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The Empress of Salt and Fortune
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo is $1.99! I saw a few tweets about this one by the book’s editor and I wanted to include those quotes here because HELLO:
“Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves.”
For less than a cup of coffee learn how the war was won by the fury of the nameless & silenced women.
With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.
A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage. Alone and sometimes reviled, she has only her servants on her side. This evocative debut chronicles her rise to power through the eyes of her handmaiden, at once feminist high fantasy and a thrilling indictment of monarchy.
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Bringing Down the Duke
RECOMMENDED: Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore is $1.99! This is the first book in Dunmore’s debut series. However, the second title wasn’t as favorably reviewed. Carrie read this one and gave it a B+:
This story excels in terms of entertaining characters, and I’d love to see a spin-off story about almost every single one of them.
A stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford Rebels, in which a fiercely independent vicar’s daughter takes on a duke in a fiery love story that threatens to upend the British social order.
England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women’s suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain’s politics at the Queen’s command. Her challenge: not to give in to the powerful attraction she can’t deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for.
Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle. He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to rebuild, not an outspoken commoner who could never be his duchess. But he wouldn’t be the greatest strategist of the Kingdom if he couldn’t claim this alluring bluestocking without the promise of a ring…or could he?
Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke…
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An Easy Death
An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris is $1.99! This is the first book in the fantasy western Gunnie Rose series. I’m super curious about it and have the first book just sitting on my TBR. One thing that does bug me is that the third book in the series is coming out and the cover is a big departure from the previous two books.
The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, the inspiration for HBO’s True Blood, and the Midnight Crossroad trilogy adapted for NBC’s Midnight, Texas, has written a taut new thriller—the first in the Gunnie Rose series—centered on a young gunslinging mercenary, Lizbeth Rose.
Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they’re at a desperate crossroad, even if they won’t admit it. They’re searching through the small border towns near Mexico, trying to locate a low-level magic practitioner, Oleg Karkarov. The wizards believe Oleg is a direct descendant of Grigori Rasputin, and that Oleg’s blood can save the young tsar’s life.
As the trio journey through an altered America, shattered into several countries by the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, they’re set on by enemies. It’s clear that a powerful force does not want them to succeed in their mission. Lizbeth Rose is a gunnie who has never failed a client, but her oath will test all of her skills and resolve to get them all out alive.
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The Color of Magic
RECOMMENDED: The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett is $1.99! This is the first book in the much loved Discworld series. There’s magic and lots of quirky humor, though admittedly, the series isn’t for everyone. So don’t worry if you give it a shot and it’s not for you. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
Terry Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett’s maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins — with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind.
On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There’s an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet…
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I love Discworld, but I wouldn’t start with the first few books. They are different in tone and style from what comes later, and I find them borderline unreadable. The real charm comes later in the series, at least for me.
The Sugared Game, book two in KJ Charles’ Will Darling series, is on sale at Amazon for 99c. M/m set in the 1920s.
The first 3 books in Rachel Caine’s Great Library series are 1.99 at Amazon.
EMPRESS OF SALT & FORTUNE was beautiful, like an old chinese watercolor, where a few carefully placed lines makes a whole landscape. It’s narrated in flashbacks, something I usually dislike, but here I was drawn in despite the format. I already pre-ordered the sequel, coming out in december.
Discworld is awesome, but The Color of Magic was his first book and it is hot garbage. Do NOT read it first, or you’ll wind up judging the series based on a book that has almost no bearing on it. I love the series, but The Color of Magic is not worth $1.99. Mort, Wyrd Sisters, Guards! Guards!, or Small Gods are better jumping-off points.
I don’t like all the discworld books only the nightwatch and the witches. Was going to recommend Guards! Guards for my emergency book but I haven’t read it for a while (I have read it five times though). But I couldn’t finish Colour of Magic.
I can’t be the only one who is starting to see logic in Vetinari’s government?
I liked the Charlaine Harris very much, FWIW. She’s better now they’ve let her out of the Sookie books.
@Susan H
I always tell people to NOT read the first two Discworld books.
I start them on either the Witches or the Guard. Or maybe Death.
But not Rincewind. Ugh.
Wholeheartedly recommend the Dunmore and the Harris. Gunny Rose is 17 kinds of awesome.
I’ll half defend the Colour of Magic (while admitting I haven’t re-read it in quite a while).
If you were unfortunate enough to have been reading a lot of the pulpy fantasy novels in the mid-80s, CoM was a funny parody of a part of the genre as it was.* It has a lot of problems – it’s obviously an early novel, Pratchett is throwing in everything and the kitchen sink trying to see what works, it’s overly silly, and it doesn’t hold together.
But it has the early drafts of some of the ideas that get much better when they were further developed over time.
At this point, it’s a horrible entry point into the series; the rest of the books aren’t like that one. But it isn’t wholly bad.
*if you missed this, lucky you. Lots of it was not-very-good to actively bad. Parts of it make me wonder if we weren’t just all being groomed.
Also on sale: Cat Sebastian’s Two Rogues Make a Right (Seducing the Sedgwicks Book 3) and Best Laid Plaids: A Paranormal Historical Romance by Ella Stainton are both $1.99
I’m reading Vo’s April (2021) New Release right now, and I can confirm they are megatalented.
@MsCellanie
That is true (about some of the fantasy at the time) but, if I’d read that first, I wouldn’t have picked up another without a lot of arm twisting.