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Moonshadow
Moonshadow by Thea Harrison is 99c! This is the first book in the Moonshadow series. This book was mentioned in December 2016’s Hide Your Wallet. I bought this one and tried reading it, but I couldn’t seem to get into it. In fairness, I was getting my hair done at the time. Have you read this one?
Her past is a blank, her future uncertain….
Recovering from a shooting, LAPD witch consultant Sophie Ross leaves her job and travels to the U.K. to search for answers about her childhood. When she encounters a Daoine Sidhe knight of the Dark Court, she becomes entangled in an ancient hatred between two arcane forces.
He has given his body and soul to fight for his people….
Barred from his homeland along with his surviving brother knights, Nikolas Sevigny is embroiled in a conflict that threatens everything he holds dear. Only by uniting his people’s resources can they hope to prevail against Isabeau, the deadly Queen of the Light Court. He will do anything and use anyone to return home to Lyonesse.
When Nikolas encounters Sophie, he sees a tool to be used. The insouciant witch might be the key to unlocking every passageway that has been barred to the knights of the Dark Court, even as a fascination for her takes root in what’s left of his soul.
Sophie has no intention of becoming anyone’s pawn, yet the fierce Nikolas is so compelling, she can’t deny the temptation that endangers her guarded heart.
As magic threatens Lyonesse, Queen Isabeau unleashes her merciless Hounds, and Nikolas and Sophie become embroiled in a race for survival. Meanwhile, the passion that ignites between them burns too hot to be denied and quickly turns into obsession.
Thank goodness they both know better than to fall in love…
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Omens
RECOMMENDED: Omens by Kelley Armstrong is $1.99! This is the first book in a finished urban fantasy series and for the most part, I really liked it. It dragged in some spots, but I loved how I didn’t get all the answers about the mysterious Cainesville in the first book.
Twenty-four-year-old Olivia Taylor Jones has the perfect life. The only daughter of a wealthy, prominent Chicago family, she has an Ivy League education, pursues volunteerism and philanthropy, and is engaged to a handsome young tech firm CEO with political ambitions.
But Olivia’s world is shattered when she learns that she’s adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers serving a life sentence. When the news brings a maelstrom of unwanted publicity to her adopted family and fiancé, Olivia decides to find out the truth about the Larsens.
Olivia ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, an old and cloistered community that takes a particular interest in both Olivia and her efforts to uncover her birth parents’ past.
Aided by her mother’s former lawyer, Gabriel Walsh, Olivia focuses on the Larsens’ last crime, the one her birth mother swears will prove their innocence. But as she and Gabriel start investigating the case, Olivia finds herself drawing on abilities that have remained hidden since her childhood, gifts that make her both a valuable addition to Cainsville and deeply vulnerable to unknown enemies. Because there are darker secrets behind her new home and powers lurking in the shadows that have their own plans for her.
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A Devil of a Duke
A Devil of a Duke by Madeline Hunter is $1.99! This is the second book in the Decadent Dukes Society, but can be read on its own. If you are a completionist, the first book is also on sale. Readers say this one has a great pace to the romance and action, but wish it had more emotional depth. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
From New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter comes the latest sexy tale of three untamable dukes and the women who ignite their decadent desires . . .
HE MAY BE A DEVIL
He’s infamous, debaucherous, and known all over town for his complete disregard for scandal, and positively irresistible seductions. Gabriel St. James, Duke of Langford, is obscenely wealthy, jaw-droppingly handsome, and used to getting exactly what he wants. Until his attention is utterly captured by a woman who refuses to tell him her name, but can’t help surrendering to his touch . . .
BUT SHE’S NO ANGEL EITHER . . .
Amanda Waverly is living two lives—one respectable existence as secretary to an upstanding lady, and one far more dangerous battle of wits—and willpower—with the devilish Duke. Langford may be the most tempting man she’s ever met, but Amanda’s got her hands full trying to escape the world of high-society crime into which she was born. And if he figures out who she really is, their sizzling passion will suddenly boil over into a much higher stakes affair . . .
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I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom is $3.99! This was mentioned on a previous Hide Your Wallet and is probably a great book to pick up if you loved Crazy Ex-Girlfriend or share a love of musical theater. Bloom narrates the audiobook, which I really enjoy for nonfiction.
In the vein of Mindy Kaling, Ali Wong, and Amy Poehler, a collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more from the charming and wickedly funny creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Rachel Bloom has felt abnormal and out of place her whole life. In this exploration of what she thinks makes her “different,” she’s come to realize that a lot of people also feel this way; even people who she otherwise thought were “normal.”
In a collection of laugh-out-loud funny essays, all told in the unique voice (sometimes singing voice) that made her a star; Rachel writes about everything from her love of Disney, OCD and depression, weirdness, and female friendships to the story of how she didn’t poop in the toilet until she was four years old; Rachel’s pieces are hilarious, smart, and infinitely relatable (except for the pooping thing).
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Barbara Pym’s SOME TAME GAZELLE is a $2.99 KDD today. It’s the story of two sisters in post-war England written in Pym’s gentle yet bracing style. Not really a romance (although both sisters have romantic entanglements, as it were), but recommended for fans of the English country village genre.
@DiscoDollyDeb, I knew I liked you. I always say that Barbara Pym is my patron saint, and she writes the ultimate spinsters. I love that she wrote Some Tame Gazelle in her college years (although it wasn’t published until much later in 1950), but her main character sisters are in their fifties. Definitely not romance, but so funny and perfect as is. I could go on about Pym for a while (yes I am a member of the Barbara Pym Society and go to conferences on her, why do you ask?). 😉
I read Moonshadow by Thea Harrison; I enjoyed it but it’s not one of her books that I reread like Dragon Bound and Oracle’s Moon.
Moonshadow is my second favorite Thea Harrison book, right after Dragon Bound. I think I loved it so much because while Nik starts out as the typical PNR, old-fashioned, all-Alpha warrior type who initially tries to protect the little woman, Sophie is having none of that nonsense. She’ll rescue herself, thank you very much! She’s the opposite of TSTL and saves Nik and his knights’ bacon several times. His attitude is rooted in the times he was raised in, but he does come around, respects her strength, and they are very much equals.
I am always amazed at Kelley Armstrong’s reach as a writer. Her Rockton series has gripped me completely and although I eventually tired of the Otherworld, she is just so solid.
Anyone know if I already bought MOONSHADOW? I jest, sort of. Will have to don my helmet light and enter the TBR. Don’t wait up.
A mini Pym fan club here!
Sadly (but necessarily) I got rid of almost all of my paper books, including my Pym collection. Luckily, I’ve replaced many (including STG) in digital form. I also have the audio of Excellent Women that I’ve been saving for the right time…maybe a cold, snowy pandemic winter is that time.
@spinster.revival and Susan: EXCELLENT WOMEN is always the book I recommend for people new to (as a book title has it) the pleasures of Miss Pym. But everything she wrote is worthy of reading and re-reading.
Moonshadow is one of my favorites by Thea Harrison, I like the narrative of the alpha warrior being called on his problematic shit by the heroine a lot, and I liked that she had competency and agency of her own (and the HEA of course!). Without spoilers– I also really loved the side story involving Puck and the heroine. It’s a comfort read and listen for me.
@DDD: Excellent Women was the first Pym book I read in the late 70s. She got on some lists of most overlooked authors, suddenly became popular (again), and her books became widely available. And now another breath of life due to digital books. Her books may not be for everyone, but I agree that they are timeless and deserve to be savored.
I really enjoyed the Rachel Bloom book. A quick read, very funny but also wrenching in places. She shares snippets of her childhood diaries — actual photos, in her actual little-kid handwriting! — showing how bullied she was but also how resilient. Much of it is about struggling with mental illness. I found it helpful and well as amusing.
I honestly found the Hunter horrifying. It basically read like a very well-drawn, psychologically realistic portrayal of the beginning of an abusive relationship, right down to the details of the heroine’s background making it very obvious why she’d be particularly vulnerable to a dynamic like that. I really liked the heroine, too (she’s very sympathetic, imho), so I kept mentally screaming at her to RUN. They’re still in the honeymoon phase when the book ends, which apparently counts as a HEA, but… I was in the middle of a non-fiction deep dive into books on abuse and narcissism, so I was probably extra-sensitive to this, but even so. You could use this book as a master class on how our culture has coded abuse red flags as “romantic behaviour.”
I also really liked Moonshadow, especially the strong smart skilled heroine.
I see Thea Harrison has read Dorothy Dunnett…
Omens sounded interesting, but I was put off by the phrase “her real parents.” Ick. Why phrase it that way? Think I’ll pass.