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Review: Whispers Beyond the Veil (A Change of Fortune Mystery #1) by Jessica Estevao
This was definitely my year of DNF books. I did not start out this year thinking I would have so many, but when I put down The Gunslinger earlier this year, something happened to me. I suddenly felt like it was ok to put books down that I wasn’t enjoying rather than suffer through something I was not interested in. So here we are with year another book that I DNF this year and I was shocked when this one went back to the library earlier than expected. This should have been a book that I had great things to say about. I was willing to give it a few…
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Review: Death Below Stairs (Kat Holloway Mysteries #1) by Jennifer Ashley
This book kept hoping up all over my Twitter feed and I had my eye on it for so long. I had been searching for something a little different from the usual high society murder mystery series. And this looked like the perfect combo, cook from a big house tuned sleuth…sounds intriguing. So I was thrilled when I got the chance to review an early copy! Highly sought-after young cook Kat Holloway takes a position in a Mayfair mansion and soon finds herself immersed in the odd household of Lord Rankin. Kat is unbothered by the family’s eccentricities as long as they stay away from her kitchen, but trouble finds…
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Review: The Villainous Viscount Or The Curse Of The Venns by Lucinda Elliot
This is a new author for me and frankly I only agreed to read this novel because of the tag line: “An appreciative satire of the cliches of classical Gothic”. I love Gothic romances. I lived for Gothic romances as a little girl and as I’ve gotten older I cannot tell you how much I love them. It’s embarrassing. So how could I pass up this book about Gothic romances? I couldn’t! When Clarissa Greendale inherits the fortune of disreputable uncle she hardly knows, she does not expect to find herself forced into marriage with an aristocratic fortune hunter and wild, brawling, debauched social outcast. Not only that, but her…
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Review: This Side of Murder (Verity Kent #1) by Anna Lee Huber
As many of you know, I binge read almost all of Anna Lee Huber’s books this year. I love the Lady Darby books and I also loved her Gothic Myths book as well! Huber rapidly became a favorite author of mine and I was eager to read her latest book series about Verity Kent. I saw a lot of this book on Twitter so I tried to procure a copy before it’s release but sadly I waited too long! So I had to resort to my local library….which I waited like 3 weeks for it to come in. By then I had almost lost interest in reading it but when…
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Review: Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper #1) by Kerri Maniscalco
Having a library card is the best thing in the world. After seeing this book on a few Instagram pages, I was lured in by the cover and title. I wasn’t really sure I wanted to buy it though so I put a hold on it at my local library. After waiting three weeks for it to be returned, I was finally able to pick it up! This is one of those times that I am so thankful for library cards. Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord’s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings,…
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Special Feature and Giveaway: There is Always a Tomorrow by Anna Belfrage
There is Always a Tomorrow by Anna Belfrage Publication Date: November 5, 2017 Timelight Press eBook & Paperback; ISBN: 9781788039666 Series: Graham Saga, Book #9 Genre: Historical Fiction/Time-Slip There is Always a Tomorrow is the ninth book in Anna Belfrage’s time slip series featuring time traveller Alexandra Lind and her seventeenth century husband, Matthew Graham. It is 1692 and the Colony of Maryland is still adapting to the consequences of Coode’s Rebellion some years previously. Religious tolerance in the colony is now a thing of the past, but safe in their home, Alex and Matthew Graham have no reason to suspect they will become embroiled in the ongoing…
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Review: Anne of Green Gables (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by L.M. Montogomery
Earlier this year I reviewed the audio edition of this book and had mixed feelings. I loved Anne with an E as a little girl but as an adult I felt rather like a Marilla. However when the new Penguin Classic edition came up for review, I was all in, especially because I wanted to see if I found reading Anne as an adult was better than listening to her. This cover was everything. It captured childhood nostalgia and sentiment and stood out from other edition. Something about the cover screamed ‘raspberry cordial’ to me. I loved the bright colors and graphics. L. M. Montgomery’s novel Anne of Green Gables…
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Special Feature: Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables #1) by L.M. Montgomery
By now I am sure many of you are in full holiday mode. I know I am! The amount of Amazon Prime packages arriving at my house is actually quite embarrassing. How many of you have a young girl you are trying to buy for? Or maybe a wife who loves reading? You can’t go wrong with the classic Anne of Green Gables! Like many adult women today, I grew up loving Anne with an E Shirley. She was so sassy and funny that you can’t help but love her. As a young girl my first ‘crush’ was the dashing Gilbert Blythe. Earlier this year, I ‘listened’ to the audiobook…
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Review: The Lure of the Moonflower (Pink Carnation #12) by Lauren Willig
So this is the book that everyone has been waiting for in this series…..Jane’s romance with maybe the exception of me. I have never really been a fan of Jane in this entire series. Maybe in the beginning she had intrigue and promise but as the series has gone on I just have liked her less and less. But I had to finish the series all the same and Willig is always so good at making me fall in love with her heroines, I tried to keep an open mind. Portugal, December 1807. Jack Reid, the British agent known as the Moonflower (formerly the French agent known as the Moonflower),…
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Review: Gin and Panic (Discreet Retrieval Agency, #3) by Maia Chance
I have just come off of reading two very very dense books with heavy subject matter. I needed something to just enjoy rather than something I need to digest. Enter Gin and Panic. I was happy to read a cozy mystery even though I was jumping in on the third book. I didn’t care. I just wanted something that looked entertaining without epic battles in every chapter. Former socialite Lola Woodby, not-so-discreet private eye in Prohibtion-era New York City, along with her grim Swedish sidekick, Berta, take on a piece-of-cake job: retrieving a rhinoceros trophy from the Connecticut mansion of big game hunter Rudy Montgomery.