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  • Sorcery of Thorns

    Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

    Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson is $2.99! This is a young adult fantasy with romantic elements and I’ve heard such good things. I believe I remember Aarya squeeing about this in Slack, but I could be wrong.

    From the New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens comes an imaginative fantasy about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom.

    All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.

    Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.

    As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.

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  • Cry Wolf

    Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs

    RECOMMENDED: Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs is $2.99! Sarah really enjoyed this book and the next one. Here’s what she said:

    The balance of harmony is cast into characters with instinctive and pre-determined roles – Alphas and Omegas are born the way they are, even as humans prior to being changed in to werewolves – and the world built around that concept creates a new set of questions about why and how effective romance relationships work, and how enduring couples through a continuing series maintain their attraction for readers.

    Now Briggs begins an extraordinary new series set in Mercy Thompson’s world—but with rules of its own.

    INTRODUCING THE ALPHA AND OMEGA NOVELS…

    Anna never knew werewolves existed until the night she survived a violent attack…and became one herself. After three years at the bottom of the pack, she’d learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. But Anna is that rarest kind of werewolf: an Omega. And one of the most powerful werewolves in the country will recognize her value as a pack member—and as his mate.

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  • The Pages of the Mind

    The Pages of the Mind by Jeffe Kennedy

    The Pages of the Mind by Jeffe Kennedy is $1.99! This is a fantasy romance with an arranged marriage. Readers loved the scholarly heroine, but found that the second half of the book had a very different feel than the first half. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads. I believe a couple other Kennedy titles are on sale.

    An Orphan’s Throne

    Magic has broken free over the Twelve Kingdoms. The population is beset by shapeshifters and portents, landscapes that migrate, uncanny allies who are not quite human…and enemies eager to take advantage of the chaos.

    Dafne Mailloux is no adventurer–she’s a librarian. But the High Queen trusts Dafne’s ability with languages, her way of winnowing the useful facts from a dusty scroll, and even more important, the subtlety and guile that three decades under the thumb of a tyrant taught her.

    Dafne never thought to need those skills again. But she accepts her duty. Until her journey drops her into the arms of a barbarian king. He speaks no tongue she knows but that of power, yet he recognizes his captive as a valuable pawn. Dafne must submit to a wedding of alliance, becoming a prisoner-queen in a court she does not understand. If she is to save herself and her country, she will have to learn to read the heart of a wild stranger. And there are more secrets written there than even Dafne could suspect…

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  • Welcome to Temptation

    Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie

    Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie is $1.99! Crusie is an auto-buy author for a lot of us and I can see how her books would be great comfort reads right now. Do you have a favorite Crusie or have fond feelings about this one?

    Sophie Dempsey wants to help her sister film a video and then get out of Temptation, Ohio. Mayor Phin Tucker wants to play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. But when Sophie and Phin meet, they both get more than they want. Gossip, blackmail, adultery, murder, vehicular abuse of a corpse, and slightly perverse but excellent sex: all hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble… and in love.

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  1. Mandy says:

    I loved Sorcery of Thorns so much and highly recommend it! I’m not always the biggest fantasy person, but I was intrigued by the magical library setting, and it did not disappoint.

  2. Kareni says:

    Patricia Briggs’ Alpha and Omega series is one of my favorite series. Do start with the novella of the same name before reading Cry Wolf.

  3. Annie Kate says:

    Sorcery of Thorns is fantastic. It’s probably my favorite use of the magical library trope, the characters are great, and the romance is very sweet. It also has a wonderful ending, which is so rare in fantasy nowadays—it really is a stand-alone that doesn’t stretch one book’s worth of plot over a trilogy, like most YA fantasy.

    I also really appreciated its queer rep—I’m always excited to see bi heroes in m/f romance, because God knows bi guys have their own, distinctly unpleasant flavor of biphobia to deal with.

  4. rhodered says:

    Cry Wolf was for me one of those books where it’s OK when you first read it and then you pick it up a few years later and the sexism and gender roles just slam into you. In this case we have a situation where the heroine has been been mistreated and sexually degraded by her first pack, yet has not a qualm about moving immediately to the middle of nowhere where she has no means of support or transport and where she’s expected to share a bedroom with a top man in her new pack, but first she goes directly to his kitchen and fixes him something. Because you may be a guest (without your own bed) in a man’s home, but you’re still a woman so the kitchen is your territory.

  5. Jenniferr says:

    I liked Sorcery of Thorns, though I preferred the author’s first book a little more.

    Welcome to Temptation is one of my top romance books, period.

  6. Gloriamarie Amalfitano says:

    I so miss Jennifer Crusie and I own everything she has written and I really want new stuff by her. Does anyone have any information on what she is doing now? Is she still writing?

  7. Ele says:

    Welcome to Temptation is my second-favorite Crusie novel–my favorite being the sequel to it, Faking It.

    It is set in a small town in Ohio and really captures the small-town feel. And has some very memorable characters, including a p-rn star and a p-rn producer (yes, filming in a small town in Ohio). It is laugh-out-loud funny, as well as having am actual plot and great dialogue.

  8. hng23 says:

    @GloriaMarie: Nothing new is listed on Goodreads, but according to her website, there are things ‘in progress’. However, the last ‘in progress’ entry was Sept 2020, so take that as you will. Her latest blog entry though is from earlier this wk, so she’s still alive & posting.

  9. BrandiD says:

    TWO books with librarians! And The Pages of the Mind has an arranged marriage. It’s like all my catnips rolled up into one post; you’re only missing a snowbound story to make it complete! Loved Patricia Briggs novels back in the day of the Mercy Thompson series, but I overdosed on vampires and shapeshifters so I’ll sit that one out.

  10. chacha1 says:

    @GloriaMarie: you can keep up with Jenny at arghink dot com. 🙂 She has a *bunch* of works-in-progress and lets the arghers read stuff pretty often.

    My favorite Crusie is ‘Charlie All Night’ though I’m also very fond of ‘Manhunting,’ ‘The Cinderella Deal,’ and ‘Bet Me.’ I had missed adding ‘Welcome to Temptation’ to my e-library till this sale.

  11. Caro says:

    @rhodered IIRC Charles is injured at the start of Cry Wolf, following on from the events of Alpha & Omega so Anna has to take over in the kitchen for a bit. But her trauma after her experiences and the physical expectations of her relationship with Charles directly after, yeah the point that she has her wolf to call on and the old ‘mating bond’ does some heavy lifting narrative wise. And not a suggestion she talk to a qualified professional in sight!

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  13. marjorie says:

    I really liked Alpha and Omega and Cry Wolf when I read them years ago, but now I ponder not just the way trauma is handled, but also whether Native characters are depicted with full cluefulness and sensitivity. (Feel the same about the Mercy Thompson books.)

  14. Egged says:

    Pages of the Mind was a solid DNF for me. There were a lot of reasons (I’m not a fan of Insta-lust, for one) but what really put the nail in the coffin was the incessant exoticization of the hero. It just felt too gross eventually. It was too bad bc I liked so many of the other elements.

  15. Gloriamarie Amalfitano says:

    @hng23 says 9/2020? Oh dear

  16. Jiobal says:

    I bought Pages of the Mind after a previous BoS. I remember some terrific discussion in the comments; main problem mentioned: the book starts in one place/situation and then the story shifts to a completely new place (Island) and new plot to go with it. While I don’t mind twisty plots, this somehow crossed the line to disappointing my expections. Also, @Egged is spot-on about the exoticization.

  17. Star says:

    I’ve enjoyed every Crusie I’ve read so far except for Welcome to Temptation, which I gave up about a third of the way in after realising that I didn’t like any the characters except the hero’s daughter, and I particularly hated the hero and his way of interacting with the heroine (might have kept reading had it not been for him). But I loved the sequel, Faking It.

  18. Jennifer says:

    Yeah, if you want to know what Crusie is up to, read her blog. However, she hasn’t finished any books for quite some time and the one that she most recently finished got rejected, so….back to the drawing board.

    I have faith that she’ll come through again sometime, hopefully.

  19. Susan/DC says:

    Jennifer Crusie is a master. I loved how she described Phin in Welcome to Temptation: He “looked like every glossy frat boy in every nerd movie ever made, like every popular town boy who’d ever looked right through her in high school, like every rotten rich kid who’d ever belonged where she hadn’t.” I can picture him so clearly, even though there’s no mention of height, hair or eye color, size of his biceps, etc. After that, the detailed descriptions of heroes in other books seems excessive.

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