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Review: Silent in the Sanctuary (Lady Julia Grey #2) by Deanna Raybourn
While I was waiting patiently for my induction to start (which basically took like 12 hours), I was able to finish reading the latest Lady Julia book! And what a perfect read to pass the time! I’ve been a fan of Raybourn for quite some time, but the first Lady Julia book didn’t quite meet my expectations, however I liked her enough and love Raybourn’s ability to create romantic tension between characters that I thought I would give the second book a try. Having been away in Italy with her brothers and their friends, Lady Julia has heard nothing from her sort of love interest Nicholas Brisbane. But she has had…
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Review: Poison or Protect (Delightfully Deadly #1) by Gail Carriger
I have been a huge fan of Gail Carriger since reading Soulless way back in 2011! Carriger has a wonderful whit that translates so well onto the pages of her stories. When this short story came across my desk for review, I was thrilled to read another book set in the same world that Carriger has crafted so well! Over the years she has written the Parasol Protectorate series which is more of an adult read, and then the Finishing School series which is more of a YA read but both are set in the same world that the PP series begins. This latest novella is also set in the same world…..a steampunk universe…
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Review: The Secret Language of Stones: A Novel (The Daughters of La Lune #2) by M.J. Rose
When I read the first book, The Witch of Painted Sorrows, I had no idea that it was going to end up being an actual ‘series’. It read so well as a stand alone book that I was surprised to see it would be becoming a series. So when this one came across my desk, I was thrilled to review it and see how the ‘series’ was going to develop as there were some loose ends that weren’t exactly completely tied up in the first book. This book was right up my alley, WWI France. I love books set in this time period not to mention a little hint of…
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Review: Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
This has been the year of Jane Eyre inspired literature and this latest Jane Eyre revisitation was something quite unexpected. Any book that has the passage ‘reader I murdered him’ so eloquently stated and matter-of-factly, instantly holds a special place in my heart! When we first meet Jane Steele she is living with her mother in a small cottage on the grande estate of Highgate House. All her life Jane is told she is to inherit Highgate House but when her mother dies unexpectedly Jane’s evil aunt purposes to send her away to a school where she will learn to be a governess. After first hearing this news, Jane runs…
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Review: The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
I am not really into horror literature or super scary stories….I haven’t read any Stephen King or V.C. Andrews because I would like to be able to sleep at night. However this Halloween season, I got inspired to pickup a ghost story. Maybe it’s because I went to watch Crimson Peak and was eager to read something similar…..but I decided to pick up The Woman in Black as I am a sucker for Gothic novels so this sounded right up my alley. Arthur Kipps is a young London solicitor who has been dispatched to the small windswept town of Crythin Gifford with its salt marshes and fog that rolls in and leaves the…
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Special Feature: The Spine Tingling Literary Canon List for Halloween
Halloween is just around the corner and this week on The Lit Bitch we are talking about the books that make you want to curl up and hide under the covers of your bed. You know those books that scare you so bad that every little noise in your house makes you jump and wonder….is there a monster under my bed??? The folks at Casper Mattresses have a great blog called Pillow Talk and they are doing a super fun ‘haunted’ feature on their blog for Halloween where they talk about spooky hotels (including the Heathman Hotel in Portland, a personal fav of mine being from Oregon and all). Casper is a great company full…
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Review: The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young
If you like Southern Gothic novels and ghost stories then this is the perfect novel to curl up with on a chilly fall night! Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Cates is a recently bereaved mother whose child died of a brain aneurysm. Not to mention her husband left her for another woman. Charlie begins experiencing very vivid dreams about children, which makes sense based on the tragedy she has gone through. But she soon realizes the dreams are something more, they are messages and warnings that will help Charlie and the children she sees, if only she can make sense of them. After a little boy in a boat appears in Charlie’s dreams…
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Announcement: Winner BOOK MARK Inspired by MIST OF MIDNIGHT by Sandra Byrd
And the winner of the MIST OF MIDNIGHT inspired BOOKMARK is….. Lisa M (Tweeted about giveaway) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!
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Giveaway: BOOK MARK Inspired by MIST OF MIDNIGHT by Sandra Byrd
Are you longing for a modern Gothic romance complete with mistaken identity and misty moors? Then this is the book for you! In the first of a brand-new series set in Victorian England, a young woman returns home from India after the death of her family to discover her identity and inheritance are challenged by the man who holds her future in his hands. THIS GIVEAWAY IS FOR A LACE BOOKMARK ONLY. The bookmark is inspired by this wonderful novel! Giveaway runs 3/11/15 to 3/17/15 Winners will be announced 3/18/15. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your…
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Review: Mist of Midnight: A Novel (Daughters of Hampshire #1) by Sandra Byrd
Rebecca Ravenshaw has survived an unthinkable tragedy in India. During the uprising against the English, both of her parents are killed and her brother died from illness. She is all alone in the world and wants to return to England where her father’s estate is. When she arrived in England after a long journey, she finds that someone else has already come forward claiming to be her. No one knows her, she hasn’t been in England since she was a child. She has no other living relations, no friends in England…..nothing to prove she is who she says she is. Rebecca soon discovers that the women claiming to be her…