The Comeback
The Comeback by Lily Chu is $1.99! Thank you to everyone who let us know about this sale. If you’re like me and eager for any k-pop romances after watching K-Pop Demon Hunters, this might scratch that itch. (Also, where are all the k-pop romances?!)
Who is Ariadne Hui?
• Laser-focused lawyer diligently climbing the corporate ladder
• The “perfect” daughter living out her father’s dream
• Shocking love interest of South Korea’s hottest starAriadne Hui thrives on routine. So what if everything in her life is planned down to the minute: That’s the way she likes it. If she’s going to make partner in Toronto’s most prestigious law firm, she needs to stay focused at all times.
But when she comes home after yet another soul-sucking day to find an unfamiliar, gorgeous man camped out in her living room, focus is the last thing on her mind. Especially when her roommate explains this is Choi Jihoon, her cousin freshly arrived from Seoul to mend a broken heart. He just needs a few weeks to rest and heal; Ari will barely even know he’s there. (Yeah, right.)
Jihoon is kindness and chaos personified, and it isn’t long before she’s falling, hard. But when one wrong step leads to a world-shaking truth, Ari finds herself thrust onto the world stage: not as the competent, steely lawyer she’s fought so hard to become, but as the mystery woman on the arm of a man the entire world claims to know. Now with her heart, her future, and her sense of self on the line, Ari will have to cut through all the pretty lies to find the truth of her relationship…and discover the Ariadne Hui she’s finally ready to be.
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I Think I’m in Love with an Alien by Ann Aguirre is $2.99! This came out over the summer. Aguirre’s alien romances have been well-received on the site. Did any of you pick this new release up?
Galaxy Quest meets Roswell in this quirky sci-fi rom-com from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ann Aguirre.
He’s stranded. He’s desperate. He’s not looking for love.
Alien Tamzir Jaarn, a.k.a. Seeker, is paying the price for risking an illicit holiday on an interdicted planet. His ride off-world never showed, and he’s been stranded on Earth for nearly a year. His gear is breaking down, food is becoming a problem, and if his camouflage unit fritzes, he’ll wind up in a government lab.
But he’s met some cool humans online, and they’ve invited him to the biggest space-themed convention around. Why not make memories with them while he figures out how to get home?
Space Con or bust!
She’s nerdy. She’s flirty. She’s ready for romance.
Jennette Hammond is an endearing weirdo, voted most likely to bang an alien in high school. Her house is full of gray man collectibles, adorable tentacle monsters, and yes, in college, she volunteered for a SETI-type program. Not that she’s ever had any close encounters of the sexy, alien kind. Heck, she’s never even been able to convince anyone to attend Space Con.
But that’s about to change. Finally, she has online friends who have agreed to go, and it will be a romp to remember—and she’ll finally put a face to the name of her longtime crush, Seeker.
When alien meets adorkable, they’re destined for an out-of-this-world affair…
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Someone to Cherish by Mary Balogh is $1.99! This is book eight in The Westcott series. Both Elyse and Claudia mentioned this on Hide Your Wallet and Claudia especially was eager to finally get Harry’s book. If you read it, did it live up to your expectations?
Is love worth the loss of one’s freedom and independence? This is what Mrs. Tavernor must decide in the new novel in the Westcott series from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.
When Harry Westcott lost the title Earl of Riverdale after the discovery of his father’s bigamy, he shipped off to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, where he was near-fatally wounded. After a harrowing recovery, the once cheery, light-hearted boy has become a reclusive, somber man. Though Harry insists he enjoys the solitude, he does wonder sometimes if he is lonely.
Lydia Tavernor, recently widowed, dreams of taking a lover. Her marriage to Reverend Isaiah Tavernor was one of service and obedience, and she has secretly enjoyed her freedom since his death. She doesn’t want to shackle herself to another man in marriage, but sometimes, she wonders if she is lonely.
Both are unwilling to face the truth until they find themselves alone together one night, and Lydia surprises even herself with a simple question: “Are you ever lonely?” Harry’s answer leads them down a path neither could ever have imagined…
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RECOMMENDED: You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian is $1.99! Lara reviewed it and gave it a B:
I’m in an unusual position here. Usually, Cat Sebastian novels are endlessly charming and they have caused many a Bad Decisions Book Club over the years. This one didn’t quite hit that same high for me, but I did still enjoy it.
An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good.
The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he’s already on thin ice, so he has no choice but to agree.
Mark Bailey is not a sports reporter. He writes for the arts page, and these days he’s barely even managing to do that much. He’s had a rough year and just wants to be left alone in his too-empty apartment, mourning a partner he’d never been able to be public about. The last thing he needs is to spend a season writing about New York’s obnoxious new shortstop in a stunt to get the struggling newspaper more readers.
Isolated together within the crush of an anonymous city, these two lonely souls orbit each other as they slowly give in to the inevitable gravity of their attraction. But Mark has vowed that he’ll never be someone’s secret ever again, and Eddie can’t be out as a professional athlete. It’s just them against the world, and they’ll both have to decide if that’s enough.
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If you need a satisfying ugly cry over a happy ending — Someone To Cherish will fit the bill
Someone to Cherish is just a nice book – I liked the FMC, who really just wanted to have a life on her own terms. Also, as the first comment said, high potential for tears at happy ending.
The Cat Sebastian gave me stress for the leads. It took me a while to warm up to the ball player character too. But highly recommend grabbing it for the sale price if you like other books by this author.
I pitched a k-pop romance to my editor about a year ago but she said that they published a few selected ones and they didn’t sell. Make of that what you will.
@Steffi: Boooo. But I believe it, sadly. I wonder if the popularity of the movie will change that; I hope so.
Trish Milburn has a K-pop romance series called Idol in Love, and a K-drama one called Could Have Been a K-Drama.
Lily Chu has another book, The Takedown, on sale for 99-cents at Amazon US. I bought both, because I enjoyed her The Stand-In very much. I feel that The Stand-In delivered more than its description promised.
Axie Oh has two k-pop romances, XOXO and ASAP
Martha Wells’s ebooks, including Murderbot series, are available on Humble Bundle through Sept. 12. Purchases will also benefit World Central Kitchen.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books
PSA to adjust your donation before paying if you do purchase to ensure the charity/publisher gets more support!
Oh and for a kpop adjacent series, I suggest Gail Carriger’s Tinkered Starsong series. It’s sci-fi, so not set in Korea, but it covers many of the elements of stardom, the training academy, the relationship between idolhood and fans, and the chemistry in building a group.
I recently began rereading the Westcott series by Balogh and the only one I have left is Harry’s story and remember being weepy at the end. I’m looking forward to the reread. But if you’re in need of a good cry, read his sister Abigail’s story. Geez, it’s a beautiful story and Harry’s commander, an illegitimate taciturn ‘guttersnipe’ in his own words, trying to regain custody of his daughter really pulls at the heart strings.
@Kit C I would be grateful for insights into slider allocation. Since the publisher is willing to accept 0% in this case, my assumption was that they (or Wells) had donated the books as a tax deductible charity thing, and I could safely not give them any of the sale price. But I certainly don’t want to shortchange her on royalties or make Tor less likely to participate in opportunities like this, and I have no idea how it works!
@kkw I couldn’t find any definitive numbers, but back in 2012 author John Scalzi posted about the math of what he expects to take home from the publisher/Humble Bundle. The math has probably changed significantly since then given publishing’s struggles and HB was bought by IGN (and made a switch to emphasizing a minimum % for HB), but he did clearly state he makes some money from the bundle, in addition to some non-monetary benefits like good press and uptick in interest for older works.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/10/24/the-humble-ebook-bundles-and-authors/
Skimming Reddit (the place with all the answers because the Internet is never wrong!) there’s a lot of different opinions on how much the publisher and charity should get! No definitive answer on whether ensuring the publisher gets some money makes it more likely they will continue to participate in HB in the future. I think it comes down to what you’re most comfortable with!
I’m guessing enough people do not adjust the slider anyway that the publisher will walk away with a significant amount of most purchases.
FWIW After selecting the minimum for HB, I gave the publisher how much I would normally pay for a sale price book (~$2/book). I gave the rest to charity, which ended up being the majority of my purchase.