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The Color of Magic
RECOMMENDED: The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett is $1.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals; be sure to check out the rest of them! This is the first book in the much loved Discworld series. There’s magic and lots of quirky humor, though admittedly, the series isn’t for everyone. So don’t worry if you give it a shot and it’s not for you. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
Terry Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett’s maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins — with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind.
On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There’s an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet…
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City of the Lost
City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong is $2.99! This is the first book in the Rockton thriller/mystery series and I will warn you that this deal will expire tomorrow. Readers loved the pacing of the book and say it really grabs you. However, some reader wished they had more history and info about the main character.
Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey’s best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana’s husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it’s time for the two of them to disappear again.
Diana has heard of a town made for people like her, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old lives. You must apply to live in Rockton and if you’re accepted, it means walking away entirely from your old life, and living off the grid in the wilds of Canada: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, no computers, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council’s approval. As a murderer, Casey isn’t a good candidate, but she has something they want: She’s a homicide detective, and Rockton has just had its first real murder. She and Diana are in. However, soon after arriving, Casey realizes that the identity of a murderer isn’t the only secret Rockton is hiding—in fact, she starts to wonder if she and Diana might be in even more danger in Rockton than they were in their old lives.
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Grigori
Grigori by Lauren Smith is $1.99 at Amazon! This is a paranormal romance with dragons! I really like the cover of this one. The mythology of the dragons and their mates has something to do with the heroines being virgins. If you tend to avoid fate mates/virginity tropes, you may want to skip this one!
He’s one of the last of a powerful but vanishing bloodline …
Grigori Barinov is the eldest in an ancient line of dragon shifters and the guardian of his family’s lands and fortune. Sworn to protect their history and magic, he won’t rest until he neutralizes any threat to their existence. When he discovers an ancient manuscript that exposes his family and their dragon lineage has fallen into a mortal woman’s hands, he knows he must get the book back by any means necessary. If that means seducing a nosy American woman with an intoxicating scent, he is more than willing to carry her off to his palatial home deep in the heart of Russia.She’s the one woman who could expose him to the world…
Madelyn Haynes has never fit in. As an adopted child she grew up in a loving home but never felt as though she belonged. Plagued by mysterious dreams she’s had of a silver scaled beast ever since she was a little girl, she is convinced dragons are real. While in Russia working on her PhD in mythology in order to escape the ridicule from fellow professors, she unexpectedly crosses paths with the sexy and dominating Grigori, and after just one night with the man whose eyes seem to burn, she starts to change inside. Isolated in the Russian wilderness Grigori calls home, Madelyn can’t help but fall under his sensual spell, yet something deep inside her calls out that she can’t trust him. She has to show the world dragons are real to salvage academic reputation, even if it means costing her the heart of the dragon she’s falling in love with.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Raw Heat
Raw Heat by Cherrie Lynn is $1.99 at Amazon! This is a contemporary romance and I’m a little unsure if it falls into the erotic romance category or not. If you’ve read this, let me know! I love the fact that the heroine is the hero’s accountant. However, there were readers who felt the book was too over the top for them.
The third book in the Larson Brothers series from New York Times bestselling author Cherrie Lynn is the sexiest installment yet!
Youngest Larson brother Damien has the luck of the devil. Fast talking and faster thinking, he owns a successful nightclub in Houston and runs an illegal poker room upstairs. After a troubled childhood, now nothing is out of Damien’s reach—except his accountant, Emma Haskell.
Emma has always been drawn to Damien’s dark intensity and the gleam in his eyes that promises more than she can possibly handle. But when her brother’s gambling threatens to destroy her family, Damien makes her an offer she’d be crazy to accept—but can’t refuse: her brother’s debts will be forgiven, and Emma belongs to him for thirty days.
In Damien’s world, he shows his angelic bookkeeper what it’s like to live with the devil. But Emma brings out a side in Damien he thought didn’t exist. Will the flames of lust scorch them both, or will this beauty tame the beast and give him something to fight for?
Raw Heat scorches with emotional intensity and smoldering passion that will leave readers spellbound!
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Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men is also on sale for $1.99. I liked it much more than The Color of Magic, which felt scattered to me. TWFM is billed as Book 30(!!!) in the series, but it’s the first in the Tiffany Aching arc. Other than a vague awareness that there were probably in-jokes about the universe I wasn’t getting, not having read the 28 intervening books didn’t have any negative side effects.
I’ve been assured I’d love Death’s books, but those are never on sale and $10 a pop is a little too dear for my book budget.
RE Terry Pratchett: The man was a genius, and I own all of his books–including “Good Omens,” which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman–but “Color of Magic” is one of my least favorite. Further into the series, you get some totally kick-ass women (the witches! Lady Sybil, who breeds dragons! Susan, Death’s granddaughter!) and a bunch of seriously dorky guys. Death himself and his horse Binky are fabulous, and I could go on for an hour about various amazing characters. I guess I’m saying either don’t start with Color of Magic, or don’t get discouraged and write off the whole series if you don’t like CoM. And of course, YYMV–obs millions of people will take great umbrage at my disrespecting anything Pratchett and that’s fine, too.
Re: “Raw Heat”… the heroine is an accountant, you say?! As a number cruncher myself, I must read this!!!
Sabriel by Garth Nix and City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett, both in my TBR after being recommended somewhere, are part of the Kindle Daily Deal. (My TBR, oy va voy! At this rate of reading—that is, I rarely have the brain space for new books—I’ve reached SABLE. So I’m here to share the pain…)
clarification: sable = stash acquired beyond life expectancy
@ms bookjunkie: I’ve been listening to CITY OF STAIRS and really enjoying it; I’d given up on the book ever going on sale, but here we are.
Also, thanks for SABLE, which is clearly the new black.
I’ve read most of Terry Pratchett’s books out of order, but did read THE COLOR OF MONEY to cover that base. If you know going in that the books get better, I think it’s manageable. Because then Tiffany Aching awaits and, oh, there are few things better than that series. Listen to the audio books if you can, they are brilliant. Crivens!
I hate autocorrect. MAGIC, it’s magic, not money. Arrggh.
I loved almost all the books in the Discworld series, but The Color of Magic was not a favorite. It felt like he was writing whatever was on the top of his head, scribbling words down. Later, he wrote things that he felt, things that troubled him or puzzled him or needed figuring out, and he wrote from his heart. But in a way that made you laugh while you nodded agreement.
There are a lot of mysteries and other genres on sale for Kindle today:
The Dry by Jane Harper for 2.99.
Merciful Death by Kendra Elliot: 1.99
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Lani Taylor: 2.99
Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn is also 2.99. This is a squee-level 10 book!
Highly recommend City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett! Great strong female characters. (Loved the sequel as well – and the third in the trilogy is still in my TBR mountain). These and several of the other books mentioned are part of a Kindle daily deal sale of first in a series – I think there were like 73 books on sale today.
@Joanna: You convinced me to add City of Stars to my TBR!
@Ren- Thanks for the heads up about TWFM! My mom bought a couple Kindles for her classroom, mostly to use overdrive on, but it’s nice to be able to just buy books that seven different kids want to read.
@Alexandra: Teachers are the best. High five for your mom!
Sabriel is a Top Ten Keeper Shelf Book forever and always. Cannot recommend highly enough.
Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic are my least re-read Pratchett books. I love the Discworld, have just about everything Pratchett ever wrote on my shelves, but Guards Guards or Wyrd Sisters are probably the ones I would recommend starting with.
I concur re Pratchett. the Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic were written as really specific parodies/satires of a specific genre so if you aren’t really all up in that genre then…*insert shrug emoji*
It doesn’t really reflect later books where on he gets into the swing of writing his own fantasy world and then using that world to comment on and satirize the “real world”. Rather than writing a world around a specific desire to send up the High Fantasy/Swords and Sandals genre that was spawned out of Tolkien etc.
I think the sale ends today if anyone wants to get The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas for free at most ebook retailers.
I actually recommend that people wanting to try on Terry Pratchett for size start with ‘Small Gods’ or ‘Guards, Guards’. Not CoM.
As others have mentioned, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic are not representative of the Discworld books. They were very early books and were less focused than the later books. The Wee Free Men is brilliant. Or better still, read the stories with the witches, starting with Equal Rites.
Darlynne – for a minute there I thought Making Money had been renamed The Colour of Money for the US version. 😉