Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s “Shine in Pearl”
A short exposé of love, both wanted and unreturned, as we get lost in Simon’s, Patrick’s, and Dianda’s memories from 1901 in San Francisco.
A short exposé of love, both wanted and unreturned, as we get lost in Simon’s, Patrick’s, and Dianda’s memories from 1901 in San Francisco.
October is informed that Simon Torquill — her legal father — must be invited to her wedding political turmoil. It’s a quest she must undertake — an exploration of her family’s past — for the sake of her future.
Santa’s Workshop in Nocturne Falls is short-staffed, so Jayne Frost and Sinclair Crowe detour to the town where someone is breaking in to people’s houses. Worried that this will ruin Christmas, Jayne decides to do everything in her power to put an end to the problem.
A royal road trip takes the Princess and Prince Consort of the North Pole all the way to Las Vegas where trouble finds them. Now Sinclair’s entire family is gambling on him and Jayne figuring out what’s gone dangerously wrong with the cool new magic trick at the end of his parents’ show.
This intrigue-filled Christmas mystery takes readers home to Caerphilly to join in Meg’s family’s holiday celebration—including, of course, another baffling mystery.
A regular visitor to the Hawks catches Corporal Kaylin Neya’s interest with her talk of ghosts who are worried about Corporal Handred’s Barrani weapon. But when Kaylin investigates, something doesn’t add up. A past many Barrani don’t want uncovered . . .
It’s a tangled set of relationships with family, trustees, theft, and a genealogical obsession until an irritating country gent is murdered amid all the friction in an English country house shared by genteel retiree Percival Pyke Period and fuddy-duddy lawyer Harry Cartell. After a flamboyant dowager’s treasure hunt party, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn’s suspects are the tangle amidst the half-truths and too many motives.
When Megan Murphy discovered a floppy-eared rabbit gnawing on the hem of her skirt, she meant to give its careless owner a piece of her mind, but Dr. Patrick Hunter was too attractive to stay mad at for long. Soon the two are making Thanksgiving dinner for their families.
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.Choicesby Mercedes Lackey fantasy in a Kindle edition that was published by DAW Books on November 27, 2018 and has 400 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Unnatural Issue, “The River’s Gift”, Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar, Foundation, Intrigues, Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit, Owlknight, Charmed Destinies, Changes, Beauty and the Werewolf, Invasion, Home From the Sea, Dead Reckoning, Conspiracies, Bedlam’s Edge, Crown of Vengeance, Redoubt, Harvest Moon, World Divided, Elemental Magic: All New Tales of the Elemental Masters, Sacrifices, Steadfast, Burdens of the Dead, Bastion, Victories, Blood Red, The House of the Four Winds, Games Creatures Play, Closer to Home, Born to Run, Wheels of Fire, When the Bough Breaks, Chrome Circle, Changing the World: All-New Tales of Valdemar, Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar, Arcanum 101, A Tangled Web, Winter Moon, Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar, Elementary: All-New Tales of the Elemental Masters, No True Way: All-New Tales of Valdemar, From a High Tower, Hunter, […]
A park bench unexpectedly took Elizabeth Smith, a starving writer, into her dreams of romance, into 1311 Scotland where she would turn Jamie MacLeod’s ordered world upside-down.