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Emergency Contact
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi is $3.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and there are some great books featured today. This book is really adorable and the cover is gorgeous. Readers loved how the friendship between the two awkward main characters unfolded. However, some readers felt the heroine, Penny, was rather unlikeable.
From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.
For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind.
Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him.
When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.
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I Am Justice
I Am Justice by Diana Munoz Stewart is $1.99! This is the first book in the Band of Sisters series. This is a romantic suspense series that follows a group of crime-fighting sisters. Readers say this is dark and fast-paced. Some readers, though, do warn that elements of the story and characters backstories felt unfinished or open-ended.
This bad-ass band of sisters plays for keeps.
She’s ready to start a war
Justice Parish takes down bad guys. Rescued from the streets by the world renowned Parish family, she joined their covert sisterhood of vigilante assassins. Her next target: a sex-trafficking ring in the war-torn Middle East. She just needs to get close enough to take them down…He just wants peace
Sandesh Ross left Special Forces to found a humanitarian group to aid war-torn countries. But saving the world isn’t cheap. Enter Parish Industriesand limitless funding, with one catch—their hot, prickly ‘PR specialist’, Justice Parish.Their chemistry is instant and off-the-charts. But when Justice is injured and her cover blown, Sandesh has to figure out if he can reconcile their missions. With danger dogging their every move, their white-hot passion can change the world—if it doesn’t destroy them first.
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Delicious Temptation
Delicious Temptation by Sabrina Sol is 99c! This is the first book in the Delicious Desires series. A few readers mentioned that the characters felt much younger to them, while others enjoyed Sol’s writing style as a new-to-them author. Have you read this one?
Amara Maria Robles is a good girl. So good that she gave up her dreams of becoming a renowned pastry chef to help her parents with their struggling Mexican bakery. Yet her parents reject any changes she suggests, and refuse to sell her mouth-watering confections. Clearly being a good girl isn’t paying off. So when her brother’s sexy ex-best friend walks into the bakery, Amara’s tempted to be very bad indeed…
After a scandal twelve years ago, resident bad boy Eric Valencia has returned to make things right with his family and friends. One glance at Amara and her wicked curves, however, and Eric finds himself thinking about how she’d feel beneath him—something he promised Amara’s brother he would never think about, let alone do.
But this bad boy is in deep trouble…because Amara’s determined to have her cake, and Eric, too.
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Heart of Fire
Heart of Fire by Bec McMaster is $2.99! This is the first book in the Legends of Storm series, which is fantasy romance with dragon shifters. I feel like I’m always discovering new books by McMaster; where does she find the time?! Readers loved the heroine and the Icelandic setting, while others said it took them a lot of effort to get into this one.
The old eddas speak of dreki—fabled creatures who haunt the depths of Iceland’s volcanoes and steal away fair maidens.
Freyja wants none of such myths. Dreki seducing young ladies? Ha. They probably eat such foolish girls. But when the local drekisteals her last ram—costing her any chance of feeding her ill father through the winter—Freyja intends to confront the fearsome myth.
Sentenced to a life of exile from his clan, Rurik is fascinated by the furious woman who comes to claim her ram. She reeks of mysterious magic and challenges him at every step. He intends to claim the passionate firebrand, but to do so he must take mortal form. It’s the only time the dreki are vulnerable, and with a dragon-hunter arriving on the shores of Iceland, he can barely afford the risk—but lonely Freyja, with her elf-cursed eyes and pragmatic soul, tempts him in ways he’s never felt before. Is she the key to reclaiming his heritage? Or will she be his downfall?
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DRAGON SHIFTERS!!!!!!!!!!!
I adore the name Freyja! Strong heroine plus Icelandic setting and dragons = must read!
I have tried to read Bec McMaster before, loved Kiss of Steel, but another of hers was a dnf – just too violent for me.
Ooh I love Heart of Fire. There’s just something in McMaster’s writing that really resonates with me. I really need to read more of her books!
@Critterbee, a friend of mine has a grandbaby named Freyja Lucille and another friend named her daughter Lorelai June. I think both are just badass girl names.
I love Heart of Fire and its sequel! I love Bec’s twist on dragonshifters, and the 19c Icelandic setting is really fun and unique. I don’t think I’ve ever seen another series set there, and she was great at combining both Norse mythology and her own original worldbuilding.
I’ve tried read Bec McMaster’s books before and they’ve never resonated with me. Something about the writing isn;t for me.
Interested in Emergency Contact though.
I just read I Am Justice this week. I liked the suspense plot and am intrigued by the world setup, but I hated the romance. It sets a new standard for just how instantaneous insta-lust can be. They are both pretty much overcome with lust in one glance.
I just read McMaster’s original five-book series last week and had really mixed feelings about it. I think I’d have really loved it if it had been sf/f with strong romantic elements rather than romance, but as it was, it sort of re-confirmed for me that fantasy-ish romance just never seems to work for me. It’s a shame. Fantasy’s my favourite, but the kinds of fantasy I favour haven’t been in vogue for a while, and I keep wanting romance to fill the gap, but… ah well.
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I haven’t read her original series, but I have had a similar issue with some of the fantasy romance I’ve read. I find that fantasy romance works better for me when the same couple is followed over the course of a couple of books because then the author has room to develop the relationship, the world, and the conflict. When it switches to a new couple every book, it can be difficult to get the balance between all of those right.
@Anonymous and @Emily – THANK YOU for articulating what’s bothered me about some of the stories I’ve read lately. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but, yes, you have it exactly. (I haven’t read Bec McMaster, so no comment there.)
Hopefully there are some writers following this thread who can give us more character-driven, whole-world sf/f with strong romantic elements. FWIW, both the Lady Trent series and Skye Dawn Cameron’s latest series are hitting those marks for me.
Sf/f fantasy – I assume you have already read Lois McMaster Bujold? She has both sf (Vorkosigan series) and fantasy (curse of chalion) with romance elements