The Rook
RECOMMENDED: The Rook by Daniel O’Malley $1.99 at select vendors! Carrie loves the series, especially the sequel Stiletto. It’s urban fantasy set in London with a badass cast of characters. But some found the book to have a lot of info-dumping. Have you read The Rook?
“The body you are wearing used to be mine.” So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her.
She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Chequy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain. She also discovers that she possesses a rare, potentially deadly supernatural ability of her own.
In her quest to uncover which member of the Chequy betrayed her and why, Myfanwy encounters a person with four bodies, an aristocratic woman who can enter her dreams, a secret training facility where children are transformed into deadly fighters, and a conspiracy more vast than she ever could have imagined.
Filled with characters both fascinating and fantastical, THE ROOK is a richly inventive, suspenseful, and often wry thriller that marks an ambitious debut from a promising young writer.
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RECOMMENDED: The Hating Game by Sally Thorne is $1.99! Sarah really loved this one, though made a mention of some offensive language. However, I believe subsequent copies have the offending language changed. Correct me if I’m wrong.
If your reading catnip, like mine, includes a blend of dialogue that crackles with intensity and emotion, cranky, stoic heroes with hidden, squishy depths, and vivid, self-assured heroines who take exactly zero crap from said hero, you should find yourself a copy of this book.
Debut author Sally Thorne bursts on the scene with a hilarious and sexy workplace comedy all about that thin, fine line between hate and love.
Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome.
2) A person’s undoing
3) Joshua TemplemanLucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. And the feeling is mutual.
Trapped in a shared office together 40 (OK, 50 or 60) hours a week, they’ve become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. There’s the Staring Game. The Mirror Game. The HR Game. Lucy can’t let Joshua beat her at anything—especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking.
If Lucy wins this game, she’ll be Joshua’s boss. If she loses, she’ll resign. So why is she suddenly having steamy dreams about Joshua, and dressing for work like she’s got a hot date? After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got Joshua Templeman all wrong.
Maybe Lucy Hutton doesn’t hate Joshua Templeman. And maybe, he doesn’t hate her either. Or maybe this is just another game.
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Dirty Magic by Jaye Wells is $1.99! This is book one in the Propero’s War urban fantasy series. Some readers warn that they couldn’t put this book down, while others felt the action was bogged down by worldbuilding. This book has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
The last thing patrol cop Kate Prospero expected to find on her nightly rounds was a werewolf covered in the blood of his latest victim. But then, she also didn’t expect that shooting him would land her in the crosshairs of a Magic Enforcement Agency task force, who wants to know why she killed their lead snitch.
The more Prospero learns about the dangerous new potion the MEA is investigating, the more she’s convinced that earning a spot on their task force is the career break she’s been wanting. But getting the assignment proves much easier than solving the case. Especially once the investigation reveals their lead suspect is the man she walked away from ten years earlier—on the same day she swore she’d never use dirty magic again.
Kate Prospero’s about to learn the hard way that crossing a wizard will always get you burned, and that when it comes to magic, you should be never say never.
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Seven Nights in a Rogue’s Bed by Anna Campbell is $1.99! This is the first book in the Sons of Sin series and has some heavy Beauty and the Beast vibes. Some readers felt this was a beautiful, emotional romance, but some felt the second half was more interesting than the first.
Will a week of seduction…
Desperate to save her sister’s life, Sidonie Forsythe has agreed to submit herself to a terrible fate: Beyond the foreboding walls of Castle Craven, a notorious, hideously scarred scoundrel will take her virtue over the course of seven sinful nights. Yet instead of a monster, she encounters a man like no other. And during this week, she comes to care for Jonas Merrick in ways that defy all logic—even as a dark secret she carries threatens them both.
…Spark a lifetime of passionate surrender?
Ruthless loner Jonas knows exactly who he is. Should he forget, even for a moment, the curse he bears, a mere glance in the mirror serves as an agonizing reminder. So when the lovely Sidonie turns up on his doorstep, her seduction is an even more delicious prospect than he originally planned. But the hardened outcast is soon moved by her innocent beauty, sharp wit, and surprising courage. Now as dangerous enemies gather at the gate to destroy them, can their new, fragile love survive?
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Thirsty by Mia Hopkins and Heart-Shaped Hack/White-Hot Hack by Tracey Garvis Graves are all .99, the Garvis-Graves books are KU so Amazon only. I really liked Heart-Shaped Hack, pre-ordered the sequel (the first book does have a satisfying ending, not a cliffhanger) and then let the sequel sit on my kindle.
Highly recommend Mia Hopkins’ Thirsty! I generally side-eye 1st person POV, but Hopkins is an amazing writer with a unique voice. I’ve seen the protagonist Sal described as an anti-hero, but he’s a refreshing change from what I’ve been reading lately, and I loved him to bits. Eagerly anticipating the next book in the series!
I really enjoyed The Hating Game.
Love, love, love The Hating Game!!
I have been waiting forever to buy The Hating Game. I may celebrate this anniversary for the next 5 years. *happy dance*
Highly recommend The Rook! Personally I like it more than the sequel. I don’t think there’s info-dumping as much as funny asides about the world and its alternative history – YMMV. It’s like if the X-Men masterminded British bureaucracy.
I seem to be in the minority, but I didn’t warm to either the hero or heroine in The Hating Game. The ableist language is still there in my Kindle edition.
The Rook is an all-time favorite– great for folks who like genre-bending books
I loved The Rook-I think the first line is one of the best hooks ever written! Since it’s on sale I’m off to add it to my keeper shelf.
The Hating Game is SO EFFING GOOD I’ve read it three times. Yes, the problematic part was removed. The story is sharp, funny, deeply felt and follows two very realistic and complex characters whom I adore.
I’ve been wanting to read Thirsty! Thanks for the heads up, CelineB.
Am I the only one who’s developing an allergy to “The hardened outcast is soon moved by her innocent beauty”? Unless the hardened outcast is nonmale, I am not interested.
@graceelizabeth – you are not alone. I hated the heroine so much in The Hating Game, I DNF’d it at about page 40 (when she was trying to break into his work email which is not in any way cute in my world). I never even got to the hero.
I tried to read the The Hating Game but was never able to get into it despite multiple attempts. Always thankful it was a library copy.
OTOH, The Rook sounds quite interesting.
I looooooved The Rook. I listened to the audio as I was clearing out space in my tiny apartment for my now-husband to move in–and have re-listened or read a few times since then.
Listened to The Hating Game too and it was only okay for me. I wanted to love it!
I enjoyed The Hating Game but I saw it as a very stylised book; once I accepted that the characters and situations were not trying to be realistic (even the presumably Australian city setting was deliberately not given any distinguishing detail at all) I could go with the humour and the emotion of it. From the very beginning it felt a bit like reading a screenplay rather than a novel, like it had been written with the movie version in mind.
I don’t make it a practice to go around pooping all over things that everyone seems to love, so I hadn’t yet found a safe space to admit that The Hating Game did not do much for me. The comments warm me a bit to see that I’m not alone.