Book Review: Maya Banks’ “Softly at Sunrise”
After a long road back to her husband, Ethan Kelly, Rachel wonders if she’ll be free of her ghosts, if she’ll step into the sun after the past darkness.
Month: March 2013
Book Review: Jennie Shortridge’s Love Water Memory
Memory loss caused by a painful emotional trauma forces Lucie Walker to uncover painful secrets which could hold the key to her future—if she trusts her heart enough to guide her.
Book Review: Yasmine Galenorn’s Haunted Moon
Bran, the son of Raven Mother and the Black Unicorn, is a new Fae sorcerer and moon priestess Camille D’Artigo must search for psychics and the Lord of Ghosts.
Book Review: Daniel Pool’s What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist – the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist – the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century Englandin Paperback edition on April 21, 1994 and has 416 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon A non-fictional exploration of life in 19th-century England. It’s a “4” simply because it is not complete. But, really, how can any one book or person be a complete catalog of such a huge subject area?? My Take This was excellent, although not complete. However, anyone writing in this time period would be well advised to purchase it. I would hesitate to borrow it from the library simply because by the time you took down all the relevant notes, you’d have spent a hellacious amount of time rewritting the book, time you could have spent on your novel! Pool has done an amazing job of addressing so many issues that would provide such authenticity to writers working in this time period. The titles, proper modes of address, and orders of precedence; manners; food and drink — […]
Book Review: Michelle Sagara’s Cast in Chaos
A Hawk with a violent past, Kaylin Neya thought she was prepared for anything, something big breaks through the barriers between worlds and the skies rain blood.
Book Review: Liz Carlyle’s Tempted All Night
The jaded Tristan Talbot, Lord Avoncliffe, is an out-and-out rogue whose father begs him to investigate a notorious brothel…where he runs into the proper Lady Phaedra Northampton.
Book Review: Chloe Neill’s House Rules
Two rogues vanished, targeting Chicago’s vampires, and anyone could be next. Merit and Ethan Sullivan race to stop it but untangle a web of alliances and evils.
Book Review: Kelly Gay’s The Darkest Edge of Dawn
Charlie and Hank are on the federal task force and have all sorts of leeway to investigate and capture the bad guys: aliens plotting, using ash.
Book Review: Terry Pratchett’s The Color of Magic
This is where it all begins—with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind, as their gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s Proof of Guilt
A victim run down and left. His past providing a link Inspector Ian Rutledge can’t ignore, that pits him against the new Acting Chief Superintendent.