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The Kingmaker Chronicles Complete Set
The Kingmaker Chronicles Complete Set by Amanda Bouchet is $2.99! This sale, I believe, ends tomorrow at some point, so get this one while you can. It collects the complete Kingmaker Chronicles series. I really loved this series; you can read my review of the first book here. However, there are other readers who didn’t enjoy it. Definitely check out the discussion in the comments to see if it’s your bag!
The complete USA Today bestselling trilogy The Kingmaker Chronicles!
KINGDOMS WILL RISE AND FALL FOR HER…BUT NOT IF SHE CAN HELP IT
A Promise of Fire
Catalia “Cat” Fisa lives disguised as a soothsayer in a traveling circus. She is perfectly content avoiding the danger and destiny the Gods—and her homicidal mother—have saddled her with. That is, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magic-deprived south, fixes her with his steely gaze and upsets her illusion of safety forever. Griffin knows Cat is the Kingmaker, the woman who divines the truth through lies. He wants her as a powerful weapon for his newly conquered realm—until he realizes he wants her for much more than her magic.Breath of Fire
The heart-racing Kingmaker Chronicles continues in this second book. The Gods are telling Cat that she’s the new Origin, which means it’s her job to give Thalyria a fresh start. Running from her fate isn’t going to work anymore; fate caught up. Griffin crowned her with the symbols of the three realms…and if she’s supposed to be not just a queen but the Queen, she’d better start acting like it.Heart on Fire
The riveting conclusion, Cat needs to learn how to trust in the Gods, in Griffin, and mostly in herself if she’s going to unite the kingdoms and rule Thalyria like her destiny calls. That’s when true understanding thuds into place. Hope isn’t just an abstract concept; it’s her. She has the power of the Gods at her fingertips. The only thing ever stopping her has been Cat herself.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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The Engagement Game
The Engagement Game by Jenny Holiday is $2.99! This is part of the 49th Floor series and can be read on its own. I follow Molly O’Keefe on Goodreads and she gave this one five stars for the book being “clever and sexy.” I will admit though that the hero (based from the description) sounds like a jerk. Have you read this one? What did you think?
The black sheep of the old-money Rosemanns, advertising executive Marcus has made his own way in the world—and done extremely well for himself—but his family is still pressuring him to join their investment firm and settle down with a quiet, unobjectionable girl.
Which is why the sexy Rose Verma is the perfect date for his family’s charity ball. A bleeding-heart lefty from the wrong side of the tracks, Rose has never met a stray dog she didn’t love or a polka-dotted mini-dress she couldn’t rock. Marcus has enough dirt on Rose to “convince” her to play along. And if he lets it slip that they’re engaged, all the better.
But all’s fair in love and blackmail, and Rose is ready to play a few cards of her own…
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Ace of Shades
Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody is $1.99! This book was released in April and was one of my picks for April’s Hide Your Wallet. Some readers felt the story was bogged down by the worldbuilding, while others loved the descriptive writing and fantastical setting.
Welcome to the City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets…and secrets hide in every shadow.
Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school—and her reputation—behind to follow her mother’s trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted.
Frightened and alone, her only lead is a name: Levi Glaisyer. Unfortunately, Levi is not the gentleman she expected—he’s a street lord and con man. Levi is also only one payment away from cleaning up a rapidly unraveling investment scam, so he doesn’t have time to investigate a woman leading a dangerous double life. Enne’s offer of compensation, however, could be the solution to all his problems.
Their search for clues leads them through glamorous casinos, illicit cabarets and into the clutches of a ruthless Mafia donna. As Enne unearths an impossible secret about her past, Levi’s enemies catch up to them, ensnaring him in a vicious execution game where the players always lose. To save him, Enne will need to surrender herself to the city…
And she’ll need to play.
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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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Oooh, a Jenny Holiday I haven’t read yet!
The Engagement Game was my favorite of this series and a fun read. My book notes say Rose was tall, funny, and direct, with a great sense of style. Marcus was emotionally closed off, but was a pretty decent guy as I recall, liked Rose as soon as he met her, and kept on coming up with excuses to see her even though he “of course” didn’t want to be in a real relationship.
“Studmuffin Santa”, the first book in Tawna Fenske’s Ponderosa Resort series, is currently free at Amazon.
Oh, man, the Bouchet trilogy. I had such high hopes for it!
My favourite genres are fantasy and romance, so I keep thinking I should love fantasy romance, but somehow fantasy romance always lets me down. This one sounded like it might finally be my Holy Grail, but in the end, both the fantasy and the romance didn’t work for me at all, and the only thing I liked about it was Cat. I had waited to read it until all three books were out, as per standard practice. After the first book, I thought I didn’t really like where it was going but was hoping there’d be a shift in the second book. Somewhere partway through the second book, it became clear that that wasn’t happening, and I finished the trilogy as a hate read.
No exaggeration, I could write an entire essay on why the trilogy didn’t work for me, and since I don’t really have a lot of faith in my ability to distill that down to comment length, I’ll just say that many of my issues were expressed very eloquently in the original comment thread.
Another fan of The Engagement Game, loved it. I haven’t read any others in the series though, but will.
Engagement Game isn’t really doing it for me. About 2/3 into the book she asks for help and the way she treats him when she does so seemed so oblivious to him as a person (and that he may actually have his own life, responsibilities in the day etc etc) that she fell over the edge from quirky and smart into shallow MPDG flakiness for me (I know it’s a problematic term, but just seems the best fit), which didn’t vibe with her character to this point. It seemed like a sloppy plot device. Loved the book before this, but can’t really be bothered to finish it now. I’ve got a 7 hour plane ride tonight so I suppose I’ll finish it.