Dear humans,
A bunch of kind and generous humans helped share Booked for Murder and A Chip on Her Shoulder recently, so we are putting together a book faire as a thank you to those kind individuals!
Please note that unless we say otherwise, we have not read these books. (And we might be shopping right alongside you!) As such, we have not done any checks on them beyond content advisories, which were given to us by the authors. Please do your regular book shopping behaviors, including reading the samples and checking the reviews for anything that might be a trigger for you!
That said, we will mention which books particularly caught our eye and why.
We hope you find a new and interesting read! This faire will run daily between today and Friday, featuring three or four books a day until finished. So, let’s get this show on the road!
We are going to begin with something a little different, which is also on sale for $0.99 Monday, September 7 and Tuesday, September 8 (2020) only.
Tiger Unbound by Evangeline Rain
Genre: Historical Romance
The Zhao Kingdom was about to be invaded by the approaching army of the Wei Kingdom.
Rather than suffer the insult of a defeat, the King of Zhao chose to hang himself. Princess Zhao Xuan woke up to find that she was the only one left out of her family’s suicide plans. Refusing to abandon her people, the headstrong princess decided to pick up the mantle and meet Prince Wei Xing in the battlefield.
A duel for the fate of her kingdom.
An unexpected proposal.
A strained marriage to the prince of the enemy kingdom.
Could love help the unconventional princess survive the oppressive social structures which she had rebelled against her whole life?
Warnings: 18+. This book depicts scenes of suicide and violence.
This novel is available in Kindle Unlimited, so it is only available at Amazon.
Our thoughts: The choice of cover character caught our attention, and while we don’t tend to read a lot of historical of any stripe, we appreciated this wasn’t the same old same old Caucasian male character on the cover.
All that said, the themes of this one will be too rough on the poor female, but she really appreciates how this one catches some of the grimmer realities of the era this book is set in. So while we’re passing, because the last thing the female needs is to become an anxious, depressed mess, we’re fairly sure there are some readers who will like this style of story.
Note: because the description does make it appear as though the opener will be quite dark and violent, we didn’t peek at the sample. Anxiety doesn’t taste all that good with tea (or coffee.)
(There might be coffee consumed today as a coping mechanism for the ridiculous amount of heat the female (and us) are being subjected to.)
Please insert some form of wry humor here.
The Vampire’s Mark 1: Dark Reign by Rachel Jonas
Genre: Paranormal Romance (Reverse Harem, Young/New Adult)
Four blood-sucking princes. A beautiful anarchist. One dangerous mistake.
To the vampires who dominate each quadrant of the Lydian Dynasty, I’m only known as “Blackbird”—a masked vigilante who, at nineteen, is already public enemy number one.
To what’s left of humanity, I’ve been called a superhero, a title I neither welcome nor deserve. My only objective is to offer the enslaved what was stolen from us …
Freedom.
However, a failed plan lands me in the last place I imagined, at the mercy of all four Dynasty princes—Julian, Levi, Roman, and Silas. They’re monsters, each with a heart rumored to be as cold as his icy skin. And what’s worse, thanks to the slip-up, my fate is suddenly theirs to decide.
It’s up to them whether I’ll swing from the gallows, and I’ve given them every reason to sentence me to such a fate. Yet, I felt something unexplainable when our paths first crossed.
Something that gives me hope.
We should be one another’s worst nightmare. Only, I’m beginning to wonder if, somehow … these four princes might be my saving grace.
This novel is available in Kindle Unlimited, so it is only available at Amazon.
Warnings: 18+. Reverse Harem/Polyamorous.
Our Thoughts: While reverse harem novels are not our thing, we do quite like the colors and general art on this cover. Her outfit is swanky, and the female would never be brave enough to swear such a thing, but she likes it anyway.
Since this falls outside of the female’s general reading interests, we aren’t giving this one a shot, but the cover and description look promising for those of you who do enjoy young/new adult and reverse harem.
The female doesn’t really read new or young adult, and she has no general interest in reverse harem. That’s okay, though. Hopefully one of y’all find this story to be right up your reading alley!
Ulysses Exposed by N Gray
Genre: Urban Fantasy.
Secrets always reveal themselves. As I discover more of who I am, I realize I may be the monster everyone warned me about…
I should have died. Instead, I wake with strangers beside me in an unknown place and healed from my near-fatal wounds.
They say I have no powers, that I’m only human. But I have amnesia and no longer able to mask who I truly am and now everybody knows what I am.
I’m no longer safe.
Can I trust the vampire who saved my life? And can the were-leopard tasked with helping me understand my past, accept me for who I really am before the threat returns to finish what they started?
Warnings: 18+, Polyamorous (Unknown if Reverse Harem, but it’s probably a menage rather than a RH) Relationships, Violence.
This novel is in Kindle Unlimited, and is only available at Amazon.
Our Thoughts: This is a really swanky cover, although this cover says “Horror” rather than “Urban fantasy.” Like… we initially thought it was a horror, but then we read the description, and then thought it was a RH paranormal romance, but it is listed as an urban fantasy by the author. So, go in looking for surprises, human! We aren’t actually sure what this one will be, but if the female were looking for a horror, she’d stop and look at the cover.
We aren’t sure what that means right now, as the female hasn’t really been interested in reading horror lately. She’s been in a light, fluffy, and humorous mood. But then again, she’s usually in a light, fluffy, and humorous mood.
This amuses us because we know she isn’t writing a light, fluffy, or humorous novel right now.
(Good job, female. You is nuts.)
If you end up reading any of these books, do swing by in the comments and let us know how you liked them! Today’s offerings aren’t really up the female’s alley, but that’s okay! We know our readers have diverse tastes, so we hope some of you find a new book you’ll love!
Tomorrow, there shall be more books to look at, selected at random from the grab bag of those who’d been so kind as to help share word of the female’s books.
Thanks so much, everybody!
~The Furred & Frond Management
If you’re looking for more positive stuff at the moment, may I suggest Janet Edwards’ “Earth Girl” stories?
They kinda remind me of the “juvenile Heinlein” novels – you know: “our plucky, intrepid hero saves the day/world/universe” stuff.
There is one part where I wanted to howl BS and toss my reader at the wall, but even more, I wanted to know what happened!
I have reread the Earth Girl stories so many times that I have lost count.
I read Tiger Unbound. So nice to read a historical romance that is NOT British history. Yes, parts of it are dark, but it has a happy ending. I hope Rain writes more in this vein.
I read “Tiger Unbound” based on your book faire – it was a very good (although short!) story, and I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you for bringing this one to my attention!. I may read one or two more in your subsequent lists, but am still pondering them.