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Beautiful Wreck
RECOMMENDED: Beautiful Wreck by Larissa Brown is 99c at Amazon and iBooks! It’s $2.99 elsewhere. Elyse really enjoyed this book and gave it a B+:
If you like historical detail, slow burn romance, and virgin heroes, you need to click buy right now. Some readers will definitely find Beautiful Wreck too slow or dislike the futuristic element, but for me, this book was exactly what I needed.
In a bleak future built on virtual reality, Ginn is a romantic who yearns for something real. She designs environments for people who play at being Vikings. But when her project goes awry, she’s stranded in the actual 10th century, on a storybook farm in Viking Iceland.
Heirik is the young leader of his family, honored by the men and women who live on his land. But he is feared and isolated because of a terrible curse. Ginn and Heirik are two people who never thought they would find a home in someone else’s heart.
When forces rise against them to keep them apart, Ginn is called on to decide—will she give up the brutal and beautiful reality of the past? Or will she have the courage to traverse time and become more of a Viking than she ever imagined?
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Indigo
Indigo by Beverly Jenkins is $1.99! This book was a previous Sizzling Book Club pick and is featured in our discussion on alpha heroes in historical romance. If you’ve been waiting to give Beverly Jenkins a try, a $1.99 sale price is a pretty darn good incentive! Any Indigo fans in the Bitchery?
As a child Hester Wyatt escaped slavery, but now the dark skinned beauty is a dedicated member of Michigan’s Underground railroad, offering other runaways a chance at the freedom she has learned to love. When one of her fellow conductors brings her an injured man to hide, Hester doesn’t hesitate even after she is told about the price on his head. The man in question is the great conductor known as the “Black Daniel” a vital member of the North’s Underground railroad network, but Hester finds him so rude and arrogant, she begins to question her vow to hide him.
When the injured and beaten Galen Vachon, aka, the Black Daniel awakens in Hester’s cellar, he is unprepared for the feisty young conductor providing his care. As a member of one of the wealthiest free Black families in New Orleans, Galen has turned his back on the lavish living he is accustomed to in order to provide freedom to those enslaved in the south. However, as he heals he cannot turn his back on Hester Wyatt. Her innocence fills him like a breath of fresh air and he is determined to make her his, but traitors have to be found, slave catchers have to be routed and Hester’s refusal to trust her own heart have to be overcome before she and Galen can find the freedom only love can bring.
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Grave Mercy
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers is 99c! This is a YA fantasy novel that was nominated for a RITA in 2012. Michelle wrote in her RITA Reader Challenge Review:
The biggest reason I picked up Grave Mercy originally was because of the assassin nuns. Because come on, how awesome does “assassin nuns” sound?
Then I saw it was first-person present tense, and almost held back from getting it. That particular style has been notoriously difficult for me to get into in the past, and I’ve been getting burnt out on it.
However, I went ahead and got the book anyway, and I’m thrilled I did. LaFevers uses language so well that I sank immediately into her style without the 5-10 pages of struggle that normally accompanies reading present tense.
Here, she’s created a fantastic medieval world of gods, saints, political intrigue, and romance that swept me away completely.
And yes, the assassin nuns were pretty much as great as they sounded.
Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.
Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?
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Breaking the Bachelor
Breaking the Bachelor by Maggie Kelley is 99c! This is the first book in her Smart Cupid contemporary romance series. This also a second chance romance between a matchmaker and “Manhattan’s hottest bachelor.” Some readers had issues with liking the heroine, while others felt it was a cute debut novel that set up future pairings really well.
This time, Cupid’s playing dirty…
Goaded by her competition, matchmaker Jane Wright makes a very public bet that she can find the “perfect” match for Manhattan’s hottest confirmed bachelor—sexy-as-sin bartender Charlie Goodman. Unfortunately, Charlie is also Jane’s ex-lover, a man she broke up with on a cocktail napkin. With her company on the line, Jane has no choice but to convince the man of her most impractical dreams to dive back into the dating pool.
Charlie doesn’t want to see Jane’s business fail. He just wants a little revenge. Determined to prove to Jane that chemistry always beats compatibility algorithms, he plans to drive her crazy with desire…then walk away. And his plan is working. A little too well, actually. Because even as Jane scrambles to calculate Charlie’s best match, the heat building between them combusts. But Charlie’s been so busy outsmarting Cupid that he hasn’t noticed he’s the naughty cherub’s next target…
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Indigo is SOOOO GOOD. I learned things, there is actually a bibliography, a smoking hot hero, great heroine and some surprises along the way.
I liked Grave Mercy…and LOOOOOOVED the next book in the series. The setting is so clever (assassin nuns who serve a GOD OF DEATH!) and it’s a fun mix of medieval and otherworldly. Very well written. And ninety-nine cents, people. Come on.
Oh, yeah. Indigo is amazing. And as I said elsewhere, Beverly keeps her sh*& straight on the history.
Grave Mercy sounds awesome, and I’m off to get that one now. And thank you for including my sale. My new book came out today – the second in this world – and I’m so grateful for all the new readers who got hooked on your site.
Indigo has been on my Wish List too long! On my Kindle now.
Ohh yes, I am reading Night Song (Jenkins’s first) right now and learning All The Things.
omg Indigo was my first ever romance, thanks to the Bitchery. Love the heroine, the hero (ow ow!) and the amazing historic setting.
Does Grave Mercy end in a cliffhanger? I don’t mind taking a chance on “Book 1” of a planned trilogy, but I’d like to at least have some kind of closure.
@Peggy: Each book in the series follows a different heroine, if that’s helpful to you. So I don’t believe it’ll have a character cliffhanger, but there may be an overarching plot arc throughout the series.
Loved Grave Mercy, did not believe it was a cliffhanger though I certainly was anxious for the next two books. Some of the action is concurrent so that you see the same event from one point of view in one book and another point of view in another.
Also loved Indigo.
Recommend both highly though they are very different to each other.
The link to Indigo on amazon seems to be broken…?
@Konst: Should be fixed now! Thanks!
Thank you! Have grabbed my copy of Grave Mercy! 🙂
Count me as another reader who highly recommends Indigo and Grave Mercy. I’m intrigued by the blurb for Beautiful Wreck so I’m off to one-click! Thanks for the heads up as always!
I bought Indigo and Beautiful Wreck but, as interesting as Grave Mercy sounds, first person present tense is a deal-breaker for me.
I’d been intrigued by Elyse’s review of Beautiful Wreck, so seeing it on sale was a fast one-click. It is slow moving, but so beautifully written, that I’m not impatient with it at all. Besides a pair of affecting romances, there’s the continuing wonder of the unspoiled world of medieval Iceland.
Like the LaFevers trilogy, Beautiful Wreck is told in the first person. Like probably everyone, I’ve read first person narratives that have driven me to figuratively (I’m not really going to toss my Kindle!) throw them against the wall. In the hands of a really competent writer, first person can be the best way of conveying a story, and in both these cases, the writers are good enough at their craft to succeed beautifully.
@Larissa Brown
The cover of your new book is cool! I love the flying birds. Or Viking Ships? Awesome.
I am not into Vikings, and typically do not enjoy time-travel story lines, but I loved Beautiful Wreck. The historical detail is just detailed enough, the writing is very lyrical, and the romance is lovely.
Bought Grave Mercy earlier today after seeing it posted here. ..aaand there went my whole Saturday. Completely enjoyable loss of a day, especially for just 99 cents!