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Monster, She Wrote
RECOMMENDED: Monster She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson is $2.99! This is a price-matched Kindle Daily Deal. Carrie loved this one and gave it an A:
I can’t emphasize enough how well this collection hits the sweet spot of fun (Quotes! Illustrations! Anecdotes! Humor!) and informative. I will be using this book as a resource frequently.
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond.
Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction. Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, who was rumored to keep her late husband’s heart in her desk drawer. But have you heard of Margaret “Mad Madge” Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier (and liked to wear topless gowns to the theater)? If you know the astounding work of Shirley Jackson, whose novel The Haunting of Hill House was reinvented as a Netflix series, then try the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term romantic relationships with women in the Victorian era. You’ll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V. C. Andrews), forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Colter, Ruby Jean Jensen), and today’s vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). Curated reading lists point you to their most spine-chilling tales.
Part biography, part reader’s guide, the engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists will introduce you to more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories.
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Instant Temptation
Instant Temptation by Jill Shalvis is $2.99! This is the third book in the Wilder trilogy, and the second book is also on sale. Sarah loves this series and notes that the books have a friends to lovers trope, if that’s your particular catnip.
T.J. Wilder is the perfect package of breathtaking adventure and raw sex appeal. Even better, he’s about to reconnect with the one woman he’s never been able to forget…
Get Your Pulse Racing
To Harley, the landscape around Wishful, California, is exhilarating, untamed, and more than a little dangerous. The same could be said for T.J. Wilder, who’s invited himself along on her trek to study a rare coyote. Harley’s career is riding on this trip, and she doesn’t need a stubborn, incredibly sexy distraction. But T.J. is a professional guide who knows when to stay back and when to provide invaluable expertise-just like he’s done since they were in high school. And Harley, as usual, is torn between throttling him and giving in to the raw attraction that’s been smoldering all these years.
T.J. knows how proud and capable Harley is, but he’s damned sure not letting her put herself at risk when there are illegal hunters in the area. She needs him, with the same soul-stirring urgency that he’s always craved her. And here, in this beautiful place days from civilization, he’ll finally have a chance to prove it-over and over again…
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Alex
Alex by Sawyer Bennett is $1.99! This is a contemporary sports romance with an ice cold, hockey playing hero. This is the first book in the Cold Fury series, which many readers have loved. While reviewers on GoodReads found the characters to be interesting and well-thought out, a few found their attention spans starting to wane halfway through. Are you familiar with the series?
Hockey star Alexander Crossman has a reputation as a cold-hearted player on and off the rink. Pushed into the sport by an alcoholic father, Alex isn’t afraid to give fans the proverbial middle finger, relishing his role as the MVP they love to hate. Management, however, isn’t so amused. Now Alex has a choice: fix his public image through community service or ride the bench. But Alex refuses to be molded into the Carolina Cold Fury poster boy . . . not even by a tempting redhead with killer curves.
As a social worker, Sutton Price is accustomed to difficult people—like Alex, who’s been assigned to help her create a drug-abuse awareness program for at-risk youth as part of the team’s effort to clean up his image. What she doesn’t expect is the arrogant smirk from his perfect lips to stir her most heated fantasies. But Sutton isn’t one to cross professional boundaries—and besides, Alex doesn’t do relationships . . . or does he? The more she sees behind Alex’s bad-boy façade, the more Sutton craves the man she uncovers.
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A Study in Scoundrels
A Study in Scoundrels by Christy Carlyle is $1.99! There’s something about the cover that looks odd to me. But, the heroine is a secret author and the hero is an actor. This is the second book in the Romancing the Rules series, but can be read as a standalone.
Sophia Ruthven is the epitome of proper behavior. On paper at least, as long as that paper isn’t from one of the lady detective stories she secretly pens. She certainly isn’t interested in associating with the dashing Jasper Grey, the wayward heir to the Earl of Stanhope, and one of the stage’s leading men. But when she learns Grey’s younger sister Liddy has gone missing, she can’t deny her desire to solve the mystery…or her attraction to the incorrigible scoundrel.
Responsibility isn’t something Grey is very familiar with. On the boards and in the bedroom, he lives exactly how he wants to, shunning all the trappings of respectability and society. Grey knows he should avoid the bewitching Sophia, but he’s never been able to say no to what he wants. And having Sophia in his arms and his bed is quickly becoming the thing he wants the most.
As Sophia and Grey’s search for Liddy continues across the English countryside, can this scoundrel convince a proper lady that he’s actually perfect for her or will their adventure leave them both heartbroken?
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Wow, we’re finally getting historicals where the heroine’s blatantly stripping off on the cover!
RE: that last cover… I think either her upper arm is too long, or the position of the dress is creating the illusion that it’s too long. Something is weird with her neck too, like it’s jutted too far forward? It looks almost like she’s wearing a white choker or something that is blending too much into the background so it’s again creating an illusion that her neck isn’t there.
A Duke Too Far by Jane Ashford is $2.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble (I didn’t check any other sites).
I read MONSTER, SHE WROTE last week and really liked it!
Yesterday, I got an email from Amazon offering me a six-dollar credit for seven days for books by a particular author, which turned out to mean not, as I originally assumed, “pick an eligible book and deduct six dollars” but rather “surprise, literally all of the author’s books are six dollars cheaper for you for a week and we already deducted the discount for you and everything.” It was great; I had had two of this author’s books on my wait-for-sale list, and the six-dollar discount lowered them comfortably beneath my limit, so yay, everyone wins. But I’m also baffled because I’ve never encountered this before, and I was an early Amazon adopter. Has anyone else got offers like this? Is this a new thing?
@Star, I have gotten offers like this for a while. I cannot tell you why or how the books or recipients are chosen but I can confirm that it has been going on for at least two years
@Star, I’m curious if you’re a kindle unlimited member? I am, and I’ve been an Amazon Prime member for a decade and never received an offer like the one you’re describing. I was wondering if there is any connection. Of course, with my household all using the Amazon Prime account for their purchases, it might be that we just don’t look like we need any encouragement to buy. 😉
@Star, I also received the offer you described, and recently received a similar offer for Deanna Raybourn’s books when I bought one of the Veronica Speedwell books on sale. I don’t remember receiving such offers before this year, but I’ve also bought many more ebooks than usual since March.
I’m a fan of Sawyer Bennett’s Cold Fury and the Arizona Vengeance books. I like these kind of series where you get to know characters and are excited for them to get their own stories. Hockey romance is the genre I never realized I needed in my life till SBTB pointed me in that direction!
@Star, I too have received Amazon offers such as you describe. Generally it’s for books from an author on my wishlist.
@Carrie G, I do not have Kindle Unlimited nor Amazon Prime.
Jeff Bezos himself probably couldn’t explain how the Amazon algorithms work and why certain offers are made to certain readers. I’m always amazed at the type of books that will show up on my “Recommended” list. There will be a bunch of contemporary romances (which makes sense, given that that constitutes an enormous percentage of my reading), followed by some craptastic legal/political thriller by Nelson de Mille or David Balducci—writers/genres I have neither read nor have any interest in reading. I suppose, much like the claw in the original “Toy Story,” the algorithm decides.