A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads19th century / Acting / actor/actress / American historical / Historical / slavery3 Comments
NOTE: This has been published in the UK as “The Floating Theatre” Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving runaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsactor/actress / Contemporary / dual-timeline / England / older woman / turn of the 20th century / Womens-Fiction1 Comments
Finding herself to be on the wrong side of fifty for a female film star, Laura Scott’s career is on the slide. She has an opportunity to reverse this downward spiral when she is offered the starring role in a one-woman play about the life and loves of Hollywood silent ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsactor/actress / Contemporary / England / London / Older Man/Younger Woman / theater3 Comments
NOTE Kaetrin and I both decided to read “Pretty Face” so it’s a twofer for today. The play’s the fling It’s not actress Lily Lamprey’s fault that she’s all curves and has the kind of voice that can fog up a camera lens. She wants to prove where her real ... more >
B- Reviewsactor/actress / Contemporary / Italy / mystery / SourceBooks5 Comments
A mystery trapped in time… In 1921, infamous Italian poet Galeazzo D’Ascanio wrote his last and greatest play, inspired by his muse and mistress, actress Celia Sands. On the eve of opening night, Celia vanished, and the play was never performed. Now, two generations later, Alessandro D’Ascanio plans to stage ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / actor/actress / ebook only / historical romance / London / post WWI / short-story14 Comments
Dear Ms. Kaye: I might not have started this if I’d realized it was part of the Harlequin Historical Undone line, and that would have been my loss. I think of Undones as short, sexy, frivolous stories; this is short and sexy, but far from frivolous. Five years after the ... more >
B Reviewsactor/actress / college/university / NA / PTSD / revenge-plot / traumatic-past8 Comments
“Penniless and behind on rent, college student and once famous child actress Ellie Barlow takes on the role of a lifetime when she’s hired by a group of young women to break the heart of the campus player who cruelly dumped them. Transformed from slob slacker to jaw-dropping beauty, Ellie ... more >