Amazon has four pages of Kindle Daily Deals today, all of which are New York Times bestselling books. There’s The Book of Joy, which was mention on a previous podcast, Hamilton: The Revolution that Redheadedgirl reviewed, plus plenty of nonfiction, mysteries, and more. If you browse through the entire collection, comment below with which books you’d recommend!
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His Majesty’s Dragon
RECOMMENDED: His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik is $1.99! Carrie mentioned she started reading this in yesterday’s Whatcha Reading and there were many comments about how great this book is. We also have an early review of this book by Candy, who says it’s “utterly goddamn awesome.”
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride mighty fighting dragons, bred for size or speed. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes the precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future – and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature.
Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.
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Barely Breathing
Barely Breathing by Pamela Clare is 99c! If you need a reason to start a book by Clare, check out the guest squee we ran last week! This book has a small town second chance romance, with the added catnip of some friends with benefits action. Readers felt the hero and heroine had great chemistry, but there was a lot of telling instead of showing.
A hot contemporary romance from the author of the acclaimed I-Team series…
Lexi Jewell left Scarlet Springs twelve years ago, vowing never to return to the small Colorado mountain town where she grew up. Now, here she is—over thirty, out of a job and with little choice but to move back in with her eccentric father. Lexi knows it’s just a matter of time before she runs into Austin Taylor, her first boyfriend and her first heartbreak. She’s determined to show him she’s over him—until he steps out of a pickup truck and back into her life, looking sexy as hell in his mountain ranger uniform.
As far as Austin is concerned, Lexi can turn her snazzy little convertible around and drive back to Chicago. After all, she ripped his teenage heart to pieces and turned her back on the town he loves. But from the moment he sees her again, he can’t get her out of his mind. Even her smile messes with his head.
When an evening of conversation turns into something else, Lexi and Austin agree to be friends—with benefits. But as Lexi starts making plans to return to the big city, Austin realizes he’ll lose her a second time unless he can show her that what she’s searching for has been right here all along.
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Rose Daughter
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley is 99c at Amazon! There’s no price-matching yet, but this is a sale that may be on its way out. This is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Readers say that McKinley’s Beauty is a better take on the retelling, but others loved the character relationships in the book. It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
Award-winning author Robin McKinley returns to one of our most enduring fairy tales to tell an enthralling story of love and redemption
Once upon a time, a wealthy merchant had three daughters . . . and when the merchant’s business failed, he and his three daughters left their grand house in the city and moved to a tiny cottage buried deep in the countryside. The youngest daughter, Beauty, is fascinated by the long, thorny stems of an unknown plant that overwhelms the neglected cottage, and she tends it until, the following summer, its rich, fragrant flowers are the most glorious things the sisters have ever seen: roses.
An old woman tells Beauty: “Roses are for love. Not . . . silly sweethearts’ love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole. . . . There’s an old folk-tale . . . there aren’t many roses around any more because they need more love than people have to give ’em . . . and the only thing that’ll stand in for love is magic, though it ain’t as good.”
There’s no magic in the town of Longchance, but, the old woman adds, Beauty may not know that this is the result of a sorcerers’ battle that happened many years ago, a battle that left a monster, or perhaps a beast, in an enchanted palace somewhere in the deep forest . . . and a curse concerning a family of three sisters.
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The Trouble with Being Wicked
The Trouble with Being Wicked by Emma Locke is 99c! This historical romance has a heroine hiding her identity and a viscount who lives next door. Readers enjoyed the emotional moments, but found the hero to be kind of a jerk. This is the first book in the Wicked Girls series. Some of the other books are free and you can grab all six titles for less than $12!
HE PUT HER ON A PEDESTAL
When Celeste Gray arrives in the sleepy village of Brixcombe-on-the-Bay, she thinks she’s one step closer to leaving her notorious past behind. She even suspects the deliciously handsome—if somewhat stuffy—viscount next door is developing a tendre for her. That is, until the day Ashlin Lancester learns she’s not the unassuming spinster she’s pretending to be.NOW SHE HAS FARTHER TO FALL
After a decade of proving he is nothing like his profligate father, Ash is horrified to have given his heart to a Cyprian. He launches a campaign to prove his attraction is nothing more than a sordid reaction he can’t control. But he soon learns that unlike his father, he can’t find comfort in the arms of just any woman. He needs Celeste. When he takes her as his mistress, he’s still not satisfied, and the many late nights in her arms only make him want more…Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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I don’t know if they’re good because I just got them, but I grabbed Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola (as it relates to something I’m writing) and The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson (because I need something quirky to alleviate the gloom and doom).
Goodreads sucker punched me with that ALL THE DEALS email early in the morning. Most of the books included links to not-Amazon stores, so there’s a good chance if you see something interesting on the Kindle Daily Deals list, it’s on sale at your store of choice, too.
I may be in the minority, but I prefer Rose Daughter over Beauty – I like the ending better, the characters are more mature, and the sister’s have a better relationship. Also maybe because I read Rose Daughter several years before I read Beauty!
Rose Daughter is stunning. I love Beauty, but, my god, Rose Daughter.
I enjoyed the Temeraire books (especially Temeraire himself), but really loved Novak’s Uprooted, which has an interesting and unusual romance element.
“Bitch Planet, Vol. 1” by Kelly Sue DeConnick & Valentine De Landro is 3.99!
“Attachments” by Rainbow Rowell is $1.99.
I’ve read the whole Temeraire series at least four times. It’s fantastic. The audiobooks are fantastic.
Uprooted was pretty good, but I’d be happy if the author just wrote Temeraire forever.
Nora Roberts’ “the Villa” is $1.99 at amazon. I really enjoyed the secondary romance involving the heroine’s mother (who was a lot closer to my age). Will skip getting the ebook as I still have it in hardcover, and my TBR pile(s) has gone way past reasonable.
Now if they would put “Northern Lights” on sale, I’d one-click that one in a hurry (a highly recommended book when the subject is Roberts’ books).
The Temeraire series is also notable for this:
Laurence starts out as a stereotypical man of his age, stiff, and admitting to no feelings but pride, contentment, and perhaps anger. Then as he grows into his new role with Temeraire, there’s times where he (and other men) are getting to deal appropriately with more complex feelings, learning and growing into more complete people.
We don’t get to see that in our book heroes as often as we should, it’s refreshing seeing them taking on learning to care openly without embarrassment, and figuring out how to connect with people who they still care about even when there’s a huge rift between them for emotionally important reasons, and so on. 🙂
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Well said. Laurence is supposed to guide Temeraire but it’s interesting how both of them learn and change as a result of their partnership. I love books about what students teach the teachers.
In terms of Dragon novels the Temperature series does an excellent job giving the dragons personalities and agency. I loved the series and it’s conclusion but found the last books stretched out and the plot a bit contrived.
For the Amazon deals today, I recommend “Esther the Wonder Pig”. It is funny and feels-inducing. Esther’s dads clearly love her immensely, and it is nice to get to know the pig behind all the cute photos and videos on her Facebook page (also, her dads post great comments to go with).
I absolutely LOVE Robin McKinley’s Sunshine. She really is a gifted writer. Great world building without the usual infodump. I wish she’d write another in the same setting. It is the most unusual vampire, paranormal novel and an unusual kind of romance. It’s $3.99 for the ebook on Amazon and worth ever penny.
More Kudos for McKinley’s Sunshine; probably the most absorbing vampire story I’ve read (except for Dracula when I was 10 :-)). I re-read it every few years because it is so well constructed, with such delightful world-building and characterisation.
Her Deerskin (a version of the Donkey-skin story) was very good, as I recall. I haven’t read Rose Daughter, but I’ll add it to the list now.
Simon Vance narrates the Temeraire audiobooks, making them even better!
Temeraire author Novik weaves gender, race, LGTB, PTSD challenges to hero Will’s fixed stereotypical belief system, and she entertains wonderfully at the same time. No preachiness, real baby steps to self revelation and gradual change, the way people really evolve into balance and wisdom. Several women, way beyond spunky and into Admiral class independence, serve in this Dragonverse to move Will’s “protect and defend the delicate sex” to “my bad, I helped build this glass ceiling”. Lots of 1800’s history and names you know, but raise your hand if you remember the lesson on how smallpox decimated the Inca. … on “Uprooted”, text delightful, narrator excellent but not suited to material.