The Star-Touched Queen
The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi is $2.99! This was mentioned on a previous Hide Your Wallet. This YA fantasy takes elements from Indian mythology and readers really enjoyed the worldbuilding. However, some felt the pacing was rather slow and the plot meandered rather than progressed. Have you read this one?
Cursed with a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, sixteen-year-old Maya has only earned the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her world is upheaved when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. But when her wedding takes a fatal turn, Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Yet neither roles are what she expected. As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar’s wife, she finds friendship and warmth.
But Akaran has its own secrets – thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Beneath Akaran’s magic, Maya begins to suspect her life is in danger. When she ignores Amar’s plea for patience, her discoveries put more than new love at risk – it threatens the balance of all realms, human and Otherworldly.
Now, Maya must confront a secret that spans reincarnated lives and fight her way through the dangerous underbelly of the Otherworld if she wants to protect the people she loves.
THE STAR TOUCHED QUEEN is a lush, beautifully written and vividly imagined fantasy inspired by Indian mythology.
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Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard is $2.99! This is a highly recommended YA title that was everywhere when it first came out, probably because of that kickass cover. Readers say the first half of the book is a bit of a slog, while others loved all the plot twists. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
Graceling meets The Selection in debut novelist Victoria Aveyard’s sweeping tale of seventeen-year-old Mare, a common girl whose once-latent magical power draws her into the dangerous intrigue of the king’s palace. Will her power save her or condemn her?
Mare Barrow’s world is divided by blood—those with common, Red blood serve the Silver- blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own.
To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard—a growing Red rebellion—even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. One wrong move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal.
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The Shadow Queen by C.J. Redwine is $1.99! This is the first book in the Ravenspire series and has a princess heroine on the run. Some readers felt there wasn’t anything particularly memorable about this YA fantasy, but others enjoyed the fairy tale elements of the story.
Lorelai Diederich, crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and the life of her father. To do that, Lorelai needs to use the one weapon she and Queen Irina have in common—magic. She’ll have to be stronger, faster, and more powerful than Irina, the most dangerous sorceress Ravenspire has ever seen.
In the neighboring kingdom of Eldr, when Prince Kol’s father and older brother are killed by an invading army of magic-wielding ogres, the second-born prince is suddenly given the responsibility of saving his kingdom. To do that, Kol needs magic—and the only way to get it is to make a deal with the queen of Ravenspire, promise to become her personal huntsman…and bring her Lorelai’s heart.
But Lorelai is nothing like Kol expected—beautiful, fierce, and unstoppable—and despite dark magic, Lorelai is drawn in by the passionate and troubled king. Fighting to stay one step ahead of the dragon huntsman—who she likes far more than she should—Lorelai does everything in her power to ruin the wicked queen. But Irina isn’t going down without a fight, and her final move may cost the princess the one thing she still has left to lose.
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Burning Glass by Kathryn Purdie is $1.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble! Be warned that there is a love triangle, if that isn’t your bag, and for many reviewers, it wasn’t. That being said, other readers loved the blend of magic, mythology, and court intrigue. Anyone interested?
Sonya was born with the rare gift to feel what those around her feel, both physically and emotionally—a gift she’s kept hidden from the empire for seventeen long years. But when a tragic accident pushes her into the spotlight, Sonya is hauled off to the palace and forced to serve the emperor as his sovereign Auraseer.
Tasked with sensing the intentions of would-be assassins, Sonya is under constant pressure to protect the emperor. But Sonya’s power is untamed and reckless, and she can’t always decipher where other people’s impulses end and her own begin. In a palace full of warring emotions and looming darkness, Sonya fears that the biggest danger to the empire may be herself.
As she struggles to wrangle her abilities, Sonya seeks refuge in her tenuous alliances with the charming-yet-volatile Emperor Valko and his idealistic younger brother, Prince Anton. But when threats of revolution pit the two brothers against each other, Sonya must choose which brother to trust—and which to betray.
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Be warned that there is a love triangle, if that isn’t your bag
It might be my bag if “the characters” didn’t universally have awful taste in men. I can’t think of a single occasion in which it came time for “the character” to choose and the best in show ribbon didn’t get pinned on the lying, manipulative, stalkery douchebag who treats her like an infant and occasionally has tried to murder her in the past. What a catch!
John Romer’s A History of Ancient Egypt is on sale for $2.99 for Kindle. This normally runs at 14.99, so if you want to read about ancient Egypt, this is a good buy.
Beryl Markham’s West With the Night is only 18 cents! C’mon, you can’t pass up eighteen cents. I know I couldn’t.
“A Gentleman’s Position” by KJ Charles is $0.99! I’m actually in the middle of “A Seditious Affair” right now (sidenote: the heroes are both mid-thirties, possibly early 40’s, why does the guy on the cover look 20?????) so, you bet I picked this up!
And I grabbed “West with the Night”, cause heck yeah, that’s a great book and a great deal!
A Talent For Trickery by Alissa Johnson, which Carrie graded as an A, is on sale for $1.99 on Amazon.
West with the Night is no longer on sale. Ugh! I always seem to miss deals like that.
The Star-Touched Queen was just average in my opinion: not terrible, but not great. I didn’t find it hard to work out what was going to happen. Unless your TBR pile is really small, I probably wouldn’t bother.