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Kings of the Wyld
RECOMMENDED: Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames is $2.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals, which also include some romance. Queen Beverly Jenkins recommended this one on a previous podcast:
The book is amazing! It’s laugh-out-loud funny in some parts. The writing is wonderful.
Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best — the meanest, dirtiest, most feared crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld.
Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk – or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay’s door with a plea for help. His daughter Rose is trapped in a city besieged by an enemy one hundred thousand strong and hungry for blood. Rescuing Rose is the kind of mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for.
It’s time to get the band back together for one last tour across the Wyld.
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Kissing Lessons
Kissing Lessons by Stefanie London is 99c! This is a small town romance with a hunky professor. I’ve enjoyed London’s books in the past, but hearing about how much the heroine seems down on herself makes me pause on picking this one up.
Welcome to Kissing Creek, where everything has a romance-themed pun for a name and love is lurking around every corner…
Audrey Miller doesn’t believe in happily-ever-after, so she is definitely living in the wrong town. But she’s never getting out of Kissing Creek, because playing pseudo-mom for her younger siblings doesn’t leave time for much else. She’ll do anything to make sure they don’t end up stuck like she is, working as a barista in a college town, serving Pink Passion mochas with Chocolate Smooch donuts.
Then Ronan Walsh, a new young professor and walking cliché, right down to the elbow patches on his blazer, steps in for a coffee and into her life. She knows his type—intelligent and charming, yet sweet as a cinnamon roll, the sort of man she’s inevitably attracted to but is always out of her league. So why does someone like him have any interest in a worker bee with no future?
Her bland-as-oatmeal existence has nothing to offer, but Ronan’s temporary teaching position is only a stepping stone on his way to somewhere else. He isn’t here to put down roots, Audrey’s roots are firmly planted—neither of them is looking for love. And maybe that’s just perfect.
But in a small town called Kissing Creek, sometimes love can be impossible to avoid…
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Sky in the Deep
Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young is $2.99! This is historical YA fantasy with vikings. It was picked for a previous Hide Your Wallet and discussed on an edition of Cover Awe. It’s a bit slow to start, but as a whole, I enjoy Young’s one-off YA titles.
A 2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book that is part Wonder Woman, part Vikings—and all heart.
OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE.
Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago.
Faced with her brother’s betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family.
She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend, who sees her as a threat. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and family while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life hating.
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Ever After Always
Ever After Always by Chloe Liese is $2.99! This is a preorder, though the book comes out Tuesday. Aarya also mentioned it on a previous Hide Your Wallet. This is a marriage in trouble setup, which I feel like I’m seeing a lot more of recently. Or perhaps that’s purely coincidence.
Buckle up for an emotional journey of hijinks, heartache, and a hot slow-burn in this marriage-in-crisis romance about going the distance to make love last.
Aiden
I’ve spent twelve years loving Freya Bergman and twelve lifetimes won’t be enough to give her everything she deserves. She’s my passionate, tender-hearted wife, my best friend, and all I want is to make her happy. But the one thing that will make her happiest is the one thing I’m not sure I can give her: a baby.
With the pressure of providing and planning for a family, my anxiety’s at an all-time high, and I find myself pulling away, terrified to tell my wife how I’m struggling. But when Freya kicks me out, I realize that pulling back has turned into pushing too far. Now it’s the fight of a lifetime to save our marriage.
Freya
I love my cautious, hard-working husband. He’s my partner and best friend, the person I know I can count on most. Until one day I realize the man I married is nowhere to be found. Now Aiden is quiet and withdrawn, and as the months wear on, the pain of our growing distance becomes too much.
As if weathering marriage counseling wasn’t enough, we’re thrown together for an island getaway to celebrate my parents’ many years of perfect marriage while ours is on the brink of collapse. Despite my meddling siblings and a week in each other’s constant company, this trip somehow gets us working through the trouble in paradise. I just can’t help worrying, when we leave paradise and return to the real world, will trouble find us again?
Ever After Always is a marriage-in-crisis, opposites-attract romance about a sensitive, fierce-loving woman and her resilient husband who has anxiety disorder. Complete with island vacation antics, a sibling prank gone wrong, and a steamy slow burn, this standalone is the third in a series of novels about a Swedish-American family of five brothers, two sisters, and their wild adventures as they each find happily ever after.
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Just an observation and in absolutely no way a recommendation, but I noticed that—out of 76 books—there are three pro-Trump books offered as KDDs today. Is Amazon stoking the insurrection fervor or just cutting their losses by slashing prices on remaindered books that, one can only hope, will be irrelevant in a few days? Either way, DO NOT WANT.
Kings of the Wyld is great fun, as is the sequel Bloody Rose.
Wow, even that blurb for Kissing Lessons makes me want to stay far away. “Bland as oatmeal existence.” “Worker bee with no future.” “Always out of her league.” I’m genuinely curious what the sales angle is with this sort of low self-esteem-heroine.
I know I’m not the only one who checks her Amazon wishlist every day and sorts the contents by low-to-high price. (Even in normal times, this is a daily pleasure and one I look forward to because I have no life.) Has anyone else noticed the list no longer sorts, not by any filter I can understand? I’m going to contact Amazon CS, but thought I’d ask. This also happens on my Amazon UK wishlist, so it seems to be a system-wide occurrence.
Of course, deleting cookies solved the problem. I’ll see myself out.
I understand Kissing Lessons is supposed to be a pretty charming book, but wow, I agree with Egged – who wrote that blurb? It reads as though it were written by someone who hates both of the main characters.
Kings of the Wyld was a rollicking good read, but not for those with a low tolerance for violence. Looking at you SBSarah.
@Darlynne Thanks for letting me know deleting cookies solves the sort problem. It’s been driving me nuts. I already complained to CS.
Actually, having just cleared my cookies, problem still exists. If # list elements >10, sort fails.
Like @WS, the clearing of cookies did not fix the wishlist sorting issue.
For the wishlist sorting issue, I have found that I am able to sort by price is I first go to my list (using the Amazon menu), then click on “my lists” in the top corner and select the list I want (again) and then sort it. I have had consistent success with this in the Amazon app, but it has been less consistent in Safari. I hope this helps someone!
Not a fix for the wishlist sorting – but what I do is go to my list and do ctrl F to search the page for the word “drop” to find any prices that might have gone down since I added them. If you are not already doing that it might be worth a try while you wait for the list sorting to come back on line…
FWIW, I’m a creampuff when it comes to violence (hockey fandom notwithstanding, I guess), and for some reason KINGS OF THE WYLD didn’t bother me. The loopy humor and rock in-jokes cancelled it out for me, apparently. (BLOODY ROSE, being more melancholy, seemed more intense, but is also worthwhile.)
I’ve DNF’d books where the heroine has been a hint of going into a low self esteem pity party. One book even looked interesting with Merman shifters (I know!) But after one too many “I’m not much to look at comments” from the heroine, I couldn’t continue with the book.
I’ve noticed a lot especially with BBW heroines. Look it’s great that writers are being inclusive but keep the “Woe is me!” To a minimum .
I have moderately crippling self-esteem issues (and as a result have basically given up on relationships because they leave me too vulnerable to abuse), and so in theory I don’t mind reading about heroines with similar problems, because hey wouldn’t it be nice if there were nice men interested in me who were neither on the narcissistic spectrum nor desperately seeking co-dependency? But romance rarely does this well, imho. First because it’s not sensitive to the dangers; second because there’s usually an element of the hero “fixing” the heroine and/or her self-esteem improving because of him (not healthy! also doesn’t work!);* third because of how little time most romances these days seem to cover; and fourth because of the problems with that blurb. If that kind of story is to work, the text can’t seem to view a character with low self-esteem the same way the character does.
* I have similar problems with the “sunshine heroine + brooding issue-laden hero” trope, but those stories are stealthier.
Wishlist people: I checked my wishlists today and everything still sorts correctly. I had cleared both cache and cookies completely, not just-site specific data. It’s a PITA to have to log back in to every site after that, but it worked. I hope you’re able to get this fixed.
Today my Amazon wishlist sorting returned to normal. I hope all remains good and that others are also able to sort as usual.