Blackbirds
Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig is $2.99! This is urban fantasy about a woman, Miriam Black, who knows when everyone is going to die. She gets tangled up with a dude whose death foretells her own, and tries to stop it. It’s dark, gritty, violent urban fantasy, not terribly romantic but much praised by some readers. The rest of the series is currently on sale for $2.99 each!
The first book in the Miriam Black series: “A sassy, hard-boiled thriller with a paranormal slant” (The Guardian) about a young woman who can see the darkest corners of the future.
Miriam Black knows how you’re going to die. This makes her daily life a living hell, especially when you can’t do anything about it, or stop trying to. She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides. She merely needs to touch you—skin to skin contact—and she knows how and when your final moments will occur. Miriam has given up trying to save people; that only makes their deaths happen. But then she hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, and she sees in thirty days that Louis will be murdered while he calls her name. Louis will die because he met her, and Miriam will be the next victim. No matter what she does she can’t save Louis. But if she wants to stay alive, she’ll have to try.
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Dragon Fall by Katie MacAlister is $2.99! This book was picked by Sarah and Elyse in July’s Hide Your Wallet. It’s also the first book in the Black Dragons series. Some readers took some issue with the heroine, finding her dialogue to be a little juvenile. However, others loved Katie’s usual blend of humor and romance. Have you read this one?
YOU FLIRT WITH FIRE…
For Aoife Dakar, seeing is believing-and she’s seen some extraordinary things. It’s too bad no one else believes that she witnessed a supernatural murder at an outdoor fair. Returning to the scene for proof, Aoife encounters a wise-cracking demon dog-and a gloriously naked man who can shift into a dragon and kiss like a god. Now thrust into a fantastical world that’s both exhilarating and terrifying, Aoife is about to learn just how hot a dragon’s fire burns.
WHEN YOU DATE A DRAGON
Kostya has no time for a human woman with endless questions, no matter how gorgeous or tempting she is. He must break the curse that has splintered the dragon clans before more of his kind die. But his powerful attraction to Aoife runs much deeper than the physical-and there may be more to her than even his sharp dragon eyes can see. To survive the coming battle for the fate of his race, he needs a mate of true heart and soul . . .
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Swords of the Guardian by Merry Shannon is $3.03 at Amazon and Google:Play! Reader Heather S. sent us in an email about this title and said:
It’s f/f fantasy romance. I waited a long time (a couple of years, at least) for it to drop in price from $9.99, and I don’t know how long it will stay this price.
I know several readers who want more F/F romance in their lives! Plus, it has a crossdressing heroine, which is a heavy dose of catnip.
A shocking assassination creates an unconventional bond between a princess and her guardian in a kingdom filled with political intrigue, danger and unexpected romance. Princess Shasta Soltranis enjoys a pampered life of court dances, elaborate finery, and the occasional secret fencing match with her twin brother, Daric. But in the midst of a birthday celebration, her world shatters when a mysterious assassin takes her brother’s life. Shasta, the only remaining heir to the throne, narrowly escapes the assassin’s blade thanks to the intervention of a traveling acrobat named Talon.
With the threat of another attempt on Shasta’s life imminent, her father declares that the young hero will be come the Princess’s bodyguard. But what Shasta doesn’t know is that her new guardian has a very well-kept secret: he is actually a she. Talon and Shasta soon grow closer than anyone, especially her father, could have predicted. Will the truth of her guardian’s secret change their relationship forever?
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Luxury Yarn – One Skein Wonders is $2.51/$2.99 digitally. This is a book all about one-skein projects using very fine and sometimes expensive yarn, like cashmere, alpaca, or qiviut. If you want to get your hands on other one skein projects, a bunch of these books are on sale! Elyse reviewed this book last time we featured it on sale and gave it a B:
The patterns in this book are almost all knit, with a few crochet thrown in, and suit a variety of skill levels. There’s some lacework, some cabling, some beading, some knitting in the round. There are also a couple of super easy scarves and baby sweaters.
I felt this book was definitely worth the $2.50, but I would honestly have preferred the print version. You can’t print off patterns or charts from the digital book, obviously, and all the pictures are in the very beginning. So if you want to refer back to the picture, you need to do some flipping around which annoyed me. Nonetheless, it was money well spent and it reduced my stash by one skein.
Single-skein projects are all the rage — portable, fun, quick to finish, and the perfect solution for that stash of orphan yarns. Already, Judith Durant’s One-Skein Wonders series has delighted knitters everywhere with fabulous single-skein patterns contributed by some of North America’s favorite yarn shops and noted knitwear designers.
Now, Luxury Yarn One-Skein Wonders, the third book in this popular series, brings indulgence to the one-skein concept. These one-skein patterns are decadent and delicious, featuring the most sumptuous yarns on the market, from snuggle-worthy cashmere to exquisite qiviut, and from lustrous alpaca to ecofriendly soy, corn, and bamboo yarns. Pattern contributors include designers, yarn manufacturers, and well-known knitting and crocheting teachers, and projects include baby items, personal accessories, toys, and garments — everything from an adorable baby sweater knit from merino and bamboo to beaded cashmere socks. Not only are these projects fun and fast, they give you a great excuse to pick up a skein of to-die-for yarn.
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Picked up Sword of the Guardian. Appreciate the les fic love over here 🙂
Ooooh, thanks for the Find on Scribd link. I’ve started looking there before buying, and the link makes it SO easy.
I’ve just checked out the Luxury One-Skein Wonders and the captions to the photos are often wrong, sometimes just swapped over – there are two pictures to a spread – but sometimes nothing to do with either of the pictures on the spread. This put me right off!
The Goodreads reviews make Sword of the Guardian sound skippable, but the same page has intriguing-sounding recommendations for Jane Fletcher’s Celaeno books. Has anyone here read those?
I liked the original cover of Blackbirds more.
Just a warning on Sword of the Guardian, although the romance is between Talon and Shasta, Talon does have on-page sex with someone else before she and Shasta become a couple. I wasn’t expecting that going in, and it threw me.
@Vasha – I may be one of the Goodreads reviewers you’re talking about. I wasn’t a fan of Sword of the Guardian, but enjoyed Jane Fletcher’s books. Her Celaeno stuff has a setup that might not work for everyone. It’s fantasy-like sci-fi set on a world where there are no men. The world-building has enormous holes, but I loved most of the books anyway. All of them are good for romance fans except Shadow of the Knife, which was horribly depressing and more a messed up love story (with one character whose actions I found irredeemable) than romance.
I’ll give a qualified rec to the Katie MacAlister, which was okay/not her best, because the second book in the series is a real bad guy redeemed triumph.
Also, Blackbirds, you are mine.
Almost forgot, The Tiger Lily by Shirlee Busbee is .99 tiny cents for anyone who wants to dip their toe into the pool of crazy sauce that was historical romance in the 80’s.
@LG: Thanks for such a detailed and thoughtful review; it really pointed out what I might not like. What you mentioned about a cross-dressing female character being written to out-macho all the guys was one (only one) of the things I objected to in Lady Knight.
@Vasha – Thanks! I excel at detailed reviews (and am not so good at concise ones, lol). Also, good to know about Lady Knight. That was another one I’d considered in the past but had passed by because the typos in the description on the publisher’s site weren’t encouraging.
@LG Thanks for the heads up on The Sword of the Guardian. I’ll be checking out Jane Fletcher’s too : )