There are so many great books in today’s Kindle Daily Deals that I can’t feature in one post, so I will list the extras here:
- Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean ($3.99)
- Brooklynaire by Sarina Bowen (99c)
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black ($2.99)
- Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken ($1.99)
- Hidden by Rebecca Zanetti ($1.99)
- Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston ($1.99)
- How to Love Your Elf by Kerrelyn Sparks ($1.99)
- Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn ($2.99)
- Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews ($3.99)
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Boyfriend Material
RECOMMENDED: Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall is $2.99! Carrie reviewed this one and gave it a B+:
I thought this book was lovely. It had real depth. There were characters who made me angry. Sometimes those characters were truly awful people and sometimes they were good people who made mistakes (hello, Luc, you mess). Sometimes the book made me sad. Mostly, it made me swoon and laugh in equal measure – a great stress read!
Wanted:
One (fake) boyfriend
Practically perfect in every wayLuc O’Donnell is tangentially–and reluctantly–famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he’s never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad’s making a comeback, Luc’s back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything.
To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship…and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. He’s a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and he’s never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. In other words: perfect boyfriend material. Unfortunately apart from being gay, single, and really, really in need of a date for a big event, Luc and Oliver have nothing in common. So they strike a deal to be publicity-friendly (fake) boyfriends until the dust has settled. Then they can go their separate ways and pretend it never happened.
But the thing about fake-dating is that it can feel a lot like real-dating. And that’s when you get used to someone. Start falling for them. Don’t ever want to let them go.
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House of Earth and Blood
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas is $3.99! Ellen wrote a fantastic review and gave it a B-:
When I started this book, I was expecting a jam-packed, over-the top fantasy with a lot of snark and heart. And House of Earth and Blood did deliver that, even if there were some missteps in execution. If you’ve enjoyed Maas’ other books, and if you can handle all the violence and slavery and slut-shaming, it’s worth it to push through the awkward beginning and the dragging bits in the middle for big payoff at the end. If you thought “ew, no thanks” about the aforementioned elements, or if you cannot handle hearing men and women referred to only as “males” and “females” for 800 pages, skip it.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas launches her brand-new CRESCENT CITY series with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance.
Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion—otherwise known as Crescent City— has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city—and Bryce’s world.
Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful oblivion in the city’s most notorious nightclubs. But when the murderer attacks again, Bryce finds herself dragged into the investigation and paired with an infamous Fallen angel whose own brutal past haunts his every step.
Hunt Athalar, personal assassin for the Archangels, wants nothing to do with Bryce Quinlan, despite being ordered to protect her. She stands for everything he once rebelled against and seems more interested in partying than solving the murder, no matter how close to home it might hit. But Hunt soon realizes there’s far more to Bryce than meets the eye—and that he’s going to have to find a way to work with her if they want to solve this case.
As Bryce and Hunt race to untangle the mystery, they have no way of knowing the threads they tug ripple through the underbelly of the city, across warring continents, and down to the darkest levels of Hel, where things that have been sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir…
With unforgettable characters and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom—and the power of love.
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Island Affair
Island Affair by Priscilla Oliveras is $2.99! Oliveras was part of my contemporary romance panel for Bookstore Romance Day, and she was a damn delight. Trigger warning for this one as I believe the heroine is in recovery for disordered eating.
Sought-after social media influencer Sara Vance, in recovery for a serious health disorder, is coming into her own, with a potential career expansion on the horizon. Despite the good news, her successful siblings (and their perfect spouses) have a way of making her feel like the odd one out. So, when her unreliable boyfriend is a no-show for a Florida family vacation, Sara recruits Luis Navarro—a gorgeous firefighter paramedic and dive captain willing to play the part of her smitten fiancé . . .
Luis’s big Cuban familia has been in Key West for generations, and his quiet strength feeds off the island’s laidback style. Though guarded after a deep betrayal, he’ll always help someone in need—especially a spunky beauty with a surprising knowledge of Spanish curse words. Soon, he and Sara have memorized their “how we met” story and are immersed in family dinners, bike tours, private snorkeling trips . . . sharing secrets, and slow, melting kisses. But when it’s time for Sara to return home, will their island romance last or fade with the stunning sunset?
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A Duke, a Lady, and a Baby
A Duke, a Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley is $2.99 at Amazon! Like with most illustrated covers, readers say there’s a disconnect between the cover and the content, and that this one is a real emotional, tearjerker of a romance. Have you read it?
When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband’s mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune—and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child—until The Widow’s Grace gets her hired as her own son’s nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers his military strictness belies an ex-rake of unswerving honor—and unexpected passion…
A wounded military hero, Busick is determined to resolve his dead cousin’s dangerous financial dealings for Lionel’s sake. But his investigation is a minor skirmish compared to dealing with the forthright, courageous, and alluring Patience. Somehow, she’s breaking his rules, and sweeping past his defenses. Soon, between formidable enemies and obstacles, they form a fragile trust—but will it be enough to save the future they long to dare together?
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Wow, this is a fabulous list! I’m going to justify grabbing Boyfriend Material and A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by saying my birthday is next week. (This violates my rule of never reading/buying romances with the word “baby” in the title, but Olivia Waite was so enthusiastic in her review of it, that I’m willing to give it a spin.)
Highly recommend Love Lettering and Brazen and the Beast—they were both on my best of 2019 list!
Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, FUN HOME, is a $3.99 KDD today. I don’t know how well the exquisite illustrations will translate into ebook form, but it’s a great book. My favorite line: a person is never truly middle-aged until they realize they are never going to read REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST. (Guilty as charged.)
BROOKLYNAIRE is part of the Brooklyn Bruisers hockey series and many readers loved it, but this is the book for which I coined the term “Brookkynaire Syndrome” for those times we’ve waited so long for a particular couple’s story in a series that when it finally arrives we’ve done so much reimagining and shipping that the actual story falls rather flat. BROOKLYNAIRE may be one of the few books in a series where it’s best not to read all the preceding books first.
There’s at least two really chunky fantasy novels in the KDDs too, for $1.99 each. The Lord of the Rings and The Priory of the Orange Tree.
@DDD: Proust was required reading for me so I’ve got that one covered, but I seriously doubt it will ever be reread (especially given the sheer ridiculousness of my TBR pile). But I do think of it whenever I eat (or make) madeleines. 🙂
Boyfriend Material was great, but I do want to warn that casual homophobia is a pretty central theme of the plot, and actually the motivation for the fake relationship in the first place. It’s handled really well–down to Luc’s exhaustion, knowing that what he’s facing is discrimination and yet also knowing that it’s easier to capitulate–but as an extremely tired queer, it hit me harder than I expected. I think every queer person knows that sort of heavy-sigh weighing of whether challenging supposed “progressive” straight people on their homophobia is really worth your energy, and it made those scenes feel doubly frustrating, even if in the end I thought it was one of the best things about the book and made the fake relationship plot more believable. So just a heads up (or a recommendation? either one!) to any other frustrated queers out there.
B&N has the 1st four books of Aiken’s Dragon Kin series as a bundle for $4.99
So many good books on sale! Wow!
@Annie Kate: That is an incredibly kind and very considerate and thoughtful caution/recommendation. Thank you.
I LOVED Boyfriend Material and am snapping this up (borrowed from Hoopla the first time). I can totally see all disclaimers that other people put in and agree that there are some issues, but the growth of the main character was good, there were some amazing side characters, and some great funny bits – there was a knock-knock-joke that went off the rails so badly in the best possible way that I read that passage to at least 5 people I loved it so much.
Is the Duke missing half a leg in the story or is that just part of the cover not matching the contents?
@Jazzlet, to me it looks as though he is wearing A tailed coat and boots.
@Penny
Note that Nook books are temporarily unavailable due to a system issue. Hopefully the discount will still be there when Nooks are available again.
@Michael I …eek! I just read about all this… I‘ve been trying out different ebook stores lately & it seems that B&N is not handling this situation well.
I recommend The Priory of the Orange Tree for epic fantasy fans. It’s not genre romance – there’s at least one low key love story but honestly it was my least favorite of all the sub plots. It truly is epic – lots of pov characters, lots of plot. Some parts were more successful for me than others but overall I found it really compelling.
Here’s some of my GR review:
3.5 stars. Gripping epic fantasy with complicated quests, good dragons and evil dragons, twisty court politics, pirates, witches, magic fruit, a magic sword and many layers of truth and legend and lies and mis-beliefs. And queer people. And kind of a high body count.
This is a reimagining and weaving together of legends about dragons from several traditions. It’s set in a world with cultures similar to mediaeval Europe and Asia. Some of the world building was a bit on the nose for me.
My Christmas Number One by Leonie Mack is free in the UK at the moment, although I don’t know how long this offer will last.
I have NO idea why, but a bunch of G. A. Aiken/ Shelley Laurenston books are $1.99 at Kobo today. (Maybe Amazon as well)
Dragon Kin (It’s like the first three and the last two) and all three of “Call of Crows”.
@Michael, @Penny
FYI – I could not preview a Nook book just now due to heavy load on the site, but I was able to buy it without the preview and load it on my Nook. If you know what you want it might work for you now.
@Michael, @Penny, @SusanE
YMMV –I bought two new Nook books on SUNDAY and have not been able to load them on any nook app since then–I’ve tried computer, phone and actual nook. So if it’s something you don’t mind waiting for, I’d say go for it, but if there’s a burning desire for immediate gratification, I’d consider a different platform.
Amazon also has a 3 for the price of 2 deal which I just used to buy print copies of Boyfriend Material (which is going on my keeper shelf) and 2 of the Murderbot books I was missing from my collection.
@jazzlet
He is missing half a leg, or so says one of the reviewers on amazon.
Thank you Jen!
I really must read this column EVERY day no matter how busy I think I am. Again his month I’ve delayed a day or two and the book / price I wanted was *poof* gone.