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Trail of Lightning
RECOMMENDED: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse is $4.99! This is part of the Kindle Daily Deal $4.99 Bestseller sale and, even though this one is more expensive than our usual sales, I firmly believe it’s worth it. I bought the book at full price and immediately preordered the second one upon finishing. You can find my review here!
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.
Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last—and best—hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much larger and more terrifying than anything she could imagine.
Maggie reluctantly enlists the aid of Kai Arviso, an unconventional medicine man, and together they travel to the rez to unravel clues from ancient legends, trade favors with tricksters, and battle dark witchcraft in a patchwork world of deteriorating technology.
As Maggie discovers the truth behind the disappearances, she will have to confront her past—if she wants to survive.
Welcome to the Sixth World.
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The Duke I Tempted
The Duke I Tempted by Scarlett Peckham is $2.99! This book has been featured in Hide Your Wallet and Book Beat because of all it’s catnip. There’s a botanist heroine, a marriage of convenience and a submissive hero. A lot of my romance reading friends have enjoyed this one as well. Have you read it? What’d you think?
He’s controlled. Meticulous. Immaculate. No one would expect the proper Duke of Westmead to be a member of London’s most illicit secret club. Least of all: his future wife.
Having overcome financial ruin and redeemed his family name to become the most legendary investor in London, the Duke of Westmead needs to secure his holdings by producing an heir. Which means he must find a wife who won’t discover his secret craving to spend his nights on his knees – or make demands on his long scarred-over heart.
Poppy Cavendish is not that type of woman. An ambitious self-taught botanist designing the garden ballroom in which Westmead plans to woo a bride, Poppy has struggled against convention all her life to secure her hard-won independence. She wants the capital to expand her exotic nursery business – not a husband.
But there is something so compelling about Westmead, with his starchy bearing and impossibly kind eyes — that when an accidental scandal makes marriage to the duke the only means to save her nursery, Poppy worries she wants more than the title he is offering. The arrangement is meant to be just business. A greenhouse for an heir. But Poppy yearns to unravel her husband’s secrets – and to tempt the duke to risk his heart.
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A Duke by Default
RECOMMENDED: A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole is $1.99! I’ll be discussing this book tonight at my local romance book club (what timing!). Carrie enjoyed this one and gave it an A-:
This is such a solid book – it’s tear-jerking, it’s inspiring, it’s sexy and romantic, it’s interesting (sword history!) and it’s funny. I can’t wait for the next book in the series.
New York City socialite and perpetual hot mess Portia Hobbs is tired of disappointing her family, friends, and—most importantly—herself. An apprenticeship with a struggling swordmaker in Scotland is a chance to use her expertise and discover what she’s capable of. Turns out she excels at aggravating her gruff silver fox boss…when she’s not having inappropriate fantasies about his sexy Scottish burr.
Tavish McKenzie doesn’t need a rich, spoiled American telling him how to run his armory…even if she is infuriatingly good at it. Tav tries to rebuff his apprentice—and his attraction to her—but when Portia accidentally discovers that he’s the secret son of a duke, rough-around-the-edges Tav becomes her newest makeover project.
Forging metal into weapons and armor is one thing, but when desire burns out of control and the media spotlight gets too hot to bear, can a commoner turned duke and his posh apprentice find lasting love?
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Bad Bachelor
Bad Bachelor by Stefanie London is $1.99! I mostly enjoyed this one, but I had to overcome some issues to really get to the good stuff. Your mileage may vary depending on your reading patience. You can read my review here, where I gave it a B-.
Everybody’s talking about the hot new app reviewing New York’s most eligible bachelors. But why focus on prince charming when you can read the latest dirt on the lowest-ranked “Bad Bachelors”—NYC’s most notorious bad boys.
If one more person mentions Bad Bachelors to Reed McMahon, someone’s gonna get hurt. A PR whiz, Reed is known as an ‘image fixer’ but his womanizing ways have caught up with him. What he needs is a PR miracle of his own.
When Reed strolls into Darcy Greer’s workplace offering to help save the struggling library, she isn’t buying it. The prickly Brooklynite knows Reed is exactly the kind of guy she should avoid. But the library does need his help. As she reluctantly works with Reed, she realizes there’s more to a man than his reputation. Maybe, just maybe, Bad Bachelor #1 is THE one for her.
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I recently read the Roanhorse book. My initial thought was not to continue on but I may change my mind.
I loved Trail of Lightning, and loved the second book (Storm of Locusts) even more. I pre-orderd it and got an arc and then Rebecca Roanhorse said that she changed something major in the second book after some of the arcs were distributed, so now I have the excellent feeling of having read an awesome next book in the series while waiting to see what really happens in the final version of the same book.
I read a Duke by Default, and I did enjoy it. Yet I continue to long for stories where the woman is the competent one, and she shows the naive whippersnapper how to be a blacksmith, or a farrier, or a firefighter. I know there are books out there, and I’ve read them, but I want more!
I’m 58, and I can’t remember when I learned to read-I don’t remember a time I couldn’t. One thing I do know, when reading stories- I didn’t identify with the heroine being saved, I wanted to be the hero and do the saving!
Underwhelmed by Trail of Lightning. I liked the world building, but it was almost a DNF for me.
@Maureen
I need at least a partnership, not a wise/rich/accomplished mentor guy and young super innocent girl pairing.
The Rebel Prince by Molly Jameson: Amanda (an american nail tech in London) saves the prince’s ass. he has ptsd. It’s sexy and she’s kind of a challenging character which i liked because she’s unapologetic.
The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan: a historical, but Jane is so the one saving herself.
I sense another Rec League topic being born: Romances where the heroine imparts the knowledge/is the boss/has the billions/acts as the mentor. Not just competence porn (although that’s obviously part of it), but—by dint of knowledge/experience/wealth—is in the position of imparting the wisdom.
@ Maureen
I would so read that.
@DiscoDollyDeb: That’s a great idea. we’ve added it to the Rec League calendar! Thanks!
@Maureen
Funnily enough, my takeaway from A Duke By Default was that Portia was the competent one, and Tavish the ‘naive whippersnapper’ – he would’ve been completely lost without Portia managing everything that happened after he claimed the dukedom.
I wasn’t sold on the HEA, but I’d definitely recommend this book for Portia’s journey and growth.
@Maile I had similar feelings. I liked that (MINOR SPOILER ALERT)(MINOR SPOILER ALERT)(MINOR SPOILER ALERT) part of Portia’s growth was affirming her boundaries that she was not there to manage/run Tavish’s business/life for him, but to get her own experiences (like swordmaking). She didn’t really strike me as naive.
That said, I agree overall about naive heroines. I am SO not into smug, smirking, alpha dukes, military dudes, rogues, police, or billionaires.
I want a beta in the streets and an alpha in the sheets.
You know that awesome and miraculous feeling every couple of years when – for the first time – you read an author and you fall immediately and deeply in love with her/his writing? That feeling of, “oh, you are so very special, and I must read everything you’ve ever written right this minute or I will die” (I’m talking about you, Courtney Milan & Alisha Rai)? That’s what happened to me after I reluctantly picked up Scarlett Peckham’s “The Duke I Tempted” a few months ago. I just wasn’t sure I could care about an historical sub duke and the woman who learns to love and dominate him
(and that’s just my personal lack of preference). But the Bitchery had so many comments that reflected absolute delight with Peckham and what she wrought that I eventually broke down and bought “TDIT”. And before I even finished it, I bought the follow-up, “The Earl I Ruined” and counted the days before it came out. Even better!
Peckham is a pure joy to read; words are arranged in sequences that inspire envy, laughter and immediate rereading. She has been added to my very short list of authors whose future publications I check for every week. If you’ve been on the fence, go ahead and give Scarlett Peckham a whirl. I promise you she’ll give you one hell of a whirl in return.
@Kim
I want a beta in the streets and an alpha in the sheets.
THIS!!!!!