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Crosstalk
Crosstalk by Connie Willis is $1.99! Carrie is a huge Willis fan, but this one really fell flat for her. She gave it a surprising D+ grade. There is also some great discussion in the comments. However, I’ve heard other readers talk fondly of this book. Which camp are you in?
Briddey is about to get exactly what she thinks she wants…
Briddey is a high-powered exec in the mobile phone industry, overseeing new products from concept (‘anything to beat the new apple phone’) to delivery. And she works with her wonderful partner, Trent. They’ve been together for six magical weeks, in a whirlwind of flowers, dinners, laughter and now comes the icing on the cake: not a weekend away or a proposal but something even better. An EDD. A procedure which will let them sense each other’s feelings. Trent doesn’t just want to tell her how much he loves her – he wants her to feel it. Everything is perfect.
The trouble is, Briddey can’t breathe a word of it to anyone (difficult, when the whole office is guessing) until she’s had two minutes to call her family. And they’re hounding her about the latest family drama, but when they find out about the EDD – which they will – they’ll drop everything to interrogate her. And it might just be easier to have the procedure now and explain later. Only Apple are poised to deliver an amazing new product and she has to be one step ahead …if she can only persuade their tech genius, C. B., to drop his crazy ideas about a ‘privacy phone’ with its ‘do not disturb’ settings, and focus on what people really want: more efficient, instinctive and immediate ways to communicate.
The race is on: not just for new, cutting-edge technology, but also for a shred of privacy in a public world and – for Briddey – a chance for love at the heart of it all.
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Night’s Honor
Night’s Honor by Thea Harrison is $1.99! This is the seventh book in the Elder Races series and I think these can be read out of order, but do correct me if I’m wrong. Some readers say the romance in this one is pretty slow going, while others liked the heroine and her feisty personality.
In the latest Novel of the Elder Races, a woman finds herself in need of protection-and seduced by honour . . .
On the run from her former employer, Tess knows that she’s vulnerable on her own amongst the Elder Races. That’s why she decides to audition to become the human attendant of a powerful Vampyre of the Nightkind demesne. But while her position affords her the safety she seeks, her protector turns out to be more than she bargained for.The right-hand man of the Nightkind King, Xavier del Torro is both terrifying and alluring. While his true nature frightens Tess, she can’t ignore the appeal of his innate sense of integrity and self-restraint. Thrown into Xavier’s world, Tess must quickly learn to navigate the dangers-both to her life, and to her heart. But the biggest threat comes from her own past . . .
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Once Bitten
Once Bitten by Clare Willis is $2.99! This is a paranormal romance and I’m kind of charmed by the cover. What do you think? Many readers enjoyed the setup of this romance, but were really hoping for more in terms of the romance between the hero and heroine. I also believe this isn’t part of any series.
Is it more than just a one-bite stand?
Angie McCaffrey has endured her share of liquid lunches and boardroom schmoozefests to win new advertising clients. But her latest account-a cosmetics line for wannabe vampires-involves some unusual customer research at San Francisco’s hippest private nightclub. The “undead” patrons are about as genuine as Macabre Factor’s press-on fangs, but one thing is very real-the skin-tingling connection Angie feels with her clients’ mysterious friend, Eric Taylor.
Still, there are a few problems with this hot new romance. 1) Eric is rumored to have dated Angie’s scheming boss, Lucy. 2) Lucy, missing for days, just turned up dead and bloodless. And, oh yeah, 3) Angie has suddenly developed a teeny aversion to sunlight. Is Eric a real vampire, a killer, or both? Angie’s got a lot riding on the answer-her life, her heart, and maybe even her soul…
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The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith is $1.99! Carrie reviewed this book last summer and gave it a B-:
This book was not the best book I’ve every read, but I had a lot of fun with it. It was like those snack size bags of potato chips – yummy, quick, not super-deep, but fun. I especially enjoyed Hadley’s relationship with her parents. The stuff about her dad was truly emotionally powerful. The romance with Oliver was less powerful, but I believe that was intentional. It’s not the focus of the book.
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan’s life. Having missed her flight, she’s stuck at JFK airport and late to her father’s second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley’s never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport’s cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he’s British, and he’s sitting in her row.
A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more?
Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver’s story will make you believe that true love finds you when you’re least expecting it.
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I liked Crosstalk. But I’m a huge Connie Willis fan. It took me a while to get into it, but I did eventually read the last 75% in a single sitting. I would give it a b minus, my lowest Willis grade.
I actually really enjoyed Crosstalk! I thought it was funny and charming. But it’s also the first Willis book I’ve read.
The romance in Night’s Honor is very slow. It has to be because the heroine thinks of vampires as monsters so that has to be overcome before there can be any romantic involvement. I liked the book a lot. I thought it was very well done.
I think the elder races books can be read out of order, but I’m totally okay with spoilers. I don’t think I’d read the next two books before this one though.
I love everything Connie Willis has ever written….but Crosstalk was a DNF for me. I could not get into it. Since it was from the library and I was pushing to finish it before it disappeared from my Kindle, I may purchase it and try again on my own time.
PS – I read Night’s Honor out of order and it worked fine for me. I did get the impression that the hero had been in the background of previous books and this might be a “waiting for Rothgar” type book. I haven’t made it back to the earlier books yet so I don’t know if that impression is correct. In any case, the hero isn’t a typical vampire; he’s a scholar turned warrior.
I DNFed Crosstalk about 150 pages in. None of the characters gelled for me, nor did the plot, and I wanted to scream at several members of Briddey’s family. For your inadvertent-and- annoying-telepathicbond needs, I strongly recommend Sarah Rees Brennan’s Unspoken (and the other two books of the Lynburn Legacy trilogy) instead.
I really enjoyed Crosstalk and will go get my copy now. And thanks for the Sarah Rees Brennan recommendation! I’ll check it out, too.
I enjoyed “Crosstalk” moderately, but I felt like she had explored similar themes and characters in other books and had done the job better before. I was glad it was a library book.
@Mary, if you enjoyed Night’s Honor, you really need to go back and read the rest of get series. Night’s Honor was my least favorite, which not to say it was a bad book, but that the others are even better.
Delay of Game by Catherine Gayle and The Year We Fell Down by Sarina Bowen are both currently free. Both are some of my favorite books, and I highly recommend.
I wanted to love Crosstalk so much. I adore Connie Willis and have avidly consumed pretty much every other thing she’s done (ok, I stopped at Blackout, breaking it up into two bits with just a break annoyed the crap out of me and I never read (or bought) the second one.)
But I hated this pov character. I hated her SO MUCH. She puts up with an incredible amount of crap from her friends and family and has no spine at all. There’s not even a hint of why she would put up with these people. Her boyfriend isn’t any better. This (Ok, I read the first chapter) is one of those, “you know, if people would just use their WORDS and talk to each other, this could all be avoided” books.
I DNF’d it and it made me sad. I want old CW back.