The Mythic Dream
The Mythic Dream is $1.99! This is anthology featuring retellings of myths from some recognizable names in fantasy and sci-fi. We also featured the cover on a previous Cover Awe installment.
An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.
Madeleine L’Engle once said, “When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.” The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim the myths that shaped our collective past, and use them to explore our present and future. From Hades and Persephone to Kali, from Loki to Inanna, this anthology explores retellings of myths across cultures and civilizations.
Featuring award-winning and critically acclaimed writers such as Seanan McGuire, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Roanhorse, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, Indrapramit Das, Carlos Hernandez, Sarah Gailey, Ann Leckie, John Chu, Urusla Vernon, Carmen Maria Machado, Stephen Graham Jones, Arkady Martine, Amal El-Mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, and more, The Mythic Dream is sure to become a new classic.
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About That Night by Julie James is $1.99! This is the third book in the FBI/US Attorney series, though can be read on its own. Julie James is the master of competence porn, and I believe this one has a hero who is more on the beta side of the spectrum. Do you have a favorite James title?
HE’S PLAYING GAMES
Though Rylann Pierce tried to fight the sparks she felt for billionaire heir Kyle Rhodes the night they met, their sizzling chemistry was undeniable. But after being stood up on their first date, Rylann never expected to see him again. So when she finds herself face to face with Kyle in a courthouse nine years later, she’s stunned. More troubling to the beautiful Assistant U.S. Attorney is that she’s still wildly attracted to him.
BUT SHE’S MAKING THE RULES
Just released from prison, Kyle Rhodes isn’t thrilled to be the star witness in a high-profile criminal case — but when Rylann comes knocking at his door, he finds she may be the one lawyer he can’t say no to. Still as gorgeous and sharp-tongued as ever, she lays down the law: she doesn’t mix business with pleasure. But Kyle won’t give up on something he wants — and what he wants is the one woman he’s never forgotten…
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Roulette by Megan Mulry is 99c! This has been on my TBR list for a while and features an enemies-to-lovers plot, given that the hero is the corporate rival to the heroine’s father. Some readers wanted more romance in the novel, but others really loved the hero. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads and has been recommended by authors like Jessica Lemmon and Molly O’Keefe.
Megan Mulry, USA Today bestselling author and recipient of NPR’s Best Book of 2012 (A Royal Pain), takes readers on a sexy, stylish journey of high-stakes passion in her latest book.
Miki Durand has always dodged the limelight. As the illegitimate daughter of a French movie star and a Russian billionaire, she craves a normal life—and it’s almost within reach. She’s up for a tenure-track position and has a perfect-on-paper boyfriend. What more could a woman want?
But when an unforeseen tragedy knocks her off cruise control, Miki finds herself leaving sunny LA for cosmopolitan St. Petersburg. With the fate of her father’s international business in her hands, she comes face-to-face with the ultimate temptation: corporate rival Jérôme Michel de Villiers. He’s everything she never thought she wanted, and their sizzling attraction soon sparks into an all-consuming flame.
Notoriously risk-averse, Miki knows it would be a gamble to fall for the sexy French playboy. But for the first time in her life, she’s ready to take a chance and let the chips fall where they may.
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The Aussie Next Door by Stefanie London is 99c! I read this one and was iffy on it. The hero is on the Autism spectrum, but I didn’t particularly like how it was treated. However, I acknowledge that this is not an own voices assessment from me. Someone with more knowledge of the disorder might feel differently about the portrayal.
American Angie Donovan has never wanted much. When you grow up getting bounced from foster home to foster home, you learn not to become attached to anything, anyone, or any place. But it only took her two days to fall in love with Australia. With her visa clock ticking, surely she can fall in love with an Australian—and get hitched—in two months. Especially if he’s as hot and funny as her next-door neighbor…
Jace Walters has never wanted much––except a bathroom he didn’t have to share. The last cookie all to himself. And solitude. But when you grow up in a family of seven, you can kiss those things goodbye. He’s finally living alone and working on his syndicated comic strip in privacy. Sure, his American neighbor is distractingly sexy and annoyingly nosy, but she’ll be gone in a few months…
Except now she’s determined to find her perfect match by checking out every eligible male in the town, and her choices are even more distracting. He doesn’t want to, but he’s going to have to intervene and help her if he ever hopes to get back to his quiet life.
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I grabbed The Mythic Dream immediately! I’ll enjoy it, but even better, my husband will LOVE it! Any anthology including Rebecca Roanhorse and Seanan McGuire has promise.
I’m autistic! I have not read The Aussie Next Door, and cannot speak to how London portrays autism. I did skim over the GoodReads page for the book, and noticed that reviewers kept using a couple of troubling phrases: “high functioning” and “autism doesn’t define him.” I want to explain why these phrases bother me as an autistic person who’s invested in the neurodiversity movement.
First, the division of autistic people into the categories of “high functioning” and “low functioning,” or “severely” and “mildly” autistic. Autism does present in different ways in different people, so it makes sense to want to categorize autistic people. The problem with functioning labels is that they don’t capture the nuances of how autism affects a person, and even perpetuate harmful stereotypes about autism. The fact is that different autistic people need help with different things, even “high functioning” people.
For example, I am what most people would call “high functioning” because I am highly verbal and live more or less independently, but I didn’t learn to drive until I was almost thirty and I have never been able to hold down a full-time job or a full college course load without burning out. I’m not “less autistic” than the freelance programmer who only speaks through a tablet or ASL and pays the nurse who changes their diaper with their own earnings. We’re both just autistic. That doesn’t mean there’s no way to describe how I’m different from the programmer. For example, you can say that the programmer is nonverbal where I am verbal, or that they have high support needs while I have low support needs. Still, we both need and deserve support as autistic people.
Next, talking about how a disability “doesn’t define” someone hurts disabled people by suggesting that an important part of someone’s personality or life is just an obstacle to be overcome. Now, I commend those who recognize that disabled people’s disabilities are not the totality of their characters. I am not “just” an autistic person, I am also a woman, a wife, a daughter, a knitter, a possessor of a sweet tooth, an aspiring author, etc. To write off all those other traits and see only autism would be doing me a disservice. However, autism is an important part of me, and it influences how I relate to every other aspect of my character and my world. If you took that away from me, I would be a totally different person. In that sense, autism does define me – and that’s not a bad thing! It’s not something I need to “overcome” or be “cured” of. I’m happy the way I am!
Anyway, thanks for reading that infodump. I hope I gave you something to think about. If you want to learn more about autism and the neurodiversity movement, I suggest you check out this free online book, Welcome to the Autistic Community: https://autisticadvocacy.org/book/welcome-to-the-autistic-community/
Again, thank you!
If there are any Peter Wimsey/Harriet Babe fans, Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers is also on sale for $1.99 today- on Google books and Kobo and $3.00 on Amazon-which is a real bargain considering it normally sells for $17.99!!
* ok that should read Harriet Vane. Damm autocorrect.
@EP, Thanks for the info, and I will thank autocorrupt for the giggle I got when I thought of Peter Wimsey calling Harriet “Babe”.
@Mrs. Obed Marsh: Yours words are enlightening and helpful. It’s too easy to label people; labels keep us from looking further, from understanding and learning. We are so much more than whatever pigeonhole someone thinks to stuff us in. We really are all nuance, aren’t we? I hadn’t thought of that before. Each of us is glorious. Thank you for this today.
@Mrs Obed Marsh- thank you for your insight and sharing your personal experience! The heart buttons are missing, but please know that I’m so appreciative of the reminder today that we are all more than the sum of our parts and every part of each of us is important and valued.
<3
@EP – thanks! There’s a giant Sayers bundle on for 99c on Amazon Canada that I one-clicked. I’m on a binge after reading Square Haunting, which profiled five women writers who lived on the same square in Bloomsbury in London between the wars.
Rylan is one of my favourite Julie James heroines.
@Darlynne and @Emily C:
Thank you so much for your kind words! I’d hoped my post would resonate with people, and I’m happy to see it did. ^_^
Okay, I thought (at first ánd second glance) that the title of the first book was ‘My thic dream’ and will admit I was simultaneously intrigued and thought this was a Cover snark article…
This is listed as a “limited time deal” so it could expire at any time but right now the Kindle box set (all four books) of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede is on sale for $3.99 (the Nook box set is also on sale for $3.99, haven’t checked anywhere else).
@ Mrs Obed Marsh: I wanted to like your comments but I too am missing the heart buttons! Such wonderful words that you have written. It is so helpful to learn about labels one can use that are not judgement or value-laden. I will definitely check out that link.