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Amberlough
RECOMMENDED: Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly is $2.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal, so if you missed the sale a couple months ago, you have a second chance. Carrie read this one and really loved it, giving it an A. However, she warns of a cliffhanger, which means you might want to get the next book ASAP.
Le Carré meets Cabaret in this debut spy thriller as a gay double-agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coup
Welcome to Amberlough City, the illustrious but corrupt cosmopolitan beacon of Gedda. The radical One State Party — nicknamed the Ospies — is gaining popular support to unite Gedda’s four municipal governments under an ironclad, socially-conservative vision.
Not everyone agrees with the Ospies’ philosophy, including master spy Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta, smuggler and emcee at the popular Bumble Bee Cabaret. When Cyril’s cover is blown on a mission, however, he must become a turncoat in exchange for his life. Returning to Amberlough under the Ospies’ watchful eye, Cyril enters a complex game of deception. One of his concerns is safeguarding Aristide, who refuses to let anyone – the crooked city police or the homophobic Ospies – dictate his life.
Enter streetwise Cordelia Lehane, top dancer at the Bee and Aristide’s runner, who could be the key to Cyril’s plans—if she can be trusted. As the twinkling lights of nightclub marquees yield to the rising flames of a fascist revolution, these three will struggle to survive using whatever means — and people — necessary. Including each other.
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Heir to the Duke
RECOMMENDED: Heir to the Duke by Jane Ashford is 99c! Several readers on Goodreads found the heroine unlikeable, but Redheadedgirl gave this one a B+:
The resolution involves some secrets, and some parenting, and a lot of growing up and being less “family fixer” and more “head of the family but let your sequel bait brothers figure their own shit out (why do you need a bishop, anyway?)”
Delightful. Didn’t give me a good book noise, but engaging and fun and hey, we don’t get to go to Brighton a lot. Yay for new places!
Nathaniel Gresham, the handsome Viscount Hargove, lives a life devoted to familial duty. As his father’s eldest son, Nathaniel’s identity remains the “heir to the Duke of Langford.” But this quiet, restrained life changes the minute he marries sweet Lady Violet Devere.
Oppressed by her family all her life, Violet is longing for her marriage vows to be spoken. Though her arranged marriage to Nathaniel was not a match made for love, they’re both looking forward to the comparative freedom of married life. And Violet is determined to show Nathaniel how to enjoy it, both in and out of the bedroom.
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Assassins in Love
Assassins in Love by Kris DeLake is $2.99 at Amazon! This is a scifi romance and the first in a series. I was on the fence about buying or including this in the sale since it has a 3-star rating on Goodreads, but then I read a glowing review by Felicia Day. She describes it as Mr. and Mrs. Smith set in space. However, the review was written on 2012, so I’m unsure if the book will hold up six years later. I still bought it though.
When one killer falls for another
Agent: Misha
Profile: Highly trained in every method the assassins guild has to offer. Always goes by the book.Agent: Rikki
Profile: Rogue assassin who kills only to rid the world of hardened criminals. Hates organizations. Always does it her way.Love becomes a matter of life and death.
Misha’s mission is to get Rikki to join the guild or give up her guns. He completely underestimated the effect she would have on him…and what heat and chaos they could bring to each other…
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Noble Destiny
Noble Destiny by Katie MacAlister is $2.99! This is the second in the Noble historical romance series, but it can be read as a standalone. It also has a heroine who back in London after a scandal. MacAlister’s books are definitely on the slapstick, goofy side, which may or may not be your thing!
Second in the beloved, hilarious Regency series that launched the career of New York Times bestselling author Katie MacAlister.
If Dare thinks he can escape his fate…
Having weathered the scandal of elopement with an Italian count who subsequently had the bad taste to die, Lady Charlotte Collins has set her sights on Alasdair “Dare” McGregor-one deliciously handsome and brilliantly inventive Scottish earl.Then he doesn’t know Charlotte
Charlotte doesn’t accept that the McGregor family fortune is a sham and Dare is working desperately hard to find a way out. She has no intention of giving up one iota of either the success or the connubial bliss they both so clearly deserve. She will simply have to take their destiny into her own hands…with explosive results.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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I thought Assassins in Love was a ton of fun. And I liked the sequel too
From Duke Till Dawn by Eva Leigh is on sale at Amazon for $1.99! I really liked her “Wicked Quills” series so I’m excited for this new trilogy.
THE OTHER ALCOTT by Elise Hooper, a fictional take on the life of May Alcott (Amy March) is $1.99! I thought it was well-written.
THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT by Seth Dickinson is $2.99. A woman is determined to take revenge on the empire so she becomes an accountant! I thought it was excellent.
I am hooked on that Jane Ashford series, “The Duke’s Sons”. They are all entertaining, but the first one, “The Bargain” is still my favorite. For some reason “Heir to the Duke” is listed as #1, and “The Bargain” is listed as a prequel, but I definitely recommend reading it first. It’s very funny, it’s got a nerdy scientist hero, and there is an accidental “locked in the closet together” scene. The heroine has an inconventional household, and gives good relationship advice, so much so that the hero’s brothers like to go over there and hang out in the kitchen and play cards. And then the hero is like, “what is my whole family doing here?”. I’m laughing just thinking about it.
Amberlough is great, as is the sequel (which I preordered) Armistace. Hits all my sweet spots and it is all I can do to not tweet at Lara Elena Donnelly every day to WRITE FASTER. I cried at the end of both books.
Riveted (a YA book site run by Simon & Schuster) has 6 LGBTQ books available to read free through their site this month. Autoboygraphy by Christina Lauren is one, and I absolutely adored it when I read it a few months ago. Other titles are Draw The Line by Laurent Lint (which I think was reviewed here), Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins, and two others that I can’t recall atm. The site is rivetedlit.com, and you need to sign up for a free account to access them.
Amazon US has three of Katherine Neville’s books today for $2.99 for the set, which includes THE EIGHT, THE MAGIC CIRCLE and A CALCULATED RISK. Many SBTB readers are familiar with THE EIGHT, which is a completely over-the-top romp/quest for a chess set owned by Charlemagne and invested with some otherworldly power. THE MAGIC CIRCLE is in a similar vein, not as well executed, and I haven’t read the last title. Still a great deal for the one book, if you don’t own it yet.