Amazon’s been offering its Kindle Daily Deal, a popular Kindle book sale-priced at $1.99 for one day only, for a very long time. But now, they’ve begun offering some additional titles at a discount each day. Here are some of today’s noteworthy Daily Deals.
The Brimstone Wedding (5/5 stars) is today’s Kindle Daily Deal, priced at $1.99 instead of its usual digital list price of $14.99.
From Library Journal
Once again, Ruth Rendell writing as Vine (e.g., No Night Is Too Long, Harmony, 1995) weaves a compelling tale of ordinary people facing extraordinary pressures. Two women, divided by age and class, share their deepest secrets in an English nursing home in which one cares for the other. There is a sense of secrecy from the start, as Jenny Warner tells dying Stella Newland about her love affair and Stella shares with Jenny the location of her secret house. Secrecy gives way to foreboding, and tension builds as details are masterfully revealed. Vine is an extraordinary storyteller, able to enthrall a reader right from the start, as she does here. Additionally, she provides a satisfying symmetry in the construction of this book, with the two women’s alternating voices and the inextricable linking of their lives, as Stella dies and Jenny is virtually reborn. This is a marvel; may Vine write many more. Highly recommended. Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
There’s a Young Adult Daily Deal on offer for just $1.99 today too: The Westing Game, a comic mystery with an average review rating of 4.5/5 stars. From Amazon:
A supersharp mystery . . . Confoundingly clever, and very funny. — Booklist, starred review
Amazon reviewer Ilana Teitelbaum says:
‘The Westing Game’ was my favorite book as a pre-teen, so when I returned to it years later, my expectations were low. Was I wrong! This book might be accessible to younger readers, but no one who loves a mystery with incredible characters should miss this for the world.
While the plot centers around a less than run-of-the-mill whodunit, the book mainly focuses on the characters: each unique, bizarre, and ultimately endearing. The author manages to make them quirky without making them caricatures. The developing relationships between the ‘heirs’ as they attempt to unravel the mystery, is, I think, far more important than the mystery itself; they also develop in their sense of identity. These are all themes any adult can appreciate, woven into the story with humor and sly understatement, yet in effect deeply moving.
Fans of humorous real-life tales and animal lovers are sure to enjoy Enslaved by Ducks (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99). From Amazon:
The book that Entertainment Weekly called “hilarious,” Publishers Weekly declared “a true pleasure,” Booklist called “heartwarming,” and the Dallas Morning News praised as “rich and funny” is now available in [Kindle format].
When Bob Tarte bought a house in rural Michigan, he was counting on a tranquil haven. Then Bob married Linda. She wanted a rabbit, which seemed innocuous enough until the bunny chewed through their electrical wiring. And that was just the beginning. Before long, Bob found himself constructing cages, buying feed, clearing duck waste, and spoon-feeding a menagerie of furry and feathery residents. His life of quiet serenity vanished, and he unwittingly became a servant to a relentlessly demanding family. “They dumbfounded him, controlled and teased him, took their share of his flesh, stole his heart” (Kirkus Reviews).
Whether commiserating with Bob over the fate of those who are slaves to their animals or regarding his story as a cautionary tale about the rigors of animal ownership, readers on both sides of the fence have found Tarte’s story of his chaotic squawking household irresistible–and irresistibly funny.
Be sure to get these Kindle bargains while they last, today only!