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  • The Bride Test

    The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

    RECOMMENDED: The Bride Test by Helen Hoang is $1.99! I loved this book so much and gave it an A-:

    The Bride Test is so beautiful and Hoang was right when she said it was impossible not to love Esme. She’s tenacious and battles against her fear of failure, of judgement, and of her own self-doubt, to become this confident and self-assured woman. This Bride Test has only solidified my love for Hoang’s romances; they are truly a gift to the genre.

    From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart…

    Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions — like grief. And love. He thinks he’s defective. His family knows better— that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.

    As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can’t turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn’t go as planned. Esme’s lessons in love seem to be working… but only on herself. She’s hopelessly smitten with a man who’s convinced he can never return her affection.

    With Esme’s time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he’s been wrong all along. And there’s more than one way to love.

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  • Nice Dragons Finish Last

    Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron

    RECOMMENDED: Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron is 99c! This was mentioned on a previous podcast and a previous Whatcha Reading. The second book, One Good Dragon Deserves Another, is also on sale! Sarah loved this book:

    Nice Dragons Finish Last is fast-moving fantasy adventure with outstanding worldbuilding. It’s an experience to read.

    As the smallest dragon in the Heartstriker clan, Julius survives by a simple code: keep quiet, don’t cause trouble, and stay out of the way of bigger dragons. But this meek behavior doesn’t fly in a family of ambitious magical predators, and his mother, Bethesda the Heartstriker, has finally reached the end of her patience.

    Now, sealed in human form and banished to the DFZ–a vertical metropolis built on the ruins of Old Detroit–Julius has one month to prove that he can be a ruthless dragon or kiss his true shape goodbye forever. But in a city of modern mages and vengeful spirits where dragons are considered monsters to be exterminated, he’s going to need some serious help to survive this test.

    He only hopes humans are more trustworthy than dragons…

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  • Now That I’ve Found You

    Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest

    Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest is $2.99! This is a YA romance that we featured in a previous Hide Your Wallet. It looks super cute. I’m not sure about the ages of the main characters, but they seem like older teens? Correct me if I’m wrong!

    A YA novel about searching for answers, love, and your eccentric grandma in all the wrong places.

    Following in the footsteps of her überfamous grandma, eighteen-year-old Evie Jones is poised to be Hollywood’s next big star. That is until a close friend’s betrayal leads to her being blacklisted . . .

    Fortunately, Evie knows just the thing to save her floundering career: a public appearance with America’s most beloved actress—her grandma Gigi, aka the Evelyn Conaway. The only problem? Gigi is a recluse who’s been out of the limelight for almost twenty years. Days before Evie plans to present her grandma with an honorary award in front of Hollywood’s elite, Gigi does the unthinkable: she disappears.

    With time running out and her comeback on the line, Evie reluctantly enlists the help of the last person to see Gigi before she vanished: Milo Williams, a cute musician Evie isn’t sure she can trust. As Evie and Milo conduct a wild manhunt across New York City, romance and adventure abound while Evie makes some surprising discoveries about her grandma—and herself.

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  • The Age of Witches

    The Age of Witches by Louisa Morgan

    The Age of Witches by Louisa Morgan is $2.99! Sarah mentioned this one a previous Hide Your Wallet and was excited about the mention of Gilded Age witches. I’ve been so curious about Morgan’s books and their ability to blend historical settings, family dynamics, and magic. It also looks like a couple more witchy books by Morgan are on sale, if another strikes your fancy.

    In Gilded Age New York, a centuries-long clash between two magical families ignites when a young witch must choose between love and loyalty, power and ambition, in this magical novel by Louisa Morgan.

    In 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged as a witch. Two hundred years later, her legacy lives on in the scions of two very different lines: one dedicated to using their powers to heal and help women in need; the other, determined to grasp power for themselves by whatever means necessary. This clash will play out in the fate of Annis, a young woman in Gilded Age New York who finds herself a pawn in the family struggle for supremacy. She’ll need to claim her own power to save herself-and resist succumbing to the darkness that threatens to overcome them all.

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  1. Darlynne says:

    Huge fan of Aaron’s dragon series here. I have all of them and the audio books as well. Hey, it was a great sale, couldn’t pass them up.

    Julius is such a great character, very much someone who’s been ignored and bullied all his life, but remains a decent, well, dragon. He meets a talented young woman in the DFZ and gets help from an unlikely source over the course of the books. Highly recommended.

  2. Qualisign says:

    Huge (HUGE!) fan of Rachel Aaron’s DFZ series as well. Great world building, excellent characters, no easy outs and a lot of tough choices, slow building relationships.

  3. Lisa F says:

    The Forest and The Bride Test are my picks here!

  4. Ele says:

    I really enjoyed Aaron’s Heartstriker series–Julius does stand out as an actually nice dragon, a rare thing in urban fantasy. She has another series in the same setting–Minimum Wage Magic is one of the books–that also is very entertaining.

    I’ve also really enjoyed all of Helen Hoang’s books–she became an autobuy author for me after her first book. She portrays characters on the autism spectrum better than any other author in this genre, I think. I actually had some moments in reading Bride Test where Esme made me cringe, but I ended up thinking that was okay, portraying characters who have flaws is part of what makes her books so good.

  5. Steffi says:

    Okay, I am intrigued by Nice Dragons Finish Last because it sounds so _endearing_. As there are apparently some fans of the series here, how big is the romance aspect? I like my romances to be romances so I can read them when I’m in the mood for them, but I’m not a fan of Urban Fantasy that does the “AND HERE IS YOUR LOVE INTEREST, NOW FALL IN LOVE”-thing.

    (I don’t mind romance as a side plot when it feels natural and the characters are awesome, but I’m just not into Urban Fantasy Romances is what I’m saying I guess.)

  6. @SB Sarah says:

    @Steffi: I think the romance in Nice Dragons is an organically developing relationship that avoids the NOW KISS HERE IS LOVE INTEREST shoehorn (which I dislike, too).

  7. Steffi says:

    @SB Sarah Oh that sounds like it could be right up my alley then. I’m going to buy it 😀 Thank you! (Glad I’m not the only one who dislikes that trope.)

  8. @SB Sarah says:

    @Steffi: UGH YES it is so boring and awful. I have very clear memories of going to see the movie Underworld (with Kate Beckinsale) in a theatre with Adam, and there’s this gigantic pause in the action so Kate and whomever the dude was could suddenly gaze at each other with longing and kiss in some rain amid mood lighting, and the entire theatre groaned and laughed at it. It was the WORST. (Adam calls the movie “Underwear.” As in, “Remember that really bad movie we saw, Underwear?”) That was the worst example of shoehorning the romantic moment in that I can think of, and I really dislike it.

    There are some really REALLY cute scenes with Julian, and I hope you like this book! Please let me know what you think?

  9. MaryK says:

    @Steffi and SB Sarah: It’s been a while since I read Nice Dragons, but IIRC, they’re as much friends as love interests. I binged the first two books and had to stop for a while. There were parts where I was like, “Julian, you’re being too nice!” (LOL) Fortunately, the love interest, whose name I’m blanking on, isn’t as nice and takes up for him.

    I need to get back to the series because I was really looking forward to Bob’s book. I’m thinking I might use the reading spreadsheet to remind me to go back to series since bingeing doesn’t work well for me.

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