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A Closed and Common Orbit
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers is $1.99! This is book two in the Wayfarers series, and I believe this should be read in order. Please correct me if I’m wrong! Sarah also did a podcast episode with Becky last week. Give it a listen!
Embark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in this fun and heart-warming space opera—the sequel to the acclaimed The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.
Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who’s determined to help her learn and grow.
Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet introduced readers to the incredible world of Rosemary Harper, a young woman with a restless soul and secrets to keep. When she joined the crew of the Wayfarer, an intergalactic ship, she got more than she bargained for—and learned to live with, and love, her rag-tag collection of crewmates.
A Closed and Common Orbit is the stand-alone sequel to that beloved debut novel, and is perfect for fans of Firefly, Joss Whedon, Mass Effect, and Star Wars.
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown
RECOMMENDED: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert is 99c! Kiki really loved this one and gave it an A:
Get a Life, Chloe Brown saw my expectations’ proffered hand and kissed it gently, and then proceeded to charm their pants off. In a tent. With s’mores. (Not with s’mores, because s’mores apparently are not a thing in the UK.) This metaphor got away from me, but you get the idea. This book is outstanding.
Talia Hibbert, one of contemporary romance’s brightest new stars, delivers a witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who’s tired of being “boring” and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things—perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory, and Helen Hoang.
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamourous family’s mansion. The next items?
Enjoy a drunken night out.
Ride a motorcycle.
Go camping.
Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.
Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.
And…do something bad.
But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.
But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. And why he never shows his art to anyone. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior…
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Chasing Cassandra
Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas is 99c! Ellen reviewed this one and gave it a C+:
Overall, even though I did enjoy reading most of this book, I was left feeling kind of lukewarm due to the stalling plot and not quite satisfying romance. I think if you have been reading and liking the series so far there is plenty to like here, especially if you are interested in spending more time with the characters we have already been introduced to.
Everything has a price…
Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything—or anyone—is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife—and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he’s determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra is equally determined to marry for love—the one thing he can’t give.
Everything except her…
Severin is the most compelling and attractive man Cassandra has ever met, even if his heart is frozen. But she has no interest in living in the fast-paced world of a ruthless man who always plays to win.
When a newfound enemy nearly destroys Cassandra’s reputation, Severin seizes the opportunity he’s been waiting for. As always, he gets what he wants—or does he? There’s one lesson Tom Severin has yet to learn from his new bride:
Never underestimate a Ravenel.
The chase for Cassandra’s hand may be over. But the chase for her heart has only just begun…
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The Duke and I
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn is $4! This book kicks off the Bridgertons series and is what the first season of the Netflix show is based on. I have mixed feelings about this particular cover give that the characters within the novel are all white (unless there was a rewrite I don’t know about). It looks like the entire series, or maybe most of them, are on sale for $4 each. Additionally, titles by Eloisa James and Lisa Kleypas are around $3.50 – $4.00
Can there be any greater challenge to London’s Ambitious Mamas than an unmarried duke?—Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, April 1813
By all accounts, Simon Basset is on the verge of proposing to his best friend’s sister—the lovely and almost-on-the-shelf—Daphne Bridgerton. But the two of them know the truth—it’s all an elaborate ruse to keep Simon free from marriage-minded society mothers. And as for Daphne, surely she will attract some worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable.
But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, it’s hard to remember that their courtship is a sham. Maybe it’s his devilish smile, certainly it’s the way his eyes seem to burn every time he looks at her . . . but somehow Daphne is falling for the dashing duke . . . for real! And now she must do the impossible and convince the handsome rogue that their clever little scheme deserves a slight alteration, and that nothing makes quite as much sense as falling in love.
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Just want to mention that there’s a dub-con sex scene in The Duke and I, for any readers who don’t know about it. It happens in the 2nd half of the book and it ruined the book for me.
That scene definitely shows the book’s age, I think. I don’t think that the author would write that scene now, twenty years later.
This Kleypas didn’t hit for me either. I found Cassandra to be far less annoying than Pandora (who was probably the most irritating romance protagonist I’ve read in the last five years), but neither of them were as compelling as the original Wallflowers of the previous generation.
“And It Came To Pass” by Laura Stone is $1.99 on Kindle. Contemporary M/M romance between a pair of Mormon missionaries in Spain.
I bought the paper version of The Duke and I, since so many people loved it so much. I couldn’t finish it – don’t think I got to the problematic scene. I’d read so many comments and reviews about the series that I was really looking forward to reading it, but it just didn’t work for me.
Definitely recommend Get a Life, Chloe Brown.
Also, Chasing Cassandra has some fat-shaming that kind of ruined it for me.
I second the suggestion by @HeatherS above; I also enjoyed “And It Came To Pass” by Laura Stone.
The first six books of Zoe York’s Wardham series are currently available for 99-cents in the Kindle Store in a box set titled SECOND CHANCES. Although I don’t think the Wardham books (published between 2013 & 2014) are quite as strong as York’s later Pine Harbour series, they’re still very good small-town romances with plenty of emotion and steam. Highly recommended.
https://www.amazon.com/Second-Chances-contemporary-romance-Welcome-ebook/dp/B00P6LD6H2/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=zoe+york+second+chance+box+set&qid=1629143796&sr=8-3
@DiscoDollyDeb-WOW, thanks for the heads up on that deal! Love Zoe York’s Pine Harbour series, and I feel like I might have read the first in the Wardham…but 99 cents for 6 books, great deal.
I actually got a paper copy of The Duke & I at the bookstore about a month ago, forgot about it, then bought another copy at a different bookstore. So I actually convinced my husband to read the other copy – I am reading his copies of the The Boys comics in exchange.
This is a bit of a trial for both of us. I don’t like The Boys because there’s a lot of stuff that’s only there for gratuitous shock value, and the comics are much worse than the TV show in this way. My husband isn’t liking The Duke & I because he doesn’t like the style – which he finds “overly precious” – or the subject matter. It’s hard for him to get invested in the comparatively minor problems of these very privileged people, he doesn’t have much patience for banter in prose (which is half the pleasure for most romance readers, I think), and he thinks Regency romance seems too limited in its scope to be interesting. He’s about a third of the way through the book and doesn’t know about the genre convention of the Dark Moment/Crisis, so he expects Simon and Daphne’s fake relationship to change to a real relationship to a happy marriage without any serious complications. I’ve told him that the book is dated, and that there’s some spicy, controversial stuff coming, but it’s up to my husband to discover that it’s dubcon. I’m sure he’ll have a strong reaction to it, though, because consent is important to both of us.
Don’t worry about either of us: we’re actually having fun venting about the books and discussing literary conventions. I am happy my husband is willing to give romance a chance, even if I doubt he’ll come out liking it in the end. It’s more than I expect from many men, and I respect him a lot for that.
There’s an e-boxed set of all four Divergent books for $4.99. The title on Amazon is Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection. Limited time deal, so don’t know how long it will last. I’ve been meaning to read them all for a long time. No excuses now!
The Wayfarer books don’t necessarily need to be read in order, but you’ll get just a little bit more out of them if you do imo.
That second one is great, but the first (The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet) is even better, and even has a little romance in it too. Highly recommended, definitely my favourite non-romance series, and really showed me that sci-fi can be something I’m legit interested in.
That scene is not dubcon. It’s rape.