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  • Etiquette & Espionage

    Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger

    RECOMMENDED: Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger by $1.99! This is the first book in the Finishing School series, which Carrie recommends. This is young adult with a steampunk historical setting. Readers loved the creative, whimsical setting, though some expressed difficulty in reading a lot at one time. They had to take breaks every few chapters because of the overwhelming twee-ness.

    It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.

    Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners–and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

    But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine’s, young ladies learn to finish…everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but the also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage–in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year’s education.

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  • The Rebel and the Rake

    The Rebel and the Rake by Emily Sullivan

    The Rebel and the Rake by Emily Sullivan is $1.99! This is book two in the League of Scoundrels historical romance series. This one was also mentioned on a previous Hide Your Wallet.

    He holds her fate in his hands—she holds his heart in hers.

    Rafe Davies might seem like just another charismatic rake, but in reality, he is one of the crown’s most valuable agents. As relentless as he is reckless, Rafe has never come upon a mission he couldn’t complete. But when he encounters the intriguing-yet-prickly lady’s companion Miss Sylvia Sparrow while on assignment at a Scottish house party, he finds himself thoroughly distracted by the secretive beauty.

    Though most women would be thrilled to catch the eye of a tall, dark, and dangerously handsome man, Sylvia is through with that sort of adventure. She trusted the wrong man once and paid for it dearly. The fiery bluestocking is resolved to avoid Rafe, until a chance encounter between them reveals the normally irreverent man’s unexpected depths—and an attraction that’s impossible to ignore. But when Sylvia begins to suspect she isn’t the only one harboring a few secrets, she realizes that Rafe may pose a risk to far more than her heart . . .

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  • The Quiet Boy

    The Quiet Boy by Ben Winters

    The Quiet Boy by Ben H. Winters is $3.99! I recommended this one in a Get Rec’d column, I’m pretty sure. It’s a legal thriller mixed with some speculative elements.

    From the bestselling author of Underground Airlines and Golden State, a sweeping legal thriller about a sixteen-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time, and the team of lawyers, doctors, and detectives who are desperate to wake him up.

    Wesley Keener lies in bed: not dead, not alive, not in a coma or vegetative state, but simply frozen at an unchanging 16 years old, the forward course of his existence having simply stopped midway through sophomore year. His condition is the result of something called Syndrome J, an extraordinarily rare neurological event, at least according to the brilliant young neurologist Anna Pileggi.

    When Wes was first hospitalized, his parents Beth and David Keener hired acclaimed PI Jay Shenk to help find answers about the illness that befell their beloved son. Now, years later, when David is accused of murdering the brilliant young doctor who served as expert witness in the hospital case, Shenk and his son Ruben discover that this standard malpractice suit is part of something more sinister than anyone imagined. An alternate explanation, brought forth by a mysterious older man, suggests an inter-dimensional entity wrecking havoc on the community. The child is not a prisoner, this stranger insists, he is a prison.

    Told from alternating perspectives, The Quiet Boy explores the tensions between justice and compassion, in heart-pounding prose. With clever plotting, and a knack for character, Winters expertly weaves a group of misfits together in a race to save themselves, and an innocent life.

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  • Scandalous Desires

    Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Hoyt

    Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Hoyt is $2.99! This was one of the best Maiden Lane books to listen to on audio and Charming Mickey starts off as a bit of a villain. You’d definitely have to read the previous two books to fully understand his relationship to the characters, but it still operates fine as a stand alone.

    Can a pirate learn that the only true treasure lies in a woman’s heart?

    Widowed Silence Hollingbrook is impoverished, lovely, and kind–and nine months ago she made a horrible mistake. She went to a river pirate for help in saving her husband and in the process made a bargain that cost her her marriage. That night wounded her so terribly that she hides in the foundling home she helps run with her brother. Except now that same river pirate is back…and he’s asking for her help.

    “Charming” Mickey O’Connor is the most ruthless river pirate in London. Devastatingly handsome and fearsomely intelligent, he clawed his way up through London’s criminal underworld. Mickey has no use for tender emotions like compassion and love, and he sees people as pawns to be manipulated. And yet he’s never been able to forget the naive captain’s wife who came to him for help and spent one memorable night in his bed…talking.

    When his bastard baby girl was dumped in his lap–her mother having died–Mickey couldn’t resist the Machiavellian urge to leave the baby on Silence’s doorstep. The baby would be hidden from his enemies and he’d also bind Silence to him by her love for his daughter.

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  1. Vicki says:

    I’m sorry but I am looking at the cover of Scandalous Desires and asking myself yet again if other women really like men with that much boobage. Maybe the scandalous desire is a breast fetish.

  2. Maria says:

    I LOVED Scandalous Desires. I agree with your assessment that to fully appreciate the character development, having read the first two books is desirable though not necessary. I also agree with @Vicki, cover leaves something to be desired. But the story was fabulous.

  3. JoanneBB says:

    If you enjoy the finishing school series, there are novellas about the central characters as adults too.

  4. Midge says:

    @Vicki – so true! Definitely not my type…

  5. FashionablyEvil says:

    I kept trying Elizabeth Hoyt because people recommended her, but I still can’t figure out why I finished SCANDALOUS DESIRES. I hated the whole Mickey/Michael thing (let me now change your name because you are redeemable!) and felt there were some unnecessary plot twists.

    I do enjoy the Gail Carriger books—Carriager is a stalwart for queerness, found family, and female friendship if you’re looking for any of those things in your reading.

  6. FashionablyEvil says:

    Oh, and of the Finishing School novellas that @JoanneBB mentioned, AMBUSH OR ADORE is my favorite—it’s so lovely and beautiful and sad. (Wouldn’t recommend it as a stand alone, but if you’ve read the others, it’s so so good.)

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