The City We Became
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin is $3.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals and is being price-matched. Jemisin is a brilliant author and you should snap up any book when it’s on sale. This is a departure from Jemisin’s previous high fantasy titles and is more urban fantasy with some superhero vibes.
Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.
Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She’s got five.
But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.
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The Virgin and the Rogue by Sophie Jordan is $2.99! This is book six in The Rogue Files series and came out in April. Readers loved the heroine’s personal arc, but found the actual romance lackluster. Have you read this one?
Continuing her bestselling Rogue Files series, Sophie Jordan brews up a scintillating romance about a timid wallflower who discovers a love potion and ends up falling for a dashing rogue.
A love potion…Charlotte Langley has always been the prudent middle sister, so her family is not surprised when she makes the safe choice and agrees to wed her childhood sweetheart. But when she finds herself under the weather and drinks a “healing” tonic, the potion provokes the most maddening desire…for someone other than her betrothed.
With the power…
Kingston’s rakehell ways are going to destroy him and he’s vowed to change. His stepbrother’s remote estate is just the place for a reformed rogue to hide. The last thing he wants is to be surrounded by society, but when he gets stuck alone with a wallflower who is already betrothed… and she astonishes him with a fiery kiss, he forgets all about hiding.
To alter two destinies.
Although Charlotte appears meek, Kingston soon discovers there’s a vixen inside, yearning to break free. Unable to forget their illicit moment of passion, Kingston vows to relive the encounter, but Charlotte has sworn it will never happen again—no matter how earth-shattering it was. But will a devilish rogue tempt her to risk everything for a chance at true love?
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The Love Experiment by Ainslie Paton is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance with some enemies to lovers workplace vibes. I do love the cover, but I was pretty meh on this romance; I gave it a C-. However, your mileage may vary!
Can you fall in love in thirty-six questions?
The closest rookie lifestyle writer Derelie Honeywell gets to megastar reporter Jackson Haley is an accidental shoulder brush in The Courier‘s elevator. That is, until the love experiment: a study designed to accelerate intimacy using thirty-six questions and four minutes of sustained eye contact.
As far as Derelie is concerned, Jack Haley has always been a man best imagined in his underwear. He’s too intimidating otherwise. But participating in the love experiment is her make-or-break chance. With another round of layoffs looming, Derelie knows holding on to her job means getting the story no matter what. Even when the what is kissing Jack like a maniac.
Jack Haley has zero interest in participating in a clickbait story. He didn’t plan on finding Derelie smart and feisty and being mesmerized by her eyes. He certainly had no intention at all of actually falling in love with her.
The conclusion to this experiment? Thirty-six questions might lead to love, but finding the answer to happily-ever-after is a lot more complicated.
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The Veil by Chloe Neill is $2.99! This is book one in a dystopian/urban fantasy series and I gave it a B. I read the second book, but kind of petered off after that because wow, there are a lot of books out in the world:
Truly, I loved the world that Neill has built and the grey area questions posed by the plot – who is the real enemy here? However, the story does suffer from what I’d like to call “first book syndrome,” which tends to happen in a lot of paranormal romance and urban fantasy.
Seven years ago, the Veil that separates humanity from what lies beyond was torn apart, and New Orleans was engulfed in a supernatural war. Now, those with paranormal powers have been confined in a walled community that humans call the District. Those who live there call it Devil’s Isle.
Claire Connolly is a good girl with a dangerous secret: she’s a Sensitive, a human endowed with magic that seeped through the Veil. Claire knows that revealing her skills would mean being confined to Devil’s Isle. Unfortunately, hiding her power has left her untrained and unfocused.
Liam Quinn knows from experience that magic makes monsters of the weak, and he has no time for a Sensitive with no control of her own strength. But when he sees Claire using her powers to save a human under attack—in full view of the French Quarter—Liam decides to bring her to Devil’s Isle and the teacher she needs, even though getting her out of his way isn’t the same as keeping her out of his head.
But when the Veil threatens to shatter completely, Claire and Liam must work together to stop it, or else New Orleans will burn…
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Any one else getting Peter Grant vibes from The City We Became?
As for paranormal books, it’s very rare I venture into book two territory.
Thanks for the heads up about The Veil. This book has been in my “Wait for a Price Drop” folder for a few years – if it has been on sale before I haven’t seen it.
Also, KJ Charles’s Slippery Creatures is $0.99 on Amazon and price-matched everywhere else.
This is book 1 of a trilogy set in the 1920s and featuring a slow-burn/eventual M/M pairing.
I can’t believe The City we Became is on KDD as it was just published earlier this year and is so amazingly fantastic and prescient it’s uncanny. I listened to the audiobook (highly recommend!! Robin Miles does incredible accent work) and rated 5stars.
Jemisin is absolutely brilliant in making the Avengers-esque team of avatars for the city almost entirely women of color and/or queer. I’m not sure this was the best book I read all year but it is the one I can’t stop thinking about.
The City We Became is stupendously marvelous. ! enjoyed it quite a bit more than my BFF who loved it, because I know NYC like the back of my hand and it is apparent so does the author.
It really ticks me off when an author places a story in a city that she has clearly never been in. Shannon Stacey did that with one of her Boston firefighter series’ books and t was really annoying as Boston is another city I know like the back of my hand.
I also love it when the setting is so vivid as to become a character and that truly happens in TCWB.
About The Veil… why are so many of these set in New Orleans? LOL I am reading the 1st Jane Yellowtock and there we are, New Orleans.
The Love Experiment sounds fun, but the fact is Jack Haley is the name of the actor who played Cowardly Lion. That’s just not a picture I want in my head.
TIN WOODSMAN. He played the Tin Woodsman. Posted that just before I left work and was sitting in the GBPL drive thru when my brain finally clicked. Luckily I appear to have arrived home in time to correct my own mistake!
And still not a picture I want in my head.
@DonnaMarie: Like that Highlander romance a while back with a hero named…David Cameron (who, at that time, was Prime Minister of England). Not one person involved with the publication of the book caught that?
A few years ago, I started a book but soon realized I would be unable to continue reading it when I discovered the hero had the exact same name (first and last) as one of my daughter’s former boyfriends. That was NOT an image I wanted in my head as I was reading.
O/T: Liza Minnelli was once married to Jack Haley, Junior. (I knew my obsessive teenage reading of Rona Barrett’s Hollywood magazine would come in handy some day.)
Is anyone getting David Rose/Dan Levy vibes from the cover of The Love Experiment??
So Imma be a wet blanket: The Virgin and The Rogue cover is a bit troubling with a picture of questionable consent so I’m gonna take a hard pass unless someone has read it and remarks the cover art is misleading.
@DiscoDollyDeb a hero named David Cameron in a highlander romance? I wouldn’t be able to finish it, definitely not one to be read with a bacon sandwich.
I was reading a PNR with a shark shifter who had the same name as my daughter! Considering my daughter’s name isn’t common outside of Wales it was unexpected. The name reveal wasn’t until the end so I managed to finish it.
@Kit: A shark shifter?
@Susan yes you did read that right, a shark shifter.
I read some strange shit!
But I expect a lot of commenters had read stranger!
@Kit, Shark shifter? What is the name of the bok and author, please?
Laura Ann, no you are not alone in thinking that cover suggests consent problems.
@Gloriamarie it was a Zoe Chant, I think it was Wildfire Sea Dragon. I’ve had a five month stint in Kindle unlimited so I’ve basically gorged on weird PNR lately.
@DiscoDollyDeb: I believe that was Jennifer McQuiston’s “Summer is for Lovers”, set in Bath, where the athletic swimmer heroine rescues the drunken hero from drowning as the meet cute. (It also happens to be on sale for $2.99, and I enjoyed it immensely when I read it – total summer vibes – but then I don’t connect the name with an actual person, so there’s that.)
Forgotten the title but I know it was by Zoe Chant and it had a firefighting sea Dragon in it!
@HeatherS: Yep! Here’s the blurb:
His heart is unavailable. Luckily, her interest lies in the rest of him . . .
Though she was just a girl when they first met, Caroline Tolbertson’s infatuation with David Cameron remains undimmed. Now fate has brought the handsome Scotsman back to Brighton for what promises to be an unforgettable summer. Soon, Caroline will have to choose a husband, but for now she is free to indulge her curiosity in things of a passionate nature.
That is, if David will agree to teach her.
Past mistakes have convinced David he’ll make a terrible husband, though he’ll gladly help the unconventional Caroline find a suitor. Unfortunately, she has something more scandalous in mind. As the contenders for her hand begin to line up, her future seems assured . . . provided David can do the honorable thing and let them have her.
When a spirited young woman is determined to break Society’s rules, all a gentleman can do is lend a hand . . . or more.
@Kit, I see the bit about a dragon, but shark shifter in Wildfire Sea Dragon? No mention.
Perhaps you mean “The Master Shark’s Mate (Fire & Rescue Shifters Book 5)”
He’s the most feared shifter in the sea.
She’s a middle-aged grandma from Arizona.
He may have finally met his match…
Hated and mistrusted. Feared and misunderstood. For decades, the Master Shark has protected the underwater city of Atlantis. Now, his Empress has set him his most difficult mission yet:
A relaxing beach vacation.
Coyote shifter Martha Hernandez doesn’t want to take a vacation. She doesn’t want to sit around in some fancy all-shifter resort when her pack could be getting up to who-knows-what mischief in her absence. And she definitely doesn’t want to bang this mysterious scarred, silent stranger like a screen door in a hurricane.
Nope nope nope. No matter that he’s her one true mate. She’s a respectable widow with no call to be having such fool notions at her time of life. What would her family think?
But he is the Master Shark. And he has never failed in the hunt…
NB: Coronoia, not coronvirus but the anxiety of it!
My last comment made no sense because the comment before it didn’t register. I’m not going to post it again. SBTB a few of my comments either get posted late or missed. There was a shark shifter but it wasn’t made into a big thing, she only shifted once in the whole book (The middle of a landlocked forest). @Gloriamarie it was hinted at that she was possibly related to the Master Shark in the blurb you described, the series is a spin off from that. I read it just before lockdown when coronary anxiety was high so my details may be sketchy.