A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / Reading Listsamnesia / death / Duke / engineer / Fantasy / hidden identity / historical romance / humorous / leadership / Reading lists / secret agent / seige / stage manager / superheroes / terminal illness / theater / Urban-Fantasy8 Comments
The Rook by Daniel O’Malley A couple of you mentioned enjoying this book in our December open thread. It had been languishing on Mount Kilimanjaro my TBR pile for years, and the love in the open thread prompted me to actually read it. Myfanwy (rhymes with Tiffany) Thomas comes to ... more >
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Just how reliable are psychics – specifically psychics hired by your sister for wedding entertainment? When irrepressibly romantic Lucy Gray is ditched at said wedding by her date in front of her whole family, the promises of a psychic seem better than her pity-riddled reality. The psychic’s advice seems insightful: ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / England / family relationships / gardening / hidden identity / Historical / servant romance / social climbing / virgin hero / working classNo Comments
Persephone “Persey” Foyle, the Dowager Marchioness of Holbrooke, leads a happy, busy existence, tending her garden, overseeing her charitable missions, feuding with her stepson’s wife, and vetting potential suitors for her stepdaughter. As far as this lively widow is concerned, her life lacks nothing. But when a young, famously-talented designer ... more >
C- ReviewsFantasy / hidden identity / look alikes / prince / Regency-based world / romantic-elements / Uncommon Echoes series / unworldly heroine5 Comments
Dear Ms. Shinn, All three novels in your Uncommon Echoes series take place in the Kingdom of the Seven Jewels, where members of the nobility are gifted by the triple goddess with echoes.The echoes are silent doppelgangers who exist in a trance-like state, mirror the actions of their “originals” and ... more >
A- Reviews / C+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsFantasy / Fantasy Romance / heroine in disguise / hidden identity / look alikes / nobleman / POC / Regency-based world / streetwise heroine / Uncommon Echoes series3 Comments
Dear Ms. Shinn, Recently I’ve been listening to the audiobooks of your Uncommon Echoes series. I’ve reviewed the first in the series, Echo in Onyx, and the following is my review of the second, Echo in Emerald. I’m going to begin by cribbing the description of the series and its ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / Recommended ReadsFantasy / hidden identity / Impersonation / look alikes / maidservant / Regency-based world / romantic-elements / Uncommon Echoes series14 Comments
Dear Ms. Shinn, When you offered me review copies of three new audiobooks in your Uncommon Echoes series of fantasy novels, I wasn’t sure if I could get to reviewing them in time or even at all, but you suggested that I take them anyway. I’m glad you did because ... more >