B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Interracial / Morocco2 Comments
Dear Beth Kery, Behind the Curtain begins in present day, when Asher Gaites returns home to Chicago for a brief time from his journalistic assignments in the Middle East. He is shortly to take up a new post as Head of the European Desk for a newspaper in London. In ... more >
B- Reviewsangels / demons / Fantasy / Italy / Morocco / Paranormal / reincarnation / war / YA / Young-Adult8 Comments
Readers please note: This review is for the final book in a trilogy and therefore contains spoilers for the first two books. If you are interested in reading this series and prefer not to be spoiled, check out Jia’s review of the first book, Daughter of Smoke and Bone. Dear ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews17th-century / England / Historical / Interracial / Morocco / POC / Romance/Multicultural Romance / slavery2 Comments
Morocco, 1677. The tyrannical King Ismail resides over the palace of Meknes. Through the sweltering heat of the palace streets, Nus Nus, slave to the King and forced into his live of servitude as court scribe, is sent to the apothecary. There he discovers the bloody corpse of the herb ... more >
Book Reviews / D ReviewsContemporary / England / Historical / Morocco / multicultural / POC / Random-House12 Comments
“My dear Isabelle, in the attic you will find a box with your name on it.” Isabelle’s estranged archeologist father dies, leaving her a puzzle. In a box she finds some papers and a mysterious African amulet — but their connection to her remains unclear until she embarks on a ... more >
Book ReviewsHarlequin Presents / India Grey / Military / Morocco / opposites attract / PTSD2 Comments
Dear Ms. Grey: This is a sequel to the Craving the Forbidden (review here) and I thought it was interesting to take an established relationship, shake it up, and still convince the readers at the end that these two could be happy beyond the pages of the book. Sophie Greenham ... more >
A Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews / EbooksContemporary / dual-timeline / England / Historical Romances / Morocco / POC / slavery9 Comments
Dear Ms Johnson, Since I love historical fiction, I checked out “The Tenth Gift” when I saw it listed at Fictionwise. The blurb intrigued me but not enough to immediately buy it. But I kept going back and looking at it. Something about it wouldn’t let me go and when ... more >