Katabasis
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang is $1.99! This was a big release, as are most of Kuang’s books. Did any of you grab this one? If you’re still waiting on library holds, snap this deal up while you can.
Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own.
Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.
Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.
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RECOMMENDED: We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian is $1.99! This is book on in the Midcentury NYC series. Lara gave this one an A:
TL;DR: Read this book if you’d like to be swept along safely in a rising tide of emotion, predominantly love.
Nick Russo has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood to a reporting job at one of the city’s biggest newspapers. But the late 1950s are a hostile time for gay men, and Nick knows that he can’t let anyone into his life. He just never counted on meeting someone as impossible to say no to as Andy.
Andy Fleming’s newspaper-tycoon father wants him to take over the family business. Andy, though, has no intention of running the paper. He’s barely able to run his life—he’s never paid a bill on time, routinely gets lost on the way to work, and would rather gouge out his own eyes than deal with office politics. Andy agrees to work for a year in the newsroom, knowing he’ll make an ass of himself and hate every second of it.
Except, Nick Russo keeps rescuing Andy: showing him the ropes, tracking down his keys, freeing his tie when it gets stuck in the ancient filing cabinets. Their unlikely friendship soon sharpens into feelings they can’t deny. But what feels possible in secret—this fragile, tender thing between them—seems doomed in the light of day. Now Nick and Andy have to decide if, for the first time, they’re willing to fight.
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Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas is $1.99! This is the first book in the much-loved Wallflower Quartet. Coincidentally, I’ve been getting the urge to reread this series. There’s also no time like the present to start your Kleypas reading journey!
Four young ladies enter London society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband.So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born.
Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage. But Annabelle’s most intriguing—and persistent—admirer, wealthy, powerful Simon Hunt, has made it clear that while he will introduce her to irresistible pleasure he will not offer marriage. Annabelle is determined to resist his unthinkable proposition . . . but it is impossible in the face of such skillful seduction.
Her friends, looking to help, conspire to entice a more suitable gentleman to offer for Annabelle, for only then will she be safe from Simon—and her own longings. But on one summer night, Annabelle succumbs to Simon’s passionate embrace and tempting kisses . . . and she discovers that love is the most dangerous game of all.
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Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws is $2.99! This is a grumpy/sunshine romance with a hero wanting to be a dad. I haven’t read this one, but I feel like not involving a surrogacy agency can lead to a lot of trouble. Last time this was on sale, commenters mention this one requires some suspension of disbelief.
Help Wanted: Grumpy mountain man seeks baby momma. Job is an incubator position only. Surrogate must be impervious to grunting as the form of communication and nosy brotherly neighbors. Rustic mountain range housing available upon request.
I wanted to pummel my irritating brothers when they posted their own version of a wanted ad to help me with my life.
But I can’t fault the results once the right woman lands in my lap.
Becoming a single father is not a decision I made lightly. In fact, it’s the biggest decision of my entire life.
Which is why when I interview Trista, I know she’s perfect.
She’s wild, she’s opinionated, she wears cowboy boots. Even my pet goat loves her…
She’s the exact type of person I was holding out for.
And to my great horror, I realize on our first night of attempting this baby-making dance—when the lights are low, the cheap wine is flowing and the home-insemination supplies are laid out on the kitchen counter—I want to do a lot more than just make her my surrogate.
I want to make her mine.
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Posted late-ish yesterday, so reposting for visibility…
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I think many of these are still active today.
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@Amanda, the Amazon link for Secrets of a Summer Night leads to The Dogs of Amazon.
@LML: Thank you! Looks like Amazon changed the ASIN number.
Nikki Payne’s The Princess and the P.I. is on sale @ Amazon for $1.99.
You know, I really hate the way that romance books are increasingly marketed with a bullet point list of tropes and a “perfect for fans of …” It makes the book sound like a derivative pastiche and makes me feel disrespected as a reader.
@oceanjasper – I agree and I think it’s another example of the way social media is setting new standards. Everything has to look like a post or a comment. I also blame that for the proliferation of illustrated covers, regardless of whether that style fits the story.
@oceanjasper: Not to make you feel worse, but I polled some publishing friends about what they look for in bookish social media. Essentially, no one is reading longform reviews anymore. They just want to know what the tropes are, character archetypes, and whether it was good or not. I think people’s dwindling attention spans is also a factor in using this shorthand.
Ugh, @Amanda, @JTALexis, @oceanjasper… all this makes me feel so old and uncool (though it is a fact that I was never cool to begin with)–next thing you know, I’ll be yelling, “Get off my lawn!”
$.99:
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– Ruthless Devotion: A Forced Marriage Mafia Romance by Kitty Thomas
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$1.99:
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– Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel (The Brown Sisters Book 1) by Talia Hibbert
$2.99:
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Free:
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@etal: So much of it is also driven by SEO. That need for discoverability when your book is just one of a multitude swimming in Amazon’s murky seas. Only upside is it lets me know at a glance what i don’t want to waste my time on.
I got Katabasis from the library and bounced off it without finishing. Did anyone finish and have thoughts?
Good to know I’m not alone. It seems like romance has always struggled to be taken seriously, yet every publishing trend seems to be a case of the genre shooting itself in the foot, in terms of reputation if not in readership.