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The Chemist
The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer is $3.99! This was mentioned briefly in November 2016’s Hide Your Wallet and is a Kindle Daily Deal being price-matched. Readers loved the premise of a spy thriller, but found that it started rather slowly with too much exposition. Amazon has some other great KDDs today as well!
In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life.
She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn’t even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning.
Now, she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. They’ve killed the only other person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. They want her dead, and soon.
When her former handler offers her a way out, she realizes it’s her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. But it means taking one last job for her ex-employers. To her horror, the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous.
Resolving to meet the threat head on, she prepares for the toughest fight of her life, but finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. As she sees her choices being rapidly whittled down, she must apply her unique talents in ways she never dreamed of.
In this tautly plotted novel, Meyer creates a fierce and fascinating new heroine with a very specialized skill set. And she shows once again why she’s one of the world’s bestselling authors.
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Bad Neighbor
Bad Neighbor by M. O’Keefe is 99c on Amazon! I know Molly O’Keefe is an autobuy for some readers. This is a darker contemporary romance. Some readers thought the hero was a bit of a jerk. However, others liked the shy, artistic heroine. It’s also a bit on the erotic side in terms of sexual content.
He’s sexy. He’s dangerous. He’s right next door.
I gave up everything to save my sister from a monster, and now I’m lying low in this rundown apartment so I can stay out of danger. Hiding from everyone. Except for the guy in apartment 1A. He’s rude. Silent. Muscled, mysterious, and hot as hell. I don’t know if he likes me or hates me, but the more time I spend with him, the less it matters. I want him. And for the first time in my life I’m going to go after what I want.
She doesn’t belong in my world.
From the second 1B moves in, I know she’s keeping secrets. She doesn’t belong here, much less with a street fighter like me. But that doesn’t stop me from craving her. Her softness and sweetness. She’s a drug, and suddenly I’m addicted. I know someone is going to try and hurt her and I can’t let that happen. But unless I push her away and get her out of my world, that someone could be me…
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Calico Palace
RECOMMENDED: Calico Palace by Gwen Bristow is $1.99 at Amazon! I don’t know if this will be price-matched or if the Amazon-only sale means the discounted price will change soon. Carrie really enjoyed this one and gave it an A:
It’s fun, it’s by turns tearjerking and hilarious, it’s feminist, it’s romantic, and it describes a crazy time in history with a lot of excitement, some glamour, and a great deal of grit.
This thrilling story of the California gold rush is not about the forty-niners, the prospectors who came rushing to the San Francisco area in 1849, but about the men and women who were there when it all began with the first discovery of gold in 1848, when San Francisco was a village of 900 people. These were the people who went up to the hills and came back staggering under the weight of the treasure they carried, and who began transforming San Francisco from a shantytown into one of the most brilliant cities in the world.
This novel tells the unforgettable story of how these people walked into one of the most spectacular adventures in the world’s history. They saw the first samples of gold brought to the quartermaster, who said they were flakes of yellow mica. They were there when the first people who saw the gold were laughed at and called “crackbrains.” And they laid the foundation of the golden empire before the first forty-niners got there. Some of them could not meet the demands of this strange new world; others grew stronger and shared the greatness of the country they had helped build. Calico Palace is their story brought to vivid life.
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Anna and the French Kiss
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins is $1.99! This is a contemporary YA romance, and many reviews on Goodreads mention becoming a member of the Bad Decisions Book Club in order to finish it. However, some found the heroine a bit too cutesy for their tastes. Have you read this one? It’s on my TBR pile.
Anna can’t wait for her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a good job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. So she’s not too thrilled when her father unexpectedly ships her off to boarding school in Paris – until she meets Etienne St. Clair, the perfect boy. The only problem? He’s taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her crush back home. Will a year of romantic near-misses end in the French kiss Anna awaits?
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I just one clicked that M.O’Keefe book so fast I may have given my mouse whiplash.
Oh, and while I was there, I noticed: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is a bargain at $2.99. I know it was recommended a couple years back, but if you didn’t pick it up then, you should race over to Amazon now. It is hysterically funny and smart and creative.
Seconding DonnaMarie’s recommendation of What If? Fun book that answers questions you didn’t know you wanted the answers to.
Calico Palace is showing up at $9.99 for me.
I read Anna and the French Kiss a couple of years ago after reading some of the hype about it, and was disappointed. I do enjoy some YA (Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty anyone?!), but found nothing to relate to in any of the characters in Anna and the French Kiss.
I wasn’t nuts about Anna and the French Kiss (though my 15-year-old daughter adores it), but I absolutely loved the sequel, Lola and the Boy Next Door (set in SF, where I used to live, great sense of place, and the boy next door is swoony and Lola has two dads; ) and liked the third book in the series, Isla and the Happily Ever After (boy is a cartoonist, which I loved, and the travel in this one is SO ROMANTIC). I liked meeting and revisiting characters in all three books. FWIW!
On “Girl with All the Gifts” by Mike Carey – it might be worth adding a TW that Mike Carey novels all contain scenes of grisly on page cat death. He really seems to really hate cats; one of the reasons he’s not an auto buy for me despite how much I loved his Felix Castor series.
I’m so glad it’s not just me who didn’t connect with Anna and the French Kiss, although I might give the other books a try now, based on @MarjorieIngall’s mini review.
I feel like my universe is wobbling on its access as I say this but the premise of The Chemist, sounds good?! Having said that this is the same author who had Jasper, Alice and Rosalie’s back stories and chose to go with the love story of Captain Sparkly Stalker and the great blank space love interest.
Just putting in a good word for Calico Palace. San Francisco during the gold rush era–it is really interesting, and has some fairly progressive female lead characters, given that it was written almost 50 years ago.
@Gingerly – I read The Chemist; it’s fine but not amazing. (Certainly an improvement over Twilight, and no love triangles!) It was a fun but fairly forgettable read, a bit slow-moving at times, and I won’t be rereading it. A bit James Bond-ish in the ridiculousness of how somehow the bad guys never manage to shoot straight, yet can be so easily killed. It’s not one that’s so good I think everyone should read it, but if the premise intrigues you and you can get it on sale or from the library, then there are worse ways to spend an afternoon.
Calico Palace is still $9.99. (sad face) One of my favorites from my early days of romance reading.
THANK YOU for cat-death TW, @Gingerly! That’s an auto-no for me.
@Gingerly thanks for the cat death warning. I’ll nope right out of buying that. How can I read about violent cat demise with a sweet kitty sitting on my lap?
@HelenR-S thanks for the Chemist info I’ll see if my library has a copy rather than buying.
@ Lizzy and @marjorie happy to spare you the distress, re GWATG; the swine of it, is that Carey is a really good writer apart from his fatal flaw about cats. Having said that it definitely impacted on my enjoyment of the story.
I’m probably a bad person for saying this…but Gwen Bristow died in 1980, so why the heck does it cost $10 to basically rent that ebook? I complain about the high cost of ebooks in general, but I can reluctantly (with caveats re scrappy business practices by big publishers) find merit in supporting living authors, but that’s ridiculous.
@Gingerly you’re welcome!
BTW, my rant was about “crappy” business practices. I typed that on my tablet, which is apparently haunted by my mother and has a real aversion to my using even mild swear words. It never fails to correct them to something more polite, sometimes with way more hilarious results.