Puppy Love
Puppy Love by Lucy Gilmore is $1.99! Thanks to everyone who told us about this sale because it sounds adorable. The heroine and her sisters run a training school for service puppies and the hero is in the market for a diabetic service dog. ISN’T THAT SO CUTE!
No matter the job, no matter the need
These service dogs in training will always fall in love at first bark.When Sophie Vasquez and her sisters dreamed up Puppy Promise—their service puppy training school—it was supposed to be her chance to bring some good into the world. But how can she expect to do anything when no one will take her seriously?
Enter Harrison Parks: a rough, gruff, take-no-bull wildlife firefighter in need of a diabetic service dog. He couldn’t be a more unlikely fit for Sophie or Bubbles—the sweet Pomeranian she knows will be his perfect partner—but when Sophie insists he give them both a shot, something unexpected happens: he listens. Even better, he keeps on listening, even as Sophie and Bubbles turn his lonely, uber-masculine world upside-down.
As it turns out, they all have something to prove…and more than enough room in their hearts for a little puppy love.
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Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat is $1.99 at Amazon! This may be an expiring KDD from yesterday. This is book one in the extremely popular Captive Prince trilogy, which is a gay romance with royalty, intrigue, and fantasy elements. The romance doesn’t really take shape until the second book and content warning for dubious and non-consensual scenes.
Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.
Beautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master Prince Laurent epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.
For Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else . . .
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RECOMMENDED: A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean is $1.99! This is book one in the Rules of Scoundrels series, all of which take place in and around a gaming hall. This book was nominated for and won the RITA® for Best Historical in 2013.
In our RITA® Reader Challenge reviews, Rayvyn2k gave it an A and wrote:
I loved this book. There is a marriage of convenience (my own personal romance catnip if done well—and it is done very well here), and a hero and heroine who are both struggling with devastating self-esteem issues. Add childhood friendships, meddling friends and family members and you have my perfect story.
Jess M also gave this book an A in her RITA® Reader Challenge review, where she wrote:
This was a great story. It was engaging, entertaining and filled with scandal. This is the first story in The Rules of Scoundrels series and sets up the rest of the characters that will be involved in the series.
What a scoundrel wants, a scoundrel gets…
A decade ago, the Marquess of Bourne was cast from society with nothing but his title. Now a partner in London’s most exclusive gaming hell, the cold, ruthless Bourne will do whatever it takes to regain his inheritance—including marrying perfect, proper Lady Penelope Marbury.
A broken engagement and years of disappointing courtships have left Penelope with little interest in a quiet, comfortable marriage, and a longing for something more. How lucky that her new husband has access to such unexplored pleasures.
Bourne may be a prince of London’s underworld, but he vows to keep Penelope untouched by its wickedness—a challenge indeed as the lady discovers her own desires, and her willingness to wager anything for them… even her heart.
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Vita Nostra by Sergey and Marina Dyachenko is $1.99! I picked this one up a couple years ago at BEA but haven’t read it. Many Goodreads review remark how effin’ weird it is and describe it as “Harry Potter meets Franz Kafka.” However, others felt it was too frustrating to finish. Have you read this one?
The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Ukrainian novel—a brilliant dark fantasy with “the potential to be a modern classic” (Lev Grossman), combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes us consider human existence in a fresh and provocative way.
Our life is brief . . .
While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin.
As the days progress, Sasha carries out other acts for which she receives more coins from Kozhennikov. As summer ends, her domineering mentor directs her to move to a remote village and use her gold to enter the Institute of Special Technologies. Though she does not want to go to this unknown town or school, she also feels it’s the only place she should be. Against her mother’s wishes, Sasha leaves behind all that is familiar and begins her education.
As she quickly discovers, the institute’s “special technologies” are unlike anything she has ever encountered. The books are impossible to read, the lessons obscure to the point of maddening, and the work refuses memorization. Using terror and coercion to keep the students in line, the school does not punish them for their transgressions and failures; instead, their families pay a terrible price. Yet despite her fear, Sasha undergoes changes that defy the dictates of matter and time; experiences which are nothing she has ever dreamed of . . . and suddenly all she could ever want.
A complex blend of adventure, magic, science, and philosophy that probes the mysteries of existence, filtered through a distinct Russian sensibility, this astonishing work of speculative fiction—brilliantly translated by Julia Meitov Hersey—is reminiscent of modern classics such as Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, Max Barry’s Lexicon, and Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale, but will transport them to a place far beyond those fantastical worlds.
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Sigh. Puppy Love sounds really cute, but I just know they’re going to get all the dog training and medical stuff wrong and I’ll just end up annoyed.
I thought Puppy Love was adorable. I cannot vouch for the authenticity of the dog training, but I don’t remember thinking that the medical stuff was annoyingly wrong. And that kind of thing can jump out at me while reading. The pairing of the grumpy fireman with a little fluffy puppy was fodder for some funny scenes. It was a feel good kind of book.
Vita Nostra is amazing and mind bending but probably not for everyone.
@ Jenn – I had the same misgivings, but bought the book anyways for when I need a light read. With diabetics in the family and dog trainer friends, I expect my suspension of disbelief will get a work out. But I love the idea of the gruff fireman and the fluffy puppy….
Unfit to Print by KJ Charles is on sale – 99c.
In all my long years of reading (50+ years), Captive Prince is the single WORST thing I have ever read (okay, tried to read–it was DNF). I’m very hard to offend, but yikes. There’s nothing “dubious” about the non-consent, and I barely read 50 pages. Horrifically awful, and a book I would rather never think about again.
@Theresa, thank you for that comment. I somehow got that kind of vibe from the blurb, and am glad to have my instinct confirmed.
I want to know who designed the dress on the cover of A Rouge By Any Other Name. And whether the model has both halves of her torso.
Yes, Bourne in A Rogue by Any Other Name is sinfully good.
@Jenn – the dog training aspects in all of the books feel pretty well-researched, but that’s from what I could glean from disabled friends I asked. I highly recommend it.