Book ReviewsEssays / Fiction / historical mystery / historical romance / Memoir / mystery/thriller / Reading lists / Suspense Fiction8 Comments
Read and reviewed: Game On, Ruth, Midsummer Moon The Lover’s Knot by Erin Satie This was reviewed by Jane back in 2014. I agree with her point about the nature of the heroine’s memory issue being fuzzy – it actually took me a while to understand that Sophie even had an ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsEgypt / Mystery series / unusual heroine / Veronica Speedwell series / Victorian mystery5 Comments
Dear Ms. Raybourn: This is the third in the Veronica Speedwell mystery series, and the fourth Deanna Raybourn title I’ve read. (In addition to the first two books in this series, I read the first Lady Julia Grey mystery, Silent in the Grave. I do plan to get back to ... more >
Book ReviewsFiction / Historical Biography / Historical Memoir / historical mystery / historical romance / Memoir / Reading lists9 Comments
NOTE: Also read and reviewed Rebecca and Wait for It. A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn After reading the first book in Raybourn’s Lady Julia Grey mystery series, I saw that the author had another series, the first two books of which were available on NetGalley. Even though I ... more >
Book Reviews / Reading ListsAlternate Reality Fiction / autobiography / Classic Horror / Contemporary romance / Fiction / historical mystery / New Adult / Reading lists / Restoration Era Romance18 Comments
Also read and reviewed: A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas and Hard Hitter by Sarina Bowen. Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen This was dual-reviewed by Janine and Kaetrin here – my grade matches Janine’s B- (Kaetrin liked it a bit better and gave it a B+). I found ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews1920s / Action/Adventure / archeology / Historical / Middle East / pilot / spy7 Comments
Famed aviatrix Evangeline Starke never expected to see her husband, adventurer Gabriel Starke, ever again. They had been a golden couple, enjoying a whirlwind courtship amid the backdrop of a glittering social set in prewar London until his sudden death with the sinking of the Lusitania. Five years later, beginning ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / Agent/Spies/Undercover / Historical / post WWI / road-romance4 Comments
On the verge of a stilted life as an aristocrat’s wife, Poppy Hammond does the only sensible thing—she flees the chapel in her wedding gown. Assisted by the handsome curate who calls himself Sebastian Cantrip, she spirits away to her estranged father’s quiet country village, pursued by the family she ... more >