Amazon has a huge assortment of sci-fi and fantasy books today for their Kindle Daily Deals! Grab them while you can, but if you need help choosing, here are a few options below.
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An Unkindness of Magicians
RECOMMENDED: An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard is $1.99 at Amazon! So far, this deal hasn’t been price-matched. I would recommended this if you’re in a “burn it all down” mood. The book is violent, graphic, and the characters experience racism, sexism, and the like. But the main character is a witch who essentially wants to dismantle the ruling magic party because they’re terrible. I loved this one.
There is a dark secret that is hiding at the heart of New York City and diminishing the city’s magicians’ power in this fantasy thriller by acclaimed author Kat Howard.
In New York City, magic controls everything. But the power of magic is fading. No one knows what is happening, except for Sydney—a new, rare magician with incredible power that has been unmatched in decades, and she may be the only person who is able to stop the darkness that is weakening the magic. But Sydney doesn’t want to help the system, she wants to destroy it.
Sydney comes from the House of Shadows, which controls the magic with the help of sacrifices from magicians.
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Firelight
Firelight by Kristen Callihan is $1.99! This is the first book in the Darkest London series, a series that I mostly enjoy. In the first three books, the heroine’s are sisters and I’d rank them in their chronological order. The third is my least favorite, namely because it contains a lot of tropes that aren’t my thing. However, I still have enjoyed what I’ve read thus far.
Once the flames are ignited . . .
Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family’s fortune decimated and forced her to wed London’s most nefarious nobleman.
They will burn for eternity . . .
Lord Benjamin Archer is no ordinary man. Doomed to hide his disfigured face behind masks, Archer knows it’s selfish to take Miranda as his bride. Yet he can’t help being drawn to the flame-haired beauty whose touch sparks a passion he hasn’t felt in a lifetime. When Archer is accused of a series of gruesome murders, he gives in to the beastly nature he has fought so hard to hide from the world. But the curse that haunts him cannot be denied. Now, to save his soul, Miranda will enter a world of dark magic and darker intrigue. For only she can see the man hiding behind the mask.
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Dragon Actually
Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken is $1.99 at Amazon! This daily deal isn’t being price-matched just yet. This is the first book in the Dragon Kin series, which many praise for having kickass heroines. It also looks like the book has a new cover. I apparently read this book according to my Goodreads, but I remember next to nothing about it.
It’s not always easy being a female warrior with a nickname like Annwyl the Bloody. Men tend to either cower in fear – a lot – or else salute. It’s true that Annwyl has a knack for decapitating legions of her ruthless brother’s soldiers without pausing for breath. But just once it would be nice to be able to really talk to a man, the way, she can talk to Fearghus the Destroyer.
Too bad that Fearghus is a dragon, of the large, scaly and deadly type. With him, Annwyl feels safe – a far cry from the feelings aroused by the hard-bodied, arrogant knight Fearghus has arranged to help train her for battle. With her days spent fighting a man who fills her with fierce, heady desire, and her nights spent in the company of a magical creature who could smite a village just by exhaling, Annwyl is sure life couldn’t get any stranger. She’s wrong…
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Zero Sum Game
RECOMMENDED: Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang is $2.99! This was previously self-pubbed, I believe, so you may have read this one. Carrie wrote a Lightning Review for this book and gave it a B+:
Zero Sum Game is an awesome, fast-paced, inventive science fiction thriller about a mercenary whose superpower is her ability to do complicated math almost instantly.
A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang’s Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power…
Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she’ll take any job for the right price.
As far as Cas knows, she’s the only person around with a superpower…until she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into people’s minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips. Someone intent on becoming the world’s puppet master.
Cas should run, like she usually does, but for once she’s involved. There’s only one problem…
She doesn’t know which of her thoughts are her own anymore.
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I am definitely here for burning everything down. Thanks for the link.
How about that 4-book Shelly Laurenston set for $3.99? And oooooh, the Wonder Woman movie novelization for $1.99!
Small Change by Roan Parrish is free, I really enjoyed it and I think it got a good grade here.
A Study in Scandal by Caroline Linden is free. Haven’t read this one but I like the author.
A couple of the Sandman Slim books by Richard Kadrey are $1.99
Came here to say that Small Change is free this week. MF queer romance with bi heroine who’s an angry tattoo artist
Are you sure you read Dragon Actually? I find Annwyl a memorable character and she is the epitome, especially in later books, of “let’s burn this all down”. She…just has so much rage.
Chiming in on how much I loved Small Change. Ginger is a strong woman who is considered “prickly” and “difficult” while Christopher is a total nurturer who has just opened a sandwich shop because he loves to feed people good food. This book is definitely about Ginger’s journey more than Christopher’s as she tries to figure out how to open up to a relationship without betraying pieces of what she considers to be her essential self.
Loved Firelight, read a few successive Darkest London books and was meh.
Loved the first Darkest London book, dropped the series after rage-quitting the third (started mad that nerdy Winston had to have an extreme makeover before he could be a Romance Hero, and it went downhill from there).
All of these sound fantastic and I’m debating on which ones to get besides An Unkindness of Magicians. I’m so excited because I’ve been wanting to read that one and it’s a total steal. Thanks, as per usual, for sharing!
I loved the original covers of the Darkest London series sooo much, they were done by Gene Mollica, who’s done so many amazing Urban Fantasy book covers. If I hadn’t seen the original covers, I might not have hated the updates, but since I have, I do.
I read the entire Darkest London series and am honestly sorry I did. I really wanted to love it, but thought the first one was meh and occasionally eye-rolling, and the series just got more and more problematic after that. Winston’s makeover should have been the end for me.
That said, I almost never enjoy fantasy romance, so my assessment should be taken with liberal doses of salt.
(Seriously, though, surely there has to be some fantasy romance out there that I would actually enjoy. I love fantasy! I love romance! But fantasy romance almost never satisfies me. Maybe my standards for it are too high?)
Does Dragon Actually get better? I mean, a lot better?
I bought it on one of the previous massive discounts, read chapter 1 and part of chapter 2, and thought “This is poorly written.” I put it in the “Bad Books” collection and deleted it from my kindle. (If I hadn’t been slow at getting around to reading it, I would have returned it instead.)
If someone can assure me that the book improves drastically, I’ll give it another shot.
Good fantasy romance can be hard to find, most authors are great at either fantasy or romance, and the other part feels unfinished.
The best fantasy romance I’ve read is by Jeffe Kennedy. I suggest starting with The Mark of the Tala, first in The Twelve Kingdoms series, which is then followed by a linked series The Enchanted Realms.
Other fantasy romances I’ve enjoyed are: The Kingmaker Chronicles by Amanda Bouchet; Isabel Cooper; Clocktaur War duology and Swordheart by T Kingfisher; and Master of Crows by Grace Draven.