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Sleeping Giants
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel is $1.99! I’ve been seeing and hearing things about this book everywhere! It’s a new scifi novel with a female protagonist. Readers say that though this scifi is a little darker and less “feel good,” the loved it. However, some felt a bulk of the book was just setup and information dumping for the next book. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power.
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved—its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. Its carbon dating defies belief; military reports are redacted; theories are floated, then rejected.
But some can never stop searching for answers.
Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top secret team to crack the hand’s code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the provenance of the relic. What’s clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history’s most perplexing discovery—and figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result prove to be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?
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Runaway Vampire
Runaway Vampire by Lynsay Sands is 99c! This is the twenty-third (WHOA) book in the Argeneau series. The hero is a vampire and – if these Goodreads reviews are correct – the heroine is in her sixties, which readers seemed to either love or hate. Have you read this one?
The latest entry in the sizzling paranormal vampire series featuring the Argeneau family – no one does wickedly funny and irresistibly steamy like Lynsay Sands!
Dante Notte has heard it said that love hurts. He just wasn’t expecting it to run him over in an RV. Still, a punctured lung and broken ribs are nothing compared to the full-body shock he feels whenever he’s near the vehicle’s driver, Mary Winslow. He needs to keep her safe from their pursuers while he rescues his brother. Most challenging of all, he needs to claim this smart, stubborn woman as his life mate.
The naked, injured, insanely gorgeous younger man who clambered into her RV insists they belong together. If Mary wasn’t feeling their incredible connection in every inch of her being, she wouldn’t believe it. But now that the men who took Dante’s twin are after her too, trusting her gut means risking her life for an immortal who’s the very definition of a perfect stranger.
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Must Love Chainmail
Must Love Chainmail by Angela Quarles is 99c! This time travel romance recently won a RITA® in the Paranormal Romance category, though it received C-range grades during our RITA® Reader Challenge.
Reader Harper Gray gave it a C:
Once the story hit its rhythm, the writing was decent, and some of the clunky dialect smoothed out. Overall, it didn’t live up to my expectations and left me feeling pretty ‘meh,’ but it may work better for other readers than it did for me.
I started out thinking this book would be a C-. During the middle third, I was ready to bump it up a notch, but given the lack of a satisfying resolution to the Welsh portion of the story—and the over-exaggerated writing style—it ended up staying a C- for me.
Trapped in the wrong time, she needs a knight in shining armor, but this damsel in distress might be the real savior.
A damsel in distress…
With a day planner attached to her hip, the last thing Katy Tolson wants is a romance that threatens her well-ordered life. She’s set to marry the safe–but bland–guy, but something’s not quite…right. A careless wish thrusts her through time into medieval Wales and into the arms of…
A knight in somewhat shining armor…
Sir Robert Beucol, half-Norman and half-Welsh, lives with the shame of his father’s treason and vows to reclaim his family’s holdings and thereby his honor. To prove himself to his king, he must be more Norman than a full-blooded Norman. What better way to show loyalty than to fight his mother’s people? He has no desire to be sidetracked by the mysterious wench with pink toenails, peculiar habits, and passion smoldering behind her cool, collected exterior.
A rebellion that challenges both…
The Welsh uprising fits perfectly into Robert’s plans. Katy’s on the other hand? That’s a no. As they embark on a perilous journey through the heart of Wales, each passionate encounter pulls them closer together, but farther from their goals. When everything they value is at stake, can they save each other and their love?
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The Blades of the Rose Bundle
The Blades of the Rose bundle by Zoe Archer is $4.99! The bundle is four books with lots of adventuring in a historical setting and some steampunk elements. I really enjoyed this series, though I think Warrior might be my favorite. Do you have a favorite?
The Blades of the Rose Bundle
Warrior
The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark alley sparks a chain of events that will take him to the ends of the Earth and beyond–where what is real and what is imagined become terribly confused. And frankly, Huntley couldn’t be more pleased. Intrigue, danger, and a beautiful woman in distress–just what he needs.
Raised thousands of miles from England, Thalia Burgess is no typical Victorian lady. A good thing, because a proper lady would have no hope of recovering the priceless magical artifact Thalia is after. Huntley’s assistance might come in handy, though she has to keep him in the dark. But this distractingly handsome soldier isn’t easy to deceive…
Scoundrel
London Harcourt’s father is bent on subjugating the world’s magic to British rule. But since London is a mere female, he hasn’t bothered to tell her so. He’s said only that he’s leading a voyage to the Greek isles. No matter, after a smothering marriage and three years of straitlaced widowhood, London jumps at the opportunity–unfortunately, right into the arms of Bennett Day.
Bennett is a ladies’ man, when he’s not dodging lethal attacks to protect the powers of the ancients from men like London’s father. Sometimes, he’s a ladies’ man even when he is dodging them. But the minute he sees London he knows she will require his full attention. The woman is lovely, brilliant, and the only known speaker of a dialect of ancient Greek that holds the key to calling down the wrath of the gods. Bennett will be risking his life again–but around London, what really worries him is the danger to his heart…
Rebel
Nathan Lesperance is used to being different. He’s the first Native attorney in Vancouver, and welcome neither with white society nor his sometime tribe. Not to mention the powerful wildness he’s always felt inside him, too dangerous to set free. Then he met Astrid Bramfield and saw his like within her piercing eyes. Now, unless she helps him through the harsh terrain and the harsher unknowns of his true abilities, it could very well get him killed…
Astrid has traveled this path before. Once she was a Blade of the Rose, protecting the world’s magic from unscrupulous men, with her husband by her side. But she’s loved and lost, and as a world-class frontierswoman, she knows all about survival. Nathan’s searing gaze and long, lean muscles mean nothing but trouble. Yet something has ignited a forgotten flame inside her: a burning need for adventure, for life–and perhaps even for love…
Stranger
Gemma Murphy has a nose for a story–even if the boys in Chicago’s newsrooms would rather focus on her chest. So when she runs into a handsome man of mystery discussing how to save the world from fancy-pants Brit conspirators, she’s sensing a scoop. Especially when he mentions there’s magic involved. Of course, getting him on the record would be easier if he hadn’t caught her eavesdropping…
Catullus Graves knows what it’s like to be shut out: his ancestors were slaves. And he’s a genius inventor with appropriately eccentric habits, so even people who love him find him a little odd. But after meeting a certain redheaded scribbler, he’s thinking of other types of science. Inconvenient, given that he needs to focus on preventing the end of the world as we know it. But with Gemma’s insatiable curiosity sparking Catullus’s inventive impulses, they might set off something explosive anyway…
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From what I remember, I read through it pretty fast, I did enjoy “Runaway Vampire”.
I like that Sands is starting to include more diverse characters than the hot twenty-something single woman falling for the vampire. Although I am still disappointed there wasn’t more of a conflict in “About a Vampire”. I’d been really hoping someone would do a, the human is already married, vampire story, and that one seemed to glaze over the main issue.
Yesssssssss, Blades of the Rose! *click*
The Blades of the Rose was pretty cute.
Blades of the Rose!!! I love that series. My favorite was Stranger. The hero was kinda awkward but so adorable. Great adventure romance series, which there are not nearly enough of IMO.
1. ZOMG BLADES OF THE ROSE IS SOOOOO GOOD! So good! If you haven’t read it yet, that’s a great price for the bundle and you should buy it. /end squee
2. That is some damn strategic mist on the cover of Runaway Vampire. I’m intrigued by the heroine in her sixties. I love it when romances feature mature heroines, and this is the first time I’ve ever seen one in a vampire romance (SPOILER aside from the wicked good movie What We Do in the Shadows) END SPOILER. It’s funny that some readers hated the idea of a woman in her sixties finding love with an immortal creature who is (presumably) much older than she is. I don’t see them screaming about a twenty-five-year-old human woman ending up with a thousand-year-old vampire. Could it possibly be because *gasp* he doesn’t look old? Our cultural attitude toward aging and sexuality is beyond fucked. That said, I don’t know if I can get into a series with over twenty entries.
Oooh. I LOVED the Blades of the Rose series. I think “Stranger” was my favorite. I’m glad Catullus got his story.
Oooh yes Blades of the Rose insta-click! I’ve been wanting to read that series for a while now.
“Sleeping Giants” also looks like catnip for me…yeah…book budget…what’s that?
I’m on vacation so I’ve decided my book budget doesn’t exist anymore. The concept of a budget has floated away, just like all my stress and the frisbee I threw into the lake for my dog before discovering she will not swim.
Bought the Blades of the Rose bundle, but am also hoping a review is put up for a book that is absolutely amazing and hits my “MUST READ THIS NOW” spot. I’m in a bit of a reading slump and haven’t been able to enjoy books as much as I feel like I should.
Adding to the Blades of the Rose love. If you haven’t read it, it’s like Victorian Indiana Jones, with magic (and better female characters). Warrior and Rebel were my favorites but Scoundrel has one of my all time favorite declarations of love scenes.
I’d be really interested to read/participate in a thread discussing the dynamics of age in paranormal romances. I’ve often wondered as I read or watch them what superold beings would see in a twenty year old girl, aside from sex. It occurred to me the other day that maybe being alive that long you start to feel bored and been there/done that, so someone youthful who is still excited about life could be emotionally refreshing.
I really like Robin McKinley’s Sunshine for showing for reals “otherness” in vamps. They are compelling, but not pretty and the are definitely different than humans because of their age and vampirosity.
@Allie, I just finished Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl, which is a retelling of Taming of the Shrew. Not a romance per se, but pretty compulsively readable and I finished it in an evening.
I just read Sleeping Giants and really liked it! I didn’t think it was just setup for future novels and, in fact, found it pretty satisfying on its own. It didn’t leave me hanging.
Mary Star, Sunshine is my favorite vampire novel!
Sleeping Giants sounds right up my alley. Thanks for the heads-up!