DA/SBTB Bestseller List
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Week ending September 28, 2011
- Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo
- I Love the Earl by Caroline Linden Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo
- Lord and Lady Spy by Shana Galen Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo
- In Bed with the Boss by Susan Napier Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo
- Cassie Palmer Series by Karen Chance Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo
- Doukakis’s Apprentice by Sarah Morgan Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo
- Conor’s Way by Laura Lee Guhrke Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo
- Unclaimed by Courtney Milan Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo
- Miss Darby’s Duenna by Sheri Cobb South Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo
- A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant Amazon | nook | Sony | Kobo
I loved the Linden short. Snapped me right out of the historical funk I’d been in.
I agree, the Linden novella was enough to get me to buy at least one of her backlist books, and I’ll maybe get some others too.
Make it three for Caroline Linden. Loved it.
You can get Unclaimed Courtney Milan for under $5 ($4.63, I think it worked out to) at Kobo using the code oct2romance20 (this expires after 10/2, today, but there are quite a few other kobo codes out there for 20% off). Nice deal!
I bought the Cassie Palmer series bundle and am on the last one now. It’s driving me nuts! Chance has great characters, fantastic world building, a Byzantine plot that makes you really want to know what happens next – and she wrecks the whole thing with page upon page of telling and backstory exposition! Arrrgh!
As you know, Jim, it really irritates the reader when we randomly pull them out of a crucial action scene to give them two pages of exposition, and then fling them back into the action as if it never happened. I have to keep flicking back pages to remind myself who’s involved in the action when the exposition ends. The characters and plot are WORTH the flicking, but it’s irritating as all fuck.
I’m with you on the Cassie Palmer series. And reading them all back to back just really highlights the problem. Still it’s enough to keep me reading just to find out what happens.
Re Cassie Palmer: I got the bundle too and couldn’t get through the first book. I was getting more and more pissed the further I read. I felt like I was being lectured to and my eyes wanted to close. And the situations she chose to insert her lectures-good grief! Oh, he’s strangling me, I can’t breathe…let me think about everything I know about wards for a minute. Bah!
I just didn’t care anymore.
I’d never read Palmer before, so that should teach me to buy an unknown-to-me author bundle. But I’d never read Deanna Rayburn either and never regretted making the Lady Julia Gray purchase.
I guess it’s all a crap shoot, you win some, you lose some.
That should be “I’ve never read Chance before”. You can tell the books impressed me. :-)
@eggs: @Tralalah: You might like the Dorina Basarab books better, I remember them being quite different from the Cassie books. But then I also loved the style in the Cassie books and since I’ve been hooked on the series since the first one, I never noticed the ‘problems’ you guys mentioned. But then again, I’m an easy reader to please, most of the time the ‘telling’ in a book doesn’t bother me.
@ChristineM: I’m hooked too, so I will definitely buy the 5th book – if it ever becomes available to Aussie readers on the kindle! The stories are worth it, even if the authorial style drives me bugfuck crazy.