B Reviews / Book ReviewsDisabled Heroine / Fantasy / Historical / intelligence / political intrigue / strong heroine1 Comments
A delightful and engrossing fantasy debut featuring an intelligent heroine and her guardian, a royal musketeer. In a world of soaring continents and bottomless skies, where a burgeoning new science lifts skyships into the cloud-strewn heights, and ancient blood-borne sorceries cling to a fading glory, Princess Isabelle des Zephyrs is ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / American historical / Historical / strong heroine / Western RomanceComments Off on REVIEW: Lily’s Sister (The Laramie Series Book 1) by Karen J. Hasley
Louisa Caldecott, a progressive woman and independent business owner in 1880 Kansas, is principled, strong-willed, passionate, and generous to a fault. Satisfied with her comfortable life, she’s happy to live in her sister Lily’s shadow. Until Lou meets John Rock Davis, Civil War veteran and man with a past. Until ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-greece / Fantasy / greek mythology / Historical / Historical Fantasy / strong heroineComments Off on REVIEW: Tamer of Horses by Amalia Carosella
Historical Fantasy More than two decades before the events of Helen of Sparta… Abandoned as a baby, Hippodamia would have died of exposure on the mountain had it not been for Centaurus. The king of the centaurs saved her, raised her as his own, and in exchange asks for only ... more >
B- Reviewsaliens / American historical / Historical / Romantic SF / SFR / Sheriff / strong heroine / US Marshall / western / Western Romance1 Comments
Where the outlaws are out of this world… US Marshall Sam Kyote has been sent to the dry old town of Coyote Bluff to recuperate from a top-secret government experiment that’s left this law man a little…well, different. But Sam’s about to find out that the town of Coyote Bluff ... more >
C ReviewsAustralia / Contemporary / Farmer / fish-out-of-water / opposites attract / strong heroine4 Comments
Sent to the country to visit rural clients accountant Blaise Johns doesn’t know what to do when he meets a mob of sheep on the road. He accidently runs over one of Dusty Miller’s ewes and his cool crisp competitive demeanour is dented as he tries to figure out how ... more >
B- ReviewsEngland / Historical / strong heroine / Victorian7 Comments
Dear Ms. Archer: Mention of the caper show “Leverage” was a highly effective hook, but when I started reading Sweet Revenge, the comparison worked against the book at first. I kept wanting it to be about the Nemesis team and their interactions, and had to consciously force myself to concentrate ... more >