Falling for Figaro (2021) Genre: Romantic Comedy Grade B+ I was on an airplane and everyone knows that you watch movies on airplanes that you don’t normally watch at home (at least that’s true for me!). As I scrolled through the list, an image popped out at me. The cover ... more >
Dear Katherine Addison, I am a huge fan of your 2014 steampunk fantasy novel The Goblin Emperor. It was my favorite of all the books I read that year and I’ve read it three more times since. When the novel was nominated for a Hugo, I was thrilled; when it ... more >
In the spring of 1922, young Austrian Princess Theresa-Maria – known to her ancient aunts as ‘Putzerl’ – abandons her crumbling castle and her royal duties. Disguising herself simply as Tessa, she enrolls as under wardrobe mistress of the International Opera Company and soon loses herself in the intoxicating world ... more >
Lindley Harding was a singer nearing the end of his career; Laurence Morven was a new star-and rival-coming up over the horizon. And Lindley’s daughter Natalie, who loved them both, found herself torn two ways as the bitterness grew between the two men. Was the situation going to ruin her ... more >
Every family has its secrets… When Gail Rostall is invited to her good friend Oliver Bannister’s family home, she has no idea he was one of the Bannisters – the most distinguished musical family in the country. Nor had she any idea that Oliver’s brother was the famous composer Marcus ... more >
Robin and I have both enjoyed Miranda Neville’s novels in the past. When a recent review request for her self-published novel, Secrets of a Soprano, arrived in our inboxes, both of us jumped on it. We decided to review the book together. –Janine Janine: Fittingly, Secrets of a Soprano begins ... more >