Under the Whispering Door
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune is $3.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and is good for one day only. At the store, this was a coworkers best of 2021 book. What’d you think of this one?
When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead.
Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run by a man named Hugo. Hugo is the tea shop’s owner to locals and the ferryman to souls who need to cross over.
But Wallace isn’t ready to abandon the life he barely lived. With Hugo’s help he finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life.
When the Manager, a curious and powerful being, arrives at the tea shop and gives Wallace one week to cross over, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
Under the Whispering Door is a contemporary fantasy about a ghost who refuses to cross over and the ferryman he falls in love with.
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RECOMMENDED: Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski is $2.99! This one is another KDD. Sarah and Elyse jointly reviewed this one and gave it an A:
This book is nonfiction about the science behind stress, what it is, and how we deal (or don’t deal) with it effectively. Between the science and the practical applications, it’s incredibly informative, useful, soothing, and empowering.
What’s expected of women and what it’s like to be a woman today are two very different things – and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them. How can you ‘love your body’ when everything around you tells you you’re inadequate? How do you ‘lean in’ at work when you’re already at 110% and aren’t recognised for it? This paradox isn’t going away any time soon, so let’s stop ignoring it and change our relationship to it.
Twin sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski are here to help end the cycle of inadequacy, overwhelm and exhaustion, to go beyond banal self-help platitudes (‘Practice self-care!’, ‘Set boundaries!’) and confront the real obstacles that are standing between women and well-being. Combining the latest science-based evidence with prescriptive advice and a good dose of humour they reveal:
· how stress is a biological cycle that has to be completed before your body can return to a state of relaxation
· why rest, human connection and reducing self-criticism are key to recovering from and preventing burnout
· how to control the ‘monitor’ in your brain that regulates the emotion of frustration
· why the Bikini Industrial Complex makes it difficult for women to love their bodies – and the easiest way to fight back
· what you can start doing today to manage stress more effectivelyEye-opening, compassionate and optimistic, BURNOUT will completely transform the way we think about and manage stress, empowering women to thrive under pressure and enjoy meaningful yet balanced lives.
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RECOMMENDED: A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant is $2.99! This book is often recommended in terms a sex-positive heroine. However, other readers found the heroine’s view of sex to be rather unromantic. I feel like this is one of the more divisive romances; people either seem to love it or hate it.
In Cecilia Grant’s emotionally rich and deeply passionate Regency romance debut, a deal with a rumored rogue turns a proper young woman into . . . A Lady Awakened.
Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate and beloved servants from her malevolent brother-in-law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. Or rather, a daring plan to conceive. After all, if she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Forsaking all she knows of propriety, Martha approaches her neighbor, a London exile with a wicked reputation, and offers a strictly business proposition: a month of illicit interludes . . . for a fee.
Theophilus Mirkwood ought to be insulted. Should be appalled. But how can he resist this siren in widow’s weeds, whose offer is simply too outrageously tempting to decline? Determined she’ll get her money’s worth, Theo endeavors to awaken this shamefully neglected beauty to the pleasures of the flesh—only to find her dead set against taking any enjoyment in the scandalous bargain. Surely she can’t resist him forever. But could a lady’s sweet surrender open their hearts to the most unexpected arrival of all . . . love?
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The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur is $2.99! This is a young adult historical mystery set in Korea. Ellen reviewed Hur’s debut book and absolutely loved it. They also mentioned this one on a previous Hide Your Wallet.
Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur’s The Forest of Stolen Girls is a haunting historical mystery sure to keep readers guessing until the last page.
1426, Joseon (Korea). Hwani’s family has never been the same since she and her younger sister went missing and were later found unconscious in the forest near a gruesome crime scene.
Years later, Detective Min—Hwani’s father—learns that thirteen girls have recently disappeared from the same forest that nearly stole his daughters. He travels to their hometown on the island of Jeju to investigate… only to vanish as well.
Determined to find her father and solve the case that tore their family apart, Hwani returns home to pick up the trail. As she digs into the secrets of the small village—and collides with her now estranged sister, Maewol—Hwani comes to realize that the answer could lie within her own buried memories of what happened in the forest all those years ago.
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K.A. Tucker’s THE SIMPLE WILD—about a woman returning to her Alaskan birthplace to see her ailing father and falling for the bush pilot who helps run his business—is $1.99 in the Kindle Store. This book has been rec’d for both its living-in-the-wilderness and opposites-attract tropes. However, it is the first of what appears to be a quartet of books that all focus on the same couple (and the other books aren’t on sale), so I’m assuming THE SIMPLE WILD ends with an HFN rather than an HEA.
One more: Urvashi Pitre’s INDIAN INSTANT POT COOKBOOK is $1.49 in the Kindle Store. I’m not a huge fan of cookbooks in an ebook format, but I love Indian food and I love my Instapot, so sometimes sacrifices must be made. I like Pitre’s clear & concise instructions and explanations. And I also like her directive to “follow each recipe exactly the way it us written the first time you make it, then feel free to change it the next time you cook it,” because that is the way I like to cook when trying a new dish/recipe.
I know it didn’t work for some, but I loved UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR. It was just what I needed at the time and I still think of it now.
Just saw that BECOMING CRONE by Lydia M. Hawke is .99 today at Amazon US. Fingers crossed that a 60-ish MC is done well.
A LADY AWAKENED didn’t really work for me—there’s just SO MUCH bad sex in it. That said, I know other readers have mentioned how much they love it at least in part because the sex is bad/doesn’t go in for the insta-lust premise.
I just misread the hero’s last name in A LADY AWAKENED as Milkwood, instead of Mirkwood, and wondered why I had never noticed when I read the book how suggestive that was!
It took me a while to warm up to that book, I almost gave up, but by the end I thought it was very good.
A Simple Wild was a DNF for me. Both the hero and the heroine are very immature and play “pranks” that are really just cruel. I remember one scene where the heroine shaves or cuts the hero’s hair while he’s sleeping, which is such a boundary voilation to me that I just couldn’t continue. The hero is also a sex-shaming asshat and I couldn’t understand what their “relationship” was based on.
@Dana – agreed on your assessment of A Simple Wild. Also a DNF for me. And for many of the same reasons.
I got an ARC of “A Lady Awakened” back when it was first published. I read it then and remember nothing of it now, but I gotta say that Cecilia Grant got a gorgeous cover on this one. I admire it every time I see it.
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I liked A Lady Awakened enough that I kept the physical book, even though it has a woman on the cover instead of a man (gasp–that’s not my normal behavior). Having said that, I do prefer the covers for A Gentleman Undone and A Woman Entangled a lot more. But, I liked that the first book seemed somewhat more realistic and I recall that it taught me some things I didn’t know.
Burnout sounds good. Thanks for the recommendation.
Burnout is excellent. If you, like me, can’t seem to find time to read it, get the audiobook (perhaps from your library). The sister-authors take turns narrating it, and do a fantastic job of it.