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The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and is being price-matched at select vendors. This was one of the most sought after ARCs at Book Expo America in 2018. It’s also over 800 pages, so a digital copy might be beneficial. I’ve seen reviews call this one an “epic feminist fantasy” novel.
From the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Season, a trailblazing, epic high fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons–and the women who must lead the fight to save it.
A world divided.
A queendom without an heir.
An ancient enemy awakens.
The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction–but assassins are getting closer to her door.Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.
Across the dark sea, Tané has trained all her life to be a dragonrider, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.
Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.
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An Unconditional Freedom
An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole is $2.99! This is the third book in Cole’s The Loyal League series, and came out this February. Reviews on Goodreads seem divided on whether this one was the best in the series, or didn’t live up to the first two. If you’ve read it, what do you think?
An assassination plot that could end the Civil War, and a drive for vengeance that could destroy a secret league of unsung heroes . . .
Daniel Cumberland’s uneventful life as a freedman in Massachusetts ended the night he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. To then have his freedom restored by the very man who stole his beloved’s heart is almost too much to bear. When he’s offered entry into the Loyal League, the covert organization of spies who helped free him, Daniel seizes the opportunity to help take down the Confederacy and vent the rage that consumes him.
When the Union Army occupies Janeta Sanchez’s small Florida town, her family’s goodwill and ties to Cuba fail to protect her father from being unjustly imprisoned for treason. To ensure her father’s release, Janeta is made an offer she can’t refuse: spy for the Confederacy. Driven by a desire for vengeance and the hope of saving her family, she agrees to infiltrate the Loyal League as a double agent.
Daniel is both aggravated and intrigued by the headstrong recruit. For the first time in months, he feels something other than anger, but a partner means being accountable, and Daniel’s secret plan to settle a vendetta and strike a blow for the Union can be entrusted to no one. As Janeta and Daniel track Jefferson Davis on his tour of the South, their dual hidden missions are threatened by the ghosts of their pasts and a growing mutual attraction—that might be their only hope for the future.
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Wicked Nights
Wicked Nights by Gena Showalter is $2.99! This is the first book in her Angels of the Darkseries, which obviously features angels and demons. Reviews on Goodreads mention how much readers loved the characterizations of the hero and heroine. However, others found the action of the plot and some of the sex scenes to be rather…stiff (heh). It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, Zacharel has been deemed nearly too dangerous, too ruthless-and if he isn’t careful, he’ll lose his wings. But this warrior with a heart of ice will not be deterred from his missions, at any cost…until a vulnerable human tempts him with a carnal pleasure he’s never known before.
Accused of a crime she did not commit, Annabelle Miller has spent four years in an institution for the criminally insane. Demons track her every move, and their king will stop at nothing to have her. Zacharel is her only hope for survival, but is the brutal angel with a touch as hot as hell her salvation-or her ultimate damnation?
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Hosed
Hosed by Pippa Grant and Lili Valente is 99c! This contemporary romance has a firefighter hero, neighbors, and a second chance romance. While Grant’s writing isn’t my bag, I know that many readers turn to her books when they’re in need of some fluffy, funny, brain candy.
The world’s sexiest firefighter is about to get a second chance with the virgin next door…
He’s bossy, arrogant, and so ridiculously hot he should come with a warning label and a pair of flame retardant coveralls.
He’s also the boy who broke my heart when we were in high school.
I want to move in next door to Ryan O’Dell the way I want to be the virgin gamer geek suddenly in charge of running my sister’s sex toy factory. Too bad both are written in my stars.
Yeah, I’m the world’s oldest virgin code-writing nerd.
And he’s the world’s hottest firefighter.
And even though he intimidates the heck out of me, I can’t seem to control my libido when he’s around.
Where is my dignity? My self-respect? My panties?
Seriously…. Have you seen them? Anyone?
Maybe they’re hiding in his bedroom. With my heart.
Yeah, I know. I’m hosed.
So hosed.
Hosed is a steamy, fun romantic comedy between a firefighter and the virgin nerd next door, complete with a pet raccoon, scandalous gossip, and dildo football. (No, really.) This romance has no cheating or cliffhangers, and ends with a banging hot happily ever after.
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OMG, The Priory of the Orange Tree is so good! It’s a big, meaty, stand-alone (!!) with epic world-building, dragons, and a central f/f romance
Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews is $1.99. It’s the first in the urban fantasy Hidden Legacy series, which I highly recommend. I’m actually re-listening to the series on audible right now for the *mumble mumble* time.
This is gonna be an #UnpopularOpinion but I ended up DNF’ing in the last 30% not for plot reasons but because of poor Spanish.
I’m all for representation of POCs and Alyssa Cole has been an author whose books I’ve enjoyed. However, whoever did the Spanish translations basically used Google Translate. The Spanish was atrocious in the entire SPaG spectrum. As a Hispanic person that writes and speaks Spanish fluently, to see a beloved author basically do an actually mediocre job on having a Cuban-born character speak the absolute worst Spanish possible was beyond irritating.
FTR, I’d been forewarned abt that from a fellow Hispanic book friend and I thought she was exaggerating.
I’m 100% sure that the majority of Alyssa’s readers don’t know or even care abt this but it was definitely something that I found truly disrespectful.
@Adridna Agreed – after the complete high I was on once I read the previous two books in the series, this felt like a total letdown. I ended up not finishing it, which marks my first Alyssa Cole DNF 🙁
Re: the atrocious Spanish. Until I hear otherwise, I will blame it on the publisher and not the author. (This happened to Barbara Caridad Ferrer some years ago; she wrote a book using nuanced everyday Cuban-Floridian Spanish phrases sprinkled in the way you do—and someone at the publisher went over everything and “corrected” it to “textbook Spanish.” Talk about a knife in the back.)
(Also, I’m totally paraphrasing my recollections. It’s been a while since I had the Twitter convo with BCF.)
Priory of the Orange Tree is AHMAZING.
I purchased The Priory of the Orange Tree and added the Audible version for an extra $8.
Because of poor self-control I immediately bought Hosed, and I started reading it on my morning commute (I’m in continental Europe) and laughed out loud.
Thanks for mentioning it!
@msbookjunkie
My annoyance toward Alyssa is partly based on a few tweets she dropped around the time of the release for that book in which she thanked people for helping her with the Spanish parts. Whoever those people are, they did her really dirty.
IF, like you say in your comment, the ‘blame’ rests mostly on the publishers, that…actually doesn’t make it better (or less frustrating.) Because then it’s a sign that Kensington Press doesn’t care about publishing and supporting a book with appalling Spanish. Which, in turn, makes me–a Hispanic person–consider not reading any books published by them.
In the end, everyone’s free to read or not read whatever they want. *hands*
@Aradna
Okay, more information gained. I am now mentally side-eying AC and the people who did her wrong. 🙁
@Ariadna
Okay, more information gained. I am now mentally side-eying AC and the people who did her wrong. 🙁
@msbookjunkie
“Until I hear otherwise, I will blame it on the publisher and not the author.”
I’m not sure that’s the soundest logic. You can’t assume there is an bogeyman sabotaging this author behind her back.
Authors are responsible for what they write. If this author does not speak Spanish, then maybe she shouldn’t have tried to write huge portions of her book in that language. Or done a better job of vetting her translator. Just a thought.
I have worked on both sides of the publishing industry and things like translating dialogue fall on the author. The editors may review from there, but it was the author’s decision to try to write in a language not her own.
Maybe this will be a learning lesson for her, and she will do better next time.
I listened to The Priory of the Orange Tree, and while I really really liked the narrator, I had some problems with the book. Mostly that it either needed to be heavily edited (like, by 200-300 pages) OR be expanded into two books. The way it was written did not work for me–there was too much plot that wasn’t resolved or was smooshed into a rather hurried ending, and I was *so frustrated* by the time I was done with the book.
Also, while in her notes she says it wasn’t inspired by any one historical period, but many, I found the Very Obvious Historical Inspirations meshed poorly with the Very Obvious Fantasy Inspirations, which may just be a case of me knowing too much about too many things, but it was one more thing that irritated me about the book.
tl;dr coulda been great, suffered from major flaws in both content and execution