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Sweet Agony
RECOMMENDED: Sweet Agony by Charlotte Stein is $1.99! Elyse just squeed about this one:
I acknowledge that Sweet Agony won’t be for everyone. Some readers may just think Cyrian’s an asshole and that’s fine. For me, for my individual reading experience, it was perfect and I’m so happy I found it.
New job, new boss, and he’s cold, strict, but terribly attractive. Does Molly Parker stay or does she go? Because beneath Cyrian’s chilly front, there may be a heat that’ll burn her up.
Giving in was vicious bliss.
The live-in position is an opportunity for Molly to earn and escape a problematic family. There’s just one drawback. Her employer is the most eccentric, aloof and closed off man she’s ever encountered. His rules are bizarre and his needs even more so, and caring for his ramshackle Dickensian home is far more than she ever bargained for. Only their increasingly intense conversations stop her heading for the door. Cyrian Harcroft is a man of many mysteries and secrets, and the more she learns the greedier she is for each and every one. Especially when she discovers his greatest fear: any kind of physical contact. Now all she has to do is dig a little deeper, to unearth the passion she knows he can feel…
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Jade City
Jade City by Fonda Lee is $2.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals and it’s being price-matched. I originally thought this was YA fantasy, but I think I’m wrong and it’s adult fantasy instead. It’s also incredibly violent, according to reviews. But readers loved the worldbuilding and threads of mythology weaved into the story. To be honest, the book sounds intense and awesome. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
JADE CITY is a gripping Godfather-esque saga of intergenerational blood feuds, vicious politics, magic, and kungfu.
The Kaul family is one of two crime syndicates that control the island of Kekon. It’s the only place in the world that produces rare magical jade, which grants those with the right training and heritage superhuman abilities.
The Green Bone clans of honorable jade-wearing warriors once protected the island from foreign invasion–but nowadays, in a bustling post-war metropolis full of fast cars and foreign money, Green Bone families like the Kauls are primarily involved in commerce, construction, and the everyday upkeep of the districts under their protection.
When the simmering tension between the Kauls and their greatest rivals erupts into open violence in the streets, the outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones and the future of Kekon itself.
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I Knew You Were Trouble
I Knew You Were Trouble by Lauren Layne is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance and, while being fourth in the Oxford series, it can be read as a standalone. Readers loved the forced proximity element and I’m a fan of Layne’s dialogue. However, others found the hero and heroine tough to like. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
New York City’s hottest bachelors are stirring up trouble in this fun, flirty Oxford Novel, as a love triangle forces a feisty beauty to choose between winning back Mr. Right or giving in to Mr. Wrong.
Taylor Carr has it all—a sleek job in advertising, a stunning Manhattan apartment, and the perfect man to share it with: Bradley Calloway. Even after Bradley dumps her for a co-worker on move-in day, Taylor isn’t worried. She’ll get her man eventually. In the meantime, she needs a new roommate. Enter Nick Ballantine, career bartender, freelance writer—and longtime pain in Taylor’s ass. Sexy in a permanent five-o’clock-shadow kind of way, Nick knows how to push Taylor’s buttons, as if he could see right through to the real her.
Nick’s always trying to fix people, and nobody could use a good fixing more than Taylor. Sure, she’s gorgeous, with mesmerizing silver eyes, but it’s her vulnerability that kills him. Now that they’re shacking up together, the chemistry is out of control. Soon they’re putting every part of their two-bedroom apartment to good use. Then Taylor’s ex comes crawling back to her, and Nick figures she’ll jump at the chance to go back to her old life—unless he fights for the best thing that ever happened to him.
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Meddling Kids
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero is $2.99! This is horror/mystery is recommended for fans of Stranger Things and Scooby-Doo. Readers loved the mash-up of Scooby-Doo and Lovecraftian elements, but admit the writing took some getting used to. Have you read this one?
For fans of John Dies at the End and Welcome to Night Vale comes a tour de force of horror, humor, and H.P. Lovecraft. The surviving members of a forgotten teenage detective club (and their dog) must reunite as broken adults to finally solve the terrifying case that ruined them all…and sent the wrong man to prison. Scooby Doo and the gang never had to do this!
1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in the Zoinx River Valley in Oregon) are all grown up and haven’t seen each other since their fateful, final case in 1977. Andy, the tomboy, is twenty-five and on the run, wanted in at least two states. Keri, one-time kid genius and budding biologist, is bartending in New York, working on a serious drinking problem. At least she’s got Sean, an excitable Weimeraner descended from the original canine member of the team. Nate, the horror nerd, has spent the last thirteen years in and out of mental health institutions, and currently resides in an asylum in Arhkam, Massachusetts. The only friend he still sees is Peter, the handsome jock turned movie star. The problem is, Peter’s been dead for years.
The time has come to uncover the source of their nightmares and return to where it all began in 1977. This time, it better not be a man in a mask. The real monsters are waiting.
With raucous humor and brilliantly orchestrated mayhem, Edgar Cantero’s Meddling Kids taps into our shared nostalgia for the books and cartoons we grew up with, and delivers an exuberant, eclectic, and highly entertaining celebration of horror, life, friendship, and many-tentacled, interdimensional demon spawn.
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Meddling Kids is marketed as Scooby Doo but most of the jokes are Famous Five based, so if you were never into British kid mysteries, it falls flat. Also there’s a lot of Gen X “the tomboy’s a LESBIAN get it??” jokes that I found to be painfully out of date. Would not recommend, even for three dollars. I read it for free and still DNF’d.
I wanted to like “Meddling Kids”, but I second all of what Goldie said. I also found it distracting that in the story, they were really really young in their “meddling kids” days (like 12 or 13). Maybe that worked better for the idea the author had, but I don’t think you can riff on Scooby Doo and not make them teenagers. They drove a van, for crying out loud. Every time the author mentioned their previous ages, it threw me out of the story.
Ooh, excellent! I’ve been wanting to read Sweet Agony and this reminded me of that fact. I can never resist a good book sale! I’m also quite keen/intrigued by Meddling Kids, so I think I’m going to snag that one as well.
Jade City is great! I think the sequel is due out this month or the next, so this is a great time to pick it up. Violent yes, but not graphic imo. And the fight scenes are fairly brief, anywhere from a paragraph to a page. Easy to skip if it’s not your thing.
Meddling Kids was definitely more about the Enid Blyton references, and Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew kind of books, than a direct Scooby Doo play for me. I used to love those books with a passion, and got a bit of a buzz from picking some of the place name-drops in Meddling Kids. It was weird and interesting, and I’m still not entirely sure what I think of it.