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On the Edge
On the Edge by Ilona Andrews is $1.99! This is the first book in The Edge urban fantasy series and, I think, it’s the only series I haven’t read by Andrews. As usual for Andrews, the worldbuilding is great, though some readers said it took them longer to connect with the characters than in Andrews other series.
Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny). Only Edgers like Rose can easily travel from one world to the next, but they never truly belong in either.
Rose thought if she practiced her magic, she could build a better life for herself. But things didn’t turn out how she planned, and now she works a minimum wage, off the books job in the Broken just to survive. Then Declan Camarine, a blueblood noble straight out of the deepest part of the Weird, comes into her life, determined to have her (and her power).
But when a terrible danger invades the Edge from the Weird, a flood of creatures hungry for magic, Declan and Rose must work together to destroy them—or they’ll devour the Edge and everyone in it.
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Daughter of the Blood
Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop is $1.99! This is the first book in The Black Jewels series and was recommended in a previous Rec League. Ellen notes that this series deserves all of the content warnings. I know for many readers this was a formative series for their fantasy reading. What are your thoguhts?
The Dark Kingdom is preparing itself for the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy–the arrival of a new Queen, a Witch who will wield more power than even the High Lord of Hell himself. But this new ruler is young, and very susceptible to influence and corruption; whoever controls her controls the Darkness. And now, three sworn enemies begin a ruthless game of politics and intrigue, magic and betrayal, and the destiny of an entire world is at stake.
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Paris Letters
RECOMMENDED: Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod is $2.99! This is a nonfiction account of MacLeod’s question to herself after a bad day: “How much does it take to quit your job?” Sarah lists this one as pat of her favorite comfort re-reads.
“How much money does it take to change your life?”
Unfulfilled at her job and unsuccessful in the dating department, Janice MacLeod doodled this question at her desk. Then she decided to make it a challenge.
Over the next few months, with a little math and a lot of determination, she saved up enough to buy two years of freedom in Europe.
But she had only been in Paris for a few days when she met a handsome butcher (with a striking resemblance to Daniel Craig)—and never went home again.
A love story in the vein of Almost French and Lunch in Paris, Paris Letters (February 4) is a joyful romp through the City of Light, and an inspiring look at what can happen when we dare to create the life we want.
Realizing that her Parisian love affair would be forever, MacLeod began her own business on Etsy, creating beautifully-illustrated letters from Paris inspired by artists like Percy Kelly and Beatrix Potter. She now paints and writes full-time, bringing beautiful things to subscribers around the world and reviving the lost art of letter-writing.
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The Magicians
The Magicians by Lev Grossman is $2.99! This fantasy novel was turned into a TV show on SyFy. The show just finished its fifth and final season last month. If you like reading fantasy where everyone is kind of terrible, this is for you. Think Gossip Girl but with magic.
A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world
Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery.
He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. After graduation he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin’s fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. His childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart.
At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.
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SPIN THE DAWN by Elizabeth Lim is $2.99. “Project Runway meets Mulan in this sweeping fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on an impossible journey to sew three magic dresses, from the sun, the moon, and the stars.”
“The Wild One”, the 2nd in Ruth Cardello’s Corisi Billionaires series, is US$1.99 on Amazon (“The Broken One”, the first in the series, is also US$1.99).
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Fans of Ilona Andrews’ INNKEEPER series may particularly enjoy the EDGE series.
*cough*Crossover*cough*
Plus they’re darn fun urban fantasy featuring their trademark badass ladies with complicated families and the Alpha men who love them but need to learn to chill out a little. It was my first Andrews series and I still reread it often.
I’ve read all of the above save for The Magicians. I found The Black Jewels series to be a far far darker read than the author’s The Others series which I count as a favorite.
It has been a while, but I really enjoyed Paris Letters. My mom read it first and recommended it to me. Not a lot of crossover books for us.
I love Ilona Andrews, but I found The Edge books to be darker than some of their other series. At points in the series it hit a level of violence and death that would have caused me to put the book down if it had been any other author. I’ve read books with a bigger body count that I didn’t bat an eye at, but Andrews made me sufficiently invested in many of the characters that the deaths affected me, and, well, there are a lot of them.
The Black Jewels series is really dark. Like many of Bishop’s books they speak straight to the id, but hoo boy intense themes ahead.