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Go Hex Yourself
Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare is $1.99! This was part of the deluge of last year’s witchy romances and I mentioned it on Hide Your Wallet. Lots of enemies to lovers vibes coming from this one.It’s one hex of an attraction in this romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Jessica Clare.
When Reggie Johnson answers a job ad in the paper, she’s astonished to find that she’s not applying to work at her favorite card game, Spellcraft: The Magicking. Instead, she’s applying to be an actual familiar for an actual witch. As in, real magic.
The new job has a few perks – great room and board, excellent pay, and she’s apprenticing to a powerful witch. Sure, the witch is a bit eccentric. And sure, there was that issue with the black cat Reggie would prefer to forget about. The biggest problem, however, is warlock Ben Magnus, her employer’s nephew and the most arrogant, insufferable, maddening man to ever cast a spell.
Reggie absolutely hates him. He’s handsome, but he’s also bossy and irritating and orders her around. Ben’s butt might look great in a crystal ball vision, but that’s as far as it goes. But when someone with a vendetta targets the household, she finds herself working with Ben to break a deadly curse. Apparently, when they’re not fighting like cats and dogs, things get downright…bewitching.
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Out of Character
Out of Character by Annabeth Albert is 99c and a Kindle Daily Deal! This is part of the True Colors series and features all sorts of nerdery and fandom culture, if you like that in your romances. I’ve heard this series skews a little more toward New Adult. Thoughts?It’s friends-to-enemies-to-friends-to-lovers in this LGBTQIA+ Romance for fans of Red, White & Royal Blue and The Pros of Cons who enjoy:
• Ex-best-friends falling in love
• Gaming, conventions, fandom & cosplay
• Nerd culture at its finest
• Learning how to be true to yourselfJasper Quigley is tired of being everyone’s favorite sidekick. He wants to become the hero of his own life, but that’s not going to happen if he agrees to help out his former best friend turned king of the jocks, Milo Lionetti. High school was miserable enough, thanks, and Jasper has no interest in dredging up painful memories of his old secret crush.
But Milo’s got nowhere else to go. His life is spiraling out of control and he’s looking to turn things back around. Step one? Replace the rare Odyssey cards he lost in an idiotic bet. Step two? Tell his ex-best-friend exactly how he feels—how he’s always felt.
Jasper may be reluctant to reopen old wounds, but he never could resist Milo. There’s a catch, though: if Milo wants his help, he’s going to have to pitch in to make the upcoming children’s hospital charity ball the best ever. But as the two don cosplay for the kids and hunt for rare cards, nostalgia for their lost friendship may turn into something even more lasting…
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The Mountain in the Sea
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler is $3.99! I mentioned this one in a previous Hide Your Wallet and it’s reminding me a lot of the movie Arrival. I believe Carrie is reading this one right now and remember her saying good things about it in the SBTB Slack.Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future.
Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, dangerous octopus that may have developed its own language and culture. Marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them.
The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where the octopuses were discovered, off from the world. Dr. Nguyen joins DIANIMA’s team on the islands: a battle-scarred security agent and the world’s first android.
The octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. The stakes are high: there are vast fortunes to be made by whoever can take advantage of the octopuses’ advancements, and as Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves.
But no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. And what they might do about it.
A near-future thriller about the nature of consciousness, Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea is a dazzling literary debut and a mind-blowing dive into the treasure and wreckage of humankind’s legacy.
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The Address Book
The Address Book by Deirdre Mask is $2.99! I featured this one on a previous edition of Get Rec’d. I thought it was a fascinating examination of race and class through the micro-history lens of addresses and urban planning
An extraordinary debut in the tradition of classic works from authors such as Mark Kurlansky, Mary Roach, and Rose George.
An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity.
When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn’t—and why.
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I read Out of Character but all that I remember is that I liked it better than the first book in that series. In general, I prefer her books about geeks and hipsters to her military books, but ymmv.
KD Casey’s Unwritten Rules is finally on sale for 1.99 at Amazon. Been waiting for this one.
Seconding @ Cleo on Out of Character, and Annabeth Albert generally.
I find octopuses too delicious to want to read the books about how intelligent they are…
Kimberly Kincaid’s The Guardian is currently free (fantastic romantic suspense)
Avery Cockburn’s Throwing Stones is currently free (m/m curling)
Avery Cockburn’s Playing for Keeps and Playing to Win are on sale for $.99 each (m/m soccer)
Anna Blakely’s Kellan: RISC Charlie Team Book 1 is free
Serena Bell’s Sleepover is free
I really enjoyed Avery Cockburn’s Throwing Stones, despite not understanding curling at all. It’s a spinoff of her football/ soccer series but I think it works as a standalone. I have a soft spot for it because it’s the book that helped me figure out that I have ADHD. One of the MC’s has ADHD and so does the author.
The Mountain in the Sea is amazing! My favorite book, almost, of this year. I just finished an oldie – 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami – and if not for that my pick would have been The Mountain in the Sea. So many tabs and so many underlines. It’s just wonderful.
@Christie beat me to announcement that KD Casey’s UNWRITTEN RULES is on sale, but I just need to say again how good the book is—an m/m baseball romance with a closeted MC (who is also Jewish and has hearing loss). Casey does an excellent job with all aspects of the characters and the game of baseball. It’s the best book I’ve read so far in 2023. Highly recommended.
@kkw I lost my appetite for octopus the day I watched a video of one figuring out how to open the lid on its tank, climb out, retrieve an object it wanted and climb back in – closing the lid behind him. Way to much deductive reasoning going on there.
Definitely reading that one.
Daniel O’Malley’s BLITZ is on sale at Amazon for $3.99 today. I listened to and read this third book with absolute delight and some heartbreak. One of his characters had the best snarky lines and attitude, will definitely visit this one again.
@DiscoDollyDeb You’re the reason I plowed through the KD Casey baseball books and adored them (even though I know nothing about the game); you recommended them recently in another post, and I was thrilled that my library had them all (and am even more thrilled to buy Unwritten Rules for $2!). Thanks for the amazing recs!
@spinsterrevival: thank you for your kind words. Casey is an amazing writer. I can’t wait for the next book in the Unwritten Rules series, DIAMOND RING, scheduled for April 11.
As a scuba diver, octopuses are one of my favorites underwater and I’ve spent quite a bit of time on dives observing them. For a non-fiction exploration of how their brains/nervous systems may actually work, I’d recommend Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith. It was a bit too heavy on philosophical musings about intelligence in general for my taste, but nonetheless had lots of fascinating info on octos.
Luckily for me I’ve never cared for octopus, as it would have been hard to continue eating them after reading Sy Montgomery’s nonfiction book THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS and watching the documentary MY OCTOPUS TEACHER. What draws me to read the Nayler book, however, is the comparison to ARRIVAL – I loved that movie.
I liked Out of Character but contrary to @cleo, I liked the previous one better. And I agree that her geeky books are better than her military ones. The characters tend to have flaws that make them interesting; the characters in her more recent series are insufferably perfect.
Also really enjoyed UNWRITTEN RULES and have been making my way through her other books since I read it.
And I also loved Avery Cockburn’s THROWING STONES (We’re a curling family so it was exciting to read a good book set in that world) and her Glasgow lads books are awesome.