FREE/BARGAIN — Romance & Discussion

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Bridgerton! Netflix! Christmas Day!

(Have been watching the trailer on repeat)

Originally Posted by Hemmi

Umm, wow, I did not realize that was something even possible to do! Big congrats!

I've purchased four books this year and only one I've cracked is one Hamilton related book.

[worktolive]

Two free books from Ruby Dixon (both series starters) for those of you who like SF Romance:

Fire In His Blood

Spoiler:

Years ago, the skies ripped open and the world was destroyed in fire and ash. Dragons - once creatures of legend - are the enemy. Vicious and unpredictable, they rule the skies of the ruined cities, forcing humanity to huddle behind barricades for safety.

Claudia's a survivor. She scrapes by as best as she can in a hard, dangerous world. When she runs afoul of the law, she's left as bait in dragon territory. She only has one chance to survive - to somehow 'tame' a dragon and get it to obey her.

Except the dragon that finds her is as wild and brutal as any other...and he's not interested in obeying.

What he is interested in is a mate.

The Corsair's Captive

Spoiler:

A pirate doesn’t ask for permission - he takes.

When I see the delicate human female collared and enslaved by the smuggler I’m about to swindle, I do what any male would do.

I take her from him. It’s what I do best, after all.

Now Fran’s mine, and I’m never giving her up. On board my spaceship, she’ll be safe. She’ll wear my clothes, eat my food, and sleep in my bed. I’ll keep her safe from a galaxy that wishes her harm. But my sweet Fran wants nothing more than to return to Earth. How can I take her home when she holds my heart in her dainty, five-fingered hands?

This story stands completely alone and is only marginally connected to the Ice Planet Barbarians series and Prison Planet Barbarian. You do not need to read those books in order to follow this one.

[Terisa de morgan]

Thank you

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Cowboy SEAL Healing (Navy SEAL Cowboys #3.5) by Nicole Helm (B+/4 stars)
• The Adventurer (Ladies & Legends #2) by Jayne Ann Krentz (B+/4 stars)

Purchased:

[worktolive]

The Accidentals by Sarina Bowen is on sale for $0.99. It's a YA coming of age story and the focus isn't romance although there is a sweet, understated one. It was one of my favorite books in 2018.

The Accidentals

Spoiler:

Never ask a question unless you’re sure you want the truth.

I’ve been listening to my father sing for my whole life. I carry him in my pocket on my mp3 player. It’s just that we’ve never met face to face.

My mother would never tell me how I came to be, or why my rock star father and I have never met. I thought it was her only secret. I was wrong.

When she dies, he finally appears. Suddenly I have a first class ticket into my father’s exclusive world. A world I don’t want any part of – not at this cost.

Only three things keep me going: my a cappella singing group, a swoony blue-eyed boy named Jake, and the burning questions in my soul.


There’s a secret shame that comes from being an unwanted child. It drags me down, and puts distance between me and the boy I love.

My father is the only one alive who knows my history. I need the truth, even if it scares me.

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• The Cowboy (Ladies & Legends #3) by Jayne Ann Krentz (D/1 star)
• The Long Paddock (Woodlea #1) by Alissa Callen (B/4 stars)
• Have Your Cake by Elise K Ackers (B-/3 stars)
• Off the Record (London Phoenix #3) by Rebecca Crowley (B/4 stars)

Purchased:
none

[sufue]

Based on some recommendations from several folks somewhere upthread, I've been slowly reading Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series, as the books become available at my library. And the series is starting to grow on me a bit, so I've also eReaderIQ'd it. Now here is the fourth in the series, Bone Crossed, on sale at $1.99 in the US, a nice price compared to its normal $7.99.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001PU7WKK
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B001PU7WKK
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bone-crossed-1

Spoiler:

Welcome to Patricia Briggs’s world, a place where “witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people” (Booklist). It takes a very unusual woman to call it home—and there’s no one quite like Mercy Thompson.

By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy’s found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so-human on more than one occasion. This time she may get more than she bargained for.

Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan—and she’s out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack (and her close relationship with its sexy Alpha), it won’t be Mercy’s blood Marsilia is after.

It’ll be her friends’.

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Bait n’ Witch (Legendary Consultants #3) [original version] by Abigail Owen (A-/5 stars)
• A Wedding One Christmas (One Day to Forever #1) by Therese Beharrie (B/4 stars)
• Echoes of Ash & Tears (Earthsinger Chronicles #3.5) by L Penelope (A-/5 stars)

Purchased:

[Terisa de morgan]

Thank you @library addict, I think I'll check the books you've given 5 stars.

[library addict]

I highly recommend the Earthsinger Chronicles by L Penelope.

Spoiler:

1) Song of Blood & Stone
1.5) Breath of Dust & Dawn
2) Whispers of Shadow & Flame
2.5) Hush of Storm & Sorrow
3) Cry of Metal & Bone
3.3) Coda of Storm & Sorrow (a Bonus Epilogue for Cry of Metal & Bone)
3.5) Echoes of Ash & Tears in Under a Winter Sky anthology

the final book (4) Requiem of Silence will be out in August 2021

The Abigail Owen book was originally part of her Legendary Consultants series. The version I read isn't available to buy any longer (it's been sitting in my TBR for a few years ). But she edited and expanded most of the books/novellas in that series and rereleased them as the Brimstone Inc series. They are now set in her Dragon Fire world, the same as her overlapping Fire’s Edge and Inferno Rising series.

I had only previously read one of the novellas as it was free in her newsletter. So even though Bait n' Witch was part of a series, it read fine as a stand-alone to me. The series is mostly novellas. There is one short story and then Bait n' Witch is the only full-length book, but relatively short like a category-length.

I hadn't planned to read the new versions since I already had this one book and two novellas in Calibre labeled as "Brimstone Inc" and was resigned to just not having all of the series. Then she sent a revised short story, A Ghost of a Chance, free with her newsletter. I had read the original version when I first subscribed to her newsletter. And the new versions are all only 99¢, so I broke down and bought them all last month. I have the new and new-to-me versions planned for my 2021 reading.

Sorry, this explanation got longer than I'd planned.

[Terisa de morgan]

Thank you. With this list, I've been able to check the books in the library (some of them are there), and I'm going to check the novellas.

Pdta: I've found all of them aside of "Coda of Storm & Sorrow" in the library, so good reading in my near future, thank you again.

[library addict]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Pdta: I've found all of them aside of "Coda of Storm & Sorrow" in the library, so good reading in my near future, thank you again.

That was a pre-order perk for the third book. I think she's sending it as part of newsletter now. I am pretty sure it isn't for sale.

But well worth reading.

[sufue]

Silent Blade is the first in the short two-book Kinsmen series by Ilona Andrews. Although Andrews' Kate Daniels and Hidden Legacy series are much better known, I really liked both of the Kinsmen books, and wish they'd write more. But this series has been dormant for quite a while, so I don't think that's going to happen. In any case, Silent Blade is free right now at Kindle US, so if you want to try it risk-free you can !

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HKQJ2CV

Spoiler:

The World of Kinsmen

Family is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet.

In a distant, future world Kinsmen—small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families—control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield...and sometimes in the bedroom.

Old hatreds die hard. Old love dies harder.

On the planet Rada, Meli Galdes’ family is of minor rank, and were relying on her marriage to Celino, the razor-smart, ruthless leader of the powerful Carvanna empire. When he abruptly breaks their engagement, he ruins her family and guarantees that Meli will never marry, as no suitor will oppose the rich and influential Carvannas.

But Meli has a rare, secret, lethal—and valuable—talent. As a melder of energy, she’s capable of severing anything in her path. So she ‘leaves’ her family and trains to become one of the best and most lethal of assassins, all the while covertly guarding her family’s interests. Now she’s ready to quit; but she has one more assignment.

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• The Long Night of the Crystalline Moon (Heirs of Magic #.5) by Jeffe Kennedy (C-/2 stars)
• Archangel's Sun (Guild Hunter #13) by Nalini Singh (A/5 stars)
• Crime Scene Cover-Up (The Taylor Clan #9/Firehouse 13) by Julie Miller (B/4 stars)

Purchased:

[Terisa de morgan]

I've loved Archangel's Sun, and I'm lucky I've got no problem in crying on the subway while reading