Daily Deals: Father Time, Winged Cats, Ghost Whisperers
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom. $ 2.99 at AMZN | Google
From the Jacket Copy:
From the author who’s inspired millions worldwide with books like Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most imaginative novel yet, The Time Keeper—a compelling fable about the first man on Earth to count the hours.
The man who became Father Time.
In Mitch Albom’s newest work of fiction, the inventor of the world’s first clock is punished for trying to measure God’s greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years.
Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.
He returns to our world—now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began—and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so.
Told in Albom’s signature spare, evocative prose, this remarkably original tale will inspire readers everywhere to reconsider their own notions of time, how they spend it, and how precious it truly is.
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Risk (Gentry Boys#2) by Cora Brent. $ .99
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“I’d seen enough of Creedence Gentry to know he might be the worst thing I could do. Yet one lustful glance from him scrambled every piece of sanity I owned.”
TRULY…
My life hasn’t been uneventful and a few things should have sunk in by now. I’m a tired age twenty one with a laundry list of heartbreaks. Most of all, I know what carnage comes from carelessly risking the heart. So what drives me to jump into bed with a brooding player who can barely carry a conversation?
It was supposed to be just one night.
One night of weakness, of passion, of every impulse I’d struggled to contain.
Yet I can’t stop myself from going back for more.
CREED…
Violence had always found us Gentrys but this time I’d put the price on my own head. It was my cross to bear. No flinching allowed.
There was only room for me, my brothers, and the resolve to survive. That’s all there ever had been.
There was certainly no reason for more than than a quick and dirty time with any girl, no matter how much she turned my head around.
I shouldn’t hold on to her for more than a few hours. I shouldn’t even think about it. This thing could finish us both.
It doesn’t matter. She’s all I want.
*Warning*
This book contains explicit language, sexual situations, and violence that may be upsetting to some.
RISK is the second book in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Gentry Boys series. However, it may be read as a stand alone novel.
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Lord of the Fading Lands by C. L. Wilson. $ 3.99
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The First Chapter in C. L. Wilson’s Breathtaking Epic Tale of Magic, Passion, and Destiny
Once he drove back the darkness. Once he loved with such passion his name was legend.
Once, driven wild with grief over the murder of his beloved, the majestic Fey King Rain Tairen Soul had laid waste to the world before vanishing into the Fading Lands. Now, a thousand yearslater, a new threat draws him back into the world—and a new love reawakens the heart he thought long-dead.
Ellysetta, a woodcarver’s daughter, calls to Rain in a way no other ever had. Mysterious and magical, her soul beckons him with a compelling, seductive song—and no matter the cost, thewildness in his blood will not be denied. as an ancient, familiar evil regains its strength, causing centuries-old alliances to crumble and threatening doom for Rain and his people . . .he must claim his truemate to embrace the destiny woven for them both in the mists of time.
Wilson did do some really interesting things with the fated mates. It didn’t go well for every mate pair. Some were married to others and had to remain apart and others’ mate bond was used for evil purposes. You don’t get all of that in the first book but you do get an evocative, but maybe twee, romance. I feel a re-read coming on…
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Dead Girls Are Easy (Nicki Styx Series #1) by Terri Garey. $ 1.99.
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There’s something about almost dying that makes a girl rethink her priorities. Take Nicki Styx—she was strictly goth and vintage, until a brush with the afterlife leaves her with the ability to see dead people.
Before you can say boo, Atlanta’s ghosts are knocking at Nicki’s door. Now her days consist of reluctantly cleaning up messes left by the dearly departed, leading ghouls to the Light . . . and one-on-one anatomy lessons with Dr. Joe Bascombe, the dreamy surgeon who saved her life. All this catering to the deceased is a real drag, especially for a girl who’d rather be playing hanky-panky with her hunky new boyfriend . . . who’s beginning to think she’s totally nuts.
But things get even more complicated when a friend foolishly sells her soul to the devil, and Nicki’s new gift lands her in some deep voodoo.
As it turns out for Nicki Styx, death was just the beginning.
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Yay! Somebody else hates Albom’s work. I’ve never read his books, but I stopped reading his newspaper column when I realized how often it made me want to hit things.
Oh, the Tairen Soul books: so over-the-top overstuffed with every trope I hate — Mary Sue heroines, fated mates, tortured heros with wangsty backstories, gender essentialism, black and white morality, nonsensical political systems, and %^$#@ magical animal companions.
And yet, and yet, so incredibly addictive. The kind of books that call to my inner teenager and I find myself huddled in the closet at one in the morning, sneak reading by flashlight.
@hapax: OMG. I hate you, lol. I totally was about to pass it but then I read your comment. Mt. TBR is toooo big!!