Just Last Night
Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane is $1.99! This is a standalone book and not part of series. However, I feel like the book description kind of gives us nothing? It definitely, though, seems more focused on the main character and not necessarily the romance.
Eve, Justin, Susie, and Ed have been friends since they were teenagers. Now in their thirties, the four are as close as ever, Thursday pub trivia night is sacred, and Eve is still secretly in love with Ed. Maybe she should have moved on by now, but she can’t stop thinking about what could have been. And she knows Ed still thinks about it, too.
But then, in an instant, their lives are changed forever.
In the aftermath, Eve’s world is upended. As stunning secrets are revealed, she begins to wonder if she really knew her friends as well as she thought. And when someone from the past comes back into her life, Eve’s future veers in a surprising new direction…
They say every love story starts with a single moment. What if it was just last night?
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The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler is $1.49! I mentioned this one in a previous Hide Your Wallet and it’s reminding me a lot of the movie Arrival. Last time this was on sale, many of you either were super curious or had good things to say!
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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Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber is $1.49! This seems to be women’s fiction with some magical realism and yummy food descriptions. Seeing as I love Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen a lot, this should be right up my alley, but I’ve been hesitant to add it to my TBR.
Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café.
It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother’s estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid forming ties or even getting to know her father’s side of the family, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town her mother ran away from so many years ago, and the mysterious blackbird pie everybody can’t stop talking about.
As the truth about her past slowly becomes clear, Anna Kate will need to decide if this lone blackbird will finally be able to take her broken wings and fly.
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One Day in December by Josie Silver is $1.99! This book was a big deal when it came out, but I was suspicious about whether there’s an HEA. Have you read this one?
A love story about what happens after you meet, or rather, don’t meet the one.
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic…and then her bus drives away.
Certain they’re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn’t find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It’s Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.
What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.
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I absolutely adored MIDNIGHT AT THE BLACKBIRD CAFE. Anna Kate is full of conflict about the whole situation and then the magic of the blackbirds, the cafe, and the town and its people starts to settle around her like a favorite blanket. I smiled, laughed, and yes, sniffled. And now I need to go read this book again!
The Mountain in the Sea is absolutely fantastic. It’s got adventure and science and heart. It’s just amazing.
I liked Just Last Night a lot. Big trigger warnings for grief and loss. I think it’s more “women’s fiction” than “romance” — whatever those words mean?
I just reread Mhairi McFarlane’s Just Last Night and while we see events from the MC’s perspective, the central character is her best friend. Susie is complex and creative and sometimes deceptive, but she is so loved and central (the MC thinks) to the gang of friends. The last night of the title is shocking and violent.
I love the HEA in this book because it’s rooted in a shared experience and beautiful growing insight between two closed off people. Their love actually frees them to live as their true selves. Even a secondary character finds his true partner again after the last night events. I obviously loved it – recommend to readers who want a psychologically healthy HEA rather than escapism (which I adore too in certain moods!)
Figures, the 2 I was interested in are not on sale in Canada. I will keep watching for the octopus one!
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik is 1.99! (link for SBTB code https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083RZC8KQ/?tag=trashybooks-20 ). 1st in a trilogy, and the review on here gave it a B, but it was one of my 5-star reads last year (angsty female who hates everyone was the exact character’s head I could get into, and the audiobook is SO well done), so now I have to proselytize every time it goes on sale.
One Day in December does have an HEA, but it’s a VERY messy road to get there. Definitely a polarizing one, though I happen to have enjoyed it in spite of myself.
Seconding what @Sheila had to say about JUST LAST NIGHT. I think it’s really more about the main character’s growth as she adjusts to a new reality than it is a romance (although there is a romance, and it’s a nice one). There is loss and grief and coming to terms with both in the book, and I thought it was very well done. Highly recommended.
@Silver James-Totally agree with you on MIDNIGHT AT THE BLACKBIRD CAFE. I’ve read her other books and enjoyed them, but like you feel like this would be a good summer re-read.
I read One Day In December and I thought it was excellent. It skews more to chick-lit than pure romance even though you pretty much get the idea early on that the H&H will be end game. But they have other full blown relationships with other people and a lot of their conflict is because their timing is off. And as @Jen said their road to HEA is messy and winding. But I loved it and the ending was worth it. I listened on audio and the narrator was excellent.
$.99:
– Bitten & Beholden (Children of Fenrir Book 1) by Heather McCorkle
– Cowboy Seeks Husband by Leta Blake, Indra Vaughn
– Beautiful and Terrible Things by Riley Hart
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@drewbird Thank you! I snapped that up, and feel exactly the same way as you about the Scholomance series. It’s beautiful and terrible and makes me cry and I love it!!