As a
Self-published author I’m always looking to help promote others who are
self-published or indie authors. So to start out 2013 right, I want to suggest
a few of my favorite indie books for you to spend your Christmas money on and
help out some indie authors in return. I have four very different books below, all in
different genre’s so there’s something for everyone, and they’re all well
written and great reads.
Laekan Zea Kemp’s “The Things
They Didn’t Bury”
– Pick this up if you like contemporary with a kick. This historical piece will
lead you through a deep emotional mystery that will look at how war and love
change people.
Read My Review: 5 Stars
The war
took everything. Except the truth. When Liliana and her family move back to
Argentina after seeking refuge in the States during La Guerra Sucia, a
lifetime's worth of wondering comes to a head, reigniting the search for what
really happened to her mother, one of the thousands of los desaparecidos—the
disappeared.
With the
help of a young Flamenco player who saw the atrocities committed by the
military firsthand, Liliana not only makes the devastating discovery of what
really happened to her mother but by forcing open the country's old wounds as
well as her own she also learns a disturbing truth about her origins that will
reconstruct the lives of the people she loves most.
Seamlessly
alternating between the voices of mother and daughter—one trying to survive the
rising chaos of The Dirty War and the other sifting through its aftermath, The
Things They Didn’t Bury is a novel about forbidden love and family secrets,
Gripping,
heartbreaking and lyrical this is not a story about war or about the secrets
still buried beneath its wreckage but it is a story about the things they
didn't bury, intangible and infinite—love, truth, and family.
Lucinda Elliot’s “That Scoundrel
Emile Dubois” –
Pick this up if you like “old school vampires”, historical romances, and time
travel. This is a traditional vampire novel with a twist.
Read MyReview: 5 Stars
When
young Sophie de Courcy, bored but patient companion to the Countess of Ruthin,
agrees to marry her long-time hero, dashing French rogue Émile Dubois, she is
catapulted into a dangerous world of Man Vampires and Time Warps. With the help
of Agnes, her no nonsense, tarot-reading Welsh maid, she must come to terms
with his scandalous past, help him defeat the evil Vampire neighbours and help
Émile escape from the machinations of time which threaten to destroy their new
found love. All this in just one book!
'Scoundrel'
is an entertaining, over-the-top Gothic adventure, alive with colourful
character comedy as it flits between Revolutionary France and misty Wales.
Samantha Young’s “Smokeless Fire” – Pick this up if you like
Paranormal Romances and love triangles but are sick of wizards, vampires and
werewolves. Jinn will be your new favorite mythical creature after this book.
Read MyReview: 4.5 Stars
FEAR THE HEAT...
When
eighteen year old Ari Johnson is transported from her bedroom into the chilling
realm of Mount Qaf - home to the terrifying and mercurial Jinn - she learns a
truth that rocks her very world. Suddenly her anxiety over college and her
broken friendship with Charlie seem like small change compared to the war she
now finds herself stuck in the middle of. Her unease isn’t lessened any by the
hot guardian, Jai, who won’t stop following her around everywhere - a Jinn
whose loyalty Ari hates to question but must. She has no idea who she can
trust.
When the
truth burns through her life in its determination to turn it to ashes, Ari will
have to battle with ancient deadly creatures, epic family drama and heart-wrenching
romantic entanglements.
Kristie Cook’s “Promise” – Pick this up if you liked
Twilight but wished it had been steamier. This book had that irrevocable, undeniable,
I’d die for you kind of love but with college age characters and steamy sex,
and still managed to work in Christian values.
Read MyReview: 4.5 Stars
Alexis
Ames decides to learn who she really is, with or without the help of her
mother, who guards their secrets closely. After meeting Tristan Knight and
discovering that he's not normal either, the secrets begin to unravel. Their
union brings promise to the future of mankind. But it also incites a dangerous
pursuit by the enemy. Because they are a match made in Heaven and in Hell.
I'm hopping around and saying hello to all the Writer Diaries girls. :) Nice to meet you!
ReplyDeleteAnd these look like fun reads! Looking at That Scoundrel Emile Dubois--and I SO want to read something with "no nonsense, tarot-reading Welsh maid" in it.
Nice to meet you too! And yes, these were all some fun reads.
DeleteI'm sure I'll be stopping by your blog soon to say hi.
http://theyabooklover.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/liebster-blog-award.html
ReplyDeleteThat is the link to my blog because I have nominated you for the Liebster Blog Award
Thank you so much! I've actually been nominated three times now, I'll be sure to add your site to my post.
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