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  • Polaris Rising

    Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik

    RECOMMENDED: Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik is $1.99! This is a sci-fi romance and I absolutely loved it. Be warned that it does have a bit of a pushy alpha hero. You can read my A- here:

    I am so incredibly happy that this book is in the world, especially after feeling like I’ve exhausted all my sci-fi romance options. Polaris Rising is exciting. It’s funny. It’s fan-fucking-tastic. My quibbles are minor in comparison to the joyful Good Book Noises I made while reading this.

    As the seventh of nine children, Ada von Hasenberg knows that her only value to House von Hasenberg is as a political pawn in an arranged marriage. But after watching two of her older sisters get auctioned off to horrible men, Ada refuses to play her part. She flees off-planet and disappears for two years.

    Ada’s father, fed up with her rebellion, offers a bounty for her safe return. The universe is a big place, but mercs are everywhere, and Ada is caught. With the merc ship full, she’s forced to share a cell with Marcus Loch, the Devil of Fornax Zero. Rumor has it he murdered every commanding officer who issued orders during the Fornax Rebellion. All anyone knows for sure is that the Royal Consortium wants his head.

    Ada has no trouble believing the muscled man chained in the back of her cell is a killer. But when their ship is attacked by forces from rival House Rockhurst, Ada must decide whether to trust him—because once you release the devil, you can’t put him back. And when the attack heralds the opening salvo of a much bigger war, Ada must determine where her loyalties truly lie.

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  • Whiteout

    Whiteout by Adriana Anders

    RECOMMENDED: Whiteout by Adriana Anders is $1.99! Elyse gave this one an A-:

    I love romantic suspense with survival elements (especially cold weather survival) and I also really enjoyed the espionage/global threat aspect of the mystery. I wish I’d read the prequel novella first, but it wasn’t a huge issue, and I’m delighted to have a new series to look forward to.

    Angel Smith is finally ready to leave Antarctica for a second chance at life. But on what was meant to be her last day, the remote research station she’s been calling home is attacked. Hunted and scared, she and irritatingly gorgeous glaciologist Ford Cooper barely make it out with their lives…only to realize that in a place this remote, there’s nowhere left to run.

    Isolated with no power, no way to contact the outside world, and a madman at their heels, Angel and Ford must fight to survive in the most inhospitable—and beautiful—place on earth. But what starts as a partnership born of necessity quickly turns into an urgent connection that burns bright and hot. They both know there is little chance of making it out alive, and yet they are determined to survive against the odds—and possibly, the world.

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  • Once Upon a Highland Autumn

    Once Upon a Highland Autumn by Lecia Cornwall

    Once Upon a Highland Autumn by Lecia Cornwall is 99c! This is the second book in the Once Upon a Highland Season series. Complete with a curse and a marriage of convenience, love blossoms between a Scottish lass and an English Lord. Anyone plan on continuing the series?

    Megan McNabb would do anything to get out of marrying a man she does not love—even handfasting for a year and a day with an English stranger.

    A mysterious letter draws Lord Kit Rossington to Scotland in search of a lost treasure. But the marriage-minded females he avoided in England follow him to the Highlands, and he’ll do anything—even a temporary marriage with a Highland lass—to keep his freedom while he solves a mystery that’s haunted Glen Dorian for almost a century.

    Legends say a curse lurks among the shattered stones of Glen Dorian Castle. Will the love that is beginning to grow between Megan and Kit be able to withstand fate? For only the living, those with bold hearts and true love, can restore peace to Glen Dorian at last.

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  • The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

    The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal

    RECOMMENDED: The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal is $1.99! Carrie gave this one a B:

    At first I found the book to be too slow paced, but once I got into the flow of the story I enjoyed this book for its characters, its perspectives on culture, and its examination of family in general and sisterhood in particular.

     

    The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama—an Indian This Is Where I Leave You—about three Punjabi sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay their mother to rest.

    The British-born Punjabi Shergill sisters—Rajni, Jezmeen, and Shirnia—were never close and barely got along growing up, and now as adults, have grown even further apart. Rajni, a school principal is a stickler for order. Jezmeen, a thirty-year-old struggling actress, fears her big break may never come. Shirina, the peacemaking “good” sister married into wealth and enjoys a picture-perfect life.

    On her deathbed, their mother voices one last wish: that her daughters will make a pilgrimage together to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out her final rites. After a trip to India with her mother long ago, Rajni vowed never to return. But she’s always been a dutiful daughter, and cannot, even now, refuse her mother’s request. Jezmeen has just been publicly fired from her television job, so the trip to India is a welcome break to help her pick up the pieces of her broken career. Shirina’s in-laws are pushing her to make a pivotal decision about her married life; time away will help her decide whether to meekly obey, or to bravely stand up for herself for the first time.

    Arriving in India, these sisters will make unexpected discoveries about themselves, their mother, and their lives—and learn the real story behind the trip Rajni took with their Mother long ago—a momentous journey that resulted in Mum never being able to return to India again.

    The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters is a female take on the Indian travel narrative. “I was curious about how different the trip would be if it were undertaken by women, who are vulnerable to different dangers in a male-dominated society,” Balli Kaur Jaswal writes. “I also wanted to explore the tensions between tradition and modernity in immigrant communities, and particularly how those tensions play out among women like these sisters, who are the first generation to be raised outside of India.”

    Powerful, emotionally evocative, and wonderfully atmospheric, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters is a charming and thoughtful story that illuminates the bonds of family, sisterhood, and heritage that tether us despite our differences. Funny and heartbreaking, it is a reminder of the truly important things we must treasure in our lives.

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  1. Ren Benton/Lena Brassard says:

    POLARIS RISING does the “he’s violently jealous so he must really care about me *swoon*” thing, so heads up if that’s a hell no for anyone else.

  2. DiscoDollyDeb says:

    Penelope Douglas’s BIRTHDAY GIRL is a $1.99 KDD today. It’s probably my favorite book by Douglas—a beautifully-written, emotional, angsty, melancholy story about a young woman who falls for her boyfriend’s father. There’s no cheating—the father is single and the boyfriend becomes an ex-boyfriend before anything physical occurs between the h&h—but Douglas is so, so good at showing the nuances of emotion and the slow development of feelings between the couple. Highly recommended.

  3. Arijo says:

    I found Witheout to be an effective romantic suspense. I particularly liked the hero’s description as a ‘man who’d never met a conversation he couldn’t turn awkward’. Also, once the suspense part of the book starts, it’s pretty relentless, and it’s the heroine who pulls them through.

    The hero’s older brother is the hero of “Deep Blue”, a story in Turn the Tide anthology. Deep Blue was the only good story in that anthology, but since it seems to be forever free on Amazon, there’s not much to lose.

  4. Arijo says:

    Oh, I forgot a detail : Deep Blue comes before Whiteout. They can be read on their own, but having read Deep Blue first would help swallow Whiteout’s end, IMO.

  5. Kelsey Cooper says:

    These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong is $1.99 on Amazon

  6. Darlynne says:

    Amanda, feel free to remove this post if it’s inappropriate.

    WHITEOUT: ” … irritatingly gorgeous …”

    My comment isn’t about this book and I don’t mean to derail the conversation. I’m increasingly uncomfortable with the practice/choice/whatever by authors/publishers/whomever to make sure we know our MCs are beautiful, which seems to be another way of saying “worthy of our attention and love” without coming out and saying so.

    I’ve ranted before about the eternal and needless focus on beauty in romantic fiction, but in light of recent events/everything, doing so disturbs me even more. Worthiness of care and love and attention and HELP should have no correlation to one’s appearance or any other factor, and I wish we would just stop. /rant

    I’ll see myself out.

  7. MaryK says:

    I loved the first half of POLARIS RISING and Did Not Like the last half. Halfway through the heroine does something I thought was So Stupid plus the hero is barely in the second half. It’s the opposite of those books where the hero and heroine don’t meet until halfway through. The fact that I liked the first part so much probably contributes to my disappointment.

  8. Batgirl says:

    Darlynne, I tend to agree – I mean, we can’t actually see the characters, we can only imagine them, so it feels as if the blurb is saying “You must imagine a photoshopped model here! No individuality!”

    The blurb trope that makes me cringe is the overuse (actually, the just plain use) of ‘sinful’ ‘scandalous’ ‘wicked’ etc. Aren’t we over that ooh-I’m-so-naughty coyness yet? Even for historicals, I’m done with the insistence that the past as All Victorian Prudery All The Time (check out some Victorian erotica for a counter argument).

  9. Jen says:

    As an aside to the overly beautiful m.c.’s, I’m uncomfortable when the m.c.’s are unattractive (usually the heroine) and I’m continually knocked over the head about it. It’s even worse when it’s the hero that goes on and on about her unattractive features.

  10. Carrie G says:

    I agree with MaryK about Polaris. About 60% through it switched from an action story to a political drama, and the last 20% was predictable. I didn’t get the hero’s “smoldering anger” and the romance was lackluster to me. I miss Linnea Sinclair! There doesn’t seem to be anyone writing really good sci-fi romance right now, although I did really like Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell. I hope she writes more.

  11. TexasBookLover says:

    Unlike the previous commenters, I loved Polaris Rising! It and the rest of it’s series was actually one of my favorites last year. Maybe it was because it was so different from what I normally read, but I thought it was a lot of fun and a great distraction from an otherwise overwhelming world.

  12. Egged says:

    @CarrieG just chiming in to echo: I also miss Linnea Sinclair!!

  13. Rbitgrl says:

    Yeah! What happened to Linnea Sinclair??

  14. Susan says:

    Omigosh, I feel validated. 🙂 I’m another reader who *really* liked the first part of Polaris Rising and then…didn’t. I DNF’d it halfway in. (It’s like what happened with Amanda Bouchet’s The Kingmaker Chronicles where I went from squee to WTAF in record time. Calling it a letdown is a massive understatement.)

    I enjoy a good SFR, but am apparently hard to please since I find most of them unmemorable. Michelle Diener’s Class 5 series is not without issues, but those books are comfort reads for me. I know a number of other SBs are fans, too.

  15. flchen1 says:

    Just to say @DiscoDollyDeb, at your recommendation I hurried to add Birthday Girl to my e-reader only to be told that I’d purchased it… TWO YEARS AGO. Oops. Moving it up the TBR…

    And thank you, everyone, for the thoughts on Polaris and Whiteout. I do enjoy these genres, and especially appreciate being able to take a look at these with my eyes open…

  16. Glauke says:

    well that was two one-click-orders and still not overstretching my budget. Thanks!

    (I’ll abjust my expectations re: Polaris Rising)

  17. Wait, what? says:

    I read Polaris Rising a few years ago, and my overall impression was “meh.” There’s insta-lust, and the previously-mentioned jealous hero issue. Plus, the hero calls the heroine “darlin” from the beginning. What, is he a space cowboy? I did not finish the series.

    And I join in the love for Linnea Sinclair and Michelle Diener! The Class Five books are total comfort re-reads for me. I keep looking for good sci-fi romance books, and not finding them.

  18. Justin says:

    I was dismayed reading some of the above comments regarding Polaris Rising. I loved it. Really loved it. It has a treasured spot on bookshelf. The “Consortium Rebellion” trilogy books (of which Polaris Rising is the first novel) are my favorite books that I’ve read in the last two years. I’ve bought copies for multiple friends and family members, with good reviews all around. If you are interested in Sci-Fi and romance, in my opinion, this is none better.
    Also, I am looking forward to Jessie Mihalik’s next novel, “Hunt the Stars” out in February. Can’t wait.

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