Latest Bargain e-Books & Reader Recommendations – October 24th 2014

Oh I forgot blood deep was out!!! See maryse this is why we need u!!! Hope ur moving is going good!!

Ok. I tried (for like 5 minutes) but I just can’t.

How am I supposed to resist “special ops, genetic experiments, super soldiers and sex-addicted doms”?

Fortunately, Unlocked looks like a short one, so even if we read After, I’ll be able to fit it in to my weekend reading.

How great is today’s list?!? I’m not even going to guess at what my four-digit number is up to now after my one-click spree…

*snort* Maryse said short spurts. 😛

Fabi, I’m starting After this evening! 😀

I floved Three Rivers by Chloe T. Barlow!! It’s such an amazing book that takes you on an emotional roller-coaster! Everyone who loves passion, drama and romance should read it!!

So many great books on the list today. Going one-click crazy 🙂 There is one I’d like to mention that’s on sale for this weekend for $.99 that wasn’t on the list. It’s Believing Lies by Rachel Everleigh. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NNDXT4K

Hopping on the After bandwagon tonight. *note to self: stop for a bottle of wine on the way home* If After turns out to be scary gritty and gut wrenching, I want to make sure I have reinforcements at home. Here’s hoping for a good weekend read. *Cheers*

Yep I’m ready to start After this evening too – yey for the support group!

Jean, I looovvveeeddd Take Care Sara – seriously I’ve been hoarding my five star ratings lately but this book gets one. I immediately bought the followup novella and devoured that as well. I just really connected with the characters and story – was a sobbing mess for parts of it too.

Michelle, I’m so glad you loved it as much as I did, and the novella was just as great, wasn’t it?

Looking forward to our buddy read of After!!

Hey Laura how are you liking that Angels series? I found it different but not bad.

We’re starting After by Krylov tonight. I hope that trying it again in group read mode will make me stick with it this time. I squirreled away from it last time but I’d just come off a couple of spectacular reads so I was in a different mood.

A paranormal being compared to BDB? might be worth a peek…..

Riot sounds interesting. That other book with the “teacher” that went to prison wasn’t bad…. what was that again? hmmm…..

Here With Me….. yikes!!!! the brother???? oh no no no…… I like the forbiddeny thing.

So many good choices. Need to hurry and finish King #3 (AWESOME, BTW)…. can’t join on After (because it’s not on amazon)…. so at least I have some good choices.

Ella Fox’s entire Hart series is bundled for $.99.

Wow Maryse so many good choices on this list. Liking Insidious, and Vain Series. Will add those to my ever growing tbr list. Still reading Red Fox, so don’t think I’ll be jumping on the After bandwagon.

Amy, black vodka?! Sounds yummy and hey it goes with my EIT reading!! 😉

Next book in T.H. Snider’s Cursed series just went live. Last one ended in major cliffhanger….I think this book is about Steve but Lincoln, Dault, Etty, Jo….are all supposed to be in this book too.

Good book + black widow halloween shots= quiet Amy?! :>

Jean- Even though you got the wrong Vain book, Vain by Fisher Amelie is a very good book, read it!

Who is this Amy you speak of? She sounds like a perverted lush. *snicker*

I had a date night with my hubby last night that didn’t end at the restaurant *hee hee* and some black widow shots…need I say more? 😉 I’m only about 10% into After but liking it so far. Nothing *too* bad yet (just stuff making me cringe a bit) but I have a feeling it’s not going to stay that way. How bad is it that I’m *hoping* it doesn’t stay that way? 😛

I am helping a friend out with bowling birthday party for a bunch of third grade girls then I’ll be jumping back into After. How do I let myself get roped into these things? They are adorable, but good lord!! You would think they are all having PMS symptoms already!

I’m on chapter twelve. The writing is smooth as molasses. This author is extremely talented. However I still don’t have the feelings for this story as I did for her other two books. After is an earlier work of hers. So, I don’t know. It’s dark. No doubt about that, but I’m just not as tied up in knots as I was by her other two books I read. Or maybe it’s a “not yet” thing. I’m going to keep reading and likely finish it this time. It’s smooth and the story flows. Maybe I’m just feeling too impatient to get to some of these on this list.

Hey Jean, chapter 13 was brutal huh? You think Smith had met his match?

Aleatha Romig’s Insidious was HFS good. I could NOT put it down. I’m a big fan of dark psychological romance…and this did not disappoint. From the first words you are drawn into this world where you wonder exactly what you would do if in the same position.

Twisty, turny, up, down, sideways and diagonal….this is one of those books where you sat with your hand over your mouth part of the time thinking, “holy sh*t, I really didn’t just read that, did I?”

And the very last paragraph of the book… mad props to Ms Romig, she’s a phenomenal talent!

*looks up and blinks* Halloween finally hit me, and I’m in PNR mode. I’m reading Cold Stone Touch currently. So, with that, I bought The Last Glass. I’ll read it after… *looks* A lot of other stuff? I think Kitty and the Dead Hand next. My Book Dom loves me right now. (he totally understands Cold Stone Touch. I’ve been waiting forever for this book! )

I’m totally sucked in now – finishing chap 20…want to get to part 2 for a stopping point since I have to get up early tomorrow. Fabi, I completely see why you raved over this author – the writing is crisp, flows and has a nuance to it that is really engrossing. I said above that I really have no idea where the story is going and have been surprised by many things including Lott.

You guys have me re-thinking reading After, sounds good. Although, I’m enjoying my halloween read, Red Fox.

Also intrigued by Insidious, Grey you said the magic words “twisty, turny.”I love a dark, twisted book with the wtf moments.

Ugh, I just feel so…sad for John and Eva. And so angry for them. And I wanna go on a castrating rampage. With a rusty pocketknife. Then maybe I’ll do the right thing and disinfect what’s left of their junk…with a bottle of cheap vodka. No way am I wasting the good stuff on them. Remember in World War Z where they are in the plane and he gives that woman a mini bottle of liquor – I think it’s vodka? – and tells her she’s earned it or deserves it (can’t remember exactly what he says), then pours another bottle of liquor over her wound? Yeah, I’m not that nice. They don’t get to drink any of it.

Oh! Have you ladies seen Hard Candy?? *That* scene. But without the ice pack.

Here’s to a lazy Sunday of laying around and reading all day. *lifts coffee cup*

Oh man, between hearing that and also about Red Fox (at 75% there is still no lovin’ going on, seriously?!?) I’m really glad I don’t have to go anywhere today so I can read and sulk in my blankie cave all day.

I love when books do this to me. 😀

I’m almost to chapter 20. I’d like to say it feels like the calm before the storm. But there haven’t really been calm moments in this book have there?

Thanks Amy, for making this a group read. I knew Und get back to it eventually. But this gave me a reason to do it now. And, honestly, I probably would have squirreled away this time too if we weren’t reading it together.

I can’t say I’m emotionally involved like I was with the previous two books, but this story keeps me wanting to know what’s next. So I keep reading and it keeps delivering.

To describe the difference in the books, I have to say, this one keeps slapping me with situations and revelations, the more I read the less I can put it down. The other books were more like punches to the gut throughout. I don’t think I breathed with those. But again, I feel biased and am afraid I don’t give enough credit to After which is really a good book. I really don’t think this woman can write anything bad. Her skill is off the charts. I’ve read she lives in Spain. Wish I lived there. I’d be happy almost anywhere in Europe with all of its history and antiquities.

Ooooh…I’m gonna paint my nails a pretty, bright color to get through After. I know, sounds silly but it works for me. 😉

I’m making my way through my China Glaze The Giver collection, and I’m going to use Givers Theme…so pretty!! Look at these swatches of the collection:
https://www.thepolishaholic.com/2014/08/China-Glaze-The-Giver-Collection-Swatches-Review.html

I love movie-themed polish collections! My favorite movie collections I have are China Glaze Hunger Games and OPI Skyfall. Yep, all the colors in each. Because I always want to try all of them. 😀

OPI Skyfall collection is one of my favorites of all time – I have duplicates of every bottle! Do you have the 18k gold leaf top coat (Man with the Golden Gun) Amy? That one is gorgeous too but was like an add on to that collection.

I recently bought Essie find me an oasis. I love the color but not the texture. I haven’t worn it yet as it feels more winter to me, lol. They had a dark blue, school blazer?, that maybe would of seemed more fall to me.

Btw, if this book had been written more recently, don’t you just know that part two would have a sequel? I really hate how authors are breaking their books into parts nowadays. Its nothing but annoying. Love that After is a whole book. Written today I’m sure it would have been an annoying series of cliffhanging sequels.

John and Avery. Almost polar opposites don’t you think? Except they are both so strong and smart.

Oh and I have to plug it again because it really is one of my favorite series – House of Korba came out today which is the newest book in the Ghostbird series by CL Stone. They are crazy addicting and the first book is free to try with the next four bundled for .99 right now.

I am just getting back to it and assume i am coming up on the end of part 1. I had too much stuff to do today and I was going crazy thinking about it!

Ooo ii’m excited Fabi, but i am getting sidetracked all day. Probably won’t get to read till tonight and hopefully finish tomorrow night.

Well,I squirreled away from everyone and went with Painted Faces. I think it was Michelle (the other one) that found it for 99 cents. I am loving it. Went to do my Sunday grocery shopping and whipped through the store so I could get back to it. Can’t stop thinking about it. Now I don’t feel like I am missing out on your group read because I have this little gem.

Fabi, yes the first book is Introductions. It looks like a young adult novel but especially in the later books, ramps up on mature topics and romance. It is already riske since there is one girl and 7 guys who are all into her. And the Academy part is not what you think…ie not just a school. You’ll like it Bev – just hope you do not become addicted like me!

Ok done with cleaning so I’m going to read more of After – really dying to see how this story wraps up!

Michelle, I downloaded it. It sounds right up my alley in reading taste. Thanks for the recommendation.

MichelleS I have Painted Faces on my tbr. Can’t wait to read it now.

Bev, hope you like Vain. #2 is still waiting for me.

I have so much I want to read! And so many more added to my list from Maryse’s Friday list.

But for now, back to After. I can’t even imagine how this story could possibly resolve. Don’t ya’ll think this was definitely 2 books in one?

Fabi the second part is starting to tie in and I think I see another connection that hasn’t been revealed yet. I’m wishing for a happier ending…or at least one that offers some hope…just a pinch…anything…

Maryse- I just read the strip-club scene in Dead Sky morning and I am dying to read Dex’s POV that you have on your EIT reading order post. I’m trying to wait until finishing this book, since you said it kept you in the dark about Dex’s thought process for a little longer and made him extra mysterious; but damn it’s hard!!! 😉 *yep, Amy i said hard!!*

Cheryl, I was tempted to read the Dex files at the same time.

Finally got to watch the first ep of Walking Dead. Reunited and it feels so good,lol. Love when they are all together. Daryl with Carol and Rick with Judith; perfect. Tyrese the berserker. Like all Rick’s action hero one liners.
Now where is Beth?

Awww Linda hugzzz. I know. That was devastating. 🙁

I’m on chapter 30 and can finally see where it’s going. But “on edge ’till the last few pages” is typical Krylov writing if 3 of her books is enough to go by. I hope to finish it tonight or tomorrow morning at the latest. Maybe I can squeeze in a short read before Tuesday’s release of Last Light.

Awww Michelle. It makes me feel good to see you say that. Someone else who loves this author as much as I do. For me, she’s like Colleen Hoover who I’ve read completely. I won’t stop till I have read all of Krylov’s work. So far, all the endings have been extremely satisfying. I’m still working on this one but I know it’ll take through to the last few pages.

Phew, just finished After. Loved it. So much squirreling only to end up with another fantastic 4* read from Krylov.

Did y’all see the advertisement for another one of hers called Abduction? A college student who penns erotic stories gets kidnapped. <—- sounds shivery dark to me. Will probably be my next Krylov read.

But for now, just a big sigh to have gotten through After. It was more violent than I'll usually read. But it was an integral part of the story. Everything Krylov puts in her books adds to the plot. There is no fluff. That's saying a lot when you consider that the book After is over 1100 pages long.

Yeeaa Jean. It was an awesome weekend read for me especially because of the company I had reading it.

Thanks for initiating Amy and thanks for reading Jean, Michelle, Linda?, was great fun to share with y’all.

I think I’m going to try to fit in Unlocked from this list before tomorrow’s new releases.

Fabi, I have not ventured into the M/M genre and i think i remember you saying if I give it a shot, I shouldn’t start with a krylov book. Is that right? Because I really want to read more of her books. Many have told me to start with Try. What’s your suggestion?

Thanks for the input Fabi! I should probably start with Try although I was not even phased by the M/M in After so……..

I know what you mean. I had a hard time with the level of violence in After. Try will take you a little more close and personal with the m/m. It’s a beautiful love story. I lived it. A 5* for me. But I’m one of those that gets sappy with love stories. For some reason color, race, gender, even age, all get blurred for me when I’m reading about two people falling in love.

Jean, don’t start with Unlocked. This one begins really rough with the m/m and bdsm. Sheesh, I feel like I just picked up a heavy porn book. I hope the story and and more sci fi kick in soon.

Thanks for the break down on some of Krylov’s books Fabi. I have no problem with m/m but I enjoy it more if there are female relationships in the mix so After was perfect for me. Abduction actually looks the most interesting to me right now and I plan to try that one next.

Right now, I went with one from my tbr, The Unfortunates. Apparently I’m in the mood for more dystopian romance. Then I need to go back to my loan pile and think I will finally read The Beautiful Ashes.

Amy perfect description of how I felt after I watched ep 2 of walking dead last night. That was horrifying.

So you did see it already, Bev? Horrid, right?!? You’ll love the next episode though. Bittersweet. That’s all I can think about last night’s episode. *sigh*

Ha you are talking about Walking Dead and I thought watching it last night that I guess the uncommon name Gareth is a prerequisite for an apocalypse since we have one in After too.

I decided to go to my TBR list before Tuesday bombards me with more temptations. I am reading Darkness (New Species #12). Fabi – if you liked Brides of the Kindred series, you might like New Species series. It is the perfect PNR formula book. Each one is a stand alone for a new couple, but the formula is the same and the overall storyline continues. This one is similar to Lora Leigh’s Breeds series. I loved the first 4 or 5, and have stuck with it, because I’m a sucker like that. When you need alpha growly PNR one book will do ya’….. remember this series!!! LOL

*scrolling up in comments*

Ooh! More nail polish talk! Michelle, it was an add-on of sorts to the original 12 Skyfall colors, and I never did pick it up. 🙁 That collection is absolutely beautiful and one of my favorites!

Bev, I know what you mean about that Essie color. It reminds me of my Zoya Feel collection from a couple of winters ago…very pretty winter-ish colors that are really too pale for any other time of the year. I know I mentioned the China Glaze Hunger Games collection earlier, but those colors *scream* Fall! Look at these swatches:
https://www.scrangie.com/2012/02/china-glaze-hunger-games-capitol-colors.html

They really are as pretty in person as in those swatches! 😀

Thanks MichelleS I have New Species on my wish list from your
recommendation of it.

Who’s planning on reading the Night Owl sequel tomorrow?

I’m about 34% into Unlocked and hope to finish it before tomorrow. It’s just pure smut so no biggie if I don’t.

“she makes the sex tell a story if that makes sense.”
Yes!!! She also explores character flaws and growth using the same technique.

Let me know when you decide to try Abduction. I’ll tag along read. It’s already on my Kindle.

Haha Fabi I was thinking no one would have a clue what I was trying to say but you get it! I already picked up Abduction too (I will forget if I don’t and put it in my tbr queue). I have to finish one book and then 4 loans before that but I’m a fast reader so I will probably get to it around the beginning of next week. Anyone else up for more Krylov fun…and tears?

Michelle by the time you work your way to Bad Things I’ll be ready for my 3rd read of it. haha

Yeah Bad Things scares me a little but I will get there for sure – will probably go with Try after Abducted.

I read anything dystopian and I love recs so lay ’em on me! So far The Unfortunates is just ok for me but it’s hard to read it following After and not think it’s just ok ya know.

Bev, the graphic novels are even darker. I like how the tv show plays out better so far.

I guess I haven’t heard of the Unfortunates. Will have to go check it out on Amazon

Has anyone read Dead of Eve by Pam Godwin? Curious about it.

Fabi need to look that one up too.