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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
GUEST RECOMMENDED: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab is $1.99! We had a guest review from Rachel and she gave it an A. I highly agree with her assessment. I loved this one!
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.
But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore, and he remembers her name.
In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s #1 New York Times Bestselling Author genre-defying tour de force.
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Artfully Yours
Artfully Yours by Joanna Lowell is $1.99! This one came out February 2023 and we mentioned it on Hide Your Wallet. Several of us were excited about this one in the Slack.
Sparks fly between a lordly art critic and a lady forger in this enthralling Victorian historical romance from the author of The Runaway Duchess.
Nina Finch isn’t suited for a life of crime. Raised by her art-forger brother, she can paint like Botticelli. But she’d so much rather be baking gooseberry tarts. She finally has the money she needs to open her own bakery. Unfortunately, her brother’s carelessness lands her—and their forgeries—directly under the nose of London’s most discerning art critic, Alan De’Ath. De’Ath knows the paintings are fake. He doesn’t know that Nina had a hand in their creation. In fact, he offers her a job in his household. Accepting it is the most dangerous thing she has ever done….
Alan takes pride in seeing things other people miss. He plans to catch the forger and cement his reputation. There’s only one problem: the closer he gets to the beguiling woman he hired, the less he trusts his perspective. Nina isn’t what she seems. But despite their false start, she just might hold the real key to his heart.
As Nina and Alan’s attraction grows, divided loyalties threaten to pull them apart and shatter their worlds. They’ll lose everything, or discover how powerful true love can be…
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On Rotation
On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi is $1.99! I mentioned this one in a previous Get Rec’d. I’d say this is more women’s fiction or novel with romantic elements, as it has much more of a focus on the main character figuring out a potential new path in life.
Ghanaian-American Angela Appiah has checked off all the boxes for the “Perfect Immigrant Daughter.”
Enroll in an elite medical school. Snag a suitable lawyer/doctor/engineer boyfriendSurround self with a gaggle of successful and/or loyal friends. But then it quickly all falls apart: her boyfriend dumps her, she bombs the most important exam of her medical career, and her best friend pulls away. And her parents, whose approval seems to hinge on how closely she follows the path they chose, are a lot less proud of their daughter. It’s a quarter life crisis of epic proportions.
Angie, who has always faced her problems by working “twice as hard to get half as far,” is at a loss. Suddenly, she begins to question everything: her career choice, her friendships, even why she’s attracted to men who don’t love her as much as she loves them.
And just when things couldn’t get more complicated, enter Ricky Gutierrez– brilliant, thoughtful, sexy, and most importantly, seems to see Angie for who she is instead of what she can represent.
Unfortunately, he’s also got “wasteman” practically tattooed across his forehead, and Angie’s done chasing mirages of men. Or so she thinks. For someone who’s always been in control, Angie realizes that there’s one thing she can’t plan on: matters of her heart.
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The Rules of Arrangement
The Rules of Arrangement by Anisha Bhatia is $1.99! This is a standalone and based on the description, seems to lean more toward women’s fiction or chick lit rather than romance.
alli Kaur Jaswal’s EROTIC STORIES FOR PUNJABI WIDOWS meets Kevin Kwan’s CRAZY RICH ASIANS in this hilarious comedy of manners set in Mumbai where modernity jostles with tradition.
Zoya Sahni has a great education, a fulfilling job and a loving family (for the most part). But she is not the perfect Indian girl. She’s overweight, spunky and dark-skinned in a world that prizes the slim, obedient and fair. At 26 she is hurtling toward her expiration date in Mumbai’s arranged marriage super-mart, but when her aunties’ matchmaking radars hones in on the Holy Grail of suitors—just as Zoya gets a dream job offer in New York City—the girl who once accepted her path as almost option-less must now make a choice of a lifetime.
Big-hearted with piercing social commentary, The Rules of Arrangement tells a powerful, irresistibly charming and oh-so relatable tale of a progressive life that won’t be hemmed in by outdated rules. But not without a few cultural casualties, and of course, an accidental love story along the way.
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I am intrigued by the plot of ARTFULLY YOURS, but also wondering how the heck you pronounce “De’Ath.” Death? Dee-ehth? Dee-Ath?
ON ROTATION was very good. There is less romance as Amanda said above, but the FMC’s journey to figuring out her life was satisfying.
I loved On Rotation. It was very much an Own Voices romance/fiction and I found it completely absorbing. In addition to generally dealing with the experience of second generation immigrant children and the pressures of med school, it also tackled medical inequality for minorities without weighing down the story. The author’s next book is coming out in July and I’m really looking forward to it.
I also loved On Rotation and while it has a women’s fiction feel (like many contemporaries today) I couldn’t stop thinking about the romance. Swoony.
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The middle name of Dorothy Sayers’ character, Peter Wimsey, was De’Ath. Knowing that doesn’t tell me how to pronounce it though. I think it was pronounced like death, but it’s been a long time since I read anything by Sayers and I’m not sure my memory is correct.
In Sayers’ MURDER MUST ADVERTISE, Lord Peter Wimsey uses his two middle names “Death Bredon” as an alias while working undercover at an ad agency. When asked about his unusual name by people at the agency, Lord Peter says that it is usually pronounced “Deeth”(rhyming with “teeth”) but that he prefers to rhyme it with “breathe”.
Since reading MMA, I’ve always assumed that Death (or De’Ath or D’eath) as a name is usually pronounced “Deeth”, unless one is going undercover and trying to establish one’s self as a character of somewhat elastic morals.