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Finding Joy
Finding Joy by Adriana Herrera is 99c! What a cute illustrated cover! This was mentioned on a previous Hide Your Wallet and appears to be a stand alone and not part of any sort of series. Have you read this one?
As his twenty-sixth birthday approaches, Desta Joy Walker finds himself in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the one place he’s been actively avoiding most of his life. For Desta, the East African capital encompasses some of the happiest and saddest parts of his life–his first home and the place where his father died. When an unavoidable work obligation lands him there for twelve weeks, he may finally have a chance for the closure he so desperately needs. What Desta never expected was to catch a glimpse of his future as he reconnects with the beautiful country and his family’s past.
Elias Fikru has never met an opportunity he hasn’t seized. Except, of course, for the life-changing one he’s stubbornly ignored for the past nine months. He’d be a fool not to accept the chance to pursue his doctoral studies in the U.S., but saying yes means leaving his homeland, and Elias isn’t ready to make that commitment.
Meeting Desta, the Dominican-American emergency relief worker with the easy smile and sad eyes, makes Elias want things he’s never envisioned for himself. Rediscovering his country through Desta’s eyes emboldens Elias to reach for a future where he can be open about every part of himself. But when something threatens the future that’s within their grasp, Elias and Desta must put it all on the line for love.
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The Golden Spider
The Golden Spider by Anne Renwick is 99! This is a steampunk romance with two doctor characters. Readers say there’s a lot of great sexual tension between the hero and heroine, but found some of the medical jargon took them out of the story. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
London papers scream of dirigible attacks, kraken swarms, and lung-clogging, sulfurous fogs. But a rash of gypsy murders barely rates mention.
Lady Amanda is tired of having both her intelligence and her work dismissed.
After blackmailing her way into medical school, she catches the eye of her anatomy professor from the moment she walks into his lecture hall. Is he interested in her? Or only her invention–a clockwork spider that can spin artificial nerves?
Lord Thornton, a prominent neurobiologist, has been betrayed.
Secret government technology has been stolen from his laboratory, and a foreign spy is attempting to perfect it via a grisly procedure… using gypsies as test subjects. The last thing he needs is the distraction of a beautiful–and brilliant–new student, even if her spider could heal a deteriorating personal injury.
Until her device is stolen and used in the latest murder.
Lord Thornton has no option but to bring her into his laboratory as well as the investigation where they must fight their growing, yet forbidden, attraction. Bodies accumulate and fragile bonds are tested as they race across London, trying to catch the spy before it’s too late.
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The Last Sky
The Last Sky by Jess Anastasi is FREE! This is a sci-fi romance and the first in a series. It was also published previously under a different name called Atrophy. I’m always on the hunt for more sci-fi romances and free is a good price to take a chance!
Winner of a 2015 Galaxy Award for science fiction romance!
No one on Erebus escapes alive…
Twelve years on the prison planet Erebus makes a man long for death. The worst part for Tannin Everette is that he was framed for murder. He’s innocent. When the ship Imojenna lands for emergency repairs, Tannin risks everything to escape…only to find himself face to face with the captain’s undeniably gorgeous sister.
Zahli Sherron isn’t planning on turning Tannin in. In fact, she actually believes him. Sure, he’s sexy as every kind of sin, but he’s no criminal–so she hides him. But no one escapes from Erebus and lives to tell about it. With every day that passes, Zahli further risks the lives of the entire crew…even as she falls in love with a man she can never have for herself.
Previously released as Atrophy
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The Neapolitan Novels
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante is $3.99 at Amazon! It’s around $40 elsewhere, so this is a major discount, though it could expire at any second. These are definitely bestsellers, but I was never super interested. Are you a fan?
In one volume, the New York Times–bestselling epic about hardship and female friendship in postwar Naples that has sold over five million copies.
Beginning with My Brilliant Friend, the four Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante follow Elena and Lila, from their rough-edged upbringing in Naples, Italy, not long after WWII, through the many stages of their lives—and along paths that diverge wildly. Sometimes they are separated by jealousy or hostility or physical distance, but the bond between them is unbreakable, for better or for worse.
This volume includes all four novels: My Brilliant Friend; The Story of a New Name; Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay; and The Story of the Lost Child.
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Whitney Hill’s ELEMENTAL and ELDRITCH SPARKS are 99 cents apiece until October 7 in honor of the 5th in series coming out later in October. UF with an elemental heroine trying to keep a low profile as a mundane private investigator… and failing because someone she’s hiding from comes to her office in need of a private investigator.
I loved the first Neapolitan novel for the scrappy A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN vibe, but I feel like the 2nd one had a lot of drama over worthless male characters and I’ve stalled there for now I have the next 2 books and I will read them, but they’re low priority.
Part of me really thinks that, for $3.99, I should grab those Ferrante books. Another part of me, glancing at my already insurmountable TBR, thinks it would just be a waste of $5 (including tax) because I’m fairly sure the books would just sit there, unread, on my Kindle whilst I continue to consume mass quantities of HPs, dark-forced-marriage-mafia romances, and m/m romances from “Kindle Unlimited farm” writers. Sometimes self-knowledge is a chastening thing.
I can’t explain to you how amazing the Elena Ferrante books are. The trashy men are very much treated as such and there is a hell of a lot of internalized patriarchy and misogyny, but it is recognized as such. Classics, IMO, but YMMV!
Our book club read MY BRILLIANT FRIEND and I just couldn’t make it past 80 pages. I didn’t care about any of the characters, which is the Kiss of DNF for me.
@DDD: You’re paying tax on Kindle books? I’m confused.
@Darlynne: I’m definitely charged (Louisiana) state sales taxes on my kindle purchases.
@Darlynne: Yeah, I didn’t pay sales tax on digital goods when I lived in Florida, and then I moved, and now my shopping habits are altered by a nearly 10% markup in the form of sales tax on downloads. (Also on food and medication, but I can’t limit buying those to special occasions.)
@DiscoDollyDeb, I had the same thought and then bought it anyway. So many bad book decisions.
Am I the only person who can’t stand the current trend of illustrated covers? I think 90% of them are ugly. Not a fan.
@Bronte: No, you’re not. I’ve been vociferous in my objections to the illustrated covers because I find them misleading and, frankly, I like the hot-cover-model covers. However, it’s my understanding that books with illustrated covers often sell better than ones with photographed covers—so I suspect the trend is here to stay.
I miss the days when covers might have, like, a peacock feather on a pillow or something. It’s weird because I always thought I didn’t like them, but then a couple of months ago, I was reading the last of the Judith Ivory books I hadn’t read before and found myself appreciating the covers. No idea whether my tastes have actually changed or whether this is purely a reaction against the illustrated covers (which dramatically diminish the odds that I’ll buy something).
Illustrated covers generally fall below ‘appropriate photography’ and ‘well-executed painting’ but above ‘randomly Photoshopped stock image mashup’ for me. I remember some truly knockout cover paintings on everything from Barbara Cartland romances (Francis Marshall, anyone? *love* his paintings) to Signet Regencies and Star Trek novels (Boris Vallejo, yum).
A good illustrated cover tells me something about the main characters, the setting, and possibly even the conflict – a la ‘Boyfriend Material.’ If it’s just two barely-differentiated human silhouettes on a paper-cutout backdrop, it might as well have no graphics at all.
All that said, delighted to see the Adriana Herrera on sale, have snapped that up. 🙂
I feel incredibly parochial (and sympathetic and kind of anxious) to discover that other states charge sales tax on digital purchases. This would really trouble me for Amazon books, since I’m basically only licensing the right to read a Kindle book until Amazon terraforms another planet, relocates its executive staff, and cuts off all services on Earth.
I’m not going to hold an author responsible for the blurb writing, but I hope the lower-case ‘gypsies’ isn’t used by the protagonists. It’s generally considered a slur now, and Rom or Romani is preferred.
(I don’t want to hear any “but historical” arguments on this. If you have swarms of krakens and clockwork spiders, you can have Romani people.)