Latest Bargain e-Books & Reader Recommendations – January 30th 2015

Haha. I’m with Amy about The Return. Ah, I adored Seth, even with everything we learned. That cover is pretty too. *grins*

Every last breath can not come soon enough. I didn’t even vote because, for the first time, I liked both boys equally!

*ducks* I have read the whole Mageri series. I must have liked them, but… I don’t remember any of it.

Tessa, I bought the first in the Mageri series and didn’t remember, lol.
Out of control.

Unfinished by Shae Scott is on sale right now for .99. Book 2 is called Indelible and it will be out on Feb 2nd. (It’ is up for pre-order now). Just thought list it in case anyone hasn’t read it.

Michelle, I bought and consumed the whole series last April. I went to re-read it again, and remembered Adam a bit, but the rest is a blank. At least it’s a good re-read? *grins*

Oh, I want to know about Master of Crows too.

Master of Crows, I really liked it. The beginning is a little rocky with the world building. I was expecting this from the review I read and like they said it smoothed out quickly. I think MichelleS mentioned that she wished certain parts were not skimmed over and I felt the same about this book. I would of liked more of their daily interactions.
Also, this may sound boring, but oranges play apart in the book and they make neroli oil and perfumes from the flowers. Well, she describes the work room with its bottles and smells and I was like, “oh I’d like to spend some time in here”, but we really didn’t.
I think there will be more in this world and I’ll read it.

Holy. Sh!t.

That post ended up ginormous. *covers face and shakes head*

Amy, lol. We all do it. I’ll have to look it up
I’m not good with the unlikable heroines but love gray characters who change and grow.
So, this is embarrassing but I read a book were the heroine said something to another character, not a slur or anything, but it upset me that I do not even want to try other books by the author. It feels silly.

Bev, I enjoyed Master of Crows, too. I liked the fact that the characters in Radiance didn’t have instant love syndrome. Grace Draven builds unique worlds with unexpected heroes/heroines.

Oh yes, please try The Traveling Man <~~~LOVED, AND Bait!! Both of these books have left a large impression on me. And both need to hurry and release 2nd books!
And Therapy is another must with a great price.

Amy, that reminds me of the Dark Light series a little. Apparently, a fantastic series that hundreds of people love. But I couldn’t get past not liking Dorian’s actions and her reactions. 🙁 I think I have a lack of patience problem. :-O

Looks like next week will be another one-click frenzy week for me. Enslaved, Happenstance part 3, Hero, plus all the crazy good recommendations from you guys. I wonder if Amazon would hire me and pay me in books?

Bev, I hear that a lot as far as people having a tough time with a book if they don’t like the heroine. Ya know what’s funny? I can relate to the heroines who make dumb decisions and are just plain stupid ’cause, well, let’s just say I would like to go back and kick my younger self’s a$$. 😉 And it’s not silly about feeling that way after being offended by something in a book…I know I’ve been there before.

Niki, they are long but they read fast! Let me know what you think of it when you do read it.

Michelle, you’ll have to let me know as well what you think about DS. Just remember ladies, it’s one of those series that gets better as it goes on…at least *I* think so. 😉

Amy I hear you about kicking my own butt:-/ Wish there were time machines sometimes. And it is one of those only in books and usually only in romance, lol. In *real* life I’m more understanding and relate more.
In the book the heroines bf is grieving the loss of her husband and childhood sweetheart. He had been the heroes childhood bf and is trying to be there for the widow and mend some fences. Heroine gets jealous and says things to her bf. If she just thought them I’d understand, cause we all have thoughts we would never say or act on.

Maryse, Big yes to Gone Girl. I’m not sure how I stayed unspoiled with all the talk, and especially now with an Oscar nom.

I mentioned it on your challenge post, but if you have never read Rebecca you might like it. Hard to type it. Gothic, psych-thriller, mystery, also some romance. Oh, and first person pov from the heroine.

Amy I don’t remember if I dnf’ed book 2 or 3. But he was a d!ck and acted like he was “poor me” and she was a pushover crying into her alcohol and giving in time after time. I just couldn’t take any more.

Althouh, as I said before, apparently the plot shifted and he redeemed himself because so many people loved the series.

Hey, just call me oddball. :-/

Yup Amy, I remember that too. So you’re right, it must have been 3.

Oh well, we can’t love ’em all can we?

(sure go ahead, you can run with that -lol)

Amy – hating heroines? for me, the ultimate “I am done” with you was Anita Blake and Meredith Gentry (both by LKH)… if I start hating everything they say or do, I’m done. The other one was Stephanie Plum. Boink Ranger and get dump Morelli already and freaking take the bus… no more blown up cars! ARGH! I don’t think I have hated any heroines as much as these three! Great topic though.

Julie, Bait looks good but I hear it ends on a CH and book 2 is not out yet. Let me know. Too many on this list that I’m interested in that end with a CH, which I HATE!!!

MichelleS, oh I used to love Stephanie Plum. I am opposite of you wanted her to pick Joe, but would of been happy with any choice. But yes started not to like her when the author was trying to come up with loop holes for her to be with one or the other, it’s a curse!, at different times. That one kind of hurts cause had such affection for them, were books I’d buddy read.

Yeah I’m with u on the dark light series u are reading it thinking really?! Are u that stupid? I read them all then at the end was kinda well that’s that then nothing to exciting not like the fae chronicles I just finished OH NO that was a total stalk the author for the next book now!!
Michelle I read the game plan it’s really funny I just love those Bradford boys!
I don’t know what I feel like reading now I’m swaying towards a paranormal or a rom com was thinking maybe twist? What’s the 1st one called? I stil have a ton on my tbr that u all recommended last time but I dunno any suggestions? MichelleS and bev u 2 are usually my gurus of this kind of rut what do u think?

I looked at my goodreads profile. This is the first year I’ve actually put in books as I read them, and crap. I’ve already read 35 books this month. I honestly need to learn how to read slower! :O Though it explains why I forget them.

I’m trying to read My Dragon to Slay today. I’m on page two, so… Try is the operative word.

Thoughtless, 99¢? Geesh, I’m tempted to get it on my kindle app just to have it there rather than my Kobo app.

Laura – Paranormal and / or Rom Com? How about both? If you don’t mind going old school (by old I mean published 3 years ago!)… then how about the Mane Attraction by Shelly Laurenston? Super sexy. Shifters. Laugh out loud funny. One of my favorite series ever. They are all stand-alones (different couple in each) but you get snippets of old characters, which is cool.

Ooo Michelle that’s going on the tbr but after looking at the comments I looked into the mageri series but then noticed her seven series so I started seven years, so it started kinda slow with no hint to paranormal then it goes kinda wham! But now I’m getting to the good part it’s going to have I think a sort of BDB vibe in the sense that each story in the series is about a different ‘brother’ and like our BDB they all have their different personalities sooooooo I will let u all know how it goes but so far it’s looking very promising!!!

Laura posting at the same time 🙂 Yes let me know if you like that series because after the Mageri series I’m really interested!

Oh Fabi, what have you done with giving me that permision? Yeah, we can’t *love* them all but we can certainly lic…I mean *like* them all, especially if they are lickable…er, likable. LIKE-able. Yep, that’s what I meant. 😉

MichelleS, you woman after my own heart with the hanky-panky comment. No fade-to-black in Dark Secrets books. It may start out with them in high school, but it is most definitely not YA. 😉

*snort* Jean has a sprained finger. No wonder you weren’t here last night to chat with us!! LOL!!!!!

Jean, right there with the horrible one clicking and I had been doing so good. *sigh* For some reason when I’m not reading as much I buy more…. It is a problem. I grabbed Kyland, The Travelling Man, Shields of Winter.

Unlike Tessa (whoa!) I only got through 10, I’ll never catch up, lol. Then decided to go to library to grab Julie Garwood’s Ransom to re read, cause u know why not, lol. Remember I loved this book so long since I’ve read any of her books.

Tessa 35 books in 30 days?! Michelle, 29 books in 30.days?! That’s insanely fast reading. Maybe I should hire you to go through my tbr…wait, that won’t work will it? I’m going to try to limit buying only what I’m going to read right now unless it’s a super sale. So if I want the book it goes on my wish list until I can start reading it, then I buy it. Hopefully I’ll fit in a few of the ones accumulating on my tbr too. Y’all hold me to this. Otherwise you may see me at your streetcorner with a cardboard sign around my neck which reads “will work for books”.

Amy rotflmao. Serieously girl, you’ve had me in stitches.

Into the Deep by Samantha Young is .99
A Shift in the Water by Patricia D Eddy is 1.99
Strange Magic by Michelle Mankin is .99
Translucent by Erin Noelle is .99
Change of Hart by ME Carter is .99
The Captive Series Bundle by Erica Stevens is .99
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly is 1.99
Raising Ryann by Alyssa Rae Taylor is .99
Cloaked in Fur by TF Walsh is 1.99
Very Bad Things by Ilsa Madden-Mills is FREE
He Found Me by Whitney Barbetti is FREE (Love this author!)
Tall, Dark, and Vampire by Sarah Humphreys is FREE

Michelle book 2 is amazing so far aswell would definitely recommend it! My friends really aren’t into paranormal books so I have to recommend it to all of u instead!

There are more books planned for that series too Laura. I kinda think she should have kept going with the Mageri series since it feels to me that there is more story to tell.

Your welcome Fabi – I will try to post dailyish if people are finding them useful. Thought Translucent looked good from that list so I clicked. I’m trying to not start too many incomplete series since yes I have a list of books to get just for those. Plus I find myself rereading a lot of them because I forget the previous book(s) by the time the next one is out. I also think I take more from a series reading it back to back. Oh I wanted to ask if you had read the Legend series that was mentioned in the KA Linde post? It was on my radar but wanted to know what you thought of it since our taste in dystopian is similar.

Fabi, I am having the same problem. I like the idea of waiting for a whole series too, especially since they’ve been coming out bundled and on sale.

Michelle, the Legend series is not one of my favorite series. I read the first book or two but never followed up on the rest of them. I’ve been wondering if I should re-try it. Maybe I just in the mood for it when I read it. It was quite a long time ago. Years. I think Darkest Minds is better or the Unwind series which is mind blowing.

Bev, same here with talking about books. Even the people I know IRL who enjoy reading are not as passionate about it as I am. Honestly, until social media, in general, and Maryse’s book blog, in particular, I thought maybe there was something wrong with me because of my obsession with books. There have been many family comments (jokes with negative connotations) about my extreme reading. Finding out that many other people read even more than I do and are even more passionate about their books has been such a huge relief (validation of sorts). So yeah, I know what you mean. :-/ I never let any of that sway me from reading. 🙂

One more thing…you guys wanna get a good laugh at me? Okay, y’all know how it drives me crazy when someone spoils something in a book. I *know* it’s by accident most of the time, and I’ve most likely done it myself without meaning to. But still…it sucks to have things spoiled.

Anyways, so I’m reading Shadowfever still, right? Well, I wanted to refresh my memory on something in Dreamfever that I couldn’t remember, so I went back to the library, clicked on the book and moved the slider at the bottom to where I thought the part would be that I was looking for. Guess what? I had reopened SF instead of DF and SPOILED SOMETHING MAJOR NEAR THE END OF SF!!!!!. Who does that??? Oh, that’s right…me! 😕

Fabi, I might try the Legend series since my library has them so at least I do not have to spend any money. I haven’t read the Unwind series either…more for my huge list 🙂

I agree Amy and Tessa on the Captive series. My list was skewed a little towards pnr today but I have a lot of those on my wishlist. I think book 5 though is a spinoff so not much Braith. I’ve only read the first four so not positive.

Michelle you’ll have to let me know what you think of Legend. I hear the series has a spectaculat ending but I never got that far so I may revisit it at some point.

Hey guys! Finished Beautiful Redemption today and loved it! And started Past Heaven… it was on one of Maryse’s lists this week… Well, so far, so good! I was blubbering just from the prologue!!! Sucked me right in! (No comments Amy!)

Yep it was good Fabi, but I really LOVED Beautiful Oblivion!

Fabi – My family, too, makes negative comments about my reading! Isn’t that nuts? As if watching the Bachelor is any better? My mom will call and say, “You’re not reading, are you?” and I lie much of the time! In what crazy universe is it frowned upon to open a book and READ for entertainment? Especially in today’s world when people consume video games, music, social media on their devices that never leave their side. The super cool thing about this blog site is that you all share my taste in said books… no different than my son talking to gamers about what just happened in Call of Duty.

For those of you ladies who read Nocte (and freaked out like me over the CH), Verum is LIVE!!! Oh, and Nocte is .99 right now. Happy Monday to us!! 😀

Oooo thank you Amy! I did freak out with that one… Buying Verum right now!

MichelleS and Fabi, totally agree with your comments. I feel like I have to hide my reading habits which is just ridiculous!

Oh and I’m LOVING Past Heaven!!!! Woman’s husband dies leaving her with 3 children. Hollywood actor approaches her about doing a screenplay/movie about her husband. She has to work closely with him, reminiscing about her life with her husband to get the story told and oh boy does it hurt!!!! Soooo good!!!!

Oh Until the End of the World is good! Still reading but who read After with me and liked that vibe – Jean I know you did and would love these books. I was the one that found Past Heaven thinking it looked really good – glad to hear it is! I grabbed it already and now anxious to read but I have so many lined up for this week that look amazing too…what a problem to have!

I’m lucky that in my family we have a lot of readers but not too many have my tastes so that’s why I love discussing books here 🙂

You’re reading it Michelle?? Yay!!!! 😀 The second book is even better but delivers a gut kick. I wasn’t even halfway through it and BAM! I wasn’t recovered from the WTF event (good lord, I’m still not) but I *was* starting to feel better and the book was like, “oh really, you think I’m done with you?” and BA-BAM!! This was me after the second book:
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Haha Amy that will probably be me too…I’m reading the whole series since its complete which is my new MO. Did you read the novella in between book 1 and 2? Wondering if I need to?

Michelle, I just saw that Winds of Winter by George RR Martin is definitely not coming out this year. At the earliest 2016. Have to say not surprised, but damn I want that book.

Is it odd I totally ♥ Michael Scott?

Amy, I love Jennifer Armentrout. I have to wait to see if it makes you cry. 😉

And nope Fabi…no crying in Wait For You. 😉

Lol, you guys, I am getting no work done today! Amy I loved the Wait For You series and thanks for the info on UTEOTW (wow, that’s a long one)!

Michelle how do you find all these freebies and super sales? I’d love to hunt down some sci fi/dystopian/pnr/uf etc for my tbr

I saw that Bev and the cover reveal but yeah I will be surprised if we see the release next year. Btw I love everything The Office too!

I’m going to get the novella Amy since I might miss something 😉 Ok I will try to mentally prepare myself for disaster in book 2 but I’m already attached to the characters 🙁

Yey Jean and Fabi let me know what you think when ya get around to reading the first book.

Fabi, I get emails daily from multiple sites. Booklending .com which I’ve mentioned before on here is my favorite because any book you have on your borrow list, if it reduces in price, you get an email. I have hundreds on my list almost a thousand so it’s easy to see when a book I want reduces in price. I use bookgorilla.com and bookbub.com also. You can personalize your settings to which genres you like the most and they send you an email daily with a list. I basically look through a few emails daily with links directly to amazon to purchase so it can’t get easier than that. Lastly, anything on your wishlist for amazon which I basically add at least half of Maryse’s lists to my wishlist has the option to sort by price drop so you can see daily if books reduce in price and by how much. It takes time to build up the lists on booklending and amazon but once you do, finding the deals are easy.

It really only takes me 10-15 minutes to go through my emails and wishlist. I’ve gotten into a habit of doing it daily since a lot of the deals don’t last. But yes it is time consuming to add the books especially initially until you build up a good list. I use Maryse’s lists and goodreads a lot to find new releases and recommendations. I’ve saved a lot of money waiting for books to reduce in price though. Booklending.com is fantastic to try out books. Every month I get anywhere from 8-15 loans (you can also customize your weekly loans from 0-3 if you are busy one week or want more loans another). They also recommend books daily and send out emails for free books. Really highly recommend that site!

Thanks Michelle, I’ll check out booklending.com

I have a list of my borrows from the site too that I rate to see which ones I want to buy. I think I entered around 15-20 books to loan at first and got a borrow within a few days. The more you offer for loans, the more borrows you get. Now, I probably loan/borrow an even ratio – like 3 a week and get 3. It takes a while to build your profile up.

You can only lend kindle books and only once. So any books you’ve already lended out do not work. Just type in the book title in the search box and hit borrow or lend. You get an email either for a borrow offer or lend request. Make sure if you lend a book after going to amazon to return to the site and click the I confirm I have loaned this book so you get credit for it.

I have the same problem Fabi where most of my books were on nook – I’ve only been exclusively kindle for less than a year as well. There are sites I looked into for nook book lending but I didn’t like any of them. I still have tons of kindle books already and even all the free ones I click on, I list on the site. You do not need to put up many to get started and see if you like it. List as many borrows as you can though to get a book faster.

Book Two of Strange Magic will be out on February 5th!
I told you about book one and how I am not a pnr fan but how this book turned me into one!
It has been compared to the Dark Hunger series and is unbelievably good. Michelle Mankin knocked this one out of the park bigtime. You really need to check it out.