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All I Want
All I Want by Jill Shalvis is $1.99! This is the seventh book in the Animal Magnetism series and features a pilot heroine, who readers really seemed to love. There is a bit of suspense in the romance, but other readers felt it lacked tension. All I Want has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
Pilot-for-hire Zoe Stone is happy to call Sunshine, Idaho, her home base. But her quiet life is thrown for a loop when her brother’s friend Parker comes to stay with her for a week. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife special agent is a handsome flirt with a gift for getting under her skin. And the situation only escalates when Parker hires her to fly him around the area while he collects evidence on a suspected smuggler.
Now she has to live and work with the guy. But when they’re in the air, she sees another side of him. He’s driven, focused, and sharp. And while he enjoys giving commentary on her blind dates, she quickly realizes with a shock that it’s Parker who gets her engines going…
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Chain of Command
Chain of Command by HelenKay Dimon is 99c! This is a contemporary romance with a military hero who wants the heroine’s land to open up a gun range. Some readers felt that the cover copy didn’t match the actions in the book, while others thought the hero was a great combination of sweet, funny, and sexy. Have you read this one?
Retired marine Sawyer Cain can’t forget all he’s seen and lost, but he can try to start over. Opening a gun range with his closest friends is the first step toward a new life—one where he finally buries the guilt he can’t seem to shake. So much depends on the property he needs to buy…and the gorgeous but completely frustrating woman who refuses to sell it.
Hailey Thorne is done—with loss and with anything military, after the closest thing she had to an uncle died in Afghanistan. When Sawyer shows up on her porch he has military written all over him. He’s one more in a long line of people who wants the land she inherited, and suddenly he’s everywhere she goes. Hailey can’t get the broad-shouldered, dirty-talking, dead-serious man out of her head. Or her life.
Sawyer’s not above using his skills in the bedroom to try to convince her to sell, and Hailey is more than willing to let him. Their pleasure-only arrangement works…until emotions get in the way. But Sawyer has a secret he’s convinced will have Hailey hating him forever, and Hailey’s not willing to risk loving anyone she could lose.
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Throne of Glass
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas is $2.99! This is the first book in the very popular YA fantasy series, Throne of Glass. I haven’t read this because YA tends to have more misses than hits for me, but I’ve always been insanely curious about this book. Readers seem to be split on the heroine – some found her pretty kickass, while others thought she was pretty full of herself. Anyone who has read this, please share your thoughts in the comments!
After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king’s council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she’ll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom.
Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she’s bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her… but it’s the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.
Then one of the other contestants turns up dead… quickly followed by another. Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.
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I Let You Go
I Let You Go by Claire Mackintosh is $1.99! This is a mystery/thriller that deals with the loss of a child, so readers sensitive to that might want to pass on this one. There also seems to be references to abuse in some of the Goodreads reviews. Many readers mentioned staying up way past their bedtime to finish it, while others said that everyone is pretty much awful in the book. It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
The next blockbuster thriller for those who loved The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl...a novel with “an astonishing intensity that drags you in and never—ever—lets you go.” (Daily Mail, UK)
On a rainy afternoon, a mother’s life is shattered as her son slips from her grip and runs into the street . . .
I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past.At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators trying to get to the bottom of this hit-and-run. As they chase down one hopeless lead after another, they find themselves as drawn to each other as they are to the frustrating, twist-filled case before them. Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner, says, “I read I Let You Go in two sittings; it made me cry (at least twice), made me gasp out loud (once), and above all made me wish I’d written it . . . a stellar achievement.”
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I’ll have to check out Throne of Glass, if for no other reason than the comment about people complaining that the heroine being “full of herself” reminds me of a common complaint… when a man is confident in his abilities and expresses it, he is simply confident, and that’s admirable. When a woman does the same, she’s “full of herself”.
Might have to pick up that Shalvis book though… I’ve only read a few things by her, but they are super comforting and relaxing in that they are very chill and casual and fun.
Throne of Glass (#1 in series of 5, so far) is one step above most YA, though I have a fairly low bar. The heroine is an assassin, so I think “confident” and “good with knives” might be more accurate descriptors. Although romance creeps in, it is not the main storyline of the series. I appreciate that Maas tends to write strong female characters in most of her series–no smirking or handwringing, for the most part. If this style is your bag, then you might also like her “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series, which I preferred to ToG.
I discovered Throne of Glass through a post either here or Dear Author and jumped on it when I saw female assassin. (And that cover!) I can’t say I noticed the “full of herself” aspect, but that’s just me. I glommed the series and the new one should be waiting for me when I get home tonight. Squee! I agree with @Andrea – I wouldn’t call this a romance, though there is some threaded through the books.
I also really enjoyed her other series. I found the first book a bit slow to get into and DNF’d it the first time. I got the second from the library after forgetting I put it on hold. A Court of Mist and Fury may be my favorite of Maas’s books so far. I even went back to finish the first one to make sure I didn’t miss things of significance.
My husband and I both love the Throne of Glass series. I definitely felt like the first book was a little stiff (teetering on haughty Mary Sue-ish at a few points), but it was still good and the series just keeps getting better. I really love the witches in particular, their whole societal setup is really interesting.
Tawna Fenske also has a new release today, Now That It’s You, that’s on sale for $3.99 for the Kindle version and is free to read for Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
Nothing against Chain of Command, which might be a wonderful book for all I know, but I am amused by the hero’s “will hump for gun range” strategy.
Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes is a Daily Deal on Nook and Kindle for $1.99! Another of the (many) pre-Alice in Wonderland novels lately focusing on the Queen of Hearts, with a 3.65 rating on GoodReads. I haven’t read this but I’m interested-has anyone else read it?
Celaena (heroine of Throne of Glass) was very Mary Sue for me. I think I got two books and a novella in before throwing in the towel (I assume the last book ended with her becoming the Most Speshul Girl Who Ever Speshuled). If you want YA girl assassins who aren’t in the appalling Mary Sue mold, try Robin LaFevers’ Fair Assassin series. They’re better written and less derivative.
@Tam: I loved “Grave Mercy”, but struggled through the next two books in that series. The pacing just seemed really slow and bogged down compared to the first, in which a certain degree of world building was necessary and enjoyable.
Loved Throne of Glass, but started getting annoyed when A) she was confirmed as the best ever at everything, and B) she mowed through 4 love interests in 3 books, and somehow they all miraculously found their OneTrueLove afterward, so it didn’t get too messy (sort of). I love the writing and the world, it just started to feel a little too teen drama. I’m not expecting the greatest romance of all time, but going through that many love interests in that short an amount of time was giving me whiplash.
I read the first two books in the Throne of Glass series. I don’t remember thinking the MC was full of herself but, then again, I’m pretty hazy on the details in general. I just didn’t like the books enough to continue at their price point. But I do have a bit of FOMO because everyone, everywhere seems to just love the series. Is it just me? What am I missing? Sigh. Maybe I’ll come back to them at some point.
I would definitely put a trigger warning for abuse on I Let You Go – it actually shows a large portion of the story from the abuser’s POV.
Overall I would say it was okay but not amazing – there was only one thing I didn’t see coming; the rest really wasn’t hard to predict.