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  • Sweet Talkin’ Lover

    Sweet Talkin’ Lover by Tracey Livesay

    RECOMMENDED: Sweet Talkin’ Lover by Tracey Livesay is $1.99! Carrie read this one and gave it a B+:

    Despite its awkward spots, this book charmed me with food and clothes, and with the friendships, the complicated families, the glory that is Olivia Pope from Scandal, and the emphasis on female mentorship, especially but not exclusively among women of color.

    Tracey Livesay delivers the first novel in her sexy new series about lifelong friends and unforgettable love stories.

    When everything is on the line, surrendering completely to love is your only choice…

    Marketing manager Caila Harris knows that the road to success in the beauty industry doesn’t allow for detours. She’s forsaken any trace of a social life, working 24/7 to ensure her next promotion. When grief over her grandfather’s death leads to several catastrophic decisions, Caila gets one final chance to prove herself: shut down an unprofitable factory in a small Southern town. But as soon as she arrives in Bradleton, she meets one outsized problem: the town’s gorgeous mayor.

    Wyatt Bradley isn’t thrilled about his nickname, Mayor McHottie. He’s even less happy to learn that his town might be losing its biggest employer. If he has to, he’ll use some sneaky tactics to get Caila on his side. Yet even as he’s hoping she’ll fall for Bradleton, he’s falling too—right into a combustible affair that shakes them both with its intensity.

    Two stubborn people, torn between loyalty, ambition, and attraction. But when you’re willing to give it your all, there’s no limit to how far love can take you…

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  • My Lady Notorious

    My Lady Notorious by Jo Beverley

    My Lady Notorious by Jo Beverley is 99c! This is the first book in the Malloren series and features a heroine who disguises herself as a man. I feel like this is one of those books that readers have really fond memories of reading. Do you? I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t read any Beverley titles, but I’ve always been curious about this one.

    Desperate to help her widowed sister and baby escape a deadly pursuer, Lady Chastity Ware dresses as a highwayman and captures the first coach to travel down the road. Coming face-to-face with its occupant, the arrogant aristocrat, Cyn Malloren, she orders him to drive her to a remote cottage.

    Little does Chastity realize that after long months of recovering from his war wounds, the handsome Cyn is looking for adventure, and being abducted by a cocky highwayman—obviously a lovely woman in disguise—is even more than he had hoped for. Willingly he is drawn into her devilishly reckless plan…and helplessly he is seduced by her wonderfully wicked ways.

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  • The Bear and the Nightingale

    The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

    RECOMMENDEDThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden is $2.99! This fantasy novel has elements of Russian mythology and I made a soothing cocktail for it. The book is whimsical and perfect for the winter, though it can drag at time, in my opinion.

    A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman’s myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice.

    At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.

    After Vasilisa’s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa’s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.

    And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa’s stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.

    As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.

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  • On Dublin Street

    On Dublin Street by Samantha Young

    On Dublin Street by Samantha Young is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance and recently got a new, illustrated cover. It’s cute, but I don’t think it matches the contents of the book because (if I recall), it’s a pretty angsty read. This one is more on the erotic side and has an Alpha hero, who divided some readers.

    Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare…

    Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well—until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.

    Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and he’s determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship, Braden proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached.

    But after an intrigued Jocelyn accepts, she realizes that Braden won’t be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her… down to the very soul.

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  1. Katie Lynn says:

    Yes, On Dublin Street’s new cover does NOT match the contents. The heroine has serious depression issues (for good reason, but that’s a spoiler) and it is one of the first books I read where the heroine isn’t magically healed by the power of the pecker. She seeks professional help and it’s handled pretty well. It is a new adult title, and is relatively angsty. I’ve read it a few times, and the audiobook is pretty good.

  2. Julia F says:

    Oh man, I miss JoBev; knew her from the days when RRA-L was a thing. I did not read MLN first, I read Tempting Fortune, and fell in love with the Mallorens. I have a “Waiting for Rothgar” button somewhere around still (though I was slightly dissatisfied with his book, sadly). I enjoyed the main series and her Company of Rogues books. I was not fond of the later Mallorens, so I stopped reading them.

    Can’t go wrong with the Mallorens or the Rogues series tho, imo.

  3. DiscoDollyDeb says:

    Modified rant ahead: ON DUBLIN STREET’s new cover is completely wrong for the book’s very angsty storyline. I’ve said before that illustrated covers bother me for a variety of reasons, ranging from the “managing of the female gaze” (no hot cover models for you, lady!) to false advertising (such as Tessa’s Bailey’s FIX HER UP—the queen of the dirty-talking alpha hero gets a tonally totally wrong cover). The new cover for ON DUBLIN STREET completely minimizes the angstiness of the storyline and the alpha qualities of the hero.

  4. Lisa F says:

    The Bear and the Nightingale is fabulous, IMO.

    This isn’t my favorite Beverley, but it’s still a fairly good bargain.

  5. Joy says:

    I noticed on Kindle daily deals that JD Robb’s (alias Nora Roberts) Naked in Death…the first in the Dallas and Rourke mystery series is on sale for 99 cents.

  6. Lisa F says:

    ETA: for some reason I’m getting stuck in the moderation que? Which is weird because my first comment of the day didn’t get stuck there! Guess I’m posting too quickly?

  7. Lisa F says:

    Oop, scratch that! Thanks, Sarah!

  8. Lexica says:

    Helen Hoang (author of THE KISS QUOTIENT and THE BRIDE TEST) is one of the people interviewed in a New York Times article titled “How I came out about my disability”: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/disability-reveal.html

  9. Karin says:

    I loved “My Lady Notorious”. It’s humorous, but CW for some horrible moments(the heroine’s father is abusive). It ends up with a very funny naked food fight. Cyn is my favorite Malloren.

  10. Tam says:

    I kind of remember ‘My Lady Notorious’ being a gloriously bananas mess of a book, but I liked it anyway?!

  11. WS says:

    The Malloren books were on the racy side in comparison with her Rogues books (all of which I read, and none of which I liked? What was wrong with me?). When Mary Balogh’s Bedwyn books came out, I assumed that the odd collection of Malloren names (Cynric, Arcenbryght,Elfled,Beowulf,Brand) were part of the inspiration for the Bedwyns (Wulfric, Aidan, Rannulf, Freyja, Morgan, Alleyne).

    I was going to say that I’m not sure if the Malloren books would still be considered racy today, but, then again, there’s an orgy in My Lady Notorious (along with the food fight and sex with food), the heroine’s auctioning off her virginity in the second one, and the third one (my favorite!) features (to paraphrase or possibly quote the hero) sex on a coffin and sex in a coffin. So, maybe? Anyway, the books are kind of crazy.

    The only Malloren book I liked well enough to keep and the only one I would consider rebuying for my kindle was Something Wicked.

  12. LML says:

    You want a cover that doesn’t match the contents? Try The Summer Before the War. I was so inflamed that I steamed for a week after reading it. Which is a shame because it was a good story, well written. But I don’t need war sorrows in my fiction. There’s more than enough of that in real life.

  13. Karin says:

    @LML, oh noes! I have The Summer Before the War, and it’s got one of those cute cartoonish covers. Plus her first book was so lovely and funny. I was looking forward to it.

  14. Penny says:

    So I initially misread Malloren as “Malloreon” and after my brief confusion cleared I laughed a little at myself and thought, oh hey whatever happened to David and Leigh Eddings? I read their “epic fantasy” books as a kid in the 80s/90s. (Side note: the books are not great, and sometimes they bothered preteen/teen me for reasons I couldn’t fully articulate at the time… and not just because one of the few women in the books was compelled to stay a virgin for thousands of years). But since I am distractible I did a quick search and… whelp… there’s another name added to the list of authors I’ve learned upsetting things about in the last decade… blah. At least this time it wasn’t Marion Zimmer Bradley…

  15. WS says:

    Sigh. I had never seen that about David Eddings and his wife. I got rid of most of my Eddings books when I realized I couldn’t take all the jokes about killing people/slicing them to ribbons.

  16. Penny says:

    @WS They were remarkably violent for a series targeted to/recommended as good for younger readers… like it was YA before YA was reallly a category

  17. Lyns says:

    @Penny. Glad I’m not the only one who misread Malloren as Malloreon. And I agree about David Eddings. Even at 11 I was upset about Polgara having to stay a virgin, while all the disgusting old magicians basically screwed anything.

  18. Emily B says:

    I found the Livesay very meh – the romance wasn’t believable because even though the author kept telling us how strong the characters’ feelings were for each other, they barely spent any time together over the course of the story. A case of too much telling, not enough showing. I wouldn’t read the next in the series.

  19. Kit says:

    Ah, read the first two of the Belgariad in the early 2000’s but it was too early after reading Lord of the Rings and I felt it was a rip off of it. Also having to remain a virgin for a thousand years? That kind of sucks (I’m assuming she had to rather than through choice mind you).

  20. Penny says:

    @Lyns & @Kit I mean, right? Begarath spent millennia drinking and f*cking and it’s treated as, well, you know his tragic backstory, can you blame him? Not, hey sex is a good thing when everyone is enthusiastically engaged but maybe let’s take a look at that alcoholism… iirc at one point Polgara defied the gods and decided to get married but even her fiancé wouldn’t have sex with her before they were married, and then there was a battle and Belgarath sent him off to his noble death… and Polgara basically is described as then pouting for a few centuries (though she maybe wasn’t? Something about keeping her activities at the time a secret so she pretended to go into seclusion?). The sexual politics were winkingly prurient.

  21. Star says:

    My friend reread the Belgariad a few years back and was horrified by how horribly Belgarath and particularly Polgara treated Garion; she was rage-screenshotting images to me in messages. It wasn’t simply that they were awful to him, even, but that the text clearly presented this as Garion being whiny and the adults being in the right. Polgara is flatout mean to him, and generally seems to hate children and parenting, until actually quite late in the first series — book 4? or maybe late in book 3? — when she gets an abrupt personality shift.

    After the news about the Eddings came out, suddenly it all made sense to us. Their horrible real-life parenting had bled into the books.

  22. DiscoDollyDeb says:

    @Star & others: (cw/tw) The abuse the Eddings were found guilty of committing must have been absolutely awful for them to have lost custody of their children IN THE 1960s! At that time, abuse would have had to have risen to a singular level of horror to even get law enforcement to bring a case. Those poor kids…I hope they went on to have decent lives with new families and, undoubtedly, plenty of therapy.

    /Throws the Eddings’ books over in the pile with THE MISTS OF AVALON, etc.

  23. LML says:

    @Karin, save it for a day when you want a well written, involved story, and can tolerate some heartbreak. Light and cheerful, it’s not. I saw the cover, recalled my enjoyment of the author’s previous book and didn’t take time to read reviews. I’ve since noticed that the cover on Scribd is less lighthearted.

  24. Penny says:

    @DiscoDollyDeb & others: I always sort of thought that Eddings had confused “strong woman” with “cruel, petty and/or otherwise unpleasant person.” The gaslighting of Garion and overall casual violence, racism, etc in the books… just ugh. I hadn’t thought about them in ages… So I went down a bit of a click hole (this is what insomnia does to you). I found this blog by a modernist professor of english who loves these books & even went to view the Eddings papers at Reed college. Professor guy wrote about Eddings as a sort of hero-subversive-modernist who quit academia and proceeded to sneak modernist philosophy into popular fantasy books. Professor guy later wrote a long essay titled “On Reading Monsters” where he is appalled that he found out about Eddings while in the midst of reading these books to his sons. Buuuut he’s still gonna read them because, reasons.

    Avoid the Eddings (and Marion Zimmer Bradley, for that matter) click hole my friends.

  25. Jen says:

    Hi all!
    Just a head’s up–My Lady Notorious should have a LOT of CWs attached: sexual violence, abuse, more abuse, and a bunch of really problematic attitudes towards purity. It’s a bit old skool, so be forewarned!

  26. Jen says:

    Hi all!
    Just a head’s up–My Lady Notorious should have a LOT of CWs attached: sexual violence, abuse, more abuse, and a bunch of really problematic attitudes towards purity. It’s a bit old skool too, so be forewarned!

  27. Ulrike says:

    I had a hard time with The Bear and the Nightingale. I read it immediately after Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, which I *loved*, and I felt like I would have enjoyed TB&TN better if I’d read it first. I read book two and didn’t hate it, and I picked up book three as soon as it was released, and it was all worth it! Book three made me fall in love with the whole series. I haven’t done a reread yet, but I’m sure I will. So, The Bear and the Nightingale is just fine, but the trilogy as a whole is GREAT!

  28. TinaNoir says:

    I could go on a rant about my feelings about how bad a guardian Polgara was to Garion in The Belgariad. I mean, here, let me a raise a kid I know who is going to become a king but don’t teach him how to read or learn anything about political craft. So when he is finally thrust into his destiny, and he is confused and lost and not sure what to do, let me then just act all exasperated and impatient over his ignorance. Just ugh!

    On the upside it makes me want to go and re-read that Jo Beverly book, tho. I remember it fuzzily fondly. It is due for a re-read.

    And finally, I recoiled when I saw the new cover of ‘On Dublin street.’ I mean, I have seen some examples of the illustrated covers not really being tonally right for the story. But I think this is the worst example of it I have seen so far.

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