B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsestranged family / family relationships / Gothic / Penguin / road trip / supernatural / Young-Adult9 Comments
Dear Ms. Tucholke, Between the Spark and the Burn is the follow-up to your debut, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, which I read and enjoyed last year. It continues the story of Violet, whose life was rocked when the Redding brothers walked into her life. I won’t ... more >
C+ Reviewsadoption / Conspiracy / Dutton / estranged family / Fantasy / Penguin / Serial-KillerComments Off on REVIEW: Omens by Kelley Armstrong
Dear Ms. Armstrong, I’ve been a fan of your work since the very beginning. Some books work better for me than others, but that’s to be expected from an author with a sizeable backlist. When your Otherworld series ended last year, I wondered what you’d do next. I knew you’d ... more >
B Reviewsestranged family / family relationships / Gothic / supernatural / Young-Adult13 Comments
Dear Ms. Tucholke, I’m a sucker for evocative titles. And if Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is one thing, it’s evocative. It’s the type of title that overrides any misgivings I may have about mysterious bad boys who come into our heroine’s life. We all know that ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / estranged family / family relationships / Fantasy / gaslight fantasy / Orbit25 Comments
Dear Ms. Elliott, I loved the first novel in your Spiritwalker trilogy, Cold Magic. It introduced us to an alternate earth in which the ice shelf never receded, the Empire of Mali fled out of Africa and formed an alliance with the Celtic tribes, and colonialsm never happened the way ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsestranged family / Marquess / marriage-of-convenience / Recommended Reads / Regency England27 Comments
Dear Ms. Balogh, I first read The Temporary Wife, one of your most beloved trad regencies, several years ago. At the time, I liked it but was distracted by an initial similarity to another of your regencies, The Ideal Wife, which I had read first and liked even better. The ... more >
A Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / estranged family / Penguin / Texas12 Comments
Dear Ms. Dellin, I had read some of your older historical novels when I first got back into reading romance lo these 15 years ago and, hate to say it but, though they were good, they didn’t set me on fire. The description of this book as the beginning of ... more >