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Review: Shades of Milk and Honey (Shades of Milk and Honey #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal

by The Lit Bitch3 Comments on Review: Shades of Milk and Honey (Shades of Milk and Honey #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal

Woven intricately out of the ether, Mary Robinette Kowal creates and exhilarating new world of enchantment that will please Jane Austen fans and illusionist fiction fans alike.

In the Regency era, Dorchester countryside, Jane and Melody Ellsworth are as opposite as any two sisters can be.

While Melody is beautiful and charming, Jane is plain and lacks the feminine charms to secure a husband.

Almost a confirmed spinster, Jane possesses other talents that might make her appealing to the right man…..she is a glamourist.

Well accomplished in the art of glamour, Jane captures the imagination of all that she meets….wow people with her skills, but it is Melody the eligible bachelors are fixated on. Continue reading “Review: Shades of Milk and Honey (Shades of Milk and Honey #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal” →

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Review: Wizard’s First Rule (Sword of Truth #1) by Terry Goodkind

by The Lit Bitch3 Comments on Review: Wizard’s First Rule (Sword of Truth #1) by Terry Goodkind

Wizard’s first rule: people are stupid.

Richard Cypher is brooding over the murder of his father in the woods surrounding his house when he glimpses a woman blazing quite the trail behind her.

Intrigued, Richard starts following her. What he finds is an unexpected ambush meant to catch the lovely women, Kahlan, unaware.

On instinct Richard feels it is his duty to save her from the ambush and protect her.

There is no denying the confidence radiating from Kahlan. Though she is beautiful, Richard recognizes she is much more than just that. He is drawn to her strength…she is mesmerizing. He would love nothing move than to save her and ride off into the sunset somewhere with her….but she is clearly a woman on a mission.

Kahlan has been send through the Boundary back to Westland in search of an exiled wizard rumored to be hiding in Westland. After rescuing her, Richard agrees to help her find the wizard and take her back safely through the Boundary but they are going to need help….the only person Richard trusts to protect Kahlan would be his life long friend and mentor Zedd. Continue reading “Review: Wizard’s First Rule (Sword of Truth #1) by Terry Goodkind” →

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Review: Crushed Seraphim by Debra Anastasia

by The Lit Bitch7 Comments on Review: Crushed Seraphim by Debra Anastasia

The Devil made me read it!

The Devil, AKA: Satan Jack, guards the gates of hell, admitting all the evil this world has to give. While Satan Jack sucks down cigarettes and souls, Seraph Emma is being tossed out of Heaven.

Emma is sent as a Christmas Angel to the lost, self-loathing vampire, Jason, in hopes of redeeming his soul. The task seems impossible but soon the vampire begins to come around and have faith.

In Heaven, a rogue angel (Everett) partners with the Devil to trap God in Hell leaving himself in charge of Heaven. With God trapped, Everett begins tossing al the seraphim out of Heaven and unleashing unthinkable evils on Earth.

For Emma, Everett’s evil is personal. There is a history between the two that spreads throughout their human lives into Heaven. Emma refuses to let Everett win and to give up on Jason…..even if that means she must travel through Hell (literally) to rescue God. Continue reading “Review: Crushed Seraphim by Debra Anastasia” →

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Review: Full Dark House (Bryant and May #1) by Christopher Fowler

by The Lit Bitch6 Comments on Review: Full Dark House (Bryant and May #1) by Christopher Fowler

Modern day London is rocked by a bombing, killing a senior police detective. A detective that happens to be head of the special unit of the force: The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU). Arthur Bryant was working late on an old case for his memoirs on a Sunday when the bomb exploded. Ironically he survived the Blitz of the 1940’s only to be blown up in his office decades later.

His partner and fellow head of the PCU, John May, can’t help but wonder if the modern day bombing is somehow linked to their first case together at PCU back in 1940. Now in his 80’s May must try to find out why Bryant was researching such an old case and what he found that might have brought on his demise. Did they apprehend the wrong person, leaving the murder to roam free all these years? But there is one problem, everyone from the original case is dead–it’s been sixty years!

London, 1940. The theater is a place full of dreams, illusions, emotion, and tragedy. It is also the scene of a murder. When a dancer turns up dead in a lift missing her feet this strange crime  is handed off to a newly formed unit: The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU). It is PCU’s first case.  Continue reading “Review: Full Dark House (Bryant and May #1) by Christopher Fowler” →

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Review: The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R. by Carole DeSanti

by The Lit Bitch6 Comments on Review: The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R. by Carole DeSanti

With a lush, enticing cover The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R. by Carole DeSanti can’t help but catch the eye. The cover conjures images of a romantic work of historic fiction, filled with extravagance and richness.

The novel does deliver in that way. France is ushering in a new era, set in the years immediately before the Franco-Prussian War era (1870’s), the book follows the life of Eugenie Rigault who was born in the foie gras country region of France.

There she meets a gentleman that she falls in love with and gives him her heart and body. They soon make plans to move to Paris where the man promises to ‘take care of her’. When she arrives in Paris a few weeks later, he has all but abandoned her. Eugenie holds out hope that her ‘prince’ will come and take her away from the Paris gutters but at long last she must accept that he will never come for her. Continue reading “Review: The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R. by Carole DeSanti” →