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Radio Silence
Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole is $1.99 at most vendors! Carrie reviewed this book in April of 2015. Redheadedgirl also said, “Based on a rec from Courtney Milan, this is set during an apocalyptic event with a we-all-need-to-work-together and try not to go nutty from the isolation plot – it’s tight, tense, and really good.”
No one expects the apocalypse.
Arden Highmore was living your average postgrad life in Rochester, New York, when someone flipped the “off” switch on the world. No cell phones, no power, no running water—and no one knows why. All she and her roommate, John, know for sure is that they have to get out, stat. His family’s cabin near the Canadian border seemed like the safest choice.
It turns out isolation doesn’t necessarily equal safety.
When scavengers attack, it’s John’s ridiculously handsome brother, Gabriel, who comes to the rescue. He saves Arden’s life, so he can’t be all bad…but he’s also a controlling jerk who treats her like an idiot. Now their parents are missing and it seems John, Gabriel, their kid sister, Maggie, and Arden are the only people left alive who aren’t bloodthirsty maniacs.
No one knows when—or if—the lights will come back on and, in the midst of all that, Arden and Gabriel are finding that there’s a fine line indeed between love and hate. How long can they expect to last in this terrifying new world, be it together or apart?
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How to Keep a Secret
How to Keep a Secret by Sarah Morgan is $1.99! This is more women’s fiction than straight up romance, though there are some romantic elements. I’ve seen this one recommended to people who have sisters or a sisterly bond. However, other readers mention this one isn’t as light as Morgan’s contemporary romances.
When three generations of women are brought together by crisis, they learn over the course of one hot summer the power of family to support, nourish and surprise
Lauren has the perfect life…if she ignores the fact it’s a fragile house of cards, and that her daughter Mack has just had a teenage personality transplant.
Jenna is desperate to start a family with her husband, but it’s… Just. Not. Happening. Her heart is breaking, but she’s determined to keep her trademark smile on her face.
Nancy knows she hasn’t been the best mother, but how can she ever tell Lauren and Jenna the reason why?
Then life changes in an instant, and Lauren, Mack, Jenna and Nancy are thrown together for a summer on Martha’s Vineyard. Somehow, these very different women must relearn how to be a family. And while unraveling their secrets might be their biggest challege, the rewards could be infinite…
Heartwarming and fresh, Sarah Morgan’s brilliant new novel is a witty and deeply uplifting look at the power of a family of women.
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Once Upon a Highland Legend
Once Upon a Highland Legend by Tanya Anne Crosby is $1.99 at Amazon! This was originally part of an anthology, but I believe has been rewritten or at least contains additional content than the anthology version. You can grab all five books in the series for less than $9, but I think they have to be read in order.
A Scottish time-travel Highland romance, introducing Tanya Anne Crosby’s beloved Guardians of the Stone Series.
In the year 2014 Annie Ross has gone through her life a bit lost. She’s about to find herself misplaced in time as well–all the way back to 878 A.D.–where she will take her place as a guardian of the Stone of Destiny, and find a way to restore the faith of a powerful Highland chieftain. Will she win Callum’s heart as well?
Tanya Anne Crosby returns to the origin of the legend of the Guardians of the Stone—to a time when magic was a force and the Picts were on the brink of vanishing from the Highland tapestry.
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A Rogue to Avoid
A Rogue to Avoid by Bianca Blythe is 99c at Amazon! This is a historical romance where a misunderstanding leads to marriage. Talk about awkward. Readers really seemed to enjoy the interaction between the hero and heroine. However, others found some things to be a bit unbelievable or inconsistent. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
A Scottish scoundrel…
Gerard Highgate, Marquess of Rockport and the ton’s most aloof rake, knows better than to wed an Englishwoman, especially one as prickly as Lady Cordelia. But when his mother dies and he finds himself saddled with her debts, he needs a wife and he needs one fast.An exacting Englishwoman…
Lady Cordelia knows that hastiness in husband hunting leads to mistakes. But when she visits an aristocrat to warn that his life might be in danger, he misinterprets her suggestion to flee to Scotland.An unexpected elopement…
Most elopements are born of love, not misunderstanding. Cordelia and Gerard have already broken that rule, but perhaps they can still make their marriage one of love.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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I know there are two people on the bench in the Sarah Morgan book, but I keep wanting to link them in my brain. They look like manikins waiting for a bus.
@LMC: That would explain why the one sitting upright has hips/ass/thighs no wider than her waist—they’re on the other end of the bench with the legs. Notice the butt attached to the legs is showing through the bench slats, while the “sitting” torso isn’t making contact or even casting a shadow in the right place.
And I do NOT want to know what the sitter’s doing with her left hand.
I took one look at that cover and thought “Crikey, she’s flexible.”
Quick squee for a book on sale. T J Klune’s “How to Be a Normal Person” is $.99 at Amazon. Read it two days ago and found it absolutely wonderful. At times I laughed so hard I had tears rolling down my face. The blurb (which really needs to be read in full), while accurate, actually underplays the wonder of the characters and the amazing and unexpected emotional depth of the book. The blurb begins: “Gustavo Tiberius is not normal. He knows this. Everyone in his small town of Abby, Oregon, knows this. He reads encyclopedias every night before bed. He has a pet ferret called Harry S. Truman. He owns a video rental store that no one goes to. His closest friends are a lady named Lottie with drag queen hair and a trio of elderly Vespa riders known as the We Three Queens.” This is all just the background for the main event that happens when Gus finds himself falling for an “asexual stoner hipster,,” and he takes on the project of becoming “normal.” Such a wonderful romance, with an incredible amount of delighting (yes, as a verb!) in others JUST as they are. One of the most touching and painful themes was the evidence of Gus’s recently deceased father’s love for him. The fact that his father was an original stoner hippy just added to the humor and poignancy. So many layers of humor and feels…
Just wanted to second the rec for How to be a Normal Person. All of TJ Klune’s books are wonderful, but I think this is one of his best. This and Wolfsong are two of my favorite comfort reads.
Thank you, @Qualisign and @Cristie! I got a page and a half into the preview for How to Be a Normal Person and then had an overly dramatic reaction to the fact I hadn’t yet bought the book. On the one hand it’s a shame it isn’t actually a how-to, since I could probably use one, but I’m very much looking forward to binge-reading the rest of it this weekend.
FWIW, Patton Oswalt tweeted about how much he liked Radio Silence a while back.
Jennifer Kloester’s biography Georgette Heyer is $2.99 right now. I enjoyed it – a lot of information about her writing process, different periods in her writing, and some specifics of her life that influenced some books. (I concluded that I might not have liked Heyer very much! But I still love many of her books.)
Interesting that there are so many Scottish Highlander time-travel romances.
Were these common before, after, or because of Outlander?
Well, either way, Outlander certainly inspired me to write my own time-travel romance: although set between the 21st century and the 17th century Cromwellian England, with the romantic male hero as a political Highwayman, and the story modeled after the Greek myth of Persephone, mixed with Freudian and Jungian Psychology (with the Heroine meeting the shadow selves of both her [in the form of an identity-stealing and backstabbing runaway maid] and her mother [in the form of a cannibalistic, inbred wild woman who is tracking down all her runaway children, mainly to cannibalize them and ‘return’ them to her womb, out of vehement jealousy of their growing individuation]).
The Heroine at the beginning suffered a tragic loss of both her father and her older half-sisters (whom she was very close to), and her wishing on an ancient, wish-granting Tree (surrounded by a fairy ring) is the catalyst of her time-travel adventure. Unlike Claire in Outlander though, she meets and makes several true female friends; she finds a mentor-figure in an old Cunning Woman, and a sister-figure in a crossdressing Highwaywoman.
I read the sample for Radio Silence, and it opens with the heroine and her best friend almost getting killed because the heroine is too stupid to live. Not for me.
For anyone who hasn’t yet dived into the deliciousness that is Lucy Parker: her first three books are available in an omnibus edition titled London Celebrities Collection for $1.99 @ Amazon. Description states that they’re full-length novels.
I was so excited that How to be a Normal Person was .99 pence here in the UK (we so rarely get the deals) that I one-clicked! Hope it’s as good as you all say!
We are constantly being told (as authors) over here in the UK, that Timeslips are unpopular, don’t sell, and publishers don’t want them. Yet Outlander is every bit as popular here as it seems to be in the US. Maybe publishers only see them as worth publishing if they are set in the Highlands, to cash in on the Outlander effect?
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