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  • Angel in a Devil’s Arms

    Angel in a Devil’s Arms by Julie Anne Long

    RECOMMENDED: Angel in a Devil’s Arms by Julie Anne Long is $1.99! Catherine reviewed this one and gave it an A:

    Angel in a Devil’s Arms was just enormous fun to read. It’s sweet, it’s sexy, it’s fun, and it’s just a little bit subversive. Highly recommended.

    From USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long comes the second book in an exciting new historical romance series, the first since her beloved Pennyroyal Green series.

    He has devil’s blood in his veins. At least, that’s always been the legend. How else could the Duke of Brexford’s notorious bastard son return from the dead? The brutal decade since Lucien Durand, Lord Bolt, allegedly drowned in the Thames forged him into a man who always gets what—and who—he wants. And what he wants is vengeance for his stolen birthright…and one wild night in Angelique Breedlove’s bed.

    Angelique recognizes heartbreak when the enigmatic Lord Bolt walks into The Grand Palace on the Thames, and not even his devastating charm can tempt her to risk her own ever again. One scorching kiss drives home the danger.

    But in the space between them springs a trust that feels anything but safe. And the passion—explosive, consuming—drives Lucien to his knees. Now his whole life depends on proving his love to a woman who doesn’t believe in it…because his true birthright, he now knows, is guardian of Angelique Breedlove’s heart.

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  • A Deadly Education

    A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

    A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik is $1.99! If you’re unsure about whether to pick up this book, I recommend reading Aarya’s review as well as this Goodreads review and Reddit review to make that decision for yourself. The comments on those outside reviews are insightful, as it contains opinions from readers of color about various cultural identities present in the book. Novik has also since apologized and stated that future editions will be changed.

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic.

    I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life.

    Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans.

    I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I’ll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world.

    At least, that’s what the world expects me to do. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that’s crawled out of the drains. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. The school itself certainly does.

    But the Scholomance isn’t getting what it wants from me. And neither is Orion Lake. I may not be anyone’s idea of the shining hero, but I’m going to make it out of this place alive, and I’m not going to slaughter thousands to do it, either.

    Although I’m giving serious consideration to just one.

    With flawless mastery, Naomi Novik creates a heroine for the ages—a character so sharply realized and so richly nuanced that she will live on in hearts and minds for generations to come.

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  • On the Edge

    On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

    On the Edge by Ilona Andrews is $1.99! This is the first book in The Edge urban fantasy series and, I think, it’s the only series I haven’t read by Andrews. As usual for Andrews, the world building is great, though some readers said it took them longer to connect with the characters than in Andrews other series.

    Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny). Only Edgers like Rose can easily travel from one world to the next, but they never truly belong in either.

    Rose thought if she practiced her magic, she could build a better life for herself. But things didn’t turn out how she planned, and now she works a minimum wage, off the books job in the Broken just to survive. Then Declan Camarine, a blueblood noble straight out of the deepest part of the Weird, comes into her life, determined to have her (and her power).

    But when a terrible danger invades the Edge from the Weird, a flood of creatures hungry for magic, Declan and Rose must work together to destroy them—or they’ll devour the Edge and everyone in it.

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  • The Night Raven

    The Night Raven by Sarah Painter

    The Night Raven by Sarah Painter is 99c! KJ Charles wrote a review for this on on Goodreads when it first came out. She enjoyed the premise, but found the shoddy editing to be distracting. Here’s hoping it’s had a bit of a clean up since then.

    Meet Lydia Crow…

    Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and more-than-slightly dodgy family. Which is why she carved her own life as a private investigator far away from London.

    When a professional snafu forces her home, the head of the family calls in a favour, and Lydia finds herself investigating the disappearance of her cousin, Maddie.

    Soon, Lydia is neck-deep in problems: her new flatmate is a homicidal ghost, the intriguing, but forbidden, DCI Fleet is acting in a distinctly unprofessional manner, and tensions between the old magical families are rising.

    The Crows used to rule the roost and rumours claim they are still the strongest.

    The Silvers have a facility for lying and they run the finest law firm in London.

    The Pearl family were costermongers and everybody knows that a Pearlie can sell feathers to a bird.

    The Fox family… Well. The less said about the Fox family the better.

    For seventy-five years, a truce between the four families has held strong, but could the disappearance of Maddie Crow be the thing to break it?

    The Night Raven is the first book in Crow Investigations, an exciting new paranormal mystery series from bestselling author of magical fiction, Sarah Painter.

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  1. Laurel says:

    I highly recommend The Edge series by Ilona Andrews. It may not be as much of a favorite for me as the Hidden Legacy series, but even lesser Ilona Andrews is still really enjoyable. (I think I would enjoy reading their grocery store list!) If you read their Innkeeper series, you will want to read The Edge books just for some character overlap.

  2. Carrie G says:

    I recommend On the Edge. In some ways I think I’ve enjoyed The Edge series even more than other series by Andrews. I think the series has been overlooked by a lot of readers. It’s very sexy with great world building. (I also love the Innkeeper series and the first three books of the Hidden Legacy series, but I couldn’t keep my interest up after the focus shifted to Catalina.)

  3. Kareni says:

    The Kate Daniels books have never grabbed me, but I quite liked On the Edge and the fourth book in that series (the second and third were a bit icky for my taste).

  4. LJO says:

    Bummer. The Julie Anne Long book has gone back to its regular price.

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  6. LJO says:

    Angel in Devil’s Arms is now at the sale price on Amazon.

  7. Jcp says:

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  8. FashionablyEvil says:

    I really liked the Novik and the Long.

    The Novik is really brisk and I was invested in the story, but for such a multicultural cast of characters, the understanding of those languages and cultures is astonishingly superficial. I liked it enough that I will likely read the sequel, but if you’re looking for good representation of non-white characters, look elsewhere.

    I enjoyed the witty banter and found family in the Long, but the conflict felt contrived and was resolved so easily I felt like it could have just been skipped. There’s still plenty there in the “people who have been hurt before learn to try again” plot line. But on the whole, recommend.

  9. Pam says:

    I loved the Edge books – the concept of having these different realities boggled my mind. Regular Earth with Walmarts side by side with the Edge, where almost anything could happen.

  10. Emma says:

    Hmmm, so the Novik controversy is new to me, although I’m not surprised, given that my brother stopped reading her Temeraire series over its “sneaky Orientals doing sneaky things” vibe. I have only read Uprooted, and have no plans to read more of her stuff, but since that Reddit review is by a Chinese diaspora person, I’ll just throw in my 2 cents about the “Yi Liu” name thing. (I am also part of the Chinese diaspora, though my family grew up speaking English and is total poop at Mandarin.)

    Liu is pretty much always a surname in Mandarin. The MC calls her “Liu,” which implies it’s her first name (unless the MC calls everyone by their surname, but that seems unlikely). Of course, there are homophones with totally different meanings from the Liu surname that could be used as a given name. You could probably make some really cool, poetic names with them, especially since parents tend to get bonus points for picking literary/meaningful names. (Good Quora post on using Liu as a given name: https://www.quora.com/Can-Liu-be-used-as-a-given-name-Im-aware-Li%C3%BA-as-in-%E5%8A%89-%E5%88%98-is-a-family-name-but-I-cant-find-any-information-about-personal-names-using-different-characters-with-the-same-romanisation)

    Given what little I know of Naomi Novik, though, do I believe she researched Chinese naming etymology and customs and could tell readers about which character of Liu she picked and why? While having another Chinese character named Kaito (LOL), if what the Goodreads reviewer says is true? Welp, I leave you to decide.

  11. Emma says:

    On a more positive note, I am happy that Novik apologized for the whole “dreadlocks” fiasco and will edit it out of future editions. Hire good sensitivity readers and let them finish reading the book before publication *clap emojis*

  12. AtasB says:

    I feel like the rebuttals to that negative review of Deadly Education are SO much stronger (I’m not going to search it out again, but multiple people actually FROM the *specific areas* her characters originate from say she got it right in ways most people not from those places wouldn’t think would be correct; that’s why it can appear “off” even to people who think themselves educated) and the original negative review was made in such apparently bad faith, I’m not sure why it’s still having so much attention paid to it. Especially when we know Goodreads reviews are being so used to simply attack authors and gain attention, not just provide honest assessments of a book.

  13. AMac says:

    Recommend the Ilona Andrews the Edge series; I like their writing but definitely get bored following the same character for many books so this is a nice change of pace from Kate Daniels.

    I loved A Deadly Education and have been counting down to the next book. The version I read had already been scrubbed of the locs description (good on Novik for apologizing and hopefully lesson learned re: sensitivity readers). I think the reddit post did a balanced job of addressing the criticisms in the Goodreads review. I would also add that since the story is told from El’s first person POV, the languages she’s learning are from worksheets and disembodied voices so she’s not going to have any cultural context. She’s cramming them to learn spells so they’re just tools to her. The way she views her classmates as just x-speakers also felt believable for a friendless person constantly calculating survival odds and what someone can get her. This is part of her story arc as she makes friends and sees people as more than just their skills. El being biracial but without strong familial or cultural ties to her dad’s side (hi, we exist!) felt genuinely isolating and plays into that universe’s attempts to mold her into a villain. Read it if you like snarky misanthropes, monsters, magic and class commentary.

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