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[apesmom]

Originally Posted by sufue

Jack and George (and Gaston and Sophie) appear in the Innkeeper series too, cameos in a couple of them, and larger roles in some others, including the current web serial.

I assume you know this already, but on the off chance...

I didn't know. Something to look forward to. Thanks!

[apesmom]

Originally Posted by sufue

Vision in Silver (by Anne Bishop) is £0.99 in the UK right now...links below are still good.

I absolutely love this world. It ties with Mercy Thompson as my favorite UF series.

[library addict]

One of my absolute favorites, Ravished by Amanda Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) is on sale for $1.99

Spoiler:

From the cozy confines of a tiny seaside village to the glittering crush of the a fashionable London soiree comes an enthralling tale of a thoroughly mismatched couple . . . poised to discover the rapture of love.

There was no doubt about it. What Miss Harriet Pomeroy needed was a man. Someone powerful and clever who could help her rout the unscrupulous thieves who were using her beloved caves to hide their loot. But when Harriet summoned Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin, to her aid, she could not know that she was summoning the devil himself. . . .

Dubbed the Beast of Blackthorne Hall for his scarred face and lecherous past, Gideon was strong and fierce and notoriously menacing. Yet Harriet could not find it in her heart to fear him. For in his tawny gaze she sensed a savage pain she longed to soothe . . . and a searing passion she yearned to answer. Now, caught up in the Beast’s clutches, Harriet must find a way to win his heart–and evade the deadly trap of a scheming villain who would see them parted for all time.

Kobo

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Apple Books

Kindle

[library addict]

Just FYI, Lindsay Buroker is working on a sequel/spin-off series in the Death Before Dragons world. It will feature a different main character, but the folks we know in love will also appear.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by library addict

Just FYI, Lindsay Buroker is working on a sequel/spin-off series in the Death Before Dragons world. It will feature a different main character, but the folks we know in love will also appear.

Thank you!

[apesmom]

Willard as MC? Must have lots of haughty Zav.

Originally Posted by library addict

Just FYI, Lindsay Buroker is working on a sequel/spin-off series in the Death Before Dragons world. It will feature a different main character, but the folks we know in love will also appear.

[library addict]

Originally Posted by apesmom

Willard as MC? Must have lots of haughty Zav.

I think Willard is in a new scene she wrote this week. The book will actually be about a

Spoiler:

heroine new to the series. All we know so far is that she's half-dwarf. Varlesh Sarrlevi plays a "significant role". And so far Val, Zav, and Willard have been in scenes.

She also earlier said

Spoiler:

I’m gearing up to start writing the new spin-off series this fall. I also have tentative plans to do another adventure with Val and Zav.

[sufue]

True Colors is a novella in Thea Harrison's Elder Races series. It's free right now at Kindle and Kobo US and Kindle UK. And probably at Kobo UK, but I don't check there...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0738PH85C
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/true-colors-28
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0738PH85C

Spoiler:

This title was previously published and is being rereleased by the author. It has not been revised.

Meeting your soulmate? Great. Preventing your possible murder? Even better.

Alice Clark, a Wyr and schoolteacher, has had two friends murdered in as many days, and she’s just stumbled upon the body of a third. She arrives at the scene only minutes before Gideon Riehl, a detective in the Wyr Division of Violent Crime—and, as Alice inconveniently recognizes at first sight, her mate.

But the intense connection Riehl and Alice feel is further complicated when the murders are linked to a serial killer who last struck seven years ago, killing seven people in seven days. They have just one night before the killer strikes again.

And every sign points to Alice as the next victim.

[apesmom]

This week . . .

BDB by J.R. Ward

#16 - Blood Vow (BDB: Legacy #2) - 4
Narration OK. This series has evolved into a kind of soap opera.

Night Huntress Universe/Night Rebel by Jeaniene Frost

#14/#1 - Shades of Wicked - 3.5
#15/#2 - Wicked Bite - 3.5
#16/#3 - Wicked All Night - 3.5
Listened, narration good. Finished with entire series.

Steel & Stone Universe/Spell Weaver by Annette Marie

#9/#3 - The Blood Curse - 4
KU, listened, narration is good. Last of the series. More coming later this year in new Blackfire series, same characters from first 2 series.

Elder Races by Thea Harrison

#9.90 - The Unseen - 4
#9.95 - The Adversay - 4
Nice to revisit the Elder Races but it's way past time for a new full book! Caught up on the series for now. Checking her socials I see Bayne's book "Outlaw Magic" is in the works. Don't know if it's another novella or a full novel. The cover matches her other self-pubbed books so that's good.

Rock Kiss by Nalini Singh

#4 - Rock Wedding - 4
Listened, narration good. Ended up liking this one more than expected. Another series wrapped up.

Purchased: none

[sufue]

I have never read a graphic novel, so take this all with a grain of salt...

It turns out that the first of Ilona Andrews' Innkeeper books, Clean Sweep, is now on an graphic novel app called Tapas. So I'm trying it, and kind of enjoying it. The artwork is really good, and not too far off of how I imagined the characters and the inn, which is always iffy with movies, and also, I guess, with graphic novels.

They offer short episodes, and posted about 10 or 12 of them to start, and now additional ones are supposed to come out one per week for a year to make 52 total episodes, per the IA blog. And the first three are free to try. After that you have to buy "ink tokens" to get the remaining episodes, but they have specials and stuff that make it a little cheaper. Or you can wait for some of the episodes to go free after a while. And if you subscribe to be notified of new episodes, or put it on auto-buy when you scroll through from one episode to the next, you get some price breaks too. Still, on their blog, IA estimated that it works out to about 30 cents per episode, and there will be 52 episodes, so it's going to end up being quite a bit more than I would normally pay for an e-book.

But this is an experiment for me more than anything else, and I'm enjoying it enough to see this one through. I'm not sure how easy it would be to follow the plot if I didn't already know the story pretty well, but I do, and I'm finding that it's kind of a fun thing to wind down with at night. And I'm also not sure how much subtlety gets lost in the graphic version, which is another complaint of mine with movies, but again, since I know the original well, I can't really tell - my mind is filling in the details. There is supposed to be some original content coming up, though, created by the person who adapted it for the graphic format, so maybe I'll get a bit of a feel from that. (Apparently they needed some additional content to be able to have 52 full episodes...)

And it turns out there's also a Spanish-language version, and I'm trying to work on my Spanish with my daughter-in-law, who's from Mexico, so I'm following that one too, which is kind of fun. Even though I'm now spending twice what I normally would.

Anyway, I'm curious to know if anyone else is trying this out, and if you like it.

Oh, and if you want to find it in the Tapas app, it's called The Innkeeper Chronicles, not Clean Sweep. So I'm kind of wondering, if this one is deemed to be successful, if they'll just slide into the next one for next year...

And there's a lot more about this on the IA blog, if you head over there and just search on "Tapas".

[Terisa de morgan]

Thank you very much for telling me about the Spanish version, my mother will be able to read it then (and I think she's going to like it)

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• A Price Above Rubies (The Jewels of Exmoor #1) by Merline Lovelace (B-/3 stars)
• The Accidental Newlywed Game (Boots and Bouquets #3) by Jaci Burton (C-/2 stars)
• Star Nomad (Fallen Empire #1) by Lindsay Buroker (B+/4 stars)
• Honor’s Flight (Fallen Empire #2) by Lindsay Buroker (B/4 stars)
• Starfall Station (Fallen Empire #2.5) by Lindsay Buroker (B+/4 stars)
• Starseers (Fallen Empire #3) by Lindsay Buroker (B/4 stars)

Purchased:

[apesmom]

Freebie! This one was sitting on my KU list. Well rated 4.6 out of 3795 ratings.

Shadow Angel (Shadow Angel #1) by Leia Stone & Julie Hall

Spoiler:

From the moment I saw the shadows come to life, I knew my world would never be the same.

Yesterday I was a teenager waiting tables in Manhattan, and today, monsters exist and I can see them.

Overnight I’m thrown into the realm of the Watchers, a society of earthbound angels split into two factions: The Shades, whose powerful dark magic is given to them by the fallen angels, and the Lumens, whose abilities are bestowed on them by the archangels of Avalon.

They’re on opposite sides of a brutal war, and I only have a few days to pick which side I want to join. I’m ready to choose when the Shades force my hand by cursing someone I love.

The only hope I have of saving them rests on the broad shoulders of the prickliest Shade alive, Gage Alston. He’s cold, arrogant, and quite possibly the most attractive guy I’ve ever laid eyes on.

Do I trust him? No.
Do I need him? Yes.
Do I want to kiss him? Maybe.

Perhaps I’ll choose darkness after all.

[sufue]

YW, I'm having fun with it too!

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Thank you very much for telling me about the Spanish version, my mother will be able to read it then (and I think she's going to like it)

[apesmom]

Freebie. I'll just keep collecting these until I get around to trying this shifter romance author.

Two Shots Down (Battle of the Bulls #1) by T.S. Joyce

Spoiler:

Two Shots Down is blazing his way up the ranks as one of the top bull shifters in the Pro Bull Shifter Riding Circuit. He has a chip on his shoulder a mile wide, and everything to prove. With a dark reputation as a cowboy killer, he has wrecked every interview he’s done in his career. He’s the bull shifter everyone loves to hate, and he’s just fine with that, except there is one he cares about. One woman whose life he ruined. One woman he damaged. One woman who probably doesn’t even know he exists. When that one woman stands up for him and the other top three bull shifters of the circuit, and offers to manage them, he knows he’s in for a bad time. She drags ghosts with her, and they’re haunting him. All he needs to do is get from event to event, and buck those riders off before that eight second mark. But during the most important time of his career, Cheyenne is tearing down his walls. And for the life of him, he can’t figure out if that’s a good thing, or a very, very bad thing.

Cheyenne left the PBSR years ago when tragedy altered her life forever. She used to represent the riders, but now she’s turning traitor and switching sides. She’s taking heat from everyone to represent three titan bull shifters who don’t even understand what she’s trying to do for them, and want nothing to do with her. She’s in way over her head, but she did this on purpose, to get to know the man who demolished her life all those years ago. She needs to know if Two Shots Down is really the monster he pretends to be, or if he might be the only other person on earth who could understand what she’s healing from. These bull shifters are rough, and violent, and intimidating, but Two Shots Down is showing her a softer side to the bulls. He’s funny, and caring, and protective of her always, and sexy as hell. The more time she spends with her, the safer she feels with the monster.

Now it’s up to Two Shots Down. If he wants to be a part of Cheyenne’s team, he has to win events…and that means being the biggest, baddest bucker in the world.