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Labyrinth Lost
RECOMMENDED: Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova is $2.99! The ebook version just received a cover update. Sarah read this book a couple months ago and gave it a B grade:
Overall, I think this book contains a fabulous world with a terrific, galloping adventure through a vivid and wrenching underworld. While I was reading it, I had a hard time putting it down. But the story has most of its strength in the plot and the world-building than in the characters and their emotional development and consistency, and I missed those aspects even while I enjoyed the rest.
Nothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives.
I fall to my knees. Shattered glass, melted candles and the outline of scorched feathers are all that surround me. Every single person who was in my house – my entire family — is gone.
Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she can’t trust. A boy whose intentions are as dark as the strange markings on his skin.
The only way to get her family back is to travel with Nova to Los Lagos, a land in-between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland…
Beautiful Creatures meets Daughter of Smoke and Bone with an infusion of Latin American tradition in this highly original fantasy adventure.
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This Crumbling Pageant
READER RECOMMENDATION: This Crumbling Pageant by Patricia Burroughs is $2.99! This is a fantasy romance set in historical England. A reader sent us a glowing recommendation of the book:
One of the very best books I’ve read in a while is on sale for a ridiculous ninety-nine cents for Kindle. I can’t understand it because it is worth so very much more. It is volume one in a trilogy and I pray this silly price means volume two is on its way because I would pay full price for volume two because volume one was that good. I believe I gave it a four star review.
Persephone Fury is the Dark daughter, the one they hide.
England, 1811. Few are aware of a hidden magical England, a people not ruled by poor mad George, but by the dying King Pellinore of the House of Pendragon.
The Furys are known for their music, their magic, and their historic role as kingmakers. When Fury ambitions demand a political marriage, Persephone is drugged and presented to Society—
Only to be abducted from the man she loves by the man she loathes.
But devious and ruthless, Persephone must defy ancient prophecy and seize her own fate.
Get swept away into the first book of a dark fantasy series combining swashbuckling adventure, heart-pounding romance, and plot-twisting suspense.
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Sinful Scottish Laird
Sinful Scottish Laird by Julia London is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and is being price-matched. Yay! Readers loved how confident the heroine was, but they also said it took a while to warm up to the hero. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
A young widow puts her sexy suitors to the test in New York Times bestselling author Julia London’s scintillating return to the idyllic Scottish Highlands.
Widowed and forced to remarry in three years’ time or forfeit her son’s inheritance, Daisy Bristol, Lady Chatwick, has plenty of suitors vying for her hand and her fortune. But a letter from a long-lost love sends Daisy and her young son to her Scottish Highland estate to buy time for his return. Along the way she encounters the powerful Cailean Mackenzie, laird of Arrandale and a notorious smuggler, and she is utterly though unwillingly bewitched.
Cailean has no use for any Sassenach in his glen. But Daisy’s brazen, flirtatious nature and alluring beauty intrigue him. When her first love appears unexpectedly at her estate, Cailean knows that a passionate woman like Daisy cannot marry this man. And to prevent the union, Cailean must put his own life at risk to win her heart.
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Hungry Like the Wolf
Hungry Like the Wolf by Paige Tyler is $1.99! This is book one in her newest paranormal romance series, SWAT. The Dallas SWAT team is actually made up of shifters. Who knew? The books comes with a big cast of alpha men, and readers are already anticipating their favorites’ future books. Although some felt the world building could have been a little stronger.
The Dallas SWAT team is hiding one helluva secret . . . they’re a pack of wolf shifters.
The team of elite sharpshooters is ultra-secretive—and also the darlings of Dallas. This doesn’t sit well with investigative journalist Mackenzie Stone. They must be hiding something . . . and she’s determined to find out what.
Keeping Mac at a distance proves impossible for SWAT team commander Gage Dixon. She’s smart, sexy, and makes him feel alive for the first time in years. But she’s getting dangerously close to the truth—and perilously close to his heart…
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I read and enjoyed This Crumbling Pageant some time ago. Now I’m wondering when the next book in the series will appear.
@Kareni, same! I read it about a year ago and I was just thinking about this book (and wondering where the sequels are!!) the other day.
Another +1 for This Crumbling Pageant – loved it and am also hoping for the sequel. I thought it was supposed to be out sometime last year, but must have gotten my dates mixed up. I think the author has posted comments to the bitchery before, maybe she’ll let us know if the next book is on the way?
@Kristina: Her site says preorder will be available soon, and a March blog entry says the book is with beta readers, so it’s on its way.
I am fairly new to the bitchery, and already I have found so many great new reads and recommendations. Thank you ladies, for all the honest reviews and endorsements of books. This Crumbling Pageant sounds amazing, but I would never have thought to pick this up on my own. My TBR list on my kindle gets longer and longer everyday (and the bank account little smaller too!)
I loved This Crumbling Pageant!
Good news, fans of This Crumbling Pagent. The Dead Shall Live is in its final editing stage. I have been privileged to read the first chapter coz Reasons.
This Crumbling Pageant is a WONDERFUL story. I believe I am the person who sent the glowing recommendation.
Hungry Like a Wolf was fun to read but my friend who lives in Dallas tells me that there is no such intersection which gets mentioned in the first chapter, I think, so that was a disappointment.
Oddly enough, I myself wrote these exact same words some place “The Dallas SWAT team is actually made up of shifters. Who knew? ” I wish I could remember where.
I laughed myself silly at the scorecards. But no spoliers from me.
[…] Crumbling Pageant was mentioned on Smart Bitches Trashy Books as being on sale right now. This in itself is always happy-making. But this time was unexpected. […]
This Crumbling Pageant was a DNF for me, not because there was anything wrong with it or I got mad, but because it just kept going and going and going and I couldn’t maintain my interest enough to pick it back up. I see that I’m in the minority here.
@Hera, LOL, isn’t it wonderful that we can all have different reactions to a book.
What you most disliked about it was one of the things I most loved. As soon as I finished it, I demanded vol 2. Says so in my review. I wanted to keep going and going. I loved that world. I loved Persephone. Love how all the members of the Fury family have names from mythology.
I bought this book on this recommendation. I thought the plot was genius! But too many words, my god there were a lot of words. Also it read so slowly to begin with and then zip all this crazy action at the end. And it left me with many “wait, why?” moments. And the angst, the manipulation,the impending doom and the martyrdom killed me, and yet I stayed up until 1 am for two nights in a row to finish it. And I’ve been thinking about it ever since. I still don’t know whether it was good or not my cup of tea but the read was compelling. And dollars to donuts, I’ll be reading the sequel because I need to know what happens.
@Signy, just to clarify, you are talking about This Crumbling Pageant? I betcha if the author were to read your comment, she’d be thrilled.