A Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsRegency Romance26 Comments
Determined to secure a brilliant marriage for her beautiful sister, Frederica seeks out their distant cousin the Marquis of Alverstoke. Lovely, competent, and refreshingly straightforward, Frederica makes such a strong impression that to his own amazement, the Marquis agrees to help launch them all into society. Normally wary of his ... more >
A Review Category / A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildren / enemies to lovers / farming / Historical / Late Victorian / reformed hero / widow10 Comments
Dear Ms. Kleypas, Devil’s Daughter begins with Phoebe, Lady Clare (daughter of Sebastian and Evie from Devil in Winter) on her way to her brother Gabriel’s wedding. Phoebe is widowed and the mother of two young boys. Phoebe’s late husband, Henry, was her childhood best friend, and frail. Phoebe loved ... more >
A Reviews / Recommended Reads#metoo / 1970s / books and reading / community / Humor / Literary fiction / Northern Ireland / rumors / Violence8 Comments
Dear Ms. Burns, Your novel, Milkman, recently won the Man Booker Prize. That and a rave review from Sunita convinced me to read it. Milkman has been called “experimental fiction” because it’s written in stream-of-consciousness narration conveyed through long sentences and paragraphs, because the narrative goes on long tangents, and ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / France / Historical / Napoleonic wars / older heroine and hero / second chance at love / War / Military8 Comments
‘You may be an adventurer, but you strike me as a gentleman.’ After the French suffer a bloody defeat at the battle of Leipzig, the survivors of Napoleon’s army retreat through Germany. Plundering and pillaging along their way, a group of stragglers attack the Von Hugel estate. Hiding in the ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsCancer / Contemporary / death / epistolary / New York City6 Comments
Iris Massey is gone. But she’s left something behind. For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by terminal illness at only thirty-three. Adrift without his friend and colleague, Smith is surprised to discover ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdictionaries / dictionary / English grammar / language / non-fiction7 Comments
“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right ... more >