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Binti
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor is $1.99! This is a scifi novella that comes highly recommended and one of the author’s previous works is being made into a series. However, some readers felt it didn’t live up to its hype. It also won a Nebula award for best novella. Did you read this one?
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti’s stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.
If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself – but first she has to make it there, alive.
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Blame It on the Duke
Blame It on the Duke by Lenora Bell is $1.99! I’m confused as to whether this has a fake relationship or a marriage of convenience, but it has some element of that. Readers found that book was overly dramatic at times, though others really loved the heroine. It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
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The future Duke of Barrington has just been gambled away by his father. To an heiress!
The delicious details thus far…
Nicolas, Lord Hatherly, never intended to marry—nor add to the “mad” Hatherly line—but now he must honor his father’s debt to a social-climbing merchant or lose the family estate.
A notoriously wild marquess, won by her father at a game of cards, is the very last thing Miss Alice Tombs wants. She’s spent the last three seasons repelling suitors in spectacular fashion so she’d be at liberty to explore the world. She’ll just have to drive this one away as well.
Until Nick proposes an utterly tempting arrangement: one summer together to prove the legitimacy of their union, then Alice is free to travel while Nick revels in the time he has left before the Hatherly Madness takes hold.
It will be easy to walk away after a few months of make-believe wedded bliss—won’t it? Alice and Nick are about to find out…one sultry night at a time.
This ought to be fun . . .
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Six of Crows
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo is $2.99! This was described to me as a fantasy YA Ocean’s Eleven with heist hijinks. I’ve also heard that the audiobook is really good. A lot of readers say the book lived up to its hype. Some say it takes a while to get invested, but that it’s so worth it.
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone…
A convict with a thirst for revenge.
A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager.
A runaway with a privileged past.
A spy known as the Wraith.
A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.
A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.
Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.
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Along Came Love
Along Came Love by Tracey Livesay is 99c! This book was featured in a previous Hide Your Wallet post. Livesay writes smart, competent characters, but some reviewers that the heroine was a bit too Manic Pixie Dream Girl for them. Anyone interested?
When a silly, impulsive decision lands free-spirited India Shaw behind bars in San Francisco, she has no choice but to call the only person she knows in the unfamiliar city—the very man she abandoned after a steamy two-day fling. The fact that she’s pregnant with his child is something she’d rather not divulge.
Tech executive Michael Black never thought he’d hear from the quirky beauty after she left his bed four months ago, much less be called upon to post bail. He’s got his hands full with a corporate merger that could make or break his career, but his honorable nature—and an overwhelming need to see her again—means he can’t just leave her in jail. And when India reveals the truth about her pregnancy, Mike insists she stay with him until the baby is born.
India doesn’t want to depend on him for anything, but their constant proximity stirs up feelings she can’t ignore. She’s never desired a family before and she knows a future with Mike isn’t possible . . . but then along came love to shake up all her plans.
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I vote we retire the term manic pixie dream girl. It was first used to hold male authors accountable: we want fully realized women characters, not a projection of immature fantasies. But now it’s kind of flipped in my opinion and it’s used against… women. Even if they are fictional. Maybe we can just use descriptors instead of MPDG. Like, the character feels one dimensional.
Loved, loved, loved the Lenora Bell. My Goodreads review tells me that “I practically floated around for the rest of the day.” It combined tropes from two of my favorite books ever, THE HEIRESS EFFECT by Courtney Milan (heroine scares off suitors in hilarious ways) and A WEEK TO BE WICKED by Tessa Dare (heroine is a respected scholar using a male name).
Highly recommend Binti, great character and interesting SF world building in a novella length. A sequel is already out.
Also, it’s part of a Tor ebook sale this week that also includes All Systems Red by Martha Wells – one of my favorite books of the year. Also novella length it packs in so much about what it means to be human, since humans are viewed from the rather skewed point of view of the narrator who is an android security bot.
No romance in either of these but great reads.
I hated Along Came Love. I found the heroine selfish and callous. I stopped reading after she announces to the hero that she’s pregnant, because she did it in such an off-handed way, like it’s an afterthought, with no care about the impact her news might have. Ewww.
The Binti series is soooo good. The second one is out, and the third one (I believe that will be the conclusion) is due out in January. The Tor novellas have been *killing* it recently, every one I have read has been excellent.
The Tor sale is great. I’ve snagged Binti, All Systems Red, and the Seanan McGuire’s Down Among the Sticks and Bones. If you’ve read her Every Heart a Doorway, this is the twins’ story. Martha Wells’ MurderBot was delightful — they just want to watch their stories.
There’s a collection called “Daring a Rogue to Love” by Christy Carlyle, Dawn Brower, Katherine Bone, Amanda Mariel, Christina McKnight, Maggi Andersen that’s on sale for 99 cents at the usual places. I’m not sure if they are all full length but the total package seems to be over 800 pages.
I enjoyed Along Came Love and found the heroine surprisingly complicated, considering her appearance in the previous book. I did enjoy the first book in the series more but I found this a pleasing read. And I liked the “freespiritedness” of the heroine. I don’t get to see that often in Black heroines (quite the opposite) and I appreciated it.
@CatC You have invoked the Heiress Effect, ergo I must hit Buy Now on that book instantly. Thank you.
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