Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo is $2.99! This was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet and is a lovely YA historical fiction with a F/F romance. It was also a staff pick at the bookstore where I work!
Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the 1950s.
“That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?”
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.
America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father–despite his hard-won citizenship–Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.
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Room Service by Rochelle Alers is $1.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals, which also included some other romances. Elyse mentioned this in a previous Hide Your Wallet because it sounded “delightful.” I think this can be read on its own without reading the previous two books in the Innkeepers series.
Bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ heartwarming and seductive series follows four very different women risking second chances deep in the sultry heart of New Orleans . . .
New Yorker Jasmine Washington had a successful interior design business, a high-powered marriage, and a chance at motherhood—until her perfect husband betrayed her big-time. Now starting from scratch, the Asian and African-American stunner is tackling a lifetime opportunity: co-managing her friend’s new luxury inn about to open in the Garden District. The last thing Jasmine needs is romance. New Orleans’ most eligible bachelor, investment banker Cameron Singleton, begs to differ.
Cameron challenges Jasmine’s cautious ways, teases her back into having real fun—and makes one sexy, utterly irresistible Mr. Right Now. But their passionate nights soon result in a surprise bonus. . . . Even though Cameron insists on being there for Jasmine, can she really believe his love is the real thing? Can she shake the past and design a completely new life? And is there really only one way to find out?
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Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente is $2.99! I thought we’ve featured this on sale before, but I guess not. I adored this book! It’s dark historical fantasy of sorts and some of the most beautiful writing. There was a tumblr post I found years ago that delved deep into the book as a giant allegory for the Siege of Leningrad, but alas…I cannot find it now.
Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories which have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has never before been seen through the eyes of Catherynne Valente, whose modernized and transformed take on the legend brings the action to modern times, spanning many of the great developments of Russian history in the twentieth century.
Deathless, however, is no dry, historical tome: it lights up like fire as the young Marya Morevna transforms from a clever child of the revolution, to Koschei’s beautiful bride, to his eventual undoing. Along the way there are Stalinist house elves, magical quests, secrecy and bureaucracy, and games of lust and power. All told, Deathless is a collision of magical history and actual history, of revolution and mythology, of love and death, which will bring Russian myth back to life in a stunning new incarnation.
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RECOMMENDED: Soulless by Gail Carriger is 99c and another Kindle Daily Deal! This is the first book by the Parasol Protectorate series and for many readers, this book ignited their love for Carriger’s writing. I loved the first book, especially the heroine, but I agree with other reviewers in that there’s a lot of different things going on that conflict with one another.
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she’s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.
Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire—and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.
With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London’s high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?
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I’ve been holding off on reading Deathless for a number of years since I prefer reading a series all at once and I saw on GoodReads that it was book 1 in a duology (the Leningrad Diptych). Seeing as it has now been 10 years since it was published, though, I’m wondering if those plans changed. Does anyone know if this series is still ongoing? (I know publishing can be fickle or author’s plans can change). If not, does Deathless have a satisfying ending so that the book stands on its own? Thanks in advance! ❤️
“When Books Went to War” by Molly Manning is 2,99$ on Amazon CA and even less on Amazon US. It was reviewed here recently.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club is so, so good. Just gorgeously written. It didn’t read as YA to me, more like adult historical fiction, with an amazing depiction of time and place. As a former San Franciscan I knew a little about those early, semi-underground gay nightclubs, but nothing about how Chinese-Americans in the Bay Area were swept up in the Red Scare…and I never considered how brave it must have been for young Chinese Americans to come out, to others and to themselves, in such an environment. To be fair, given that this is SBTB, I think the romance takes a backseat to Lily’s coming-of-age story and the story of her family. But ohhh please read it, friends!