B- Reviews / Book ReviewsArt / medieval / non-fictionNo Comments
This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture. From the soaring castles of Sleeping Beauty to the bloody battles of Game of Thrones, from Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings to mythical beasts in Dungeons & ... more >
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Janine and I have reviewed the last few Mary Balogh books together so we decided to continue that tradition with the newest release. ~ Kaetrin Content warning: Fatphobia. Kaetrin: Remember Love is clearly the beginning of a new series for Balogh – the first chapters introduce a huge cast of ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / dual-timeline / dysfunctional family / First-Person / Historical fiction / London / murder mystery / POC / POC author / shipboard / singer2 Comments
The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for. London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in ... more >
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After taking a six-year break from Julie Anne Long’s books, I read After Dark with the Duke last year. I enjoyed it more than I expected to. Jennie read it and also liked it a lot, so we decided to review Long’s newest historical romance, You Were Made to be ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C+ Reviews / DNF ReviewsArtificial Intelligence / clergy / elves / Fantasy / far future / goblins / grief / investigation / kidnapped heroine / LGBTQIA+ / miscarriage / mixed loyalties / murder mystery / pregnancy / princess / Reading lists / spaceship / spousal abuse / steampunk11 Comments
The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison I was a huge fan of The Goblin Emperor but not as keen on The Witness for the Dead, the first book in the spinoff Cemeteries of Amalo series about detective/priest/medium-of-sorts Thara Celehar. Hope springs eternal, though, so I requested book two in ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / Contemporary / First-Person / ghosts / mystery / plus-size heroine / supernatural / Yorkshire3 Comments
Dear Ms. Lovering, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect after reading the blurb for this book. Yorkshire Moors and some kind of mystery, yes – but ghosts? Hmmm, okay, maybe. I’m still turning over what I think about Alice’s self esteem issues and how often they were mentioned. Plus ... more >