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The Wallflower Wager
RECOMMENDED: The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare is $1.99! There was some debate on how the heroine’s trauma was handled in this one (feel free to check Goodreads and the comments of Carrie’s review). It earned an A- grade:
It’s fun, it has pathos, there are clothes both hilariously awful and droolingly lovely, it contains found family, and it has plentiful humor. A keeper, for sure.
They call him the Duke of Ruin.
To an undaunted wallflower, he’s just the beast next door.
Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society—and now he wants to get even.
Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn’t take into her home and her heart.
When her imposing—and attractive—new neighbor demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge. She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving homes.
Done, Gabriel says. How hard can it be to find homes for a few kittens?
And a two-legged dog.
And a foul-mouthed parrot.
And a goat, an otter, a hedgehog . . .
Easier said than done, for a cold-blooded bastard who wouldn’t know a loving home from a workhouse. Soon he’s covered in cat hair, knee-deep in adorable, and bewitched by a shyly pretty spinster who defies his every attempt to resist. Now she’s set her mind and heart on saving him.
Not if he ruins her first.
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The Rift Uprising
The Rift Uprising by Amy S. Foster is $2.99! This is the first book in a sci-fi trilogy, that is now complete. There seems to be debate on whether this is YA or not, though I think the general consensus it’s that it’s more of a New Adult crossover title. Have you read this one?
An alternate reality that feels all-too-real, The Rift Uprising is the explosive start to a new trilogy that combines the fast paced action of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games, the lyrical tone of Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and the emotional stakes of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising from acclaimed lyricist and storyteller Amy S. Foster.
Normal seventeen-year-old girls go to high school, binge watch TV shows all weekend, and flirt with everyone on the face of the Earth. But Ryn Whitaker is trying to save it.
Ryn is a Citadel. A soldier. A liar. Ryn and her fellow Citadels were specially chosen and trained to guard a Rift—one of fourteen unpredictable tears in the fabric of the universe that serve as doorways to alternate Earths. Unbeknownst to her family, Ryn leaves for school each day and then reports for duty as an elite, cybernetically-altered soldier who can run faster, jump farther, and fight better than a Navy SEAL—which comes in handy when she’s not sure if axe-wielding Vikings or any number of other scared and often dangerous beings come through the Rift. A fine-tuned weapon, Ryn is a picture-perfect Citadel.
But that’s all about to change.
When a young man named Ezra is pulled through the Rift, Ryn finds herself immediately drawn to him, despite her training. What starts as a physical attraction quickly grows deeper, and Ezra’s curiosity throws Ryn off balance when he starts questioning the Rifts, the mysterious organization that oversees them, and the Citadels themselves—questions that lead Ryn to wonder if the lies she’s been telling her family are just the surface of a much bigger lie told to her. As Ryn and Ezra desperately try to get to that truth, they discover that each revelation blurs the line between the villains and the heroes even more.
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Wrong Number, Right Guy
Wrong Number, Right Guy by Elle Casey is 99c! This is the first book in The Bourbon Street Boys series and all the other books are discounted as well. Readers recommended this for fans of romantic comedy contemporaries. However, others felt the amount of comedy bordered on immature.
When a mysterious text message summons May Wexler to a biker bar in downtown New Orleans, she knows something is very wrong. Her sister has sent out an SOS, but when May gets there, she’s nowhere to be found and May is the one in trouble—she’s wearing pink espadrilles, she’s got a Chihuahua in her purse, and she’s in the middle of a shootout.
After tall, muscular Ozzie comes to her rescue, May has no choice but to follow him to safety. At the headquarters of his private security firm, the Bourbon Street Boys, she finds a refuge for the night—and the offer of a job. But it’s not long before a gun-toting stalker isn’t the only complication in May’s life: the more time she spends with Ozzie, the less she can deny that they’ve got some serious chemistry. A wrong number got her into this mess…Will it also get her the right guy?
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The Palace Job
The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes is 99c! This is a fantasy adventure book and was recommend in two Rec Leagues: Adventure Romance and Heist Books. Here are what commenters have said:
Judy W:Â If you like fantasy at all I remember recently reading The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes that was a heist caper in a Game of Thrones type setting.
KB: My rec is The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes, it’s the first of a trilogy and all three are really fun. The mastermind is a black woman, the crew is hysterical – the interactions of the secondary characters/crew might be my favorite part of heist stories – and it’s really funny with great dialog. There are a couple of interesting romances, but the focus is on the heist(s). It’s like Leverage, a show I loved.
Mikki:Â Patrick Weekes worked on Mass Effect, and Palace Job has the whole assembling a diverse cast of characters to exchange snark and save the world but in a fantasy setting, for anyone who likes those games.
Loch is seeking revenge.
It would help if she wasn’t in jail.
The plan: to steal a priceless elven manuscript that once belonged to her family, but now is in the hands of the most powerful man in the Republic. To do so Loch—former soldier, former prisoner, current fugitive—must assemble a crack team of magical misfits that includes a cynical illusionist, a shapeshifting unicorn, a repentant death priestess, a talking magical warhammer, and a lad with seemingly no skills to help her break into the floating fortress of Heaven’s Spire and the vault that holds her family’s treasure—all while eluding the unrelenting pursuit of Justicar Pyvic, whose only mission is to see the law upheld.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Palace Job is a funny, action-packed, high-fantasy heist caper in the tradition of Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastards series, from debut author Patrick Weekes.
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Georgette Heyer’s first book, THE BLACK MOTH, written when she was still a teenager, is free in the kindle store:
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Moth-Romance-XVIIIth-Century-ebook/dp/B0073Y9KB6/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=georgette+heyer+the+black+moth&qid=1593618498&sr=8-2
THE PALACE JOB is exactly my kind of book and Amazon tells me I bought it four years ago. I am drowning in books, which sounds like the good kind of problem, except for having only one set of eyes and hands, and a need for occasional sleep.
Books 3 and 4 in my favorite series (plural) are languishing, but it’s been so long since I read the others that I almost need to start over. I can’t remember what I’ve purchased or read; it’s all conflating into space opera dragons who like to bake and solve crimes when they aren’t playing field hockey on Rigel VII.
My name is Darlynne and I have a problem. (All kidding aside, I am on-my-knees grateful to forget 2020 for just a few minutes.)
@Darlynne: I want to read the space opera dragons who like to bake and solve crimes when they aren’t playing field hockey on Rigel VII! …I’ll totally buy it and let it languish on my kindle for two years, just like everything else.
(I have similar conflation issues at the moment, though I did finish The Palace Job last winter. I enjoyed it. Got distracted partway through the second one, though.)
The Palace Job is _SO_ good. (The sequels are good, but a bit of a let down after the first. Still good, just not _SO_ good.)
If you like heist books and movies, and the feeling that the protagonists are both one step ahead of the bad guys and on the brink of failing at all times – this is the book.
I see that the two sequels for the Palace Job are also 99 cents in the US.
Yay, Patrick Weekes! Palace Job is indeed an excellent book, with a delightful, inclusive cast of characters. (I’m not sure if Weekes was openly non-binary when he wrote this series, but you could tell he was pretty comfortable writing LGBTQIA+ characters.) Besides Mass Effect, he was also part of the writing crew for the Dragon Age series, so if you enjoy the humor of either of those series, you’ll definitely enjoy Weekes’ books. Lots of fantasy tropes get turned upside-down. Like the unicorn on the cover? She really likes virgins, ifyouknowwhatImeanandIthinkyoudo…
Wow, I wrote my first comment assuming that everyone was talking about Tessa Dare. Guess I should have read them first, haha! Nice to know that Patrick Weekes has lots of fans here 😀
Y’all finally convinced to me to buy The Palace Job and the sequels- at Amazon if you buy all three at once they are discounted to .89 each. I know what I’ll be reading as soon as I get off of work today!
D’oh, I wish there were an edit button. I wrote about Patrick Weekes being non-binary and then proceeded to vomit out he/him all over the place before going to bed. Let the record show that I’m a twit and that his pronouns are they/them.
D’oh, I wish there were an edit button. I wrote about Patrick Weekes being non-binary and then proceeded to vomit out he/him all over the place before going to bed. Let the record show that I’m a twit and that their pronouns are they/them.
Patrick Weekes also wrote the book Feeder, which has strong LGBTQIA+ elements to it. I’d call it New Adult. It has action, adventure, and plays against tropes in ways that are consistently surprising (but not in a GRRM grimdark way). I can’t recommend it enough (and I am finding it very hard to write about it without spoiling it).