Before we get to today’s sales, there are some great Kindle Daily Deals today ranging from $1.99-$4.99. Titles include Wild by Cheryl Strayed, Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, and Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell!
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Radio Silence
Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole is 99c at most vendors! Carrie reviewed this book last April. Redheadedgirl also said, “Based on a rec from Courtney Milan, this is set during an apocalyptic event with a we-all-need-to-work-together and try not to go nutty from the isolation plot – it’s tight, tense, and really good.”
No one expects the apocalypse.
Arden Highmore was living your average postgrad life in Rochester, New York, when someone flipped the “off” switch on the world. No cell phones, no power, no running water—and no one knows why. All she and her roommate, John, know for sure is that they have to get out, stat. His family’s cabin near the Canadian border seemed like the safest choice.
It turns out isolation doesn’t necessarily equal safety.
When scavengers attack, it’s John’s ridiculously handsome brother, Gabriel, who comes to the rescue. He saves Arden’s life, so he can’t be all bad…but he’s also a controlling jerk who treats her like an idiot. Now their parents are missing and it seems John, Gabriel, their kid sister, Maggie, and Arden are the only people left alive who aren’t bloodthirsty maniacs.
No one knows when—or if—the lights will come back on and, in the midst of all that, Arden and Gabriel are finding that there’s a fine line indeed between love and hate. How long can they expect to last in this terrifying new world, be it together or apart?
Book one of Off the Grid
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Throne of Oak
Throne of Oak by Dana Marie Bell is $2.99! This is a paranormal romance with fated mates between a vampire and a dryad. Some readers found the plot a little disjointed and uneven, while others loved the hero and how earnest he was. I should also mention the vampire hero is a mayor, so there’s that. The first book is also available for less than $3!
Vampire Dragos Ibanescu, Mayor of Maggie’s Grove, is about to lose his mind. His mate, the dryad queen Mina Chainey, refuses to have anything to do with him after her ordeal at the hands of an evil witch. If he doesn’t mate with her soon, he may lose control of the beast within him—a force far more dangerous than anyone in town knows…
Mina’s nightmares of her time with the witch haunt her. The Queen of the Forest can’t muster the strength needed to fight her terror. Unable to leave the Throne, she vows she will not accept Dragos until she can stand at his side as an equal. But the nightmares are only growing in strength, and soon she realizes that there’s more to her pain than simple fear.
Dark forces are converging on Maggie’s Grove, and a horde of hunters stalk supernaturals from the shadows. Only by uniting in body and mind will Mina and Dragos find the strength to defend their home.
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Second Position
Second Position by Katherine Locke is $2.99! This is a highly emotional contemporary romance between ballet dancers and it’s been recommended to me several times. Some readers said it took a while for them to connect with the book. Others inhaled it in one sitting, so it seems your mileage my vary. Some reviewers also mention things that may require a trigger warning such as substance abuse and self-harm.
Four years ago, a car accident ended Zedekiah Harrow’s ballet career and sent Philadelphia Ballet principal dancer Alyona Miller spinning toward the breakdown that suspended her own. What they lost on the side of the road that day can never be replaced, and grief is always harshest under a spotlight…
Now twenty-three, Zed teaches music and theatre at a private school in Washington, D.C. and regularly attends AA meetings to keep the pain at bay. Aly has returned to D.C. to live with her mother while trying to recover from the mental and physical breakdown that forced her to take a leave of absence from the ballet world, and her adoring fans.
When Zed and Aly run into each other in a coffee shop, it’s as if no time has passed at all. But without the buffer and escape of dance—and with so much lust, anger and heartbreak hanging between them—their renewed connection will either allow them to build the together they never had…or destroy the fragile recoveries they’ve only started to make.
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Defiance
Defiance by Stephanie Tyler is 99c! This is a motorcycle club romance in a dystopian setting with what seems to be a second chance romance. Holy catnip. Some readers say it’s extremely reminiscent of Sons of Anarchy and Kristen Ashley’s motorcycle club romances, which may be a good or bad thing depending on your opinion of the aforementioned inspirations. You can also grab all three current books in the series for less than $7.
Rebelling against her legacy as the MC’s princess, Tru Tennyson escaped the ruthless, male-dominated culture of the Defiance motorcycle club. Three years later, her newfound freedom is ripped away, thanks to a massive hybrid storm that killed millions. Now, in the post-Chaos world of semi-darkness and near-total anarchy where gangs rule, she discovers the dangerous world of Defiance may be the one thing that can keep her safe.
Tru is at the MC’s mercy when she’s dragged back to her former home … and to the only man she’s ever pictured a future with. Caspar is the bastard son of the club’s leader, her safe haven when life got rough — and her onetime lover the night she left. When Tru refuses to trade sex for power and be claimed by a rival club leader, she also dares to announce she wants Caspar instead, throwing the MC into turmoil.
Tru’s brazen revolt could start a gang war and destroy the club from within. Now both Tru and the MC must wait for Caspar’s response … and the inevitable fallout.
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For UK readers: Gollancz has a 99 c sale this weekend. So many good books! Included is Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh (not many romance novels otherwise) http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2016/09/the-gollancz-festival-ebook-sale/
I also think they have an audiobook sale. (I am not sure if it has ended yet)
I just one-clicked Radio Silence and noticed that the second book in the trilogy is also 99 cents at Amazon. Has anyone read it? I’m reluctant to buy the second book in a trilogy without having read the first one yet, but that price is hard to say no to.
Thanks for the link to Carrie’s review. Radio Silence sounds like it would be right up my catnip in terms of cozy post-apocalyptic new-world-order trapped-in-a-cabin speculative sci-fi survival stuff, and it sounds like there’s plenty of cozy and none of the latter. I will save my minor ducats, and watch some more Farscape in the meantime.
Read Alyssa Cole’s entire trilogy, one after the other, and found them all interesting. While all were focused on relationships, they were relationships that arose within the changing post-apocalyptic world. Each book takes place from 1-3 years after the prior one, and the world changed in that period as well. I found the writing got better with each book.
Mikaela, thanks for the news about the Gollancz sale; some very good books there.
I may have got a little carried away…
I read and loved the entire Alyssa Cole trilogy. The first and third are m/f and the second one is m/m and all of them are IR (fwiw).
The second two books are less cozy and more, establish-new-world-order (although I didn’t find the first one that cozy since there was quite a bit of danger involved). The first is very narrowly focused (almost claustrophobically) and each later book pulls back more and expands to include more of the larger world.
I read the first one during a long plane ride and it was perfect travel reading. I read the other two while jet lagged and suffering from the stomach flu and again they were perfect – because they were compelling enough to keep my mind off my misery.
The Kindle Daily Deal has a bunch of books that have been made into movies/series. I picked up Man in the High castle for $1.99.
@Qualisign and @cleo, I appreciate your input and analysis. I will at least read the preview then 🙂
I read Radio Silence recently and will probably read all of the trilogy. I love a post-apocalyptic story, and the fact that the main character is female and Black, and the rest of the main characters and love interest are Korean-Americans was refreshing. (So tired of white Christian male prepper heros!) It was a short, fun read with appealing characters.
It is relationship-oriented (as opposed to science-fiction), and new adult style “first love.”