bookshelves of doom

Kindle Daily Deal: Just Like Fate.

Cat Patrick and Suzanne Young's Just Like Fate is a mere $1.99 today.

I loved it:

This premise could easily have resulted in a book that reads like a literary exercise*, but Just Like Fate succeeds across the board. It feels like a real story about real people, and the aforementioned parallels are overt enough to be noticeable—in one storyline, Caroline connects with a boy via banter; in the other, she attempts the same sort of banter with a different boy and it falls flat—while still being subtle enough to avoid being gimmicky. Patrick and Young write seamlessly in the same voice; Caroline is believable, imperfect and sympathetic; and her friends and family are just as believable and well-drawn.

Kindle Daily Deal: Rick Yancey.

Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave is $2.99 today, so if you've been planning on reading it but still haven't gotten around to buying a copy, today is the day!

Free excerpts: Soho Teen.

Click on through for excerpts of:

The A-Word, by Joy Preble

Hero Complex, by Margaux Froley (Enjoyed the first one, so I'm looking forward to this one!)

I Become Shadow, by Joe Shine

Ask Me, by Kimberly Pauley

Two Dollar Read: Jellicoe Road.

The Kindle edition of Melina Marchetta's brilliant—YES, BRILLANT—Jellicoe Road is currently $1.99.

So, if you haven't read it (or if you want yet another copy), snag it while you can.

From my long-ago post about it:

Melina Marchetta's writing is top-notch, spot-on, perfect-a-mundo, beautiful, her characters are believable, so real that less than twenty pages in, I forgot I was reading a novel—both because I was so involved in the story that I felt like a bystander and because the characters were so immediately real to me. 

Kindle Daily Deal: YES, YOU GUESSED IT.

Yet again, some Strange Chemistry titles are on sale: Cassandra R. Clarke's The Assassin's Curse and The Pirate's Wish.

I could have sworn that I already bought The Assassin's Curse, but it doesn't appear to be in my library, so I guess not.

Oh, well: goodbye to $1.99 x 2, then, and HELLO MOAR BOOKS. 

Kindle Daily Deal: Strange Chemistry title.

Strange Chemistry has been all about the sales lately, eh?

Anyway, Eliza Crewe's Cracked is $1.99 today.

I wrote about it at Kirkus last fall:

I ADORED Eliza Crewe’s Cracked. It’s smart, it’s funny, it’s full of action and bare-handed decapitations. Meda’s voice is hilarious and snarky and brash and inhuman and original. She’s an art lover with a wonderfully morbid sense of humor, a monster who takes joy in brutal violence but who secretly hates herself for giving in to her mindless rage, and she’s a girl who’s all alone and just wants to know who she is. She's a quick thinker who considers every angle of a situation, and she doesn't yearn for humanity or, as Buffy’s Spike so wonderfully puts it, exhibit any of “that Anne Rice crap.” She's a mostly unrepentant killer who doesn't shy away from playing the damsel in distress card—even when she's the most dangerous thing in the room.

 

Two links to bookmark.

• Liz Burns and A Chair, A Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy have a new home. Head on over and say hello!
• Inscription: A Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for Teens. Their first story is up!