Daisy Jones & The Six
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is $2.99! This was a huge hit when it came out and I’ve heard it’s fantastic on audio. The story also has some epistolary and interview type elements to revel things, if that’s your particular catnip.
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.
Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they split at the absolute height of their popularity…until now.
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.
Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.
The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.
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Dream Maker by Kristen Ashley is $1.99! This book released in last year and is the first in a new series. I’m very curious about the heroine, who takes up erotic dancing to help pay for her engineering degree. I’m all for more positive representations of sex work, though Ashley’s books don’t always work for me. Have you read this one?
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Dream Man and Rock Chick series comes a brand new story about love, friendship, and the bonds of sisterhood.
Evie is a bonafide nerd and a hyper-intelligent chick who has worked her whole life to get what she wants. Growing up, she had no support from her family and has only ever been able to rely on herself. So when Evie decides she wants to earn her engineering degree, she realizes she needs to take an alternative path to get there. She takes a job dancing at Smithie’s club thinking this would be a quick side gig, where she can make the money she needs. But with her lack of dancing skills and an alpha bad boy who becomes overly protective, Evie realizes this might not be as easy as she thought.
Daniel “Mag” Magnusson knows a thing or two about pain, but the mask he wears is excellent. No one can tell that this good-looking, quick-witted, and roguish guy has deep-seated issues. Mag puts on a funny-guy routine so he can hide his broken heart and PTSD. But when Evie dances her way into Mag’s life, he realizes that he needs to come face-to-face with the demons of his past if he wants a future with her.
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Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth is $3.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals and was Roth’s first adult fantasy release. I mentioned it on a previous Hide Your Wallet because I loved the premise of former “chosen ones” trying to live their adult life with all that extra baggage from saving the world.
The first novel written for an adult audience by the mega-selling author of the Divergent franchise: five twenty-something heroes famous for saving the world when they were teenagers must face even greater demons—and reconsider what it means to be a hero . . . by destiny or by choice.
A decade ago near Chicago, five teenagers defeated the otherworldly enemy known as the Dark One, whose reign of terror brought widespread destruction and death. The seemingly un-extraordinary teens—Sloane, Matt, Ines, Albie, and Esther—had been brought together by a clandestine government agency because one of them was fated to be the “Chosen One,” prophesized to save the world. With the goal achieved, humankind celebrated the victors and began to mourn their lost loved ones.
Ten years later, though the champions remain celebrities, the world has moved forward and a whole, younger generation doesn’t seem to recall the days of endless fear. But Sloane remembers. It’s impossible for her to forget when the paparazzi haunt her every step just as the Dark One still haunts her dreams. Unlike everyone else, she hasn’t moved on; she’s adrift—no direction, no goals, no purpose. On the eve of the Ten Year Celebration of Peace, a new trauma hits the Chosen: the death of one of their own. And when they gather for the funeral at the enshrined site of their triumph, they discover to their horror that the Dark One’s reign never really ended.
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Desperate Measures by Katee Robert is 99c! This is also another KDD. I thought we featured this on sale recently, but what is time anymore? This is book one in the Wicked Villains series, which are erotic retellings of popular Disney/fairy tale villains.
My Savior… Or My Ruin?
One night, and my entire life went up in flames. All because of him. Jafar. As my world burned down around me, he offered me a choice. Walk away with nothing but my freedom… Or rise to his challenge and win my fortune back.
I bargained.
I lost.
Now Jafar owns me, and even as my mind rails against his rules, my body loves the punishments he deals out when I break them.
But a gilded cage is still a prison, I’ll do anything to obtain my freedom.
Even betray the man I’m falling for.
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I wasn’t able to finish Chosen Ones, as it takes on fairly brutal issues of PTSD and trauma, and when I was reading it, I wasn’t in the right headspace for it. Well written but difficult, also about halfway through the book takes a surprising twist which threw me out of it and I haven’t picked it up since. So I’d recommend giving it a look if you can before buying.
It’s true, Daisy Jones and the Six is awesome on audio! Full cast recording with many names you’ve probably heard of before. Really brings the story to life and lends itself well to the “interview”-type format. It you’re able I’d definitely try checking out the audiobook.
I read it in print and then listened to Daisy Jones on audio, and it was a terrific listen (more like a play or fiction podcast). I liked, but didn’t love it, and for $2.99 it’s a good deal for a fun read.
I was so-so on Chosen Ones, in the end. Mostly just not getting the romantic aspects of it. Premise is interesting, but it is somewhat of a downer, and some characters are just kind of ignored for some reason.
I liked Daisy Jones well enough, but it’s a pretty stereotypical sort of “band gets together, has drama, drug use, break up” story. About the only thing super unusual about it I can’t say because of spoiling, but I’ll just say that what you think might happen with certain characters doesn’t actually, and I give the author props for not doing it. There’s kind of a “soul mate vs. twin flame” dynamic going on there, if you’re into that.
I really enjoyed Daisy Jones & the Six in print when it came out. Maybe I need to revisit via audio!
Daisy Jones and the Six is my pick; I loved that book, even though it’s very much a fictionalization of the drama of the Fleetwood Mac.
From the blurb, Chosen Ones sounds a lot like the plot of Stephen King’s IT, which is a book I loved way back in my teens but would not be able to stomach with my current anxiety levels.
I know I read “Desperate Measures” at some point last year. I liked it, but I do need to give some general content warnings.
It starts off as borderline non-con, with the whole “he knows what she wants because her body says it even if her mouth says no”.
There is a lot of character development from the heroine in her fight for agency, but the whole thing is heavily noncon/dubcon, I think pretty much all the female characters are under some sort of threat, and it is the males who run the show.
Thanks to everyone who made comments on Chosen Ones. I might buy it, but clearly this is not the moment to read it.
Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston is 99¢ at Amazon
Nabbed Stolen Hearts by M. O’Keefe for free on US Amazon. I just read the Sierra Simone novella collection that hyped up this book so I’m pumped.