Today’s Steals and Deals at AAR…..
We gave this one a DIK. In her review, Caz wrote:
Death in the Spires is a gripping murder mystery, and while the plot is complex, it’s neither difficult to follow nor explained to death. Jem – quiet, stubborn, broken but loveable Jem – is a wonderfully engaging protagonist, and one of my favourite parts of the story was watching him gradually finding himself again after ten years of drudgery and trying to fade into the background. This might not be genre romance, but different aspects of love – romantic, familal and platonic – are strongly woven into the story alongside themes of friendship, regret and healing, and we’re left with a sense of optimism for Jem and his friends.
It’s on sale for 0.99 here.
As I said in my review, I enjoyed this historical romance.
Ms. Mallory did her research and her book is full of fascinating and often real Scottish history and characters. The love story between Ian and Sileas, despite a few too many “Oh, why doesn’t he love me” moments on her part, is charming. Ian’s acute lust – compromised by his old anger – is balanced by Sileas’s struggles to fend him off until he truly wants her as his wife. Their sexual connection is strong and sweet and, when they do finally bed, it’s because they are ready to be truly wed, and are unmoored from their unhappy past.
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This thriller got a DIK from us.
It’s perhaps pretty easy to figure out a few of the twists bubbling under The Overnight Guest’s surface, but there’s a big one – bloody, chilling and quite satisfying – that will jump out and take the reader by surprise. I liked Wylie as the story’s logical, haunted central heroine, and the nervy, beaten down bravery of the mother and child. Young Josie is a wonderful character to follow too.
The writing here is very strong, as is the suspense element. The actual culprit will not be obvious even by the last third of the book.
It’s on sale for 1.99 here.