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This Is Just My Face
RECOMMENDED: This is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe is $2.99 at Amazon! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and isn’t being price-matched yet. Check out the other deals today; there are a few romances included! Redheadedgirl enjoyed this one and gave it an A:
This is a really interesting memoir by someone who I didn’t know much about. She’s got a complicated life story, and a great attitude as she sashays her way through her life. She’s funny, and touching. And, as ever, the inner lives of Black women are still not something that receives nearly enough attention.
The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir—wise, complex, smart, funny—a version of the American experience different from anything we’ve read
Gabourey Sidibe—“Gabby” to her legion of fans—skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels’s acclaimed movie Precious. In This is Just My Face, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she’s played onscreen. With full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway. Sidibe tells the engrossing, inspiring story of her first job as a phone sex “talker.” And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star, alongside “a superstar cast of rich people who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers while I lived in my mom’s apartment.”
Sidibe’s memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight (“If I could just get the world to see me the way I see myself,” she writes, “would my body still be a thing you walked away thinking about?”). Irreverent, hilarious, and untraditional, This Is Just My Face takes its place and fills a void on the shelf of writers from Mindy Kaling to David Sedaris to Lena Dunham.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Wicked Intentions
RECOMMENDED: Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt is $1.99! Elyse really enjoyed this book and gave it an A-:
Serial killer. And Ghost of St. Giles vigilante. And river pirate. And bondage.
If any or all of those things appeal to you, I’d really recommend this book. If you’re looking for a spicy historical, or one not focused around the glittering aristocracy, Wicked Intentions fits the bill. Aside from a few ball scenes, this book takes place among the working class of London.
A man controlled by his desires…
Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London’s most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand— she’s spent a lifetime caring for its inhabitants at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk.
A woman haunted by her past…
Caire makes a simple offer—in return for Temperance’s help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to London’s high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, and what begins as cold calculation soon falls prey to a passion that neither can control—one that may well destroy them both.
A bargain neither could refuse.
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A Duchess in Name
RECOMMENDED: A Duchess in Name by Amanda Weaver is 99c! Redheadedgirl reviewed the book and gave it a B+:
This book involves a massive renovation, a HERO that was won in a card game, awkwardness, and learning to love each other despite a most inauspicious beginning. Throw in some terrible parenting, and we got ourselves what could totally be a miniseries jointly produced by ITV and HGTV.
Victoria Carson never expected love. An American heiress and graduate of Lady Grantham’s finishing school, she’s been groomed since birth to marry an English title—the grander the better. So when the man chosen for her, the forbidding Earl of Dunnley, seems to hate her on sight, she understands that it can’t matter. Love can have no place in this arrangement.
Andrew Hargrave has little use for his title and even less for his cold, disinterested parents. Determined to make his own way, he’s devoted to his life in Italy working as an archaeologist. Until the collapse of his family’s fortune drags him back to England to a marriage he never wanted and a woman he doesn’t care to know.
Wild attraction is an unwanted complication for them both, though it forms the most fragile of bonds. Their marriage of convenience isn’t so intolerable after all—but it may not be enough when the deception that bound them is finally revealed.
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Angel’s Ink
Angel’s Ink by Jocelynn Drake is $2.99! This is a paranormal urban fantasy, and the first book in the Asylum Tales series. The book has a 3.6 average on GR, and readers particularly liked the hero, who is a former warlock who now runs his own tattoo parlor. I’m actually pretty interested in this book, but I’m wary about buying it for some reason. Anyone care to weigh in on whether to buy or bypass?
Buyer beware . . .
Looking for a tattoo—and maybe a little something extra: a burst of good luck, a dollop of true love, or even a hex on an ex? Head to the quiet and mysterious Gage, the best skin artist in town. Using unique potions—a blend of extraordinary ingredients and special inks—to etch the right symbol, he can fulfill any heart’s desire. But in a place like Low Town, where elves, faeries, trolls, werewolves, and vampires happily walk among humanity, everything has its price.
No one knows that better than Gage. Turning his back on his own kind, he left the magical Ivory Tower where cruel witches and warlocks rule, a decision that cost him the right to practice magic. And if he disobeys, his punishment—execution—will be swift.
Though he’s tried to fly under the radar, Gage can’t hide from powerful warlocks who want him dead—or the secrets of his own past. But with the help of his friends, Trixie, a gorgeous elf who hides her true identity, and a hulking troll named Bronx, Gage might just make it through this enchanted world alive.
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There are so many good books on sale! RayAnne Thayne’s Serenity Harbor is on sale at Amazon for 1.99.
I’m actually pretty interested in this book, but I’m wary about buying it for some reason.
Too much was-ing on the first page for me to get beyond.
I passed on an archaeologist/SEAL book a few days ago for the same reason.
Dang, I’m most deffo snagging Gabby’s memoir! #Whatadeal
I recommend A Duchess in Name. I enjoyed the book and have re-read it a couple of times. The heroine, Victoria, is an American heiress whose entire purpose in life, at least as per her mother, is to marry a title. Victoria herself does not expect happiness for herself. Her parents are a piece of work. Andrew, the hero, never expected to be the Earl. His family backstory is pretty awful, too. He is happy with his work and his mistress and angry at basically being sold into marriage. Victoria makes the best of things; Andrew pouts and acts pissy. There is some character change and growth. Much of it seems realistic and the story was inspired by a specific American heiress (who did not have such a happy outcome).
For those who like historical mysteries Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose is on sale for $2.99 on Amazon and B&N. It’s been on my wish list – it’s set during the Regency and it just came out in June so is only available in hardback. The author has also written as Cara Elliott and Andrea Pickens
This Is Just My Face is so good! I don’t really enjoy celebrity memoirs but it’s really good & funny & worth it at full price much less on sale!
After dithering for a bit, I decided to buy Wicked Intentions… and discovered I already owned it.
So glad Amazon keeps track of these things.
I read Angel’s Ink, apparently, and didn’t much care for it. I saw it here and thought, that’s an engaging enough premise and went to put it on hold at the library, only to discover I had already rated it two stars. That means I liked it well enough to finish it, but not enough to ever want to repeat the experience, even with a different book by the same author.
No clue as to why, sorry.
I liked “Angel’s Ink” but not so much the rest of the series. She does much better, IMHO, with the Dark Days series. “Nightwalker”, the first Dark Days book is currently $2.99 for Kindle. Spend your money there.
I adored Duchess in Name. It had so much catnip but alas this author was a one hit wonder for me. I was bored witless by the second book and skimmed most of it. Didn’t feel the slightest interest to continue with the series.
Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt started a huge series binge. Loved it, highly recommend!! (Check out Elys’s review, it says all the things <3)