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Polaris Rising
RECOMMENDED: Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik is $1.99! This is a sci-fi romance that released earlier this year and I absolutely loved it. You can read my A- here:
I am so incredibly happy that this book is in the world, especially after feeling like I’ve exhausted all my sci-fi romance options. Polaris Rising is exciting. It’s funny. It’s fan-fucking-tastic. My quibbles are minor in comparison to the joyful Good Book Noises I made while reading this.
As the seventh of nine children, Ada von Hasenberg knows that her only value to House von Hasenberg is as a political pawn in an arranged marriage. But after watching two of her older sisters get auctioned off to horrible men, Ada refuses to play her part. She flees off-planet and disappears for two years.
Ada’s father, fed up with her rebellion, offers a bounty for her safe return. The universe is a big place, but mercs are everywhere, and Ada is caught. With the merc ship full, she’s forced to share a cell with Marcus Loch, the Devil of Fornax Zero. Rumor has it he murdered every commanding officer who issued orders during the Fornax Rebellion. All anyone knows for sure is that the Royal Consortium wants his head.
Ada has no trouble believing the muscled man chained in the back of her cell is a killer. But when their ship is attacked by forces from rival House Rockhurst, Ada must decide whether to trust him—because once you release the devil, you can’t put him back. And when the attack heralds the opening salvo of a much bigger war, Ada must determine where her loyalties truly lie.
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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
RECOMMENDED: The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean is $1.99! This is part of today’s eight pages of Kindle Daily Deals and is being matched at select vendors. Elyse recently reviewed this one and gave it a B+:
The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone is one of the more unique thrillers I’ve read in a long time and it sucked me in completely.
‘We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song and when one came back, she wasn’t the one we were trying to recall to begin with.’
So begins Tikka Molloy’s recount of the summer of 1992 – the summer the Van Apfel sisters, Hannah, the beautiful Cordelia and Ruth – disappear.
Eleven and one-sixth years old, Tikka is the precocious narrator of this fabulously endearing coming-of-age story, set in an eerie Australian river valley suburb with an unexplained stench. The Van Apfel girls vanish from the valley during the school’s ‘Showstopper’ concert, held at the outdoor amphitheatre by the river. While the search for the sisters unites the small community on Sydney’s urban fringe, the mystery of their disappearance remains unsolved forever.
Brilliantly observed, sharp, lively, funny and entirely endearing, this novel is part mystery, part coming-of-age story – and quintessentially Australian. Think The Virgin Suicides meets Jasper Jones meets Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Lady Bridget’s Diary
Lady Bridget’s Diary by Maya Rodale is $1.99! This is the first book in the Keeping Up with the Cavendishes series and book four, It’s Hard Out Here for a Duke is also on sale. Carrie gave this one a B-:
Lady Bridget’s Diary is, structurally speaking, a total mess, and I didn’t believe a single thing that happened in it. However, the characters are delightful. I read this when I was down with the same cold that was afflicting everyone in America that particular week, and it was great for my humble purposes at the time: it was solidly entertaining and enjoyable, and I didn’t have to think a lot.
In the first novel of Maya Rodale’s stunning new series, an American heiress must learn to navigate London society and an infuriatingly irresistible rake . . .
Lord Darcy is the quintessential Englishman: wealthy, titled, impossibly proper, and horrified that a pack of Americans has inherited one of England’s most respected dukedoms. But his manners, his infamous self-restraint, and his better judgment fly out the window when he finds himself with the maddening American girl next door.
Lady Bridget Cavendish has grand—but thwarted—plans to become a Perfect Lady and take the haute ton by storm. In her diary, Bridget records her disastrous attempts to assimilate into London high society, her adoration of the handsome rogue next door, her disdain for the Dreadful Lord Darcy, and some truly scandalous secrets that could ruin them all.
It was loathing at first sight for Lady Bridget and Lord Darcy. But their paths keep crossing . . . and somehow involve kissing. When Lady Bridget’s diary goes missing, both Darcy and Bridget must decide what matters most of all—a sterling reputation or a perfectly imperfect love.
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Moxie
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu is $2.99! This is a YA novel with some girl power, which you might be needing right now. I also mentioned this in a previous Hide Your Wallet. Readers say this book is delightfully feminist, but do issue content warnings for sexual assault and rape. I’m not sure if these things are just mentioned in the book or actively described on the page. If you’ve read it, let us know in the comments!
An unlikely teenager starts a feminist revolution at a small-town Texan high school in the new novel from Jennifer Mathieu, author of The Truth About Alice.
MOXIE GIRLS FIGHT BACK!Vivan Carter is fed up. Fed up with a school administration at her high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment, and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.
Viv’s mom was a tough-as-nails, punk rock Riot Grrrl in the ’90s, and now Viv takes a page from her mother’s past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She’s just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. As Viv forges friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.
Moxie is a book about high school life that will make you wanna riot!
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The Model Bakery Cookbook is $1.99 at multiple sellers. Worth two bucks for the croissants alone, but the English muffins are also fantastic, I use the schnecken dough to make povitica, and there’s an enormous chocolate cookie that’s like an all-edges brownie.
Welp… that’s the end of the Van Apfel Girls partly ruined for me before I’ve finished it… Sigh. (It’s good so far, by the way – I recommend it.)
@Lucy: Was the spoiler in the linked review or in the book description? I tried to keep the quote I pulled from Elyse’s review as general as possible.
Sorry Amanda, I’m just being fussy! Spoiler is probably not really accurate as it is an ambiguous book generally – it’s more just that part of the whole interest of the book is whether or not you will actually find out the truth, so knowing for a fact that you don’t is a partial spoiler. But others may not agree with me because, as I say, it is an ambiguous book. (Realised I sounded snotty in my comment – didn’t mean to, sorry!)
The model bakery cookbook gets an A+ from me. There are pretty easy recipes there too. I made the espresso coffee cake, peach cobbler , currant scones and apricot scones. My family and friends loved them all.
I really enjoyed “Polaris Rising” – good space opera, intricate world-building. The second book comes out in October, I believe; it’s on my list of books I’ve pre-ordered.
I *knew* I should have checked this site yesterday! The Model Bakery Cookbook is back up to $14.99.