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  • A Curious Beginning

    A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

    RECOMMENDEDA Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn is $2.99! The latest book out now and it’s a good time to start this series. This is a historical mystery and Sarah really enjoyed it. Here’s what she said:

    I read A Curious Beginning with an I-cannot-put-this-down enthusiasm and devoured it very quickly. I relished both the characters and the mystery. The Veronica Speedwell series is excellent and intelligent fun, and while the second isn’t quite as satisfying as the first, I heartily recommend them both.

    In her thrilling new series, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries, returns once more to Victorian England…and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell.

    London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with her last connection to England now gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.

    But fate has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron with ties to her mysterious past. Promising to reveal in time what he knows of the plot against her, the baron offers her temporary sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker—a reclusive natural historian as intriguing as he is bad-tempered. But before the baron can deliver on his tantalizing vow to reveal the secrets he has concealed for decades, he is found murdered. Suddenly Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run from an elusive assailant, wary partners in search of the villainous truth.

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  • Grave Mercy

    Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

    Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers is $1.99! This is a YA fantasy novel and Michelle wrote this in her RITA Reader Challenge Review:

    The biggest reason I picked up Grave Mercy originally was because of the assassin nuns. Because come on, how awesome does “assassin nuns” sound?

    Here, she’s created a fantastic medieval world of gods, saints, political intrigue, and romance that swept me away completely.

    And yes, the assassin nuns were pretty much as great as they sounded.

    Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?

    Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.

    Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?

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  • Fortuna

    Fortuna by K.S. Merbeth

    Fortuna by Kristyn Merbeth is $1.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals and it’s being price-matched. I mentioned this on a previous Hide Your Wallet, because I’m all for a family of smugglers. However, reviews on Goodreads mention the pacing could have been much better.

    A rebellious young woman leads a family of smugglers who become unwittingly entangled in a galactic war in this first book of an action-packed space opera trilogy.

    There’s only one thing Scorpia Kaiser wants in the whole galaxy: to finally own Fortuna, the ship she pilots and the only home she’s ever known. But when it becomes clear her predecessor – the family matriarch – has been secretly dealing with various planetary governments, Scorpia realizes that her own family may be the reason the system’s five planets are headed toward a devastating war.

    Lies, manipulation, and profit are all she’s ever been taught, but as she ascends into her new position Scorpia finds she has the chance to change everything. Yet even as she takes on more responsibility for the family’s fate, fortune and influence, she is not at all sure she’s ready for it – nor that she has the support of her crew, particularly her brother and rival Corvus.

    To stop the war, she’ll have to unite her family and unravel the chaos they’ve left in their wake.

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  • Her Royal Spyness

    Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen

    Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen is $1.99! This is the first book in a series of the same name, and I know Sarah has been enjoying these books both on paper and audio. She gave this one a B-:

    The allure of the story wasn’t the mystery so much as it was Georgie and her friends. I loved her ingenuity and her way of managing people and situations, her determination and her sense of humor, and especially her friendships.

    London 1932. Narrator Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the throne, is flat broke. She bolted from Scotland — and engagement to Fishface (Prince Stiegfriend) — for London, where she has:

    a) built a fire in the hearth
    b) fallen for an absolutely unsuitable Irish peer
    c) made a few quid housekeeping incognita, and
    d) been summoned by the Queen to spy on her playboy son

    When an arrogant Frenchman trying to swipe our family estate winds up dead in my bathtub, how can I clear my very long family name?

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  1. Gloriamarie Amalfitano says:

    I want to plug both A Curious Beginning and Grave Mercy. I would give them both an A. Well-written, keep me hooked.

  2. Lostshadows says:

    Different assassin nuns than I was thinking of¹, but assassin nuns, so *click*

    ¹Red Sister, by Mark Lawrence, in case anyone was wondering.

  3. Tam says:

    Agreed – I liked Curious Beginning AND Grave Mercy a lot.

  4. Vicki Soloniuk says:

    Loved Grave Mercy. Would strongly recommend.

  5. “Assassin Nun” always = Red Sister for me too!

  6. EJ says:

    Veronica Speedwell and His Fair Assassins are two series I am willing to pay money for instead of wait for the library.

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