Halfway through Liz Carlyle’s latest historical romance, The Bride Wore Scarlet, I put it down and went to reread the first book in The Fraternitas Trilogy, Ms. Carlyle’s latest slightly paranormal series. I enjoyed that book, One Touch of Scandal, but had forgotten its premise. I was glad I did — One Touch of Scandal…
I thought I was never going to finish this book. It took me ten days to read it, but it seemed more like twenty as I waded through the seemingly endless clunky prose. Add in a couple of uninteresting characters, very little romance, the paranormal staple of incomprehensible italicized names, and you have a recipe…
This is one of those books that’s incredibly difficult to grade because on one hand I liked it, but on the other there are problems that are extremely difficult to ignore. Often, the points that I enjoyed within the story were essentially the sources of the problems. Created as a killing machine during the Civil…
With the very first paragraph, Ms. Hendrix’ inventive, imaginative story captured my attention. While this is the third book in the series, I do feel like it can stand on its own. Just be sure to read the page titled The Legend. The Legend states that Cwen the sorceress cursed nine Norse men who killed…
I would have bought Scoundrel, the second volume in Zoë Archer’s Blades of the Rose series, for the setting alone: Most of its pages are spent on a small sailing boat island-hopping in the Aegean Sea – can you imagine anything more romantic? With lots of adventures magical and otherwise, it’s a ripping good yarn,…
This is the second in the author’s Dreamlight Trilogy. While the first had a contemporary, setting, this one takes the series back to Victorian England. I found the hero and heroine to be interesting and enjoyed this one more than the first in the series. The book features many of the author’s trademarks, including an…
Curiosity has led to some interesting reads in the past. In this case it was combination of an author I’ve heard to be unique and witty (Janet Mullany), writing about a subject I’m sick to death of (vampires), set in an overdone era (Regency), starring a heroine that made me think “oh good gracious me”…
Kiss of the Rose is the latest swell in the vampire tsunami, and like many authors Kate Pearce has tried something different. The good news is that the premise truly is original since I can’t think of another vampire series that throws in Druids, the Cult of Mithras, and Henry VIII, can you? The bad…
Narrated by Emily Gray Having read Soulless in print, I was quite excited to see it in audio format. Heroine Alexia is quite a witty, entertaining character who plays perfectly against Lord Maccon, an alpha werewolf. The narration is simply superb. It’s my first experience listening to Emily Gray, but I’ll look for her narrations…
Fantasy is one of those subgenres that can often be difficult to read because the world building must be convincing. In Kim Lenox’s third installment of the Shadow Guard series, world building and character interaction drive the novel, yet at times fall short of the mark. As a members of an immortal race existing along…
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