The Best of #Booktok: October
Shop the Best of #BookTok in our monthly selection of popular reads and Booktok recommendations. From gripping romantasy, to fluffy rom-coms, we have the best selection of the best reads on Booktok, straight to you every month.
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Katabasis
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of a hero's descent to the underworld Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she's going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams.... Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion. With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don't even like. But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn't always the answer, and there's something in Alice and Peter's past that could forge them into the perfect allies...or lead to their doom.
R 455.00

Rose in Chains Special Edition
This special edition includes a beautiful gold foiled board, stunning character-art endpapers and an exclusive digi fore-edge The war is over, the dark forces have won, and the hero who was supposed to save them is dead. Captured as her castle is overrun by the enemy, Princess Briony Rosewood is stripped of her magic and auctioned off to the highest bidder. She’s sold to Toven Hearst: scion of a family known for their cruel control of magic – and her long-time, and unresolved, infatuation. Yet despite the horrors of her new world and the role she must learn to play within it, all is not lost. Help – and hope – may yet arise in the most unlikely of places…
R 635.00

Tell Me Softly
The Di Bianco brothers. Her best friends. Her greatest downfall. Kamila Hamilton had everything under control…or so she thought. She hadn’t planned for the Di Bianco brothers to return and turn her world upside down. Thiago got her first kiss. Taylor always protected her. Taylor always protected her. Their return makes Kami’s seemingly perfect life shake. She is no longer the innocent young girl they once knew. Since they left, she’s built walls and worn a mask to keep herself safe. The secrets they carry threaten to bring down those fragile walls and expose what happened so many years ago. Only they can reach the true Kami behind all those barriers. Will Kami be able to resist Thiago’s presence? Will Kami be able to resist Thiago’s presence? What happens when Taylor starts to look at her differently? What happens when Taylor starts to look at her differently? Will everything explode into a thousand pieces again? Will everything explode into a thousand pieces again?
R 265.00

Handsome Devil
"I made a deal with the devil . . . but is it really hell if I love the way it burns?"GiaTatum Blackthorn is Lucifer personified. A monster from my nightmares, now masquerading as my boss. When he discovers my weakness, he makes me an offer I cannot refuse, and I become his wife.I always knew he was depraved, but as his twisted vendetta unfurls, so does my darkest secret.Now we're both the targets of very nefarious people . . . but they're about to find out no one matches my husband's wrath.TateI am a man of few pleasures, one of which is taunting my secretary, Gia Bennett. But after I blackmailed her into becoming my bride, it's clear my fixation has no limits.When my revenge spree sparks into an all-consuming mafia war, it isn't just my life that's on the line.And in this chess game, the king protects the queen . . . even at the price of losing his entire empire.For fans of Ana Huang and Lauren Asher, Handsome Devil is an intense, addictive and very sexy dark romance that you won't be able to put down.The new book in the Forbidden Love series, it can also be read as a standalone. But if you haven't read Books 1 and 2, Truly Madly Deeply and Wildest Dreams, there's still time...
R 305.00

The Grandest Games 2: Glorious Rivals
The impossible puzzles, irresistible romance and shocking twists continue in the second instalment in the brand-new GRANDEST GAMES series, set in the world of the #1 bestselling THE INHERITANCE GAMES. FIVE PLAYERS REMAIN. Seven Players arrived on Hawthorne Island to play a billionaire's game. Now only five remain, and the race to the finish line is on. EVERYONE IS A LIAR. The heat turns up on the competition - and between the players - and it becomes increasingly clear that no one will emerge from the Grandest Game unscathed. AND SOMEONE IS WATCHING. Millions are at stake, but so are hearts - and lives. THE GAME IS ON.
R 355.00

Till Summer Do Us Part
Scottie Price just started a new job, and it's a real sausage fest. She's the only woman on a team filled with Brads and Chads and so, expecting a bachelor-pad atmosphere, she is surprised when she finds out that everyone around her is happily married. In an effort to try and impress her new team, Scottie mentions her own husband. The only problem? He doesn't technically exist. So when her boss offers her and the supposed love of her life a one-on-one session with the best counsellor money can buy - who just happens to be her boss's partner - she has to think quickly. Enter Wilder Wells. Her best friend's brother. And next thing she knows, the two of them are on an eight-day marriage camp. With all her co-workers. Sharing a cabin. And unfortunately for Scottie, Wilder's even more handsome than she remembers . . . From New York Times bestselling author comes a brand-new sizzling summer read that will have you laughing, swooning . . . and sweating.
R 305.00
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