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  • Midnight Riot

    Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

    Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch is $1.99! This is the first book in an urban fantasy series set in London. Sarah did a review of the first three books in the series that she was reading along with her husband:

    As a reader who loves immersive deep dives into different aspects of various cultures, and who loves puzzles and language, this is a lot of my catnip. 

    Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. But Peter’s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter’s ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic.

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  • In a Treacherous Court

    In a Treacherous Court by Michelle Diener

    In a Treacherous Court by Michelle Diener is $1.99! This is the first book in the Susanna Horenbout and John Parker series and the covers in this series are so gorgeous. Though the series seems to focus on the same hero and heroine, I didn’t see any mention of a cliffhanger in the first book. Have you read this one?

    An unconventional woman. A deadly enemy. A clash of intrigue, deception, and desire. . . .

    1525: Artist Susanna Horenbout is sent from Belgium to be Henry VIII’s personal illuminator inside the royal palace. But her new homeland greets her with an attempt on her life, and the King’s most lethal courtier, John Parker, is charged with keeping her safe. As further attacks are made, Susanna and Parker realize that she unknowingly carries the key to a bloody plot against the throne. For while Richard de la Pole amasses troops in France for a Yorkist invasion, a traitor prepares to trample the kingdom from within.

    Who is the mastermind? Why are men vying to kill the woman Parker protects with his life? With a motley gang of urchins, Susanna’s wits, and Parker’s fierce instincts, honed on the streets and in palace chambers, the two slash through deadly layers of deceit in a race against time. For in the court of Henry VIII, secrets are the last to die. . . .

    Brilliantly revealing a little-known historical figure who lived among the Tudors, Michelle Diener makes a smashing historical fiction debut.

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  • Furious Rush

    Furious Rush by S.C. Stephens

    Furious Rush by S.C. Stephens is $2.99! This is the first book in a new adult romance series and features an enemies to lovers romance and motorcycle racing. Readers warn that the ending isn’t exactly a cliffhanger, but things are left unresolved. This is definitely a series that follows the same couple rather than each book being standalones.

    The first book in a new series by the #1 bestselling author of the Thoughtless novels…

    Mackenzie Cox has a lot to prove. Daughter of a racing legend, she is eager to show the world that she has inherited her father’s talent in the male-dominated sport of professional motorcycle racing. The last thing Kenzie needs is to be antagonized by her rival team’s newest rider, Hayden Hayes. Plucked from the world of illegal street racing, Hayden immediately gets under Kenzie’s skin. His insinuations that Kenzie is a spoiled princess who was handed her career fuels her desire to win, and much to her surprise, Kenzie soon learns she performs better when she’s racing against Hayden.

    As Kenzie and Hayden push each other on the track, the electric energy between them off the track shifts into an intense–and strictly forbidden–attraction. The only rule between their two ultra-competitive teams is zero contact. Kenzie always does her best to play by the rules, but when her team slips into a financial crisis, she has no choice but to turn to Hayden for help. The tension simmers during their secret, late-night rendezvous, but Kenzie has too much to lose to give in to her desires. Especially when she begins to doubt that Hayden has completely left his street life behind…

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  • The Game and the Governess

    The Game and the Governess by Kate Noble

    The Game and the Governess by Kate Noble is $1.99! Sarah said she’s a big fan of Noble’s writing, whether it’s The Librarians or The Lizzie Bennet Diaries or historical romance. She reviewed this book back when it came out and gave it a B-. It’s not her favorite of Noble’s books, but she says it’s as thoughtful and as memorable:

    The Game and the Governess is a thoughtful, intricate novel that deals very heavily with privilege, especially the privilege of the hero. The description that’s part of the cover copy says it best, I think: Trading Places meets Pride and Prejudice.

    Trading Places meets Pride and Prejudice in this sexy, saucy romance—first in a new series from the author of YouTube sensation The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.

    Three friends. One Wager. Winner takes all.

    The Earl—‘Lucky Ned’ Ashby. Pompous, preening, certain that he is beloved by everyone.
    The Miller—John Turner. Proud, forced to work as the Earl’s secretary, their relationship growing ever more strained.
    The Doctor—Rhys Gray. Practical, peace-loving, but caught in the middle of two warring friends.

    Their wager is simple: By trading places with John Turner and convincing someone to fall in love with him, Ned plans to prove it’s him the world adores, not his money. Turner plans to prove him wrong.

    But no one planned on Phoebe Baker, the unassuming governess who would fall into their trap, and turn everything on its head…

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  1. Rachel K says:

    I think I’ve probably commented before on just how much I love the Ben Aaronovitch books. While they are funny and rather whimsical, there is an aspect to them that is rather melancholy and thought-provoking (especially Book 3 – Moon Over Soho), but most of all they are about London – the bits that you often don’t get to see, or didn’t even know were there. They also seem to be a map of my adult life! Everywhere the cast of character lives or visits seems to be part of my personal history with London – I find it utterly intriguing. And if any of you have read these books, then here is a little bit of trivia for you . . . Peter Grant grew up on the Peckwater Estate in Kentish Town; his parents still live there. In the real world, I live about 100 yards from the estate. Originally there were rows of Victorian terraced housing which were bombed to bits during WW2. After the war the local council built an estate of low-rise housing. But one of my neighbours remembers as a young boy playing on the estate when it was still a large bombsite, full of broken masonry and glass, shattered timbers and huge muddy craters – clearly a time when the dangers of playing in such an unsafe environment, the likelihood of broken limbs and bloody poisoning was just a part of growing up and being British! As Arthur, my neighbour, says “it didn’t do me no harm”. He’s 75!

  2. Nikki says:

    The Michelle Diener book looks just like my catnip, I love court intrigue!!! Super exited to read this….. unfortunately iBooks in Canada is $17.99 and Kindle Canada is $13.49 ☹️
    Perhaps I’ll check my library

  3. Jazzlet says:

    Rachel K I love the Ben Aaronovitch books too. As for the playing in potentially dangerous places, I can remember playing on the building site of what is now the John Radcliff Hospital in Oxford in the late 60s. We certainly weren’t allowed to play there, but we did anyway!

    The series title of Thoughtless seems most appropriate given the cover of a chap riding a motorcycle half clothed. There won’t be anything of those muscles if he comes off at any speed.

  4. cbackson says:

    I found In a Treacherous Court to be underwhelming – the heroine was a bit Mary Sue-ish and the romance came together very quickly and without obstacle, as I remember. The external circumstances, although historically real, didn’t seem truly threatening. IDK, there was a lack of dramatic tension throughout the book for me.

  5. Jill Q. says:

    I got to say I’m not a fan of the Ben A. books. I wanted to like them. I really did. But in the first book the narrator makes a comment (and I’m paraphrasing here, so forgive me if I don’t get it right) – ‘she was the kind of heavy set woman who had to have fun personality otherwise the only reasonable alternative would be suicide.’
    Um, excuse me? Is that meant to be witty?
    It just really rubbed me the wrong way and then there were some tossed off comments about scary lesbians and I just noped right out of there.
    I feel like I’m always in the minority opinion about that series and maybe I’m not remembering the phrases with 100% accuracy. But it you’re someone who gets irritated by those types of comments, I would stay away.

  6. Joy says:

    My immediate response on looking at the cover of Furious Rush was…hey do you really want a case of 3rd degree road rash if you take a tumble. Your bottom may be covered by leather but nothing on top is really a bad idea.

    My son took a fall and even with a shirt and hoody we were picking bits of asphalt out of his chest for a week–really painful.

  7. Sandra says:

    @Joy: It looks like no helmet either. He’s not going to live to experience road rash. He’s more like road kill waiting to happen.

  8. mel burns says:

    The Peter Grant series is a fabulous, the audiobook has the best narrator in Kobna Holbrook-Smith. To me London is the most incredible city in the world and Aaronovitch has brilliantly made it into one of the main characters of the series. It just sends my heart a flutter just thinking about it.

  9. mel burns says:

    I feel stupid when I make silly errors in comment threads….

  10. Tam says:

    I am an unrepentant London hater after too many years of acquaintance with the place, but even I love the Grant series. I found the female characterization definitely improved after the first couple of books too.

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  12. Tilly says:

    @JillQ I listen to the audiobooks to go to sleep because @mel burns is right and Holdbrook Smith is A MAY ZING but I rarely listen to the first one–I just used it last week and caught that and got pissed. I’ve stopped with other books for less but if you wanted to skip to the third book I think they get close to flawless with that book and from book 3 on it’s one of my favourite series. The women characters get a lot better and a lot more plentiful.

  13. Karin says:

    I love the Michelle Diener series, lots of real historical detail is woven in, including the H&h who were married and lived in Henry VIII’s court IRL! For instance, no Susanna Horenbout art works have survived, but we know that some famous contemporary artists admired her work, and Albrecht Durer bought one of her paintings. The author just imagined and built on the skimpy historical record. It’s basically a spy/suspense/mystery series, no cliffhangers, in every book there is a threat involving the hero or heroine which gets resolved by the end of the book. It’s true, as @cbackson says, that the conflicts are external to the romance subplot, and the relationship progresses at a snail’s pace from book to book(sort of like the In Death or Sebastian St. Cyr series) but the Tudor setting and court intrigue is so absorbing, to me anyway.

  14. Jazzlet says:

    I agree that the women characters and more importantly Peter’s attitude to them improve as the series goes on. Peter is a young man working in an organisation that is almost as institutionally sexist as it is institutionally racist, he has a lot to learn when we first meet him and I think he does learn, although there is always a particular attitude to ‘civ’s’ that unfortunately I suspect is all too accurate a representation of police thought about those they protect. I don’t know how much of that is that this is mostly a first person narrative so we are seeing Peter’s developing understanding or how much it’s that Aaronovitch was slapped round the head about his female characters, either way the improvement has increased my enjoyment, and may make it possible for some of you who understandably had problems with the comments in the first book, but who otherwise enjoyed the book, to enjoy the later books.

  15. Hazel says:

    I do agree that Peter Grant starts out as a very young man, and as a middle-aged woman I found him mildly amusing, but only in small doses. His colleagues, however and friends and enemies, human and otherwise, were very interesting. I think I read several of the books. And I agree, the first couple were richly evocative of London. Authenticity can be hard to come by. It’s here.

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