What Moves the Dead
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher is $2.99! This was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet. Kingfisher is a bit of an auto-buy around you. Did any of you pick this one up?
From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.
Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.
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The Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long is $1.99! This is book one in the much loved Pennyroyal Green series. I remember starting this one on audio and liking it, though never finished. Previously, we ran a guest review on this one about how a good book can be ruined by one defining moment. I’m unsure if the text has been updated.
A rescued rogue . . .
Scandal has rocked the city of London. Colin Eversea, a handsome, reckless unapologetic rogue is sentenced to hang for murder and, inconveniently for him, the only witness to the crime disappears. Then again, throughout history, the Everseas have always managed to cheat fate in style: Colin is snatched from the gallows by a beautiful, clever mercenary.
A captivating captor. . .
Cool-headed, daring Madeleine Greenway is immune to Colin’s vaunted charm. Her mission is not to rescue Colin but to kidnap him, and to be paid handsomely for it. But when it becomes clear that whoever wants Colin alive wants Madeline dead, the two become uneasy allies in a deadly race for truth. Together, they’ll face great danger—and a passion neither can resist.
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The Perfect Rake by Anne Gracie is $1.99! This is book one in the Merridew series; I keep reading it as “mildew.” This historical romance has a fake engagement.
She ran from a brute…
Fleeing violent tyranny, Prudence Merridew escapes with her beautiful younger sisters to London. One of them must marry—and fast. To act as her sisters’ chaperone, Prudence invents a secret engagement to a reclusive duke…But when the duke arrives unexpectedly in London, she needs his help to avert disaster.
…into the arms of a rake
Aristocratic Gideon, handsome, rakish and with a strong frivolous streak, casually hijacks Prudence’s game, awarding himself a stolen kiss or three along the way. Used to managing sisters and elderly men, Prudence is completely out of her depth with a charming, devious and utterly irresistible rake. And her plot goes terribly—if deliciously—awry…
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Must Love Books by Shauna Robinson is $1.99! This is more women’s fiction/chick lit with romantic elements rather than a contemporary romance. Please check triggers as the heroine is going through a rough depression and that plays a large role in the book.
Meet Nora Hughes―the overworked, underpaid, last bookish assistant standing. At least for now. When Nora landed an editorial assistant position at Parsons Press, it was her first step towards The Dream Job. Because, honestly, is there anything dreamier than making books for a living? But after five years of lunch orders, finicky authors, and per my last emails, Nora has come to one grand conclusion: Dream Jobs do not exist.
With her life spiraling and the Parsons staff sinking, Nora gets hit with even worse news. Parsons is cutting her already unlivable salary. Unable to afford her rent and without even the novels she once loved as a comfort, Nora decides to moonlight for a rival publisher to make ends meet…and maybe poach some Parsons authors along the way.
But when Andrew Santos, a bestselling Parsons author no one can afford to lose is thrown into the mix, Nora has to decide where her loyalties lie. Her new Dream Job, ever-optimistic Andrew, or…herself and her future.
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Reporting that the lines in the Julie Anne Long’s book have not been updated. Yikes.
I was excited to see T. Kingfisher has a new Alex Easton novel (or novella, they’re not long) coming out later this year. Kingfisher is an autobuy for me, and Alex is one of the most interesting protagonists to come along in a while.
Anne Gracie sent out a newsletter yesterday saying that she, like many historical romance authors, has been dropped from Berkley. Berkley is dropping mass-market paperbacks, at least for romance, and apparently historical doesn’t sell well in trade pb.
She is continuing to write and will self-publish.
I loved The Perfect Rake! The meet “cute” of these two was awesome, and Gideon was a wonderful H.
I occasionally read a T Kingfisher that I’m not crazy about, and this was one of them. No one can accuse her of being upbeat, but this took dreary to a new level.
The Perfect Rake is a comfort re-read for me. I second Gideon being a wonderful H. And l love his whole family.
Anne Gracie got me back into romance reading in 2018; I think I did some sort of search looking for books like Heyer Regencies and found Gracie. I binged all her books and remember loving them; I might just have to do a reread of the Merridew series.
She’s actually how I first got into ebooks too as my library didn’t have paperbacks of a few books in a series, so I had to navigate ebooks on my phone for my fix. A few months later I bought an iPad and nowadays only read ebooks.
In Anne Gracie’s THE PERFECT RAKE, Phoebe is described as the only plain one among several beautiful sisters. Gideon, however, sees her as beautiful and can’t understand why everyone else doesn’t see what is to clear to him. He thinks she’s lovely, and I found him a lovely hero as a result.
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I don’t read Kingfisher’s horror work, so I find what I do read by her to be quite upbeat. She has a new book out in the autumn that looks to be based on Snow White. I loved her Swordheart, and Nettle & Bone, and her recent Thornhedge is new look at the story of the sleeping beauty that I liked very much. You might want to give her non-horror work a try.