The Book of Koli
RECOMMENDED: The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey is $2.99! This is the first book in a new trilogy. Carrie read this one and had this to say on a previous Hide Your Wallet:
Character driven and imaginative. Will never regard a tree in the same way again.
Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable world. A world where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly vines and seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don’t get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will.
Koli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He knows the first rule of survival is that you don’t venture beyond the walls.
What he doesn’t know is – what happens when you aren’t given a choice?
The first in a gripping new trilogy, The Book of Koli charts the journey of one unforgettable young boy struggling to find his place in a chilling post-apocalyptic world. Perfect for readers of Station Eleven and Annihilation.
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RECOMMENDED: The Blacksmith Queen by G.A. Aiken is $2.99! What a coincidence, as this was my one pick for hilarious reading in our latest Ready Set Go. I also gave this an A-. Seriously, it’s so much fun:
The Blacksmith Queen is a bloody, feminist romp that exudes girl power in all forms, and I’m envious of its fantasy girl squad.
When a prophesy brings war to the Land of the Black Hills, Keeley Smythe must join forces with a clan of mountain warriors who are really centaurs in a thrilling new fantasy romance series from New York Times bestselling author G.A. Aiken.
The Old King Is Dead
With the demise of the Old King, there’s a prophesy that a queen will ascend to the throne of the Black Hills. Bad news for the king’s sons, who are prepared to defend their birthright against all comers. But for blacksmith Keeley Smythe, war is great for business. Until it looks like the chosen queen will be Beatrix, her younger sister. Now it’s all Keeley can do to protect her family from the enraged royals.Luckily, Keeley doesn’t have to fight alone. Because thundering to her aid comes a clan of kilt-wearing mountain warriors called the Amichai. Not the most socially adept group, but soldiers have never bothered Keeley, and rough, gruff Caid, actually seems to respect her. A good thing because the fierce warrior will be by her side for a much longer ride than any prophesy ever envisioned…
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Prince of Power by Elisabeth Staab is $1.99! This is a paranormal romance with a heroine related to a vampire king and a wizard hero, two supernatural races who seem to be mortal enemies. This is the second book in the Chronicles of Yavn series, and many readers say the heroes are amazing. But some found the plot of this book to be slow moving. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
This Fight Is Personal…
Wizards and vampires have been mortal enemies since the beginning. Now Anton, son of the Wizard Master, has one last chance to steal the unique powers of the vampire king’s beautiful sister, Tyra…and then kill her. But when he meets Tyra face-to-face, everything changes…
Tyra will stop at nothing to defeat the wizards, until Anton saves her life and she suddenly sees an opportunity she never could have imagined…
As the sparks ignite between them, together they could bring an end to the war that’s decimating their people, but only if they can find a way to trust each other…
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The Family Plot by Cherie Priest is $2.99! Priest always writes some wonderfully weird books and I’m super interested in this one. It’s a modern Gothic ghost story featuring a salvage team in Tennessee. Reader say the last act is pretty scary, but the pacing could be stronger.
Music City Salvage is a family operation, owned and operated by Chuck Dutton: master stripper of doomed historic properties, and expert seller of all things old and crusty. But business is lean and times are tight, so he’s thrilled when the aged and esteemed Augusta Withrow appears in his office, bearing an offer he really ought to refuse. She has a massive family estate to unload – lock, stock, and barrel. For a check and a handshake, it’s all his.
It’s a big check. It’s a firm handshake. And it’s enough of a gold mine that he assigns his daughter Dahlia to personally oversee the project.
Dahlia preps a couple of trucks, takes a small crew, and they caravan down to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the ancient Withrow house is waiting – and so is a barn, a carriage house, and a small, overgrown cemetery that Augusta Withrow left out of the paperwork.
Augusta Withrow left out a lot of things.
The property is in unusually great shape for a condemned building. It’s empty, but it isn’t abandoned. Something in the Withrow mansion is angry and lost. This is its last chance to raise hell before the house is gone forever, and there’s still plenty of room in the strange little family plot.
New from Cherie Priest, a modern master of supernatural fiction, The Family Plot is a haunted house story for the ages – atmospheric, scary, and strange, with a modern gothic sensibility that every bit as fresh as it is frightening.
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Hear ye, hear ye! CHERISH HARD by Nalini Singh is free worldwide! It’s book 1 in a series but stands alone just fine. Go forth and grab it wherever!
I just finished The Blacksmith Queen and need to give a contrasting opinion that this book is not for everyone. There were plot holes (actually, the item driving the entire plot is a plot hole) and the primary mainstay of the book is sibling and cousin bickering and bickering and bickering and not in a funny way but in a “there is an external actual danger and instead of dealing with it by relying on each other’s strengths, y’all are going to argue with each other instead.” There is also “I have some important information, but rather than just say it, I’m just going to say that I have important information but not share what it is.” There are people who, having been told that there is important information don’t say “well, spit it out, what is it?” but instead go ahead without it. There are running “jokes” that weren’t funny the first time and get more annoying with repetition. Suffice it to say, I hated this book. YMMV.
I just wanted to point out that Prince of Power features a virgin hero who’s a beta and a total nurturer, and who totally respects and is in awe of the heroine, who is a strong, dominant, compassionate warrior. So, if that’s your jam, this book is for you. It’s been awhile since I read it but my notes do say that it might be best to read the first book in the series first as the pair in this one get a fair amount of screen time and fleshing out in the first book.
The first book, King of Darkness, is also on sale for $0.99. As I recall, I really liked that one because the hero, who inherited his position, has plenty of self-doubt, so not a stereotypical alpha, and his mate turns out to be a party girl who initially thinks the whole “mate to the chosen king” thing is a bunch of nonsense and she isn’t sure she wants to get involved.
@JenM Drat. I was comfortable in my complete rejection of Prince of Power because there are vampires. I have been vampired (and werewolved) out since the mid ’90s. Now you’ve gone and made it sound like it might be interesting.
@JenM – Well, I feel better about accidentally buying it now. (My finger slipped when I tried to hit the send a sample button.) I remember hearing good things about the first book but somehow never got around to reading it.
@WS, I hear you on the vamps – I’m much more of a shifter girl myself. Still, all I need to hear is virgin and/or beta hero and I usually can’t resist. I wanted to point it out in this case because I know I’m not alone in that catnip preference.
On CHERISH HARD:
The first book Nalini Singh book I ever read was Rock Addiction, because it was free at the time. A month and around 25 books later, I stopped reading Shield of Winter from sheer exhaustion.
No regrets, but do consider the warning.
@HeatherT Thank you. I DNFed Blacksmith Queen twice. I just found the whole thing irritating.
It’s 2am and I thought that sentence ended at “Chuck Dutton: master stripper.” :’)
Cherie Priest used to be an auto-buy for me, up until “The Family Plot”. The ending freaked me out so much that I approach any book of hers very cautiously now.