from library to re-read.Just bought a copy for myself & my cousin! I won!!”

Author @JenLynnBarnes: “Yes! Possibly my favorite YA read this year!”

@AgentShana: “FANGIRL is SO charming. So sweet.  I wept on plane while reading it.”

@FeistyYBeden: “I'm only partway through it w/my library copy and snapped it up at $1.40 bc I'll want to read it forever. IT IS MY WHOLE LIFE.”

I read and reviewed this book shortly after the sale, giving it an A-, and there might have been squeeing to the extent that seismographs in Finland picked it up: 

The TL;DR: this book is wonderful. It's so much empathy and understanding and emotion layered into narrative form I can't even tell you.

In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.

Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

Goodreads | Amazon

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell is also $4.99 right now at Amazon. This is easily one of the best YA books of the year, and worth reading, gifting, and gifting again.

When I collected recommendations for the best YA of 2013, this book was mentioned constantly. NPR's Linda Holmes wrote,

Ultimately, Eleanor & Park is an enormously optimistic book about love and connection, and about the capacity of people to be powerfully consoling and healing to each other, even when they're 16. And for that healing to be meaningful, there has to be some honesty about the injury.

 Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.

So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.

I’m not kidding, he says.

You should be, she says, we’re 16.

What about Romeo and Juliet?

Shallow, confused, then dead.

I love you, Park says.

Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.

I’m not kidding, he says.

You should be.

Eleanor… Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor.

Park… He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises…Park.

Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

Amazon | Goodreads

 

 

Candy Houses by Shiloh Walker is free, and the rest of the series is on sale right now. From Andrea comes this heads up and recommendation:

Shiloh Walker's Grimm books are all on sale. The first one is free, and e rest are 99 cents or $1.12. This sale is ALSO IN CANADA!! Yay! I just thought you might like to know. (Sorry if you've gotten this news 15 million times. These books are good and I only wish I had known they existed when I was devouring Kenyon's dark hunter books.)

So you think you know fairy tales? Guess again

Greta didn't get her happy ending her first time around. And now that she's a Grimm-special kind of guardian angel and official ass-kicker in the paranormal world-romance is hard to find. Besides, there's only ever been one man who made her heart race, and the fact that he did scared her right out of his arms.

Now Rip is back. And just in time too, because Greta needs his help. On a mission he knows is going to test all of his strengths and skills, the last person Rip expected to see is the one woman who broke his heart. Working together seems to be their only hope. But, when faced with a danger neither of them anticipated, the question is, how will they face the danger to their hearts-assuming they survive, of course. Warning: Dark, sexy, a little bit scary-this fairy tale is only for grownups and is best saved for bedtime…

Goodreads | Amazon | BN | Kobo

 

 

 

 

No Prince Charming by Shiloh Walker is .99c. This is book two in the Grimm's Circle series, and has a 3.8-star average on GR. Each novella/short story is a paranormal erotic romance, and features fairy tale retellings of characters and stories from familiar fables. If you're enjoying Once Upon a Time, this might be a good option to hold you over until the next episode. 

Her Happy-Ever-After has been a long time coming…

Elle spent years trying to get over her so-called Prince Charming, and she’s finally getting the hang of it. A Grimm—a guardian angel with unique gifts—she spends her nights trolling for demons and kicking ass, and lately, her days have been spent with her on-and-off-again lover, Ren, a fellow Grimm. But fate has other plans in store for Elle, plans that include Michael, the prince from her youth who broke her heart.

“What do you choose…live for her? Or would you rather die?” That was the choice Michael was given all those years ago. Although he knew she’d never forgive him, when Michael was given the chance to become a Grimm, he took it. Still, he isn’t so sure Elle needs him in her life. With a lover at her side and a mission before her, Elle looks like she’s doing just fine without him.

But the not-so-charming prince isn’t going to back off that easily…not if there’s a chance she might need him again. He’d do anything to save her. Kill for her, live for her, die for her…

Warning: This dark, twisted version of Cinderella involves demons, deceit, desire, and debauchery between a princess and two sexy guardian angels, both determined to win the fair Cinderella.

Goodreads | Amazon | BN | Kobo

 

NOTE: The rest of the series is on sale, as Andrea pointed out, and you can see the collection at Goodreads, Amazon, AllRomance, BN, and Kobo.