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Vox
Vox by Christina Dalcher is $1.99! This book made a lot of Best of 2018 book lists. However, given the current state of the world, but desire to read near-future books that hit too close to home is incredibly complicated. Have you read this one? What are your thoughts?
One of Entertainment Weekly’s and SheReads’ books to read after The Handmaid’s Tale.
One of Good Morning America’s “Best Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer”Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter.
On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than 100 words daily, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial–this can’t happen here. Not in America. Not to her.
This is just the beginning.
Soon women can no longer hold jobs. Girls are no longer taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words a day, but now women only have one hundred to make themselves heard.
But this is not the end.
For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice.
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My Notorious Gentleman
My Notorious Gentleman by Gaelen Foley is $1.99! This is part of the Inferno Club historical romance series and features an opposites attract romance between neighbors. Readers say the book starts out fun and charming, but then kind of gets boring. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
Notorious and fearless, Lord Trevor Montgomery must confront his greatest challenge yet: marriage!
Shy, warm-hearted Miss Grace Kenwood knows she has no chance of tempting her new neighbor, Lord Trevor Montgomery. Every eligible beauty is swooning over the brooding former spy. Even though he once kissed her senseless, he can have no interest in someone like her. Yet somehow, the seductive rogue unleashes her own inner devil…
Every lady loves a hero, but Trevor has no interest in any of them— except for the refreshingly candid Grace. If he had a heart left, Grace might steal it. She insists he’s better than he thinks. He’s sure she’s absolutely wrong. Until danger threatens, and Trevor rediscovers how easy it is to be a hero…for the right lady.
The sixth novel in a sumptuous romance series by New York Times bestselling author Gaelen Foley will make you blush with delight.
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The Knave of Hearts
The Knave of Hearts by Elizabeth Boyle is 99c! This is the fifth book in the Rhymes with Love series, and seems to have some She’s All That makeover vibes. My favorite kind of vibes. Readers say this works great as a standalone, but others felt it was a rather middling historical romance.
In the fifth novel of the captivating Rhymes With Love series from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Boyle, a young woman’s hopes of a match encounter a wickedly handsome complication . . .
Lavinia Tempest has been eagerly anticipating a spectacular season. But one disastrous pile-up on the Almack’s dance floor derails all her plans. Add to that, the very stunning revelations about her mother’s scandalous past have become the ton’s latest on dits. Lavinia’s future has gone from shining bright to blackest night in one misstep.
Alaster “Tuck” Rowland admits he’s partly to blame for Lavinia’s disastrous debut. But it’s not guilt that compels him to restore her reputation. Rather, he’s placed a wager that he can make Lavinia into one of the most sought-after ladies in London. Who better than an unrepentant rake to set society astir?
Tuck’s motives are hardly noble. But in teaching the lovely Lavinia how to win any man she wants, he suddenly finds himself tangled in the last place he ever imagined: in love.
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No Man Can Tame
No Man Can Tame by Miranda Honfleur is 99c at Amazon! This fantasy romance is bursting with Amanda catnip; I’m such a sucker for fae in romance. The setup also reminds me of Radiance by Grace Draven, which I very much enjoyed. Honfleur’s fantasy romances have been recommended in the comments, though I have yet to try them.
A human princess. A dark-elf prince. A kiss of fire and powder.
After a failed courtship in an ally kingdom, twenty-one-year-old Princess Alessandra returns home to a land torn apart by mutual hatred between the humans and the dark-elves. The “Beast Princess,” as Aless is known by courtiers, confidently sets her mind to ways of making peace, but her father has already decided for her: she is to marry one of the mysterious and monstrous dark-elves to forge a treaty, and go on a Royal Progress across the kingdom to flaunt their harmonious union. While she intends to preserve the peace, the Beast Princess has plans of her own.
Prince Veron has been raised knowing his life is not his own, but to be bargained away by his mother, the queen of Nozva Rozkveta, to strengthen the dark-elf queendom. When his mother tells him he is to marry a self-absorbed, vile human, he is determined to do his duty regardless of his personal feelings. After arriving at the human capital, he finds the “Beast Princess” rebellious and untamed—and not to be trusted.
Aless and Veron face opposition at every turn, with humans and dark-elves alike opposing the union violently, as well as their own feelings of dissonance toward each other. Can two people from cultures that despise one another fall in love? Can a marriage between them bond two opposing worlds together, or will it tear them apart for good?
If you like the fantasy and politics of Danielle L. Jensen’s Malediction Trilogy and the romance of Elizabeth Vaughan’s Chronicles of the Warlands, No Man Can Tame will lure you into its world and not let you go.
Buy No Man Can Tame today, and journey into a medieval world of magic and Immortals, masquerades and games, love and blood, and a tale as old as time..
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Thanks for adding the Goodreads link to sale posts! Sometimes I don’t want to fully commit even at sale price, but GR is a good placeholder
I wanted to read Vox but I’m all dytopia’d out at the moment! I also couldn’t get round the voice limited being put on a young girl, from what age? I can’t see it working on any child younger than five, even with conditioning the mortality rate would be high!
Strange how some books can reach a point of impossibility that renders a book unreadable to me at least.
“Vox” is an excellent book, but I would never consider it a beach read. It shook me up as much as “Handmaid’s Tale” and it felt closer to home (not in a good way). The main character is a strong woman –a linguist, a university professor, and married to a supportive husband. The government issues wristbands that shock a woman after she speaks a certain number of words per day and it is frightening to imagine how easily this came to pass. This is good read, but it makes you angry, and worried, and thankful that we don’t live in this world.
I enjoyed No Man Can Tame but it wasn’t a favorite. It’s very close to the plot of Radiance but it doesn’t have the subtlety and depth of characterization of Draven’s work. Radiance really stuck with me after I read it; No Man Can Tame was fun while I was reading it but evaporated from my consciousness shortly thereafter.
Ugh, VOX. Impossible set up, horrible protagonist, nauseating love interest, slapdash plotting, feminist-shaming, LGBTQ shaming, privilege wallowing, plot moppetry, and a freaking rushed Huge Climax that happened OFFSTAGE. Also a total waste of awesome chimpanzees.
If you want a good follow-up to HANDMAID’S TALE, try Alderman’s THE POWER instead.
Re: Vox Also wouldn’t the women just learn Sign language or some form of silent communication to overcome the wristband? I thought that the moment I read the sample.
Haunted Hearts by Kimberly Dean is 2.99. It looks like a good Halloween read. I haven’t read it but have liked other books by her. She writes erotic romance.
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The Power is a wonderful book, complex, beautifully written, gripping and challenging from first page to last.
Kit, yes! We’d just work on our non-verbal languages. (Wrote a whole essay once in non-verbal communication between women in medieval literature – Philomel embroidering her story for her sister, for example.)
I read Vox and thought it was terrible – but also boring enough that I couldn’t remember any of it, which is kind of startling for a dystopia. I’ll echo the recommendation for “The Power” instead.
The comments made me think of when I read Native Tongue in a Science Fiction Lit class in college. Another dystopian future with women under men’s control, but the protagonists are from families that translate alien languages so the women create a sign language so subtle the men don’t recognize it. Sounds like it does a better job than Vox.
Picked up No Man Can Tame because I enjoyed Radiance and I agree with cbackson that Radiance is the better book, and No Man Can Tame suffers in comparison. There’s a lot of telling instead of showing about how the heroine is determined, smart, etc. which wasn’t very convincing, and some repetitive phrases that started getting on my nerves.