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The Unleashing
RECOMMENDED: The Unleashing by Shelly Laurenston is 99c! Yeah, you’re reading that right. If you were at RT, Sarah squeed about this so hard, so thanks to everyone who told us about this sale. And she did a little drive by squee during a review for the second book, The Undoing:
Feared Viking blacksmith (of sorts) in the Raven clan has a massive crush on a former Marine who is reborn as a Crow. (Bonus: Ravens giving him shit about his crush, and his ability to admit easily that he really likes her: ALL the thumbs, all of them up.)
WINGING IT
Kera Watson never expected to face death behind a Los Angeles coffee shop. Not after surviving two tours lugging an M16 around the Middle East. If it wasn’t for her hot Viking customer showing up too late to help, nobody would even see her die.
In uncountable years of service to the Allfather Odin, Ludvig “Vig” Rundstöm has never seen anyone kick ass with quite as much style as Kera. He knows one way to save her life—but she might not like it. Signing up with the Crows will get Kera a new set of battle buddies: cackling, gossiping, squabbling, party-hearty women. With wings. So not the Marines.
But Vig can’t give up on someone as special as Kera. With a storm of oh-crap magic speeding straight for L.A., survival will depend on combining their strengths: Kera’s discipline, Vig’s loyalty… and the Crows’ sheer love of battle. Boy, are they in trouble.
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Shadowshaper
RECOMMENDED: Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older is $2.99! Thanks to Reader Ellie for the email about this! Sarah reviewed this YA fantasy and gave it a B:
But when I was reading this book, I couldn’t put it down, and I devoured it in one afternoon. I found myself re-reading parts when I went to check my notes and highlights for this review, a sign that a re-read might be required. Despite my disappointment with the construction of the fantasy elements, the rest of the book, especially the characters, the language, the use of food (do NOT read this while hungry, y’all), the depth and complexity of the cultures within Sierra’s world and all the dialogue (all of it. It’s so good.) make this story very, very much worth reading.
Sierra Santiago was looking forward to a fun summer of making art, hanging out with her friends, and skating around Brooklyn. But then a weird zombie guy crashes the first party of the season. Sierra’s near-comatose abuelo begins to say “No importa” over and over. And when the graffiti murals in Bed-Stuy start to weep…. Well, something stranger than the usual New York mayhem is going on.
Sierra soon discovers a supernatural order called the Shadowshapers, who connect with spirits via paintings, music, and stories. Her grandfather once shared the order’s secrets with an anthropologist, Dr. Jonathan Wick, who turned the Caribbean magic to his own foul ends. Now Wick wants to become the ultimate Shadowshaper by killing all the others, one by one. With the help of her friends and the hot graffiti artist Robbie, Sierra must dodge Wick’s supernatural creations, harness her own Shadowshaping abilities, and save her family’s past, present, and future.
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Wolf Trouble
Wolf Trouble by Paige Tyler is $1.99! This is a paranormal romance with – you guessed it – werewolves. These wolves though make up a Dallas SWAT team, as you do, and features a workplace romance. This is the second book in the SWAT series and readers say the books just keep getting better and better. However, others found the heroine on the TSTL side. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
He’s in trouble with a capital T
There’s never been a female on the Dallas SWAT team and Senior Corporal Xander Riggs prefers it that way. The elite pack of alpha male wolfshifters is no place for a woman. But Khaki Blake is no ordinary woman.When Khaki walks through the door attractive as hell and smelling like heaven, Xander doesn’t know what the heck to do. Worse, she’s put under his command and Xander’s protective instincts go on high alert. When things start heating up both on and off the clock, it’s almost impossible to keep their heads in the game and their hands off each other…
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The Raven Boys
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater is $1.99 at Amazon and Kobo! This is the first book in The Raven Cycle series and the last book came out this month. My roommate looooooves this series and squeed about it so much that I bought this book at a bookstore one day. Readers say that it starts like a typical cliched YA, but that the books just keep getting better and better. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them–until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.
His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul whose emotions range from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher who notices many things but says very little.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She doesn’t believe in true love, and never thought this would be a problem. But as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
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Darn…can’t pass up such good sales on first in series! Wallet, I am sorry. I’m on a bit of a book buying binge these past few months.
Oh yay, The Unleashing seems like the perfect stay home with the flu book. I’m at the annoying stage of feeling much better but not exactly well enough to do much and I need a good book to keep me from getting restless.
I just one-clicked The Unleashing. It’s the third book I’ve bought since resolving to buy no more new books until I get my 350 book TBR list down (the 350 number comes only from my ‘top’ priority books, the real number is much higher). I need some sort of 12 step program.
I put the Laurenston on my list after you reviewed another one in the series. The price was too rich for my blood at the time. Now I feel very virtuous for my patience.
Off to vicariously dual-wield some confiscated hammers…
My book budget has been blown by discovering LoveLight Press (www.lovelightpress.com) this morning. Reading the “Love in Action” boxed set by Augusta Hill right now; it’s f/f adventure romance. The first book has archaeologist and Army vet heroines!
I get authors wanting characters to have distinctive names but I really do not get at all when they pick words that are not names and use them as names.
Khaki? You named your heroine after a color or a pair of pants? Or dirt, which is the original meaning of the word.
Or the hero a few months ago in a sale book whose name was Hessian, and it was a historical! Why would you name your hero after a style of boots?
There are a lot of weird names that I’ll roll with (heck my family has some way crazy names in it) but as soon as you name your hero/heroine after an item of clothing you’ve lost me. I don’t care how interesting the plot summary is I won’t be reading the book and most of the time I won’t even finish reading the cover copy.
Because I don’t care how she’s described I’ll think of a pair of pants every time someone calls the Wolf Trouble heroine by name.
Just no.
@Mara B.: Did you see the review for the book where the heroine was named Valentine Hart (or possibly Heart) that was posted in the last week? At first I thought I’d misread, but no, the author really did name her character Valentine Hart. Too twee by half. I didn’t finish reading the rest of it- the next was stupidly “too cute” which irritates me. No recollection of anything else just the inanity of her name. Great rec, right?
Heads up – Daniel Older, the author of Shadowshaper, just announced he just signed a contract for two sequels to it.
And, at Kobo, you can find Blowing It Off by Lexxie Couper for free right now.
Freebie alert! https://www.amazon.com/Tangled-Princes-Royal-Romances-Book-ebook/dp/B01BLQLU1E/ref=pd_sim_351_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=51Md%2BK8lX1L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_UX300_PJku-sticker-v3%2CTopRight%2C0%2C-44_OU01_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_&refRID=G0ZTHR7CHEDFNQX2AVHM
Book one in the Royal Romances series is free for Kindle right now. Book three was just released this week. I read all three and loved them. This is a great way to start the series without breaking the bank (says a woman who has grounded herself from buying any more ebooks already this month)
First it was the Kristen Callihan book yesterday and now Shelly Laurenston. I am weak, weak, weak. On the other hand: BRODIE HAWAII!!
How can you say no not Brodie Hawaii for .99?
Before Kera could even finish, Brodie unfurled her wings and took to the air.
Stieg watched the dog and asked, “So your dog flies now?”
“Apparently.”
Steig mulled that over for a few seconds before he shrugged and said, “Yeah, okay.”
I just bought The Raven Boys even though I’ve already read it and The Unleashing, based solely on Sarah’s squee. Woooo!
Re: Raven Boys – I just finished reading all four books in the cycle. Oh. My. God. Really, really amazing. Lots of layers; a little gory in bits so be forewarned; but overall just really amazing and beautiful. And I would say they get better and better as they go on – I started Raven Boys and put it down, and had to re-start a few months later, but I’m glad I pushed through.
Bought book the other day and just now set up my hammock outside, drink in hand ….. No content with book???!?!? Just 43 pages of ‘this file has no content’
Purchased through iBooks from iPad
Squeeee – The Unleashing is being price-matched at amazon.de for €1,02! Hello, One-click buy…