B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsactress / Contemporary / critic / England / theatre3 Comments
Dear Lucy Parker, The latest in your London Celebrities series, The Austen Playbook, is another charming delight, featuring an icy, cynical Slytherin hero and an easygoing open-hearted Hufflepuff heroine, each dealing with their own family dramas – which somehow collide together into a spectacular mess and, ultimately of course, a ... more >
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B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsarson / audiobook / Australia / autism / bushfire / court case / neurodiversity / non-fiction / True Crime / Victoria4 Comments
Content warning: scenes of violence, death, injury, grief, bullying, ableism, references to abuse. Dear Chloe Hooper, On Saturday 7 February 2009, more than 400 separates bushfires raged in the Australian state of Victoria. 173 people lost their lives, over 2,000 homes were destroyed, countless animals, livestock and wildlife died in ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAcross the Tracks Romance / disabled hero / historical romance / Quakers29 Comments
My impromptu reread and review of Laura Kinsale romances continues with this, which I think might be her sixth (or seventh? somewhere in the middle of the pack) book. In any case, it has the distinction of having once been my favorite romance ever. I still have, in my decades-old ... more >
A Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended ReadsAssassin Hero / changeling / Paranormal / psy / Shapeshifter / traumatic-past / wolf4 Comments
Dear Ms. Singh, A group of readers are rereading all the books in the Psy/Changeling series and discussing them on Twitter in preparation for the release of Wolf Rain. I don’t have time to reread all twenty, but I decided to read a handful of old favorites—and Caressed by Ice, ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildhood friends / Contemporary / family relationships / friends-to-lovers / Georgia / single mother / Southern Eclectic series / Widowed Heroine4 Comments
Lucy Brewer would never have guessed that her best friend, Duffy McCready (of McCready’s Bait Shop & Funeral Home) has been in love with her since they were kids. Fear of rejection and his own romantic complications prevented Duffy from confessing his true feelings in high school, so he stood ... more >