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A Curse So Dark and Lonely
RECOMMENDED: A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer is $1.99 at Amazon! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals and isn’t being price-matched yet. This one was recommended to Carrie and she really enjoyed it, giving the book an A-:
I enjoyed the way this book both used and subverted Beauty and the Beast tropes. There’s a good blend of angst and humor and worldbuilding.
In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.
Fall in love, break the curse.It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he knew he could be saved if a girl fell for him. But that was before he learned that at the end of each autumn, he would turn into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. That was before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope.
Nothing has ever been easy for Harper. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother barely holding their family together while constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, she learned to be tough enough to survive. But when she tries to save someone else on the streets of Washington, DC, she’s instead somehow sucked into Rhen’s cursed world.
Break the curse, save the kingdom.
A prince? A monster? A curse? Harper doesn’t know where she is or what to believe. But as she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what’s at stake. And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. But powerful forces are standing against Emberfall . . . and it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and his people from utter ruin.
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The Trouble with True Love
The Trouble with True Love by Laura Lee Guhrke is $3.99! A lot of Guhrke’s titles are on sale at this price, so if there’s one you’re waiting for in particular, take a look! Carrie read this historical romance and gave it a B grade:
I would consider this to be a almost perfect (but not quite, hence the B grade) comfort read. Good food, good clothes, lovely settings, lovely characters, lots and lots of feminism – that’s my jam!
Dear Lady Truelove,
I am a girl of noble family, but I am painfully shy, especially in my encounters with those of the opposite sex . . .
For Clara Deverill, standing in for the real Lady Truelove means dispensing advice on problems she herself has never managed to overcome. There’s nothing for it but to retreat to a tearoom and hope inspiration strikes between scones. It doesn’t—until Clara overhears a rake waxing eloquent on the art of “honorable” jilting. The cad may look like an Adonis, but he’s about to find himself on the wrong side of Lady Truelove.
Rex Galbraith is an heir with no plans to produce a spare. He flirts with the minimum number of eligible young ladies to humor his matchmaking aunt, but Clara is the first to ever catch his roving eye. When he realizes that Clara—as Lady Truelove—has used his advice as newspaper fodder, he’s infuriated. But when he’s forced into a secret alliance with her, he realizes he’s got a much bigger problem—because Clara is upending everything Rex thought he knew about women—and about himself. . . .
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Darkness Awakened
Darkness Awakened by Katie Reus is 99c! This is a paranormal romance with a second chance love story between a werewolf hero and a vampire heroine. This book has a 3.8-star average at GR, and readers who enjoyed it particularly liked the balance of supernatural outer conflict with the emotional inner conflict between the hero and heroine.
Years ago he ended things between them to protect her…
As leader of one of the fiercest werewolf packs in the south, Finn Stavros is in full battle mode 24/7. He has no choice—he’s one of the few beings strong enough to fight the Akkadian demons, whose mysterious escape from hell threatens the entire world. With the battle turning bloodier by the second, Finn is ready for anything…until his vampire long lost love shows up on his doorstep in desperate need of his help, sending his heart into a tailspin. He agrees to help her, unaware that she carries a shocking secret that will turn his life upside down.
This time, he’s not letting her go…
Vampire Lyra Marius curses the day she met Finn. The ruthless werewolf promised to love her forever, but he rejected her instead—before she could share her life altering news. Pregnant, kicked out of her coven, and cast aside by the love of her life, Lyra struggled to raise their rare shifter-vampire daughter Vega alone among humans. When the 16-year-old is kidnapped and used to fulfill a frightening prophecy, Lyra swallows her pride and turns to Finn for help. But how long can she fight her feelings for him and keep him from guessing the truth about who Vega really is? As they race against the clock to save their daughter, they must defeat the lethal threat imposed by demons infiltrating the human world and a hell gate that could not only reveal their existence to mankind, but destroy the world in the process.
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The Girl in Red
The Girl in Red by Christina Henry is $2.99! I enjoyed this one and have it a B+, but I understand if you don’t want to read about a zombie-creating pandemic right now:
If you’ve enjoyed Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (and I did), you should definitely pick up The Girl in Red. It’s definitely more feminist than The Road, and while it keeps the same level of world-building bleakness, it has a happier ending.
From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic “Little Red Riding Hood”…about a woman who isn’t as defenseless as she seems.
It’s not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn’t look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.
There are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night. Sometimes, there are men. Men with dark desires, weak wills, and evil intents. Men in uniform with classified information, deadly secrets, and unforgiving orders. And sometimes, just sometimes, there’s something worse than all of the horrible people and vicious beasts combined.
Red doesn’t like to think of herself as a killer, but she isn’t about to let herself get eaten up just because she is a woman alone in the woods…
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It’s been a while since I read The Girl in Red but I remember cheering at the main character’s no-bullshit competence. The secondary characters are also cool and endearing. I liked it.
SEA OF RUST by C. Robert Cargill is $2.99. I loved it, but in a kind of morbid way. “People are gonna people. Here, their insistence on peopling led to being exterminated by robots—which, having been born (so to speak) of people, proceed to behave an awful lot like… people. Full-blown imperialist subjugation and murder in the name of manifest destiny and all that happy crap. I was very invested in the adventures of Brittle the Cannibal Robot and her rebel frenemies, but the frame as a whole was not beneficial to my prevailing feelings of doom, despair, and futility.” If you like Murderbot, maybe give it a look?
The BRAVETART cookbook is also $2.99. Standard assortment of baked goods plus some brand-name knockoffs. I use the sweetened condensed milk recipe ALL THE TIME. (Some kind soul once gifted me a couple of vanilla beans, and I put the guts in whatever and simmered the husks in the sweetened condensed milk and we ended up eating most of that batch with a spoon because it was so amazing. If you’re able to afford that sort of extravagance, I highly recommend.)
@Ren Benton: speaking as someone who used to boil cans of sweetened condensed milk to make caramel sauce that I then ate straight from the can (come on, I was in college), anyone who has ever made flan knows that sweetened condensed milk is a gift from the gods!
Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet is a KDD. It is a mystery set in the Village of Nether Monkslip and the hero is the vicar, an Anglican priest who used to be an agent with M-I 5. It is clever and the descriptions of the motely crew of villagers are delightful. Max is single and there are glimmers of the start of a relationship in this book (it grows in subsequent books). I found it delightful and have read most of the rest of the series (I think that there are 7). If you are looking for fall reading to add to your Kindle — this is a good choice.
The King Must Die by Mary Renault is also a KDD. This is an older book and is about Theseus and his visit to Crete. I read it for the first time when I was in high school (back in the 70s) so I don’t know if it will hold up well under modern standards. I loved Renault and have just about all of her fiction in hardcover. It definitely isn’t a romance — but if you like stories based in Greek myth, this is a good one.
The Bravetart cookbook is amazing! My spouse has made many recipes from it, and the brownies are frequently requested when we attend group gatherings.
I’ve read “The Girl in Red” and it is extremely good.
@Another Anne–Wicked Autumn sounds like my catnip so thank you for the rec!
Thanks @Another Anne, the book, Wicked Autumn, falls right in my wheelhouse. I love cozy British village mysteries.
THE TROUBLE WITH TRUE LOVE is one of my fave LLG books. It’s so sweet and the hero is one of those rakes who just loses all composure around the heroine – he stammers, he makes awkward comments, and he never gets the last word. It is, however, improved a lot by reading the previous book, where you get to see the heroine from the perspective of her much more outgoing sister, who got the full ‘has an affair and marries a duke’ HR treatment. Clara’s book feels like a romance on the edge of that story and all the more original for it.
I see that Heated Rivalry: A Gay Sports Romance by Rachel Reid, about which @DDD has spoken highly, is on sale for $1.99 for Kindle readers.
I liked both The Girl in Red and the Trouble with True Love; both excellent picks!
@Kareni: HEATED RIVALRY was my favorite book of 2019. It’s a wonderfully-written story that follows two professional hockey players who move from rivals to lovers over the course of a decade. Highly recommended.
If you’re in Australia there are a few books that are free on Amazon at the moment, including:
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
Man Card by Sarina Bowen
Damaged Goods by Talia Hibbert
Unmasking Miss Appleby by Emily Larkin
Here is the link for Amazon AU to “Best Sellers in Romance: Top 100 Free”
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/2496771051/ref=zg_bs_nav_kinc_2_2496751051?ie=UTF8&tf=1