Today’s Steals and Deals at AAR…..
I recently wrote that Ali Hazelwood’s Bride is, thus far, my favorite romance published this year. In our review, Kayne wrote:
This book has more drama than her other books and it’s also a lot spicier. Some of the details of their mating are pretty weird and its awkward as they learn how to make it work between them, but happily, they get it figured out. Lowe and Misery really are perfect for each other.
There are also many other wonderful characters – Ana, Lowe’s little sister, Owen, Misery’s twin brother, Serena, and a cat named Sparkles. There are villains, betrayals, kidnappings, and lots of love as well as sex with werewolf knotting. There are hints of a second book to follow and I’m all in for that.
If you are a Hazelwood fan like me and would enjoy dipping your toe into her paranormal world, this is one you can really sink your teeth into!
It’s on sale for 1.99 here.
This is two novels in one. We’ve given Bs to both books! Basically, here’s your chance to read a story penned by three historical romance greats!
It’s on sale for 1.99 here.
Our reviewer wasn’t wild about this wallpapery historical but, honestly, it sounds like a lot of fun. Here’s the plot:
Juliet Laverick eloped with smuggler Morgan Pryce several years ago. Her family rescued her and all was well until gossip began to spread. So Juliet, her sister, and brother-in-law track him down to the Pryce estate, Charnwood. When they get there, they are met by the master of Charnwood who looks like Morgan but who says he is Morgan’s identical twin brother Sebastian, Lord Templemore.
Juliet is suspicious. This man looks like, acts, and smells like Morgan, and when she tricks him into one, Juliet realizes he kisses like Morgan. And yet he swears he is Sebastian and that Morgan was lost at sea with his band of smugglers. When a snowstorm strands Juliet and her family at Charnwood, she decides to find out the truth.
It’s on sale for 1.99 here.
This is super fun. It got a DIK from Audiogals. (We now have all their fabulous reviews!) Here’s the blurb:
Indy Savage is a former wild child (okay, maybe not-so-former) and current used bookstore owner. Lee Nightingale is a former bad boy (also maybe not-so-former) and now runs a private investigation agency.
Indy has been in love with Lee since she was a little girl and he held her hand during her mother’s funeral. Lee has had a lifetime of dodging Indy’s advances, because he wasn’t ready for commitment.
Now, he’s ready.
The problem is, Indy is not.
Into this mix, toss a quiet barista with a not-so-lawful side business, a crazy Vietnam Vet, a pothead, a drag queen, family and friends who will not mind their own business, a few stun guns and a bag of diamonds, and mix them all up with some shootings, a high-speed chase and car bombs exploding, and hang on for your first wild Rock Chick ride.
It’s on sale for 1.99 here.
Old skool Linda Howard is so different than most of what’s being written today–if you like her, you’ll love this one. In our B+ review, we wrote: Clearly, Linda Howard is a first-class romantic suspense author who once again delivers a first class tale. Her fans – and you know who you are – won’t be disappointed.
It’s on sale for 2.99 here.
Not fair!! You’ve left me wanting to know both titles: the SECOND greatest mystery ever written and OF COURSE, the actual greatest!
Many consider Dame Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None the greatest mystery of all time. Published in 1939, it is still the best-selling mystery of all time. It is awesome.
To me, the second greatest mystery of all time is Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocence. Published in 1987, in the era before the internet, it was a book that everyone read and no one spoiled. No one remembers the novel that won the Pulitzer (A Summons to Memphis) or the National Book Award winner (Paco’s Story.) But everyone who was reading in 1987 either read Presumed Innocent or heard about it. Twenty years ago, the LA Review of Books wrote this about it:
TWENTY-SIX YEARS after its publication, few would disagree that Scott Turow’s bestselling legal thriller Presumed Innocent blazed a trail for other writer-lawyers like John Grisham and Richard North Patterson. It is also easy to see how Turow and other popular novelists of his era like Tom Wolfe and Donna Tartt provided a template for contemporary authors like Gillian Flynn, whose 2012 book Gone Girl incorporates literary techniques to flesh out her plot machinery. But the phenomenal success of Presumed Innocent, which spent 45 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was also a turning point in the decades-long process that saw highbrow literature and middlebrow entertainment, once sworn enemies, merge into the hybrid literary world we live in today, in which literary writers routinely use murder mysteries to propel their novels and genre authors routinely grant their characters elaborate inner struggles to add literary heft to their plots….
It’s so much better than the recent mini-series–if you’ve never read it, it’s truly worth a gander.