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Beach Read
RECOMMENDED: Beach Read by Emily Henry is $1.99! Catherine gave it an A:
I love this book. It does take you down into the darkness at times, but it leads you out again, and shows you the path so that you will be able to find it next time. It is sweet and sharp and clever and extremely funny and it left me with a happy sigh and a smile on my face.
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They’re polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
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Lock Every Door
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager is $1.99! This is a thriller about a mysterious house. Sager was the main topic of conversation on a previous post on the site about men writing psychological thrillers under unisex names. I find it interesting that all of his books feature women as the main characters.
No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind.
As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly, disturbingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story—until the next day, when Ingrid disappears.
Searching for the truth about Ingrid’s disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew’s dark past and into the secrets kept within its walls. Her discovery that Ingrid is not the first apartment sitter to go missing at the Bartholomew pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building’s hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent.
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Ten
Ten by Gretchen McNeil is $1.99 and part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals! This is a YA mystery/thriller with some horror thrown in, and it’s a retelling of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Some readers weren’t too keen on the writing style, but many thought this was a great addition to the YA horror/thriller genre, which people seem to want more of in general.
SHHHH!
Don’t spread the word!
Three-day weekend. Party at White Rock House on Henry Island.
You do NOT want to miss it.It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives—an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie each have their reasons for being there (which involve T.J., the school’s most eligible bachelor) and look forward to three glorious days of boys, booze and fun-filled luxury.
But what they expect is definitely not what they get, and what starts out as fun turns dark and twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine.
Suddenly people are dying, and with a storm raging, the teens are cut off from the outside world. No electricity, no phones, no internet, and a ferry that isn’t scheduled to return for two days. As the deaths become more violent and the teens turn on each other, can Meg find the killer before more people die? Or is the killer closer to her than she could ever imagine?
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The Ascendant Trilogy
The Ascendant Trilogy by K Arsenault Rivera is $2.99! This boxed set came out in August and I believe collects the entire series. It’s a queer fantasy, but there is an extensive review about cultural appropriation within the book.
The Ascendant Trilogy ebundle collects all three books in K Arsenault Rivera’s epic fantasy–The Tiger’s Daughter, The Phoenix Empress, and The Warrior Moon…
Even gods can be slain….
The Hokkaran empire has conquered every land within their bold reach―but failed to notice a lurking darkness festering within the people. Now, their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the forests.
Away on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging inheritance through the dynasties. It is up to two young warriors, raised together across borders since their prophesied birth, to save the world from the encroaching demons.
This is the story of an infamous Qorin warrior, Barsalayaa Shefali, a spoiled divine warrior empress, O-Shizuka, and a power that can reach through time and space to save a land from a truly insidious evil.
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The review you linked for the Ascendant Sun Triology is fantastic,and everyone should read it. The comments are good, too, and the review author helpfully unpacks a few of her review criticisms in message #21.
It is very difficult for those of us without adequate historical knowledge to skim over this kind of cultural appropriation. Even if you were to disagree with the reviewer, I think her examples are very helpful.
Sharon Sala’s Mimosa Grove is a KDD today. It’s a good Spooky Season read. (Note: There is an antebellum storyline that may disturb some readers, tho.)
For some reason I’m having a hard time getting past the names January and Augustus. Wonder if they’ll name their kids April, May, and June. Or September.
I liked the first 75% of Beach Read, but the ending felt super rushed and too pat. It was definitely a let down given how good the rest of it was!
We’re supposed to get snow tonight, so I’m totally ready for a beach read to inspire thoughts of warmer weather, and Beach Read sounds delightful!
I loved Beach Read a lot–its bittersweet sense of optimism really resonated with me, as did the litfic jokes. Honestly, read it just for the litfic jokes.
I think I would have liked Beach Read better without the epilogue. I think the book was at it’s most interesting, believable, and authentic when it knew that things working out isn’t guaranteed. And if you don’t have the epilogue, you end on a HFN that feels more earned and tonally consistent. I have friends who loved the happy wonderfulness of the epilogue, but for me it felt like it undercut the strongest element of the book.