Wake of Vultures
RECOMMENDED: Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen is $2.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and is being price-matched! Carrie really liked this book and gave it an A-:
This book succeeds because Nettie is such a compelling character. Nettie is incredibly vibrant, prickly, compelling, flawed, exciting, and interesting. She feels like a real person, with a real personality and hopes and dreams and confused feelings and agendas. She’s incredibly interesting not only because of her unusual racial situation (which, in the Old West, wasn’t actually very unique but has been under-represented in fiction) nor in her genderqueer status, nor in her ability to hunt monsters. She’s compelling because all her experiences and aspects of her personality and her sharp mind come together to create a complex person who you just have to root for.
A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface.
Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She’s a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don’t call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the eye can stop him, Nettie stabs him through the heart with a chunk of wood, and he turns into black sand.
And just like that, Nettie can see.
But her newfound sight is a blessing and a curse. Even if she doesn’t understand what’s under her own skin, she can sense what everyone else is hiding — at least physically. The world is full of evil, and now she knows the source of all the sand in the desert. Haunted by the spirits, Nettie has no choice but to set out on a quest that might lead to her true kin… if the monsters along the way don’t kill her first.
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My Drunk Kitchen by Hannah Hart is $1.99! Hart is a YouTube sensation and started with her My Drunk Kitchen videos, where she would try to cook something while getting tipsy on wine. Several readers recommend being familiar with Hart’s videos before buying, as some didn’t really find the humor to match theirs.
One day, sad cubicle dweller and otherwise bored New York transplant Hannah Hart decided, as a joke, to make a fake cooking show for her friend back in California. She turned on the camera, pulled out some bread and cheese, and then, as one does, started drinking. (Doesn’t everyone cook with a spoon in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other?) The video went viral and an online sensation was born.
My Drunk Kitchen includes recipes, stories, full color photos, and drawings to inspire your own culinary adventures in tipsy cooking. It is also a showcase for Hannah Hart’s great comedic voice. Hannah offers key drink recommendations, cooking tips (like, remember to turn the oven off when you go to bed) and shares never-before-seen recipes such as:
The Hartwich (Knowledge is ingenuity! Learn from the past!) Can Bake (Inventing things is hard! You don’t have to start from scratch!) Latke Shotkas (Plan ahead to avoid a night of dread!) Tiny Sandwiches (Size doesn’t matter! Aim to satisfy.) Saltine Nachos (It’s not about resources! It’s about being resourceful.)
This is a book for anyone who believes they have what it takes to make a soufflé for the holiday party and show up the person who apparently has nothing better to do than bake things from scratch. It also recommends the drink you’ll need to accompany any endeavor of this magnitude. In the end, My Drunk Kitchen may not be your go-to guide for your next dinner party . . . but it will make you laugh and drink . . . I mean think . . . about life.
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Wild Wicked Scot by Julia London is 99c! This is the first book in the Highland Grooms series, which came out late last year. The hero and heroine are already married through a marriage of convenience, and many loved the hero. However, some found some inconsistency issues in the romance. Have you read this one?
Wicked intrigue unfolds as an unlikely marriage leads to a path of risky desire in the lush, green Scottish Highlands.
Born into riches and groomed in English luxury, Margot Armstrong didn’t belong in a Scottish chieftain’s devil-may-care world. Three years ago she fled their marriage of convenience and hasn’t looked back—except to relive the moments spent in wild, rugged Arran McKenzie’s passionate embrace. But as their respective countries’ fragile unity threatens to unravel, Margot must return to her husband to uncover his role in the treachery before her family can be accused of it.
Red-haired, green-eyed Margot was Arran’s beautiful bride. Her loss has haunted him, but her return threatens everything he has gained. As the Highland mists carry whispers of an English plot to seize McKenzie territory, he must outmaneuver her in games of espionage…and seduction. But even as their secrets tangle together, there’s nothing to prevent love from capturing them both and leading them straight into danger.
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All of You by Christina Lee is $1.99! This is the first book in the Between Breaths series and features a tattooed, virgin hero. Catnip, anyone? Readers really loved the writing, but others found it rather boring. People seem to be pretty divided on this book (either one star or five stars on Goodreads), and it has a 3.9-star rating.
Avery has just met her hot upstairs neighbor. He’s irresistible. Tattooed. And a virgin.
Nursing student Avery Michaels wants nothing to do with dating—she’s perfectly happy single. Privy to too many of her mother’s bad decisions and even worse taste in boyfriends, all Avery can handle is a string of uncomplicated hookups whenever the mood strikes.
When she meets smoking hot tattoo artist Bennett, she wants him—for just one night. But he won’t accept a no-strings-attached arrangement. He lives by a straight-laced code of values based on his own troubled upbringing.
Bennett sees something special in Avery and he wants more from her. Way more. As Avery wrestles with her emotions for Bennett, danger and tragedy force them to open up to each other. And Avery must face the terrifying realization that she wants more from him, too.
So she needs to make a choice—let Bennett go or finally let him in.
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You know, I’m finding being a pessimist can actually be helpful to save my ass cash money!
I love that these posts have the “Some said POSITIVE THING, while others said NEGATIVE THING.”
My brain instantly goes, “Well obviously I’ll hate it if there’s a negative thing.” BAM! Instant financial savings benefit.
The only flaw in this plan is, like, if one of the bitches have reviewed it and loved it AND it peaks my interest.
Then I’m screwed.
You MUST WATCH My Drunk Kitchen on youtube. Watching the videos is WAY FUNNIER than the cookbook, which my 15 year old insisted I buy. The book languishes under my coffee table with nary a recipe attempted but the youtube channel is a fave.
Long before Hannah Hart there was the Galloping Gourmet/Graham Kerr. Does anyone remember him? I used to watch his show after school way back when I was in elementary school. I’m sure I missed a lot of what was going on (there were a lot of innuendos that would have whizzed right over my head), but thought it was hilarious that he got smashed when he was cooking. He’d have a bottle of wine to add to the dish and would end up drinking most of it. It wasn’t until later that I realized how sad it actually was, that he was struggling with a real drinking problem. Luckily, he turned things around, became a proponent of healthy eating/living and is still alive as of right now.
@Jacqueline same! I also have very little patience these days for Kindle samples. If the first couple of pages bug me, I give up pretty quick.
That said, the TBR pile keeps growing…
@Kim W RIIIIGHT? It’s like, you’d think with our love of love would mean we’d be 10000000% optimistic but nope.
And for once, that’s a good thing!
Amen to that. I can be so fickle (is that the right word?) with books. I used to be all I MUST COMPLETE EVERY WORD and now…well hell, I just droppes a book at 17% because the OTP got together too early. WHO DOES THAT? ME! I DO THAT! lol
Susan, you’re not alone. I too remember Graham Kerr, the Galloping Gourmet.
I know it’s nitpicky, but if the hero of All of You is a tattoo artist, shouldn’t he at least have some visible ink? That guy’s skin looks as virgin as he’s supposed to be. And heaven knows it seems like every other hero on a contemporary cover is tatted within an inch of his life without as good a reason as this guy would have. Hot tattoo artists are low-key catnip for me, and I’ve been known to pick up a book based on the tattoos on the cover “hero”. Making the hero an artist but not demonstrating it on the cover seems a little counter-intuitive to me.
@ Susan
I too remember the Galloping Gourmet. Like everything else, you can watch his shows on youtube.
@ Julversia
I was thinking the same thing! Most tattoo artist use themselves as ink advertisement or at least the ones I know do.
Many book covers seem to have been paired at random with the story.
I loved Wake of Vultures but am finding the sequel less compelling.