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Tiny Pretty Things
RECOMMENDED: Tiny Pretty Things by by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton is $1.99! This is a YA book set at a ballet academy and Redheadedgirl gave it an A:
The cover copy describes this as Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars. The melodrama factor is high. There’s harassment that escalates to attempted murder, maimings, vandalism, and HIPPA violations. The end was, the more I think about it, the most satisfying unsatisfying ending imaginable, and I am SUPER glad that I went to the We Need Diverse Books panel at RT, and that I snagged a copy. I’m really excited to see what else these two write, separately or together.
Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.
Gigi, Bette, and June, three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet school, have seen their fair share of drama. Free-spirited new girl Gigi just wants to dance—but the very act might kill her. Privileged New Yorker Bette’s desire to escape the shadow of her ballet star sister brings out a dangerous edge in her. And perfectionist June needs to land a lead role this year or her controlling mother will put an end to her dancing dreams forever. When every dancer is both friend and foe, the girls will sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.
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For Darkness Shows the Stars
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund is $1.99! This is a young adult scifi book inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Carrie gave the book a C+:
For Darkness Shows the Stars is a science fiction YA romance loosely based on Persuasion by Jane Austen. It’s not a very good version of Persuasion, and it’s not very good as romance, but it’s quite good as science fiction and I felt intense empathy for the heroine even though I frequently felt that her story was not the most interesting story in the book.
It’s been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.
Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family’s estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot’s estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth—an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.
But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret—one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she’s faced with a choice: cling to what she’s been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she’s ever loved, even if she’s lost him forever.
Inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.
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The Highwayman
RECOMMENDED: The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne is $2.99! Redheadedgirl grabbed this at RT 2015 when it was held in Dallas. She reviewed it and gave it an A-:
What I liked best about this book was the liberal use of crazysauce. It’s a melodramatic tale of a broken man healed by the love of a good woman, and the good woman that’s strong enough to love this man and bring him back into the world. When he proposed the marriage idea, she’s like “Fine, but I want a baby so that’s my condition,” and he’s like, “but I don’t touch people so I didn’t really think this through,” “fine, then I’ll take a lover.” “I. WILL. KILL. HIM….”
“That’s not very solution-oriented.” (Actual quote!)
They’re rebels, scoundrels, and blackguards-dark, dashing men on the wrong side of the law. But for the women who love them, a hint of danger only makes the heart beat faster, in the stunning debut historical romance The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne.
STEALING BEAUTYDorian Blackwell, the Blackheart of Ben More, is a ruthless villain. Scarred and hard-hearted, Dorian is one of Victorian London’s wealthiest, most influential men who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on those who’ve wronged him…and will fight to the death to seize what he wants. The lovely, still innocent widow Farah Leigh Mackenzie is no exception-and soon Dorian whisks the beautiful lass away to his sanctuary in the wild Highlands…
COURTING DESIRE
But Farah is no one’s puppet. She possesses a powerful secret-one that threatens her very life. When being held captive by Dorian proves to be the only way to keep Farah safe from those who would see her dead, Dorian makes Farah a scandalous proposition: marry him for protection in exchange for using her secret to help him exact revenge on his enemies. But what the Blackheart of Ben More never could have imagined is that Farah has terms of her own, igniting a tempestuous desire that consumes them both. Could it be that the woman he captured is the only one who can touch the black heart he’d long thought dead?
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Paris Letters
RECOMMENDED: Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal that is being matched elsewhere. This is a nonfiction account of MacLeod’s question to herself after a bad day: “How much does it take to quit your job?” She downsized her life, and found her way to Europe for 2 years. Then she met a gentleman in Paris.
Sarah says: It’s part practicality and part travelogue, and, as I wrote the last time it was on sale, it’s exact sort of memoir I love when I’m mentally exhausted, because it gives me a peek inside someone else’s travels when I’m too busy and/or to travel anywhere but my couch. And, the reviews are very positive – it has a 3.8 star average on GR.
“How much money does it take to change your life?”
Unfulfilled at her job and unsuccessful in the dating department, Janice MacLeod doodled this question at her desk. Then she decided to make it a challenge.
Over the next few months, with a little math and a lot of determination, she saved up enough to buy two years of freedom in Europe.
But she had only been in Paris for a few days when she met a handsome butcher (with a striking resemblance to Daniel Craig)—and never went home again.
A love story in the vein of Almost French and Lunch in Paris, Paris Letters (February 4) is a joyful romp through the City of Light, and an inspiring look at what can happen when we dare to create the life we want.
Realizing that her Parisian love affair would be forever, MacLeod began her own business on Etsy, creating beautifully-illustrated letters from Paris inspired by artists like Percy Kelly and Beatrix Potter. She now paints and writes full-time, bringing beautiful things to subscribers around the world and reviving the lost art of letter-writing.
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For Darkness has all the cover prettiness. I stare at the pretty cover happily. Sigh.
I thought For Darkness was okay, but I adored the sequel, “Across a Star-Swept Sea.” Think a futuristic gender-swapped Scarlet Pimpernel story in a Pacific Islands setting. All the yeses.
He Will Be My Ruin by K.A. Tucker is $1.99 on Amazon right now. I have not read it yet, but I am a fan of K.A. Tucker.