B Reviews / Book Reviews1950s / doctor hero / secretary / shipboard10 Comments
A glittering holiday romance set in the 1950s! Can Leonie reach the end of her voyage without losing her heart…? England, 1956 As a hardworking secretary and former nurse, Leonie Creighton has had little opportunity for adventure. So when her employer pays her to watch over his daughter, Claire Elstone, ... more >
B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviewsf/f romance / Historical / Historical Fantasy / murder mystery / shipboard / The Last Binding series1 Comments
Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! The second entry in Freya Marske’s beloved The Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light The most interesting things in Maud Blyth’s life have happened to her brother Robin, but she’s ready to join any cause, especially if it ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / dual-timeline / dysfunctional family / First-Person / Historical fiction / London / murder mystery / POC / POC author / shipboard / singer2 Comments
The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for. London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviewshistorical romance / shipboard / South America / Tahiti / tortured hero10 Comments
I’ve been rereading and reviewing Kinsale’s backlist for the past several years. (I’m only now halfway through! Man, I’m a slow reader). My Sweet Folly was already on my Kindle, ready to go. But I was feeling stressed by life and needed a treat and so decided to acquire the ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / enemies to lovers / murder mystery / shipboard6 Comments
Elaine Tracy wins a luxury cruise to Las Palmas for her fiancé and herself. They quarrel, and Elaine breaks off the engagement but decides to go on the cruise alone. Attractive and unattached, once on board she inevitably draws a certain amount of masculine attention and for her the holiday ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / Caribbean / Florida / Historical / LGBTQIA+ / pirates / POC / shipboard / slaveryComments Off on REVIEW: What the Parrot Saw by Darlene Marshall
Hijacking an Englishman from a brothel is all in a day’s work for Captain Mattie St. Armand. She needs protective coloration, and a naïve (and expendable) white man will keep the eyes of the authorities off her as she smuggles slaves from the Florida Territory to freedom in the Bahamas. ... more >