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Girl Gone Viral
Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai is $1.99! Maya wrote a great review for this one and gave it a B-:
If you can handle some angst, some systemic oppression, and a distinct lack of totally justified vengeance, check out this slow burn romance between two damaged, but kind people of color who desire only each other and the safety of anonymity.
In Alisha Rai’s second novel in her Modern Love series, a live-tweet event goes viral for a camera-shy ex-model, shoving her into the spotlight—and into the arms of the bodyguard she’d been pining for.
OMG! Wouldn’t it be adorable if he’s her soulmate???
I don’t see any wedding rings
Breaking: #CafeBae and #CuteCafeGirl went to the bathroom AT THE SAME TIME!!!
One minute, Katrina King’s enjoying an innocent conversation with a hot guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire episode with a romantic meet-cute spin and #CafeBae is the new hashtag-du-jour. The problem? Katrina craves a low-profile life, and going viral threatens the peaceful world she’s painstakingly built. Besides, #CafeBae isn’t the man she’s hungry for…
He’s got a to die for.
With the internet on the hunt for the identity of #CuteCafeGirl, Jas Singh, bodyguard, friend, and possessor of the most beautiful eyebrows Katrina’s ever seen, comes to the rescue and whisks her away to his family’s home. Alone in a remote setting with the object of her affections? It’s a recipe for romance. But after a long dating dry spell, Katrina isn’t sure she can trust her instincts when it comes to love—even if Jas’ every look says he wants to be more than just her bodyguard…
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The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflect in Water by Zen Cho is $2.99! This is a fantasy novella and I remember it being mentioned on the podcast episode Sarah did with Martha Wells.
Zen Cho returns with a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history.
A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like it or not) in order to protect a sacred object, and finds herself in a far more complicated situation than she could have ever imagined.
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The Refrigerator Monologues
The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente and Annie Wu is $1.99! Carrie gave this one an A:
Here are the main things you need to know about The Refrigerator Monologues: it is intense, painful, and triumphant. It is NOT a romance. Readers would benefit from some familiarity with common comic book tropes while reading. Also, it’s feminist as fuck.
The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics
From the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who’s ever been “refrigerated”: comic book women who are killed, raped, brainwashed, driven mad, disabled, or had their powers taken so that a male superhero’s storyline will progress.
In an entirely new and original superhero universe, Valente subversively explores these ideas and themes in the superhero genre, treating them with the same love, gravity, and humor as her fairy tales. After all, superheroes are our new fairy tales and these six women have their own stories to share.
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The Disgraced Debutante
The Disgraced Debutante by Wendy Vella is $2.99! This is the first book in a historical romance mystery series, which I know the Bitchery loves. However, it does seem to be one couple per book, rather than a slow burn over the course of the series.
From USA Today and Amazon bestselling author Wendy Vella comes a stunning new historical romance featuring a jaded debutante and an arrogant, blue-blooded detective. With a touch of mystery and plenty of heart, this book will have you hooked from the opening page.
Ruined in the eyes of society, and forced out of the only world they’d ever known, the Nightingale siblings vow to never be victims again. They will build their new life on what they’d once ignored. Being a clairvoyant is an excellent survival skill.
A power she’s always denied…
It’s been four years since Ellen Nightingale fled society and the only life she had ever known. Forced to survive on her wits, Ellen is no longer the pampered debutante she’d once been. She has also accepted what she’d always denied. The ability to see what can happen before it occurs.
Becoming the lead suspect in a murder investigation thrusts her back into the public eye once more, and the arrogant, handsome Detective Inspector Fletcher wants her charged for a crime she did not commit. Ellen must fight her growing attraction for the man to find the killer, but to do that, she must re-enter a world she vowed to never step foot in again.
A murder that needs to be solved….
From the moment Detective Inspector Grayson Fletcher steps foot over the Nightingale threshold, the cool beauty Ellen intrigues him. Haughty and secretive, she’s the first name on his suspect list when a body turns up in the local bookstore.
Despite his desire for the woman, Gray’s duty is to find justice for the victim, and all clues lead directly to Ellen. Conflicted by his sister’s unsolved murder and the vow he made to never allow a killer to walk free again, he must follow his head and not his heart.
Can Grayson and Ellen fight both their desires and those that would destroy them to find their destiny?
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Murderbot #7, SYSTEM COLLAPSE is $2.99 on kindle right now! (By Martha Wells, in case you’ve missed the buzz.)
Bookshops and Bonedust (the sequel to Legends and Lattes) by Travis Baldree is $2.99 right now.
@ReadKnitSnark: Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory is also $1.99 at BN.
*sighs, climbs up on soapbox*
Superhero stories are not our new fairy tales. They are not our new myths. SUPERHERO STORIES ARE NOT AND INDEED CANNOT BE FOLKLORE.
All superhero stories are authored works produced for a mass audience. The fact that a whole host of writers have worked on Batman and treat the character differently does not change the fact that they are all identifiable authors and are working with a commercial property. Disney can copyright their particular version of Cinderella, but they can’t copyright the character or the story. But Disney, via Marvel, does have the copyright to Captain America. The only people who can write Captain America are those chosen by the corporation that owns the character.
Calling superheroes any kind of folklore obscures both the work of the authors and the profit motive inherent to works of popular culture, which these universally are.
There is plenty of folklore out there. Memes are folklore. Anonymously posted creepypasta that people keep adding onto are folklore. Heck, the fake Scorcese movie Goncharov is folklore. Folklore comes from grassroots communication within a group that can be considered a community. But anything proprietary cannot be folklore.
$.99:
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SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN by Shelley Parker-Chan is currently free at Kobo & Kindle UK – historical fantasy epic in 14th century China, not a romance but a queer subplot IIRC.
I enjoyed the Zen Cho, although it’s not my fave by her.
Here’s my GR review
3.5 stars? This is an enormously entertaining novella in which Zen Cho continues queering and flipping around established genres – this time wuxia / martial arts movies.
This is not a romance although there is a very understated romantic sub-plot of the “they don’t think they like each other and spend their time ignoring each other or quarreling until the last scene when declarations are made” type romance. I’ve read other reviews that thought the romance came out of nowhere and while that is true, I was also expecting it, apparently because of my misspent youth watching terrible old movies where this happens.
Sadly She who became the Sun is showing up as $12.99 on kindle. Must have been a quick sale.
Thanks @elham! I loved legends and lattes and have been waiting on a sale for the sequel.