FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Daughter of the Forest (The Sevenwaters Trilogy #1) by Juliet Marillier is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

A mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love.

Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac.

But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift.

To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror.

When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once.

Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched.

Tidal Creatures (Alchemical Journeys Book #3) by Seanan McGuire is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Every night, a Moon shines down on the Impossible City…

All across the world, people look up at the moon and dream of gods. Gods of knowledge and wisdom, gods of tides and longevity. Over time, some of these moon gods incarnated into the human world alongside the other manifest natural concepts. Their job is to cross the sky above the Impossible City—the heart of all creation—to keep it connected to reality.

And someone is killing them.

There are so many of them that it's easy for a few disappearances to slip through the cracks. But they aren't limitless.

In the name of the moon, the lunar divinities must uncover the roots of the plot and thwart the true goal of those behind these attacks—control of the Impossible City itself.

[Cactus Chef]

Neal Stephenson: The Baroque Cycle, an ebook bundle containing all three books of the trilogy, is on sale for $4 today:
https://www.amazon.com/Baroque-Cycle.../dp/B00KVIBWPI
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...cle-collection

Get all three novels in Neal Stephenson's New York Times bestselling "Baroque Cycle" in one e-book, including: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World. This three-volume historical epic delivers intrigue, adventure, and excitement set against the political upheaval of the early 18th century.

I've seen the individual books go on sale frequently, but never the consolidated bundle. I never jumped on them before because I always figured, "Eh, I'll never get all three on sale, so there will be a hole in my collection."

[Cactus Chef]

Olympos by Dan Simmons, the second part of the Ilium/Olympos cycle, is on sale for $1.99 today:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/olympos-2
https://www.amazon.com/Olympos-Ilium...dp/B000FCK97C/

Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve.

And now all bets are off.

I've had this on my watchlist for awhile, as I loved the Hyperion Cantos. Neither Ilium and Olympos ever seem to go on sale, so, best grab while you can, even if it's only the second half. Maybe Ilium will follow in the near future.