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Yesterday's News by Kajsa Ingemarsson is $1.99 today as a Kindle Daily Deal. I haven't seen any price matching yet, but fingers crossed! I reviewed Yesterday's News, a translation of a Swedish novel by Kajsa Ingemarsson awhile back. I gave it a B-, but this is a book that has hung around in my brain being all interesting and Swedish for ages. In my review I wrote:
…this isn't the sort of novel I usually gravitate towards AT ALL. There wasn't a romance, really. It barely flickered on the “how would I list this book, genre-wise” light up board (what, you don't have one of those?) There was a multi-layered breakup with a real douchetastic asshat. There were friends going to bars, and little problems that stayed little problems, and little problems that became big problems. But there wasn't the glossy slick fantasy set in a big city that “chick lit” often suggests…. It's about a young woman in a city, but she's a waitress, she struggles with money, she has a very small apartment and a minimal budget for going out – and she's from a very small town where things are changing, much to her horror.
I was totally absorbed into the story. I stayed up late reading it, I got up early and started reading before I finished making breakfast (oops). I sat in an uncomfortable chair reading because I didn't want to stop reading long enough to move.
This book is not gripping OMGWHATNEXT style telling. It's an easy read, but it's sticky in that it shows you so much of the daily life in Stockholm with Agnes that I wanted to learn more. Every time I came to the end of a chapter, I started the next one. I told Hubby at one point when he was talking to me without my hearing him that I was very happily in Sweden at that moment.
It's not a romance, but it was a really enjoyable, different, and intriguing book for me last year, and at $2, if you're a Kindle person, it's a great buy.
Agnes has most things in life: a job at a fancy restaurant, a boyfriend who loves her, and a best friend whom she knows inside out. Or does she? All of a sudden things begin to crumble, one by one, and soon nothing is as it was. This is a beautiful feel-good novel with a memorable heroine, set in Sweden.
Rodeo Rebel by Donna Alward is free right now. This is a Harlequin contemporary – with a rodeo, obviously- and is the prequel novella to a series about a set of siblings who are involved in…yes, the rodeo. It has a 3.5 star average – have you read this book, or any of the books in the series?
As the first female bull rider in her circuit, Megan Robertson needs to focus. But all she can think about is her ex, Pax Lantry. Megan knew their paths would cross again – she just wasn't prepared for the effect it would have on her. More surprising than the old heartache is the jolt of pure attraction she still feels for him.
Even after five years, Pax has never gotten over Megan. All it takes is seeing her, just once, for him to know that their connection is as strong as ever. But he's committed to his family's ranch and Meg has her own demanding career. It seems as if Pax and Megan have moved on, so why can't they let each other go?
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I read Yesterday’s News last year after reading about it here on SBTB.
I tend to skip from book to book when I read (it drives my husband crazy how I can have 4 to 5 books of different genres all going at the same time—but I’m a moody reader, and I read for the moment as the mood drives me). This, however, was one of the books I read all the way through.
There was nothing terribly exciting, there was no big cliffhanging issue that drove one to keep reading, but I found it absorbing and interesting. I think this is one of those completely-sucked-into-it or can’t-get-into-it-at-all type of book.
Tantor has all their downloadable audio books for $4.99 today only.
Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare and Eleven Scandals to Start to win a duke’s heart are both $1.99 at Amazon today
@Michelle – Thank you for the heads up!
@Peggy:
I agree – it’s not hugely eventful, but I was so sucked in when I read it.
Edith Layton, ahoy! Some of her other books have been on sale for .99 for awhile (To Tempt A Bride, The Conquest, The Challenge) but this morning I noticed the best “C” book of all, The Chance is also .99! I love this book, I reread it at least once a year.