All of today’s books are part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals, which means you have one day to grab these. I recommend checking out the full list of books. There are cookbooks, memoirs, and more romance.
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Circe
Circe by Madeline Miller is $4.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and it’s being price matched. I know $4.99 is a little higher for books we feature on sale, but everyone and their mom has been loving Circe. I want to say that most of my book group has read it by now. Have you read it? Does it live up to the hype?
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child–not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power–the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.
But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.
With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man’s world.
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The Beautiful
RECOMMENDED: The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh is $1.99! Kiki gave this one a B+:
Many readers WILL be enthralled with the emotion of Bastien and Celine and for them the final sections of the book will be as thrilling as they were surely meant to be. Think that might be you? Go out and get yourself some Victorian era New Orleans vampires.
New York Times bestselling author Renée Ahdieh returns with a sumptuous, sultry and romantic new series set in 19th century New Orleans where vampires hide in plain sight.
In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she’s forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to the soirées and—especially—to the danger. She soon becomes embroiled in the city’s glitzy underworld, known as Le Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group’s leader, the enigmatic Sèbastien Saint Germain. When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in the lair of Le Cour des Lions, Celine battles her attraction to him and suspicions about Sèbastien’s guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret.
When more bodies are discovered, each crime more gruesome than the last, Celine and New Orleans become gripped by the terror of a serial killer on the loose—one Celine is sure has set her in his sights . . . and who may even be the young man who has stolen her heart. As the murders continue to go unsolved, Celine takes matters into her own hands and soon uncovers something even more shocking: an age-old feud from the darkest creatures of the underworld reveals a truth about Celine she always suspected simmered just beneath the surface.
At once a sultry romance and a thrilling murder mystery, master storyteller Renée Ahdieh embarks on her most potent fantasy series yet: The Beautiful.
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The Power
The Power by Naomi Alderman is $3.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble! I feel like this is a love it or hate it title. One of my very dear book friends wrote this review on Goodreads:
Based on my own experience, reading this book when the patriarchy feels particularly oppressive can be surprisingly cathartic. Yes, you know from the beginning that this will not end well. Stories of power never do. Power corrupts. That will never change, regardless of which variation on that particular theme you are in. This will not be a Girl Power Yeah narrative. It is going to be ugly and brutal, people will do awful things in the name of good (and bad).
In The Power the world is a recognisable place: there’s a rich Nigerian kid who lounges around the family pool; a foster girl whose religious parents hide their true nature; a local American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But something vital has changed, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power – they can cause agonising pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world changes utterly.
This extraordinary novel by Naomi Alderman, a Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and Granta Best of British writer, is not only a gripping story of how the world would change if power was in the hands of women but also exposes, with breath-taking daring, our contemporary world.
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Fallen
Fallen by Rebecca Zanetti is $1.99! This is the second book in her Deep Ops romantic suspense series and should work fine on its own. This one has a hacker heroine and bodyguard/handler hero, which is speaking to my catnip right now.
New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti delivers a pulse-pounding new read filled with her trademark edge of your seat action in the latest book in her Deep Ops series…
Too quiet. A talented hacker who got caught, Brigid Banaghan is now forced to work with a secret Deep Ops unit. But she won’t reveal any more to these renegade Feds than she has to. Especially not to Raider Tanaka, her control freak of a bodyguard and handler. It’s enough that his body is tensed for action and his heated gaze is always on her . . .
Too sharp. Raider knows there’s more to his new assignment than he’s been told. Why send a deadly agent of his experience to guard a computer genius—even a gorgeous, unpredictable, undisciplined one? But when Brigid’s estranged father is named in an investigation into Boston’s organized crime, Raider’s mind switches onto high alert, just like his senses . . .Too close. To clear her father’s name, Brigid needs Raider’s help. The Unit’s idea that she bring a straight-laced Fed in as her “fiancé” won’t fly, though—not unless Raider can release his inner bad boy and become the rebel Brigid can’t resist . . .
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Circe is EVERYTHING, people have raved about. It was my best book of the year when it came out. What I mean to say is READ THIS BOOK!!!!
I loved Circe. It was wonderful!! DonnaMarie’s advice is spot on–read the book!!
Here to say the same about Circe, it was terrific! And if Miller’s book, Song of Achilles comes up on sale – pick that up too! I think I actually liked Achilles better, but that’s hard to say. They are both two of the best books I’ve read of the last two years.
Agreeing with everyone else that Circe is amazing (and her Song of Achilles broke my effing heart – it’s so so so good but also heart-wrenching).
I can’t be the only one who found Circe underwhelming, can I? It was…ok, I guess. Like I’m not mad I read it or anything, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who wasn’t planning on reading it anyway. I think Homer’s Circe was a lot more powerful and interesting than this supposedly reimagined version of her. I liked Song of Achilles fine, but I didn’t find this nearly as good.
I listened to the Circe audiobook, and loved both the book and the narrator. I’ve recommended it to many others who also loved it.
Joining the chorus of praise for Circe. Beautiful written, continually fascinating story, calling on Greek mythology to explore seriously and interestingly the need to find one’s true calling, the abusive nature of power without responsibility and life’s need for change.
If you liked Circe, I’d strongly recommend Natalie Haynes’ A Thousand Ships, covering all the women mentioned in the Iliad and Odyssey. As one would expect from the subject matter, a lot of it is pretty grim. I love the series of letters from Penelope to Odysseus and later to Athene. The more one reads them, the better they get.
The Power is a tremendous book, not just one for the days the patriarchy gets all the way up one’s nose. Alderman’s a fine writer, as all her books show. Her earlier novel, Disobedience, is also a great read.
“Circe” was my favorite book of 2018. The audiobook is great, too – it has a fabulous narrator.
“Off Base”, an m/m military romance, by Annabeth Albert is $1.99 on Kindle.
@kkw !!!??!!! OMG, Finally! Someone else who is also unimpressed with Madeline Miller. I read Song of Achilles … and it was bland and twee. The original Homer is epic in scope and covers everything from Troy, to Olympus, to the Underworld. And all of these retellings are just so bland in comparison. YA!Achilles and Patroclus isn’t good. I don’t get the adulation.
@kkw, I couldn’t get into Circe either. I found it very self consciously “clever” and distant feeling. I often feel that way about fairy tale retellings too and it puts me off pretty quickly. It’s very much wrong book for me, right book for other people.
I just bought it! I’ve been madly in love with Rachel Smythe’s serialized Webtoons romance graphic novel, _Lore Olympus_ and now that it’s going on hiatus for the summer, I think reading Circe would be perfect.