Here are a few of the most popular sales so far this month that are still at reduced prices. Have you purchased or read any of these books?
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Proof by Seduction
Proof by Seduction by Courtney Milan is still .99, and many of you have picked up the enhanced edition (which I keep wanting to spell “enchanted edition,” like the ebook can do your laundry and cook dinner for you) (which would be awesome but is not the case).
This historical romance is one of Milan’s earlier books, and the enhanced (not enchanted) (srslywtf) edition comes with audio files, visual additions, and author commentary.
She is his last chance for a future of happiness…
Jenny Keeble has never let her humble upbringing stop her. She’s made her way in the world as a fortune teller, one who convinces her clients her predictions are correct by telling them what they most want to hear. Business is good… until she meets her match in the form of Gareth Carhart, the Marquess of Blakely, a scientist and sworn bachelor.
He just doesn’t know it yet.
Broodingly handsome, Gareth is appalled to discover his cousin has fallen under the spell of “Madame Esmerelda,” and he vows to prove her a fraud. But his unexpected attraction to the fiery enchantress defies logic. Jenny disrupts every facet of Gareth’s calculated plan— until he can’t decide whether to ruin her or claim her for his own. Now, as they engage in a passionate battle of wills, two lonely souls must choose between everything they know… and the boundless possibilities of love.
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Simple Jess
RECOMMENDED: Simple Jess by Pamela Morsi is still $1.99, and manymanymany of you grabbed this classic historical last week. This is a the type of book that makes readers do Epic Good Book Noise®, which is like Good Book Noise® with added sighing and possible arm waving, along with a 50% chance of unfinished sentences that get two words past the verb before the speaker has to stop and start over. It’s that good.
The last thing widow Althea Winsloe wanted to do was remarry. Unfortunately, her meddlesome mountain neighbors had other plans. So, one autumn night they banded together and gave Althea a shocking ultimatum: She was to find herself a husband by Christmas…or the town would do it for her!
Althea knew she had her choice of any single man in Marrying Stone, Arkansas. Yet the only one she felt truly comfortable with was Simple Jess.
Sweet and gentle, Jess wasn’t as smart as your average man. But his tender manner stirred Althea’s heart in ways she had never dreamed possible.
It would take a miracle to find a husband in Marrying Stone. But sometimes miracles are right under your nose.
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Owl and the Japanese Circus
Owl and the Japanese Circus by Kristi Charish is $1.99. Amanda mentioned this in the January Hide Your Wallet post: this is about a antiquities thief known as The Owl who is hired by a dragon who runs a Japanese circus (hence the title) to find an artifact. This book came out this month and already has a 4+ star average with over 90 reviews on GoodReads. And it’s $1.99!
Ex-archaeology grad student turned international antiquities thief, Alix—better known now as Owl—has one rule. No supernatural jobs. Ever. Until she crosses paths with Mr. Kurosawa, a red dragon who owns and runs the Japanese Circus Casino in Las Vegas. He insists Owl retrieve an artifact stolen three thousand years ago, and makes her an offer she can’t refuse: he’ll get rid of a pack of vampires that want her dead. A dragon is about the only entity on the planet that can deliver on Owl’s vampire problem – and let’s face it, dragons are known to eat the odd thief.
Owl retraces the steps of Mr. Kurosawa’s ancient thief from Japan to Bali with the help of her best friend, Nadya, and an attractive mercenary. As it turns out though, finding the scroll is the least of her worries. When she figures out one of Mr. Kurosawa’s trusted advisors is orchestrating a plan to use a weapon powerful enough to wipe out a city, things go to hell in a hand basket fast…and Owl has to pick sides.
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I can’t bring myself to read anything by Pamela Morsi after the pile of misleading B.S. that was “Love Overdue”. That book was “throw at the wall and rant”-inspiring. When I bought it, I thought I was getting a cute small town librarian romance, based on the cover synopsis. That was NOT what I got. Ugh. I’m still angry over that book!
Was that the one with the horrible no good very bad ending? I am still angry.
“Love Overdue” is on my kindle TBR, and I will eventually read it but can’t yet comment on its rant worthiness. However, if this book is your only experience with Morsi I implore you to try again!
Morsi’s one of those laugh and cry your eyes out authors. She compares well to Jenny Cruisie in my mind (in characterization, not pace) and Sharon Sala (before all the trilogies). Her historicals are some of the best American historicals I’ve ever read.
I come from deep, dark, hillbilly stock so perhaps I feel a bit of kinship with the characters from the first Morsi I read (Marrying Stone) but I think I’d have appreciated her writing style regardless. Her characters are so real to me. She writes whole people, flaws and all, people I recognize from my own life even.
Start with Marrying Stone. Simple Jess is the second in the Marrying Stone series. It finishes with a contemporary – The Lovesick Cure.
Then, if you want just a bit more hillbilly, watch Songcatcher. It’s fictional but loosely based on actual people and events and there’s wonderful music (or at least we hillbillies like to think so). Nothing to do with Morsi but about a musicologist visiting the mountains. I haven’t seen the movie but I bought the soundtrack after catching a few bits while my folks were watching it.
Seriously, give Morsi another shot.
Update for Sarah: Amazon wants $4.99 for Simple Jess, unless you’re a kindle unlimited member- then it’s free.
I can’t resist a book named Owl and the Japanese Circus.
A comment on enhanced editions. I bought these on sale. Kindle doesn’t support a lot of the additions, so back to the computer. I read them as marked on the first book, and I felt like I was getting dumped out of the story into the author’s head. So on the second book I waited until I was done, read through them all and went, how cool. I suspect most people’s mileage will vary.
I’m reading Love Overdue right now because the previous comments made me curious, and already I have a sinking feeling.
I love Pamela Morsi’s historicals – Simple Jess, Wild Oats, The Love Charm, but this book has already annoyed me on two counts. The heroine has a wild one-night-stand with a random guy, then she takes up a respectable job someplace which just happens to be Mr Random’s home town. What are the odds. And everyone is pushing them together. Even their first “date” happens because his mother told him to do it. I feel like if these two have sex again, all their friends will be outside the door cheering them on.
Morsi’s historicals were great; the contemporaries I did not like. Runabout and Something Shady were fabulous-re-read those many times.
Owl and the Japanese Circus is so good! It has archaeology, paranormal stuff, a bad ass and smart heroine, and a cat for a sidekick!
I loved the story and the way that the author pulled together paranormal elements from a variety of cultures without falling into stereotyping was interesting.
I had been feeling pretty burnt out on paranormals, but this has re-ignited my interest.
I have to admit I didn’t really enjoy Owl and the Japanese Circus, I kept hoping I would but it never clicked for me. I liked the world but I really disliked Owl. Also there is a repeated typo in the book that tossed me right out of the story everytime it came up, there is no “Shiyuba” in Tokyo it’s Shibuya, consonant placement makes a big difference.