Clean Sweep
Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews is 99c! This is a Kindle Deal Deal and isn’t being price-matched just yet. I’ve heard good things about this book and it has a mix of scifi and paranormal elements. If you’re on the fence about buying it, you can read the first few chapters online.
On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. But Dina is…different: Her broom is a deadly weapon; her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave the grounds because she’s responsible for the deaths of millions and someone might shoot her on sight. Under the circumstances, “normal” is a bit of a stretch for Dina.
And now, something with wicked claws and deepwater teeth has begun to hunt at night…Feeling responsible for her neighbors, Dina decides to get involved. Before long, she has to juggle dealing with the annoyingly attractive, ex-military, new neighbor, Sean Evans—an alpha-strain werewolf—and the equally arresting cosmic vampire soldier, Arland, while trying to keep her inn and its guests safe. But the enemy she’s facing is unlike anything she’s ever encountered before. It’s smart, vicious, and lethal, and putting herself between this creature and her neighbors might just cost her everything.
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Dangerous Books for Girls by Maya Rodale is $2.99! This is a nonfiction book about romance novels. Some readers thought this was an informative and passionate look at romance, while others felt it came across defensive at times. If I remember correctly, this is based on Rodale’s Master’s thesis.
Long before clinch covers and bodice rippers, romance novels have had a bad reputation as the lowbrow lit of desperate housewives and hopeless spinsters. But in fact, romance novels—the escape and entertainment of choice for millions of women—might prove to be the most revolutionary writing ever produced.
Dangerous Books for Girls examines the origins of the genre’s bad reputation—from the “damned mob of scribbling women” in the nineteenth century to the sexy mass-market paperbacks of the twentieth century—and shows how these books have inspired and empowered generations of women to dream big, refuse to settle, and believe they’re worth it.
For every woman who has ever hidden the cover of a romance—and for every woman who has been curious about those “Fabio books”—Dangerous Books For Girls shows why there’s no room for guilt when reading for pleasure.
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Royal Scandal by Marquita Valentine is 99c! This is a contemporary romance that I mentioned in January 2017’s Hide Your Wallet. Readers say this romance takes some suspension of disbelief, but if you can do that, you’re in for a fun-filled romance.
Fairy tales do come true—and so do tabloid scandals! Bestselling author Marquita Valentine kicks off a juicy contemporary romance series with a novel about a prince whose best-laid plans go deliciously awry when he marries the maid next door.
Forced to flee to the United States with his siblings after their parents’ assassination, Crown Prince Colin Sinclair takes it upon himself to become the caretaker of his family while hiding out near Charlotte, North Carolina. But after a decade in hiding, the secret’s out and Parliament demands that Colin wed a princess of their choosing. Unwilling to play their game, Colin decides to marry an American instead, and he has the perfect candidate in mind.
As a home-service professional, Della Hughes doesn’t believe in storybook endings. But when her best friend and secret crush reveals that he’s a flesh-and-blood prince, she doesn’t know what to think. Still, she’ll do anything for Colin, including becoming his wife—in name only, of course. But when their plans to stay purely platonic go by the wayside, their fake honeymoon turns all too real. After a week of white-hot nights, Della can no longer deny her feelings—not with a happily ever after so tantalizingly close.
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Possession by J.R. Ward is $1.99! This is a paranormal romance with a touch of eroticism. It also features Ward’s trademark Alpha heroes. This is the fifth book in the Fallen Angels series, but I’m unsure if it can be read as a standalone. If you’re familiar with the series, definitely let us know what you thought of it in the comments!
#1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward explores what really happens when good and evil toy with humanity in her new novel of the Fallen Angels, as the salvation of a doomed soul depends once again on a crossroads…
When Cait Douglass resolves to get over her broken heart, throw off her inhibitions, and start really living, she’s unprepared for the two sensual men who cross her path. Torn between them, she doesn’t know which to choose—or what kind of dire consequences could follow.
Jim Heron, fallen angel and reluctant savior, is ahead in the war, but he puts everything at risk when he seeks to make a deal with the devil—literally. As yet another soul is unwittingly caught in the battle between him and the demon Devina, his fixation on an innocent trapped in Hell threatens to sidetrack him from his sacred duty…
Can good still prevail if true love makes a savior weak? And will a woman’s future be the key, or the curse, for all of humanity? Only time, and hearts, will tell.
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The Maya Rodale sounds amazing. And I’m always up for a book about royals. In fact, my fave series, Royal Romances, has a new one out last week, The Vagabond Prince. It’s about a prince who returns to London after years as a relief worker in Paraguay and meets his sister in law, a brash social climber that his family hates!
https://www.amazon.com/Vagabond-Prince-Royal-Romances-Book-ebook/dp/B06XVGSZYY/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1491234343&sr=8-5&keywords=molly+jameson
Clean Sweep is really good. Everything written by Ilona Andrews is good, & this is a fun series.
CHA-CHING goes the wallet. Dangerous Books For Girls and Royal Scandal GET IN MUH FACE!!!!
I did the buying of the 2nd one, but here’s a quick question for the bitchery! If optional, I like buying used books so when I click on the used buying option after I click Dangerous Books For Girl’s affiliate link, do yall still get a piece of the cash-money pie? I really hope so because it tickles my heart to help support the site.
Clean Sweep is great! It started off as a free serial story on the Ilona Andrews website, and since no one was telling them what they should or shouldn’t do, Ilona and Gordon just unleashed their imagination and creativity and had fun. There’s oddness in an everyday suburb, alien vampires from outer space, a supercharged werewolf who pees on trees to mark his territory, an attack during an ordinary run to Target(?), and all kinds of fun and shenanigans, plus an actual story arc and a satisfactory, can’t-wait-for-what’s-next ending. Grab it!
Dangerous Books For Girls was really informative, easy to understand (important because English is not my first language) and well structured.
I really enjoyed Clean Sweep, thought it was a lot of fun, although I like an ending with closure and iirc this is pretty open ended.
The Fallen series, on the other hand, couldn’t hold my interest. Its theology and morality were confusing and even off-putting to me. I have a very low tolerance for theology, and morality, so I’m not saying that’s a flaw in the book, just giving a heads up fwiw. Christianity doesn’t appeal to me, but I thought this made it look peculiarly distasteful.
@Jacqueline: We do still get a piece of the pie. Thanks for the slice! 😛
@kkw: There are two more books in the Andrews series.
@MirandaB Thanks for the heads up! I definitely *had* to know what happens next, and I guess the sequels weren’t out at the time. That always makes me feel like I’m being punished for being an early adopter, because I loathe anticipation. So if a book is too cliffhangery I generally don’t feel like I’ve got my money’s worth. I may prefer series where books stand alone, but Clean Sweep was still so entertaining I had to mention it.
Regarding Clean Sweep and the Innkeeper Chronicles series, in book two there’s a connection to Ilona Andrews’ Novels of the Edge series. It’s not a you-must-read-the-Edge-novels-first kind of connection; more like just a fun bit of oh, hey, I know those people!
Big fan of Ilona Andrews, starting from the time Ilona helped Sarah with an emergency podcast, and then I gave Magic Bites a try and have been loving their work ever since.
Clean Sweep closes the major plot for that book, but leaves a greater story arc (what happened to her parents?) open for future novels. It doesn’t end on a cliffhanger, IMO.
I LOVE Clean Sweep. Ilona Andrews doesn’t usually do it for me, but the Innkeeper books are my catnip, apparently. I have loved them all—all the glorious oddities and sci-fi things popping, literally, out of the woodwork (and other stuff). It’s such a perfect, bizarre, contained little world, AND it’s urban fantasy/sci-fi.
Great! I’ve been looking at Clean Sweep ever since Mrs Giggles really liked the books.
I read the first three books in the Fallen series, then gave up after that. The worldbuilding was really weird and didn’t make a ton of sense, and the main characters didn’t fit the Deadly Sins they were supposed to represent (at least I *think* each character to be redeemed was supposed to represent a sin?)
I disliked The Fallen Angels as well, I didnt bother reading the last two. They were tedious to read, without any of the over the top crazysauce that I love in the Black Dagger Brotherhood books.
Add me to the ‘Got bored with The Fallen Angels’ and ‘Got bored with the BDB’ lists. I’d rather reread her older Jessica Bird stuff.
I saw the Dangerous Girls book in B&N but didn’t connect the author with THAT Maya Rodale, so thank you for that!!