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I’m one of the few Americans who wasn’t totally blown away by the Broadway musical Hamilton. I didn’t find myself particularly moved by the music, even though the story itself seemed compelling. So, when I saw that Susan Holloway Scott had written a novel based on the life of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, it seemed like…
Before you accuse me of giving an ‘A’ to Georgette Heyer and not to her work, let me hasten to assure you that each and every one of the stories in this collection is fabulous! I smiled from the first page to the last, so delighted to be enjoying my introduction to Heyer’s short stories…
I think it’s fair to say that all of us here at AAR review books because, well, we love books. We love reading them, talking about them, hearing about them, writing about them and enthusing about them to others. But when a novel you’ve really been looking forward to, written by an author you admire…
Sadie Liberato is cheerfully sloppy and filled with attitude. Having experienced multiple failed relationships and cheating men, she is not a smiler and prefers to keep to herself, spend time in the gym, working at her father Big Tony’s restaurant and trash talking the folks on her favorite reality show Motorcycle Madnezz. Horrified by her…
In Mess With Me, Sam Goodall is about one friendship away from being a complete recluse. He’s a skilled mountaineer and part of Mile High Adventures, the company run by the two brothers who are his only friends, but otherwise, Sam lives entirely off the grid in an isolated cabin. The Evans brothers are technically…
Narrated by Carly Robins I saw some good reviews of the print version of The Hunting Grounds and I enjoy Carly Robins’s narrations so I requested this one for review. Maggie Gaines is a 28-year-old park ranger at the Glacier National Park in Montana. Seven years before, she was, improbably, an FBI agent with the…
I love drumlines. LOVE them! So when I read the blurb about Drumline by Stacy Kestwick, I snatched it up. The prospect of getting a behind-the-scenes look at the makings of a college drumline, plus the bonus of a love story between two drummers teased that I’d found a keeper. While this book wasn’t bad,…
Virginia Heath’s winning streak of rich, thoughtful romances continues with her latest release, His Mistletoe Wager. This holiday story is an early gift for readers and the season’s joy fills every moment as a young woman’s damaged heart is healed by the kind of man she swore never to trust again. It was very easy for…
Narrated by Hamish McKinlay Joanna Chamber’s Enlightenment trilogy was originally published in print in 2013/14, and as the books are among my favourite historical romances, I was delighted when I learned they would be coming to audio with a carefully selected – Scottish – narrator. Set in Edinburgh in the 1820s, the three books in…
Each year, I find myself eagerly anticipating the latest standalone thriller from Harlan Coben. Don’t Let Go, Mr. Coben’s latest novel, is the story of one man’s quest to uncover the truth about what happened to his twin brother nearly twenty years before. I had a few quibbles with the plot, but I enjoyed the…
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