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Gideon the Ninth
RECOMMENDED: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir is $2.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals, which also feature some great romance and historical fiction. AJ and I did a lot of squeeing about this one on a podcast episode. Will you understand what’s going on? Probably not, but you’ll have a lot of fun being clueless. I also gave it a B+:
Gideon the Ninth is a unique and bloody bananapants book, and I do think it’s worth a reader’s curiosity. Gideon is an unforgettable protagonist.
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you’ll ever have with a skeleton.
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as necromantic skeletons. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.
Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will be become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon’s sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.
Of course, some things are better left dead.
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Overnight Sensation
Overnight Sensation by Sarina Bowen is 99c! This is book two in the Brooklyn series, which is a spin-off of the Brooklyn Bruiser series. This features one of my least favorite tropes: the off-limits heroine. However, Bowen is an auto-buy for a lot of us.
Everyone knows the girl is off limits. But it’s so good to be bad.
There’s this girl…
Heidi and I have been trading hungry looks all year, and everything she does makes me smile. But I don’t do girlfriends, and I certainly can’t get involved with the league commissioner’s daughter. I need shots on goal, not a hookup and a widely misunderstood paparazzi photo.Can I resist her, though? The way she teases me should be a game penalty for interference with my libido.
There’s this guy…
Jason wants me, but he won’t admit it. That man looks at me the way a hockey player eyes the lunch buffet after practice–and I love it.But when victory is finally within my grasp, I blow it and humiliate myself. Even then I can’t even avoid him–as the team intern, I’m in constant view of his hard body and cocky smile.
I need another chance. Jason Castro is about to learn the true meaning of an overnight sensation.
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Pucked
Pucked by Helena Hunting is 99c at Amazon! This is the first book in Hunting’s Pucked new adult contemporary romance series. I haven’t read this one, though it’s on my kindle. A friend, who I made into a romance convert, says this series is highly marathonable and compares them to literary potato chips. But I believe it’s an acquired taste.
With a famous NHL player for a stepbrother, Violet Hall is well acquainted with the playboy reputation of many a hockey star. So of course she isn’t interested in legendary team captain Alex Waters or his pretty, beat-up face and rock-hard six-pack abs. But when Alex inadvertently obliterates Violet’s misapprehension regarding the inferior intellect of hockey players, he becomes much more than just a hot body with the face to match. Suffering from a complete lapse in judgment, Violet discovers just how good Alex is with the hockey stick in his pants.
Violet believes her night of orgasmic magic with Alex is just that: one night. But Alex starts to call. And text. And email and send extravagant – and quirky – gifts. Suddenly he’s too difficult to ignore and nearly impossible not to like. The problem is, the media portrays Alex as a total player, and Violet doesn’t want to be part of the game.
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The Amberlough Dossier
The Amberlough Dossier by Lara Elena Donnelly is $2.99! Thank you to everyone who let us know about this one. Carrie loved this series and favorably reviewed book one and book two. Have you read this series? (I also don’t know what is going on with that gray box/line on the cover.)
This discounted ebundle includes: Amberlough, Armistice, Amnesty
By turns ravishing and riveting, Lara Elena Donnelly’s trilogy The Amberlough Dossier contains three glam vintage spy thrillers set in a tumultuous, Art Deco-inspired secondary fantasy world, where sex, spies, and scandals define the geopolitical fate of nations.
“Exploring the roots of hatred, nationalism, and fascism, while at the same time celebrating the diversity, love, romance, fashion, and joy the world is capable of producing.” —Bookriot
Amberlough: In Lara Elena Donnelly’s glam spy thriller debut, a Nebula finalist for Best Novel, a double-agent sacrifices all his ideals in order to save his smuggler lover before a government coup takes over their decadent city.
Armistice: In a tropical country where shadowy political affairs lurk behind the scenes of its glamorous film industry, three people maneuver inside a high stakes game of statecraft and espionage. Each one harbors dangerous knowledge that can upturn a nation. Everything is barreling towards an international revolt…and only the wiliest ones will be prepared for what comes next.
Amnesty: In Amberlough City, out of the ashes of revolution, a traitor returns, a political campaign comes to a roaring head, and the people demand justice for crimes past. As a nation struggles to rebuild, who can escape retribution?
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My love for GIDEON THE NINTH knows no bounds, bloody bananapants and all. It’s on my keeper shelf with all of MURDERBOT. And THE ROOK and … I’ll stop now.
The wait for HARROW THE NINTH is almost unbearable.
A dissenting opinion on GIDEON THE NINTH. I did not enjoy it — thought that the protagonists were TSTL and the plotting was an annoying mess that didn’t hold together and became a difficult slog. It’s too bad because it was well written, and truth be told I might have somewhat enjoyed it if it hadn’t been hyped up so much. YMMV
I bought the Amberlough Dossier last week (it’s on offer on EU Play Books, too), and I really can’t figure out why the cover has that grey area on the bottom, and so does the ebook. Weird.
Highly recommend the Amberlough books–if you want to read about the rise and fall of a fascist regime (you know, for Reasons) and the effect it has on citizens, families, secret agents, etc. I’d be buying this if I didn’t already own all three books with their gorgeous covers.
I really enjoyed Gideon the Ninth and have preordered Harrow the Ninth, but… did anyone else feel that having Gideon be a female character felt like a last-minute change? I would believe that somebody went through and did a “search and replace” on the gender & pronouns on the manuscript when they realized how catchy the phrase “lesbian necromancers in space” would be. Again, it didn’t stop me from liking the boom. Just curious if anyone else felt the same.
Fwiw, Jessi, I really didn’t feel that way about Gideon at all! And since the author publically identifies as a lesbian, I don’t think there’s any reason to think there was any kind of calculation behind her writing a lesbian protagonist…
I realize this is a silly complaint, but how is the man holding his hockey stick in the cover of Hunting book? The angle of his hand, wrist and arm would be so awkward. I have no idea why his hand is taped, but I assume the poor idiot broke his wrist making the picture? Also, I hate sports puns.
@KatieK: The titles of several of Hunting’s hockey romances feature the words PUCK or PUCKED and, on the covers, the letter P is always rendered in a faded way that makes it appear to be an F at first glance. I think I’ve resisted trying those books because of that “tee-hee, aren’t we being naughty?” approach.
I tried a sample of Pucked, and the heroine’s mother barging into her house with no warming turned me off the book right away.
Also—and I say this with love and understanding that SBSarah can’t be aware of every product or service that advertises on the site—but today I’m getting a pop-up that asks “Is he cheating? Click here to find out!” It just doesn’t seem like the right look for a romance-centric site.
Amberlough ebook is being sold without DRM in the UK, not sure if that is the case elsewhere? Sounds a bit suspect. Also grey bit, weird?
Also had to do a double take with PUCKED, definitely deliberate typeface there!
Gideon was definitely always intended to be a woman (source: am friend of editor).
@Kit: Amberlough is published by TOR. They sell all their ebooks without DRM.
So just out of curiosity, because this is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night, does anyone know whether it’s pronounced AmberLOW or AmberLUFF? Because it could go either way!
note: the amazon link goes to amazon.co.uk page which does not allow me (non-uk, northern european customer) to buy anything (“only for uk customers blah blah”), have to go manually to amazon.com to buy the books on sale
@Wait, what?: In the audiobook, it’s Amberlo.
@shell: Argh, that’s not supposed to happen that way. I’m sorry for the trouble – I’ll look into it. I thought that rerouting issue had been fixed. Thanks for the heads up!
@Wait, what?: I got to meet the author last year (we’re both Laras!), and she says it’s AmberLO.
@SB Sarah: Since it’s so much less frustrating to delete “.uk” and substitute in an “m” than it is to land on Amazon dot com main page and do all of our own typing … we just didn’t want to bother you further?