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I love novels that can pay homage to source material and transform it into something unique. The Eight Heartbreaks of Hankkah is just such a book. This story tackles some complex subjects – death, abortion, fatal illness in a child, and divorce – with humour and sympathy. Evelyn Schwartz isn’t a Scrooge, but she is…
The Everlasting begins where it ends: beneath a yew tree. Its first chapter, The First Death of Una Everlasting, reads like a eulogy written for a nation’s best. We’re told that Una, knight of the realm, died for her queen, and that sacrifice birthed a great nation. But the story we’re given isn’t the one…
I seem to have picked up quite a few books in multi-author series lately, and here I am with another one, H.L. Day’s King of Lies, which is part of the eight book Mayhem Manuscripts Season One: 1nf3ction series a set of dystopian romances (which can be read in any order) set in a world…
Higher Magic exemplifies the problem of desperately wanting to make a point and forgetting that you are writing a novel. The end product is less a cohesive story and more a jumbled lecture. Ever since Bartleby’s parents took her to have her fortune read in a cupcake shop, she’s suffered from anxiety waiting for the…
Narrated by Darcy Stark Although Breakaway Goals is a standalone romance, it’s closely linked to Beth Bolden’s Portland Evergreens books as the two leads have featured in secondary roles in that series and the author has been teasing their second-chance romance for quite a while. You could probably read or listen to this one without…
Tower by Claire Kent (who also writes as Noelle Adams) is the first romance in her Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales series. It’s loosely linked to the Kindled series, which is set in the same dystopian future where a meteor strike destroyed earthly civilization as it was known, with pockets of survivors eking out an existence. This…
If you like sweet Regencies, you will find much to enjoy in Sense and Suitability. Emme (Emmeline) Lockhart’s first season was both a success and a failure. A success in that she had fallen in love with a handsome, dashing suitor who offered marriage, but a failure in that he’d broken her heart on the…
Kaje Harper’s Against the Odds is one of the entries in season two of The Games We Play, a multi-author series of hockey romances. The books in each series run concurrently throughout the same hockey season and each one is designed to be read as a standalone, so readers can jump in anywhere. Against the…
Princess of Blood follows Servant of Earth as the second book in Sarah Hawley’s The Shards of Magic series. It continues directly from where the first book ended and as a result there will be spoilers for it in this review. This one is another taut and exciting thrill ride through a world of magic,…
Dealing with a Desperate Demon is the second book in Charlotte Stein’s Sanctuary for Supernatural Creatures series, and it’s a gem! Nancy runs a bookstore in Hollow Brook – a small town where you can only see the supernatural if you are a member of the supernatural community yourself. Nancy is fascinated by scowly Jack…
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