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  • Circe

    Circe by Madeline Miller

    Circe by Madeline Miller is $4.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and it’s being price matched. I know $4.99 is a little higher for books we feature on sale, but everyone and their mom has been loving Circe. I want to say that most of my book group has read it by now. Have you read it? Does it live up to the hype?

    In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child–not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power–the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.

    Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.

    But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.

    With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man’s world.

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  • Just One Damned Thing After Another

    Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

    RECOMMENDEDJust One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor is 99c! It’s another KDD. Redheadedgirl read this one and gave it a B:

    If you’re a fan of Connie Willis, I would suggest you give this series a try. It doesn’t take itself quite so seriously, and Max as a heroine and audience surrogate is a lot of fun. It’s potentially a commitment, given that there are 9 books and a bunch of novellas, but I’m looking forward to making a dent in my TBR pile to read the next book.

    “History is just one damned thing after another” – Arnold Toynbee

    A madcap new slant on history that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea…

    Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary’s, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don’t do ‘time-travel’ – they ‘investigate major historical events in contemporary time’. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power – especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet.

    Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History. Their aim is to observe and document – to try and find the answers to many of History’s unanswered questions…and not to die in the process.

    But one wrong move and History will fight back – to the death. And, as they soon discover – it’s not just History they’re fighting.

    Follow the catastrophe curve from eleventh-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. For wherever Historians go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake…

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  • Not Like the Movies

    Not Like the Movies by Kerry Winfrey

    Not Like the Movies by Kerry Winfrey is $1.99! Catherine gave this a B-:

    If, like me, you are the sort of person who is prone to being stressed out and pulled in too many directions and inclined to take on the problems of anyone around you, I suggest you give this one a miss. But if you have better boundaries than I do, and are up for a book that tackles dementia and difficult family dynamics, but also treats you to clever banter, unconventional but kind characters, and lavish descriptions of pie, then I think you will enjoy this one.

    What happens when your life is a rom-com…but you don’t even believe in true love?

    Chloe Sanderson is an optimist, and not because her life is easy. As the sole caregiver for her father, who has early onset Alzheimer’s, she’s pretty much responsible for everything. She has no time—or interest—in getting swept up in some dazzling romance. Not like her best friend Annie, who literally wrote a rom-com that’s about to premiere in theaters across America…and happens to be inspired by Chloe and Nick Velez, Chloe’s cute but no-nonsense boss.

    As the buzz for the movie grows, Chloe reads one too many listicles about why Nick is the perfect man, and now she can’t see him as anything but Reason #2: The Scruffy-Bearded Hunk Who’s Always There When You Need Him. But unlike the romance Annie has written for them, Chloe isn’t so sure her own story will end in a Happily Ever After.

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  • The Dating Playbook

    The Dating Playbook by Farrah Rochon

    The Dating Playbook by Farrah Rochon is $2.99! This is book two in The Boyfriend Project series, though it works fine on its own. The heroine is a personal trainer and the hero is an athlete who wants to get back into the NFL.

    When a personal trainer agrees to fake date her client, all rules are out the window in this delightful romantic comedy from the USA Today bestselling author of The Boyfriend Project!

    When it comes to personal training, Taylor Powell kicks serious butt. Unfortunately, her bills are piling up, rent is due, and the money situation is dire. Taylor needs more than the support of her new best friends, Samiah and London. She needs a miracle.

    And Jamar Dixon might just be it. The oh-so-fine former footballer wants back into the NFL, and he wants Taylor to train him. There’s just one catch — no one can know what they’re doing. But when they’re accidentally outed as a couple, Taylor’s game plan is turned completely upside down. Is Jamar just playing to win . . . or is he playing for keeps?

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  1. Lostshadows says:

    Literally just started Circe. (Got it for xmas) The first couple of chapters seem pretty good.

  2. spinster.revival says:

    Even though I own both Circe and Song of Achilles, I still haven’t read either of them; I oddly always turn anti-bandwagon until things are forgotten about and then will eventually come back to them. Oh well I’ll get to you one day, Madeline Miller.

    FYI Kelly Bowen’s Duke of my Heart is $1.99 on Kindle. I love her books, and this one is great. The heroine has been called a “Regency Olivia Pope”, and even though I never watched Scandal, it was an amazing read; I highly recommend it if you like kickass heroines as Bowen’s are top-notch.

  3. HeatherS says:

    I adore “Circe”. It’s why I joined the Book of the Month Club. It was my favorite book of 2018. I’ve read it like 4 times and listened to the audiobook once (FYI, the audiobook is also fantastic; Perdita Weeks is the narrator and she is amazing). $4.99 is a great price for a fabulous book.

  4. Penny says:

    CIRCE is fantastic. It is very emotionally draining, but worth it.

  5. Susan says:

    I’m a big fan of Jodi Thomas’s The Chronicles of St. Mary’s series (and the related Time Police series). In fact, I’m listening to the annual Christmas short story right now. The books won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but readers who like history from many periods will especially like them, I think. This is an alternate history/timeline so artistic license is a factor, but I’m always learning new things and going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole to look things up. I suggest that the books be read in order because there are long running story threads and character development mixed in with the adventures in each book. Also, a bit of a warning in that readers shouldn’t be fooled by the frequent use of broad humor, as some of the books can be emotionally traumatic. Kind of like real life.

  6. Kris says:

    Circe is a top 10 book for me. I adored her and the book even though at times she wasn’t easy to like (but oh did she have reasons for her decisions)
    At $4.99, this is a deal.

  7. Susan says:

    ^I should also add that the audiobooks of the Thomas series are excellently narrated by Zara Ramm if that’s your preferred format. (I usually both read and listen to each book–that’s how much I like them.)

  8. Emily C says:

    @Susan- thanks for the quick review of the Jodi Thomas series! You’ve convinced me to finally try the series, especially when you mention it sending you on Wikipedia rabbit holes. I love alternate history time travel if there’s enough crumbs to pick up the threads of the real.

  9. Jazzlet says:

    I want to emphasise Susan’s warning that the Jodi Thomas books can be emotionally traumatic or I should say book as after the traumatic event in Just One Damned Thing After Another I haven’t managed to convince my self to read any of the others.

    SPOILER WARNING

    …in case I don’t do the tags correctly

    Show Spoiler
    particualrly for anyone with fertility problems

    JODTAA has a major characer go through a pregnancy, then miscarriage on their own which I found extremely distressing and quite outside the feel of the earlier part of the book.

  10. Jazzlet says:

    Oh dear, sorry.

  11. Courtney M says:

    Does anyone know if Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor has gotten a new, more polished edition in the last couple years? I know I have seen that happen on other popular self-published authors’ first books, and the release date on Amazon says 2019, and I read it in 2016.

    When I read it in 2016, I was pretty disappointed because people RAVED about it, but in my view it really really needed an editor. Not for typos, but structurally. For example, I think some of the characters’ names changed in the middle of the book. Looking back at my review, and I DNF’ed it at 85% because I kept having to page back to figure out why certain plot points were important and figure out who was who. However, unlike most things I DNF, I considered eventually looping back to the series because there were some promising elements there. So if it’s now been revised I might try again.

  12. Amanda says:

    @Jazzlet: Fixed it for you. For spoilers, it’s [*spoiler] TEXT [*/spoiler] but remove the asterisks.

  13. DonnaMarie says:

    I need to stop reading these posts. My GBPL reserve list is totally out of control. They aren’t dribbling in one or two at a time. They dropping 4-6 at a time. I know it’s my own fault, and I should just cancel, but what of I forget to reserve it later? What this ultimately means is that all the books I’ve actually purchased (guilty glance at ARCHANGELs LIGHT) or won (grateful nod to SBTB) are languishing in a corner because I currently have 13 books checked out. And 4 more waiting at the drive thru.

    But now I really, really want NOT LIKE THE MOVIES. And thank goodness I’ve already read CIRCE. And if you haven’t, you really should.

  14. Jcp says:

    Free US:
    Hot Christmas by Fern Fraser
    Come For Me Darling by Alexis Anne
    The Storm Inside by Alexis Anne
    Hit or Miss by Everly Ashton
    Issued to the Bride One Seargent for Christmas by Cora Seton
    Christmas at the End of Main Street by Meg Easton
    Right Under My Nose By Ali Parker
    Christmas Twist by Kris Pearson

  15. Kareni says:

    Fans of Rachel Reid’s Ilya and Shane might be interested in this deleted scene that the author shared on December 15:

    https://www.rachelreidwrites.com/news/2021/12/15

  16. Virtual Light says:

    Pursuant to Jazzlet’s comment, her spoiler to JODTAA coincided with the love interest cruelly (and unjustifiably) slut-shaming the protagonist because of his man-pain. Another thing that put me right off and had me stop the books immediately was (spoiler content warming: sexual assault):

    Show Spoiler
    The protagonist is sexually assaulted (not raped) by this dude she was working with. But it had no bearing on anything else. It was like, “Ho-hum, here’s an attempted sexual assault to show how bad this dude is. The protagonist will be shaken but then it will never be mentioned again.”

    For my time-travel reading needs, I turn to Connie Willis or Kage Baker’s excellent Company novels.

  17. Susan says:

    First–oops, I mistyped Jodi Taylor’s name. Jodi Thomas is a completely different author, some of whose books I also read.

    I bought/read JODTAA shortly after it came out and have reread (and listened to) it since then and don’t remember there being substantial alterations to it That said–and trying to avoid spoilers here–one of the reasons the series should be (carefully) read in order is because Taylor does mess with both the main timeline, as well as alternate timelines. So, there could conceivably be changes to characters/names/events. ::cough:: It’s intentional.

    Also, it’s true that some very bad things happen to the main character…and it’s worse when it’s at the hands of people she cares for/trusts*. TBH, there’s not always a sufficient amount of groveling afterwards to suit me, but I’m a grudge holder. If I’m correctly remembering the specific assault incident mentioned above, it does get addressed/punished. Retribution is not always immediate in this series, but time does have a way of catching up with wrongdoers sooner or later.

    There’s a lot of humor in this series, but there’s also a lot of trauma and the juxtaposition can be a unsettling. But history and life are kind of like that, right? As I noted before, the series may not be everyone’s cup of tea.

    *This is also a problem with Taylor’s Elizabeth Cage series. I’m pretty pissed off after the third book. Right now, I’m not sure if there’s a sufficient amount of groveling to induce me to continue.
    So I get it. Everyone has their own limit with this sort of thing.

  18. FashionablyEvil says:

    Another vote for CIRCE—it’s an amazing book. The writing is excellent and I really enjoyed the gender flipped perspectives on stories I know really well.

  19. CarrieG says:

    @Kareni–thank you for the link! That was fun. I also read the short she wrote about Ilya at Holloween a couple of years ago which I’d missed. That was really sweet. I can’t wait for The Long Game!

  20. Kareni says:

    @CarrieG, you are quite welcome. Had you seen the other pieces at the bottom of the page here?

    https://www.rachelreidwrites.com/heated-rivalry

  21. MirandaB says:

    @Susan: Is the Elizabeth Cage series continuing? I thought the third book was the last. Have you heard differently?

    Note: I love all things Jodi Taylor.

  22. Deborah says:

    Wait, what? I was almost sold on The Chronicles of St Mary’s, but you’re saying Taylor has another series that has possibly ended in a bad place? 54 minutes to decide if I’m willing to risk 99¢ on that possibility.

  23. Escapeologist says:

    @spinster.revival thank you for the Kelly Bowen rec! I picked it up last night and really enjoying it at 36% in. Loving the super competent heroine and curious about the backstory slowly being revealed.

  24. Susan says:

    @MirandaB: Several months ago on GR, JT said she has notes for the 4th Elizabeth Cage book but hadn’t started writing yet. The ending of #3 certainly left room for more books. I’ll probably be over my fit of pique by the time #4 comes out and won’t be able to resist.

    @Deborah: The Elizabeth Cage series is unrelated to the Chronicles of St. Mary’s and Time Police series (so far, but you never know with Taylor).

  25. Carrie G says:

    @Kareni, no I hadn’t! Thanks again! 🙂 I’m bookmarking the site now.

  26. Jazzlet says:

    Thank you Amanda!

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