The Immortals
The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky is $2.99! This is the first book in the Olympus Unbound. Sarah gave the first book a B grade. I highly recommend reading Sarah’s review to get a full sense of whether this book may be for you.
When I started reading it, I had a really difficult time putting it down. The world building made for addictive reading, even when I was reading things I usually don’t read.
MANHATTAN HAS MANY SECRETS.
SOME ARE OLDER THAN THE CITY ITSELF.Manhattan.
The city sleeps. Selene DiSilva walks her dog along the banks of the Hudson. She is alone-just the way she likes it. She doesn’t believe in friends, and she doesn’t speak to her family. Most of them are simply too dangerous.Murders.
In the predawn calm, Selene finds the body of a young woman washed ashore, gruesomely mutilated and wreathed in laurel. Her ancient rage returns. And so does the memory of a promise she made long ago. To protect the innocent-and to punish those who stands in her way.Gods.
With the NYPD out of its depth, Selene vows to hunt the killer on her own. But when classics professor Theo Schultz decodes the ancient myth behind the crime, the solitary Huntress finds herself working with a man who’s her opposite in every way. Together, they face a long-forgotten cult that lies behind a string of murders, and they’ll need help from the one source Selene distrusts most of all: the city’s other Immortals.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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The Trouble with Dukes by Grace Burrowes is $2.99! There seems to be some Beauty and the Beast elements to this, with an intimidating hero and a heroine who doesn’t mind all of his scary gossip. This begins the new Windham Brides series. Some of the readers thought everyone was wrapped up too quickly, but others loved the heroine. Have you read this one?
THEY CALL HIM THE DUKE OF MURDER…
The gossips whisper that the new Duke of Murdoch is a brute, a murderer, and even worse—a Scot. They say he should never be trusted alone with a woman. But Megan Windham sees in Hamish something different, someone different.
No one was fiercer at war than Hamish MacHugh, though now the soldier faces a whole new battlefield: a London Season. To make his sisters happy, he’ll take on any challenge—even letting their friend Miss Windham teach him to waltz. Megan isn’t the least bit intimidated by his dark reputation, but Hamish senses that she’s fighting battles of her own. For her, he’ll become the warrior once more, and for her, he might just lose his heart.
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Court of Fives by Kate Elliot is $2.99! This is a YA fantasy novel and the first book in a trilogy. Readers enjoyed the worldbuilding and detail, but felt that more attention should have been given to character depth. It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
In this imaginative escape into an enthralling new world, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott begins a new trilogy with her debut young adult novel, weaving an epic story of a girl struggling to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege.
Jessamy’s life is a balance between acting like an upper class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners. But at night she can be whomever she wants when she sneaks out to train for The Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom’s best competitors. Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an unlikely friendship between a girl of mixed race and a Patron boy causes heads to turn. When a scheming lord tears Jes’s family apart, she’ll have to test Kal’s loyalty and risk the vengeance of a powerful clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death.
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The Stone Maiden by Susan King is 99c! This is the first book in the Celtic Nights series, and the next two books are also on sale. Reader say that King’s writing really captures the setting, though some warn there isn’t much action. The romance is more driven by internal conflict and feelings.
The last surviving member of her family, Alainna MacLaren is heiress to the rich properties of Kinlochan and chief of Clan Laren, whose ranks have been decimated by a centuries-old feud with a neighboring clan. Desperate to protect her clan, she asks the king to choose a husband for her who is both a mighty warrior and one who will consent to take her surname so that her family name will not die out. Though sympathetic to her plight, the king has the security of all of Scotland to consider and orders a Breton member of his honor guard, Sebastien le Bret, to wed the lady, govern her lands, and build a castle at Kinlochan to secure the western Highlands.
Alainna and Sebastien are powerfully attracted to each other, but each has commitments to clan, family, and king that compel them to place honor first and love second. Despite the pledges, the treachery of Clan Laren’s enemies, and threats to both their lives, neither can deny the deep love that grows between them. Whether they will survive and save the clan is another matter.
Strong and true, King’s voice resonates with the lyric rhythm of Highland poetry. The Scotland of 1170 comes to life with vivid color, and each character, from the hero and heroine to the smallest player, is sharply drawn and unforgettable. Hearthside tales, the legend of the stone maiden, and the heroine’s artistry with stone cutting are only a few of the fascinating details that make this novel unique.
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I squeaked when I saw Charlie Huston’s ALREADY DEAD at the top of one of my sale emails for $1.99. Joe Pitt is a vampire P.I. of the kneecap-breaking variety who gets into increasingly shady and perilous endeavors with hippie terrorist vampires, religious cultist vampires, and mafia vampires (in one book, Jewish mafia vampires) in his quest for cash to save his terminally ill girlfriend. It’s Tarantino levels of crazy criminal vampire violence (so NOT FOR EVERYBODY).
The series is on my Annual Reread shelf. The first time I read the first book, my then-small child came to me to complain of hunger when I was about halfway through. I dutifully promised to make dinner as soon as I got to a chapter break, as one does. Next thing I know, the child is expiring of starvation at my feet,there’s darkness outside the window, and I’m nearly finished with the book, and only then did I realize THERE ARE NO CHAPTER BREAKS. #badmommybookclub
I liked The Trouble With Dukes well enough but it was more a library read. I only like to buy stuff I’ll re-read.
Ooh Ren, that sounds interesting! I’ll add the series to my never-ending TBR.
SCORING OFF THE FIELD by Naima Simone is 99 pennies. Football, pining, friends to lovers.
BAD MOMMY BOOKCLUB. Sign me up.
Speaking of motherhood, I’m currently enjoying the latest Julie Anne Long, in which the single-mother heroine discovers our ex-Marine hero rhythmically chopping wood with his shirt off: ‘He swung it up overhead again. Muscles slid and shimmered in slow-motion elegance…
“Mom, can I have an ax?” Annelise asked.
“Sure, after dinner, maybe,” Eden said absently.’
@Ren Benton: Joe Pitt is great and it’s wonderful to find someone else who likes those books. Definitely not for the even remotely squeamish, which is usually me, but what an outstanding, complicated character. And kind of sad, iirc. Worth every minute.
Darlynne, I have a high percentage of good luck with your recommendations, so I’m not a bit surprised you like them! 😀