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How Long til Black Future Month?
RECOMMENDED: How Long ’til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin is $2.99! This is part of today’s awesome selection of Kindle Daily Deals and I wanted to be sure and highlight it. Carrie gave this an A grade in a Lightning Review. You really can’t go wrong with Jemisin.
Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin sharply examines modern society in her first short story collection.
N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story “The City Born Great,” a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis’s soul.
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All Systems Red
RECOMMENDED: All Systems Red by Martha Wells is $1.99! I think everyone at SBTB HQ who has read these books has absolutely loved them, myself included. Sarah in particular has been re-reading them consistently. I recommend her squee-filled review of the latest Murderbot book, Network Effect.
“As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.”
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.
On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.
But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
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The Chocolate Heart
The Chocolate Heart by Laura Florand is $1.99 at Amazon! Not sure if this is an expiring deal or not, but Florand’s books are comfort reads for a lot of the Bitchery. I think it’s all the chocolate talk! Warning for this one though as I believe the slur g*psy is used to describe the hero and his childhood. Correct me if I’m wrong!
No one hates Paris—except Summer Corey. The moody winters. The artists and their ennui. The inescapable shadow of the Tour Eiffel. But things go from bad to worse when Summer stumbles into brooding, gorgeous chef pâtissier Luc Leroi and indecently propositions the hero of French cuisine…
Luc has scrambled up from a childhood panhandling in the Paris Métro to become the king of his city, and he has no patience for this spoiled princess, even if she does now own his restaurant. Who cares if she smiles with all the warmth of July? She doesn’t eat dessert!
There is only one way to tempt her. A perfect, impossibly sweet seduction…
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What to Do with a Duke
What to Do with a Duke by Sally MacKenzie is $1.99! This book was previously mentioned on a podcast with Kensington executive editor, Esi Sogah who had this to say:
I edited it in a day because I couldn’t stop reading it. I was supposed to be doing other stuff that day that didn’t get done. There’s definitely high jinks and people sort of, like, scheming behind the scenes but in really sort of delightful ways, and there’re gossipy old biddies, and the heroine in this book has ten siblings, which is why she wants to move into the Spinster House.
Welcome to the charming, fatefully named village of Loves Bridge, where a woman destined for spinsterhood can live a life of her own choosing—or fall unexpectedly, madly in love…
Miss Isabelle Catherine Hutting would rather be lounging in the library than circling the ballroom in search of a husband any day. So when Cat hears that the town’s infamous Spinster House is open for a new resident, she jumps at the chance to put all this marriage business behind her. But first she must make arrangements with her prospective landlord, Marcus, the Duke of Hart—the most handsome man she’s ever seen, and the only man who’s ever impressed her in the least…
With her wit, independent spirit, and not least of all her beauty, Marcus can’t help but be stirred by Cat. It’s terribly unfortunate he’s not looking to marry, given the centuries-old curse that left his family with the Spinster House to begin with. No duke shall live to see his heir’s birth. But is there a chance the curse could be broken—in true fairy-tale fashion—by an act of true love? The race to Happily Ever After is about to begin…
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I am ALL about Murderbot! I adore these books and have both the audio and ebook versions. If you have not read them I envy you getting the chance to do so for the first time. They ARE quite expensive for the size of the book so check out the library for the rest. It is worth the expense for the absolute fun you will have with these stories.
The first three Murderbot books are Kindle daily deals today! I’m missing Artificial Condition so will be grabbing that one for my collection.
I like all of these but the Mackenzie. Her books have never stricken the right note for me, for some reason.
@JudyW The Murderbot series looks great, but Book 4 of the series is $11 for 176 pages. Wow! I don’t mind paying for books but I can’t afford that. Thankfully,it looks like my library has all of them,so I’ll just wait until they reopen.
The Jemisin stories are great, and the one about the city born great is the genesis of her new novel. Read them! Read them!
I had the NK Jemison one sitting on my TBR pile for a while and kept forgetting to pick it up. When I finally did, it made me SO happy — what wonderful stories — just some bang up fantastic sci fi.
The third book in MacKenzie’s Series is also on sale for $1.99, but the second book isn’t.
I am so excited for the sale on the Jemisin collection! I’m listening to the audiobook of her novel The City We Became and it’s incredible. So far one of the best audiobooks I’ve ever listened to