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Rare Danger
Rare Danger by Beverly Jenkins is 99c! This one was featured on a recent-ish Hide Your Wallet and is a romantic suspense story with a librarian main character. Keep in mind that this one is a novella. I’m not sure about the page count, but the audiobook is around 3 and a half hours.
A librarian’s quiet life becomes a page-turner of adventure, romance, and murder in a thrilling novella by USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins.
For Jasmine Ware, curating books for an exclusive clientele is her passion. Until an old friend, a dealer of rare books, goes missing and his partner is murdered. Linked to an artifact smuggled out of the ancient library at Timbuktu, the mystery draws Jasmine deeper into a plot that could cost her her life.
Air force veteran and private security ace Torr Noble is accustomed to adrenaline-pumping stakes. He never expected a private librarian would be so intriguing, but Jasmine is full of surprises. As the connection between them burns hot, a powerful old enemy raises his head. Torr and Jasmine must work together to find the missing dealer.
Will the search be the start of a happily ever after or a disastrous THE END?
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo is $2.99! This was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet and is a lovely YA historical fiction with a F/F romance. It was also a staff pick at the bookstore where I work! I’ve heard nothing but really good things about this one.
Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the 1950s.
“That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?”
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.
America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father–despite his hard-won citizenship–Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
RECOMMENDED: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow is $2.99! I read this one and gave it a B+:
If you’re in the mood for a lovely, tender fantasy novel about belonging and one that feels more like a long, relaxing bath than a hot, intense shower will all of the fancy pressure and pulsating settings you can imagine, you’ll love this one. It’s a soothing pick for when you hope to take comfort in a book
In the early 1900s, a young woman searches for her place in the world after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.
Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
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The Wrath and the Dawn
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh is $2.99! This is a YA fantasy novel with romance elements and is a retelling of A Thousand and One Nights. Readers love the world Ahdieh built, but do mention there seems to be a love triangle in the first book that doesn’t quite work well. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights
Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend.
She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.
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I ranked the Ten Doors of January around a B too; I haven’t read Rare Danger or Last Night At the Telegraph Club yet, so yoink!
Same! *grabby hands*
I’m on a mission to collect all of Beverly Jenkins books & novellas… there are a lot!
Rare Danger was good. I hope Beverly Jenkins will write more books not set in the historic American West.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a Jenkins which wasn’t a historical, but she’s never disappointed me yet. Going to try this!
Free:
Dirty Secret by Mira Lyn Kelly
Did Someone Order a Pizza? By L.A. Witt
Unguarded by Jay Hogan from the Vino and Vertias series
I really enjoyed Dirty Secret by Mira Lyn Kelly even though I don’t usually like the “how dare you date my sister” trope. I felt like the text acknowledged it as unreasonable.
The Wrath and the Dawn is being serialized as a WEBTOON. The art was a little Disney for my taste, and I just don’t enjoy YA much so I didn’t stick with it, but I would bet both those bugs are features for many others.
I’ve raved about it before, but Last Night at the Telegraph Club is SO artfully done, with SUCH a potent sense of place. Also of melancholy, self-discovery, and horniness! I knew a bit about the early lesbian scene in San Francisco, and a bit about the history of the Chinese-American community in San Francisco…but NOTHING about the intersection of the two! And ALSO nothing about McCarthyism’s impact on Chinese-Americans. I learned a lot but it wasn’t a slog, what with all the YEARNING.
I’m super-hoping there will be a companion novel focused on one of the peripheral characters, about being a non-white woman in (early!) tech in the Bay Area.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club is older YA, definitely doesn’t read young. I’d say it’s more coming-of-age than romance.