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Accidentally Engaged
RECOMMENDED: Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron is $2.99! Kiki reviewed this one and gave it an A-:
I cannot emphasize enough how hungry this book will make you.
Accidentally Engaged might be my top pick for “don’t read while hungry.” Between our heroine Reena’s bread baking (there’s rye, there’s challah, there’s an ongoing battle with a sourdough starter) and her Indian and East African cooking, I was craving a feast pretty much the whole time I was reading this book.
Reena Manji doesn’t love her career, her single status, and most of all, her family inserting themselves into every detail of her life. But when caring for her precious sourdough starters, Reena can drown it all out. At least until her father moves his newest employee across the hall–with hopes that Reena will marry him.
But Nadim’s not like the other Muslim bachelors-du-jour that her parents have dug up. If the Captain America body and the British accent weren’t enough, the man appears to love eating her bread creations as much as she loves making them. She sure as hell would never marry a man who works for her father, but friendship with a neighbor is okay, right? And when Reena’s career takes a nosedive, Nadim happily agrees to fake an engagement so they can enter a couples video cooking contest to win the artisan bread course of her dreams.
As cooking at home together brings them closer, things turn physical, but Reena isn’t worried. She knows Nadim is keeping secrets, but it’s fine— secrets are always on the menu where her family is concerned. And her heart is protected… she’s not marrying the man. But even secrets kept for self preservation have a way of getting out, especially when meddling parents and gossiping families are involved.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
RECOMMENDED: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow is $3.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! I read this one and gave it a B+:
If you’re in the mood for a lovely, tender fantasy novel about belonging and one that feels more like a long, relaxing bath than a hot, intense shower will all of the fancy pressure and pulsating settings you can imagine, you’ll love this one. It’s a soothing pick for when you hope to take comfort in a book.
In the early 1900s, a young woman searches for her place in the world after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.
Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
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Meddling Kids
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero is $2.99! This is horror/mystery is recommended for fans of Stranger Things and Scooby-Doo. Readers loved the mash-up of Scooby-Doo and Lovecraftian elements, but admit the writing took some getting used to. Have you read this one?
For fans of John Dies at the End and Welcome to Night Vale comes a tour de force of horror, humor, and H.P. Lovecraft. The surviving members of a forgotten teenage detective club (and their dog) must reunite as broken adults to finally solve the terrifying case that ruined them all…and sent the wrong man to prison. Scooby Doo and the gang never had to do this!
1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in the Zoinx River Valley in Oregon) are all grown up and haven’t seen each other since their fateful, final case in 1977. Andy, the tomboy, is twenty-five and on the run, wanted in at least two states. Keri, one-time kid genius and budding biologist, is bartending in New York, working on a serious drinking problem. At least she’s got Sean, an excitable Weimeraner descended from the original canine member of the team. Nate, the horror nerd, has spent the last thirteen years in and out of mental health institutions, and currently resides in an asylum in Arhkam, Massachusetts. The only friend he still sees is Peter, the handsome jock turned movie star. The problem is, Peter’s been dead for years.
The time has come to uncover the source of their nightmares and return to where it all began in 1977. This time, it better not be a man in a mask. The real monsters are waiting.
With raucous humor and brilliantly orchestrated mayhem, Edgar Cantero’s Meddling Kids taps into our shared nostalgia for the books and cartoons we grew up with, and delivers an exuberant, eclectic, and highly entertaining celebration of horror, life, friendship, and many-tentacled, interdimensional demon spawn.
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The Winter King
The Winter King by C.L. Wilson is $1.99! This is book one in the Weathermages of Mystral series. Very curious if there will be a third book. This is a fantasy romance with some interesting magical systems and societies, but warning here for dubious consent and rape. I believe the second book has this as well.
After three long years of war, starkly handsome Wynter Atrialan will have his vengeance on Summerlea’s king by taking one of the man’s beautiful, beloved daughters as his bride. But though peace is finally at hand, Wynter’s battle with the Ice Heart, the dread power he embraced to avenge his brother’s death, rages on.
Khamsin Coruscate, Princess of Summerlea and summoner of Storms, has spent her life exiled to the shadows of her father’s palace. Reviled by her father, marriage to Wintercraig’s icy king was supposed to be a terrible punishment, but instead offers Kham her first taste of freedom—and her first taste of overwhelming passion.
As fierce, indomitable Wynter weathers even Khamsin’s wildest storms, surprising her with a tenderness she never expected, Kham wants more than Wynter’s passion—she yearns for his love. But the power of the Ice Heart is growing, dangerous forces are gathering, and a devastating betrayal puts Khamsin and Wynter to the ultimate test.
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I loved MEDDLING KIDS: I’d almost describe the style as poetry to pop culture.
ALSO: THE MERMAID THE WITCH AND THE SEA is on sale (at least through Amazon USA), which I remember was very enthusiastically reviewed here before, so I one-clicked real hard.
Ooh ACCIDENTALLY ENGAGED has been on my wish list! I inhaled the sample when it first came out but didn’t want to pay full price because I may or may not make it past 10% of the book… that’s the way my reading has been going this year.
Another heart for MEDDLING KIDS. The criticism is valid, but this Scooby fan loved it. ACCIDENTALLY ENGAGED was a delight, the MCs really had to work hard for each other, as did their meddling families. I sense a theme here.
I could swear I’ve read THE WINTER KING … unless it was THE SEA KING or KING OF LORD AND SKY? Too much thinking required right now.
I ordered Meddling Kids. Sounds off the beaten track of horror and I can’t wait to see if it’s as good as I hope it is.
Thanks so much for the content warning on the C.L. Wilson book. Someone recommended the Tairen Soul books to me as a fantasy series without a lot of violence. Book 1 was going great until the graphic rape scene almost at the end of the book. It was so surprising and just ruined everything and made me feel icky for weeks. Whenever I see one of their books, I’m tempted to try again, but I won’t.
Yeah, alllll the trigger warnings on the Weathermages of Mystral series. I don’t remember much about the first book, but the second in the series had the most upsetting sexual assault scene (on the heroine) that I’ve ever read in a romance. I’ll avoid giving any more details than that, but it gave me whiplash because it was a light (but melodramtic) story until it took that hard turn. Definitely take a look at some of the one star reviews on the second book before you pick it up.
Have not read any of the above, but if the cover of The Ten Thousand Doors of January isn’t cover awe, what is?
Another thumbs up for Meddling Kids, the writing style did take a minute to get used to but it was a fun read.
Here’s an example of the writing style under discussion in Meddling Kids: “Kerri’s hair proverbially shivered with anticipation when she touched the device, her mind considering the fabulous implications of a single click.” The hair is effectively a minor character in the book, so if that sort of description gets to you, the book might not be for you.
I had The Ten Thousand Doors of January on “just read another chapter” for weeks, and then it took off at the end, more than any other recent read I can recall. Huge turnaround. I still feel like I might have enjoyed the book centering a supporting character more.
I loved Meddling Kids and Ten Thousand Doors of January. Both were lovely, excellent experiences for me. And I liked Accidentally Engaged, too!