Today’s Kindle Daily Deals are so damn good! Seriously, check them out. Here are four from the list that we’ve reviewed and loved.
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Spoiler Alert
RECOMMENDED: Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade is $3.99! Shana reviewed this one in October and gave it a B+:
Spoiler Alert is tropey wish fulfillment, but at its heart, it’s is a quiet contemporary with a #couplegoals relationship where both characters offer comfort, create beautiful art, and help each other overcome insecurities. Spoiler Alert is also a love letter to fandoms, that will make you want to chase your romance novel with a shot of fanfiction.
Olivia Dade bursts onto the scene in this delightfully fun romantic comedy set in the world of fanfiction, in which a devoted fan goes on an unexpected date with her celebrity crush, who’s secretly posting fanfiction of his own.
Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. While the world knows him as Aeneas, the star of the biggest show on TV, Gods of the Gates, he’s known to fanfiction readers as Book!AeneasWouldNever, an anonymous and popular poster. Marcus is able to get out his own frustrations with his character through his stories, especially the ones that feature the internet’s favorite couple to ship, Aeneas and Lavinia. But if anyone ever found out about his online persona, he’d be fired. Immediately.
April Whittier has secrets of her own. A hardcore Lavinia fan, she’s hidden her fanfiction and cosplay hobby from her “real life” for years—but not anymore. When she decides to post her latest Lavinia creation on Twitter, her photo goes viral. Trolls and supporters alike are commenting on her plus-size take, but when Marcus, one half of her OTP, sees her pic and asks her out on a date to spite her critics, she realizes life is really stranger than fanfiction.
Even though their first date is a disaster, Marcus quickly realizes that he wants much more from April than a one-time publicity stunt. And when he discovers she’s actually Unapologetic Lavinia Stan, his closest fandom friend, he has one more huge secret to hide from her.
With love and Marcus’s career on the line, can the two of them stop hiding once and for all, or will a match made in fandom end up prematurely cancelled?
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Girl, Serpent, Thorn
RECOMMENDED: Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust is $2.99! Tara loved this one and gave it an A-:
I adored Girl, Serpent, Thorn. It’s beautifully written, has a complex protagonist who goes on a hell of a journey, and it left me with a book hangover that’s made it hard to get into anything else since I finished it. I can’t stop telling friends, family, and colleagues about it, and I’m going to order a physical copy from our local indie bookstore ASAP.
A captivating and utterly original fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch, and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse…
There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for Soraya, who has lived her life hidden away, apart from her family, safe only in her gardens, it’s not just a story.As the day of her twin brother’s wedding approaches, Soraya must decide if she’s willing to step outside of the shadows for the first time. Below in the dungeon is a demon who holds knowledge that she craves, the answer to her freedom. And above is a young man who isn’t afraid of her, whose eyes linger not with fear, but with an understanding of who she is beneath the poison.
Soraya thought she knew her place in the world, but when her choices lead to consequences she never imagined, she begins to question who she is and who she is becoming…human or demon. Princess or monster.
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The Year of the Witching
RECOMMENDED: The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson is $1.99! I hosted a Women in Horror panel with Alexis as one of the authors and it was amazing! Ellen gave this one an A-:
The Year of the Witching is a very, very good book. It’s unsettling and horrifying, beautiful and incisive, and ultimately, radiantly triumphant.
The Handmaid’s Tale for a new generation . . .
In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy.The daughter of a union with an outsider that cast her once-proud family into disgrace, Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol and lead a life of submission, devotion and absolute conformity, like all the women in the settlement.
But a chance mishap lures her into the forbidden Darkwood that surrounds Bethel – a place where the first prophet once pursued and killed four powerful witches. Their spirits are still walking there, and they bestow a gift on Immanuelle: the diary of her dead mother, who Immanuelle is shocked to learn once sought sanctuary in the wood.
Fascinated by secrets in the diary, Immanuelle finds herself struggling to understand how her mother could have consorted with the witches. But when she begins to learn grim truths about the Church and its history, she realises the true threat to Bethel is its own darkness. And if Bethel is to change, it must begin with her . . .
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The Once and Future Witches
RECOMMENDED: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow is $3.99! Carrie reviewed this one and gave it a B+:
Overall I loved reading this book. I literally gasped and clapped my hands over my mouth periodically, like a silent movie star. It’s so gripping, so beautifully written, and such a powerful homage to women’s voices and the need to unify against a common enemy.
In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.
But when the Eastwood sisters–James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna–join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive.
There’s no such thing as witches. But there will be.
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Hooray for SPOILER ALERT!!!
Wow actually all of these are on my list… ok, book budget! You are taking a hit today…
I absolutely LOVED Spoiler Alert!
Add me to the group who enjoyed Spoiler Alert!
CEMETERY BOYS by Aiden Thomas is $2.99. “A trans boy determined to prove he’s a brujo to his Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave.” I’ve heard the romance is strong.
All excellent picks; Spoiler Alert was one of my fave romances of last year!
TJ Klune’s THE EXTRAORDINARIES is on sale at Amazon US for 2.99. I’ve only read the sample, but this YA story seems … kind. Right now, kind is very appealing.
@Darlynne: I haven’t read THE EXTRAORDINARIES, so perhaps someone who has will correct me if I’m wrong, but iirc (and unless Klune has edited/updated the book since publication) there’s apparently a scene where the hero’s father (a cop) punches a detained suspect while the suspect is in his (the cop’s) custody. I seem to remember the controversy stemmed from the scene being presented in a way that “justified” the punch (the suspect had insulted the cop’s late wife and the hero’s late mother). Not sure if the scene is still in the book, but I think we can all agree that a scene where a cop hits a suspect without repercussions is problematic to say the least.
Yes, another fan of Spoiler Alert here
Year of the Witching is very good! I’m not really a horror fan (not into gore), and I loathed The Scarlet Letter, so I wasn’t really sure how I would feel about this one. But I found myself swept up into the machinations of this religious cult and really gripped by this book. The oppressive atmosphere in this small, puritanical village serves only to contribute to the horror, and there’s no Arthur Dimmesdale, so it’s all good. The horror elements are intense (I was under the impression that this is YA, but I’m pretty sure this is adult horror), but again, it worked for me. Thought Henderson’s construction of the religion and mythology was very interesting. Definitely recommend!
This has never happened before, but I want to read ALL these books!
SPOILER ALERT is cute and charming and I felt absolutely gross after reading it. The fatshaming that the heroine, April, endures is totally accurate and compassionately written, but I felt like I was vicariously soaking in some really toxic stuff. And the book is so charming that I didn’t even notice until I got to the end and realized I felt anxious and depressed. Anyway, it was a super weird experience for me as a reader and wanted to mention it to others who may be sensitive to the topic.