Only You is a somewhat confusing but still enjoyable look at a classic romancelandia trope: the hero and heroine of the book share past lives. Most of the story works, but sometimes it becomes dizzying separating one character from another, making the book a slog. It’s fun but flawed. Danielle “Dani” Richardson is a Howard…
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…
After reading Disturbing the Dead, book three in Kelly Armstrong’s A Rip Through Time series, I knew that I was going to eagerly reach for more in this time travel historical mystery/fiction series. While I’ve picked up the first two book with plans to see exactly how the main character ended up where she is,…
Fun, well-plotted, twisty, emotionally touching and filled with romantic hopefulness–and a geeky, cheeky sense of scientific greatness–Love and other Paradoxes proves to be both heedlessly romantic and optimistic and offers an emotionally-complex spin through the could-bes of life. Joseph “Joe” Greene bears dreams of poetic success. But he’s three years into his time in Cambridge,…
I love going through AAR’s Best of Lists since I am always guaranteed to find some great books. Thanks to Maria Rose’s list, my most recent discovery is the A Rip Through Time series starring Detective Mallory Atkinson and mortician and crime solver Dr. Duncan Gray. MAY 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that suggesting your very average hero and heroine were brilliant enough to influence Jane Austen in writing Pride and Prejudice is a bad idea unless you can match her wit and creativity. Unfortunately, Lia Riley can’t do that, delivering instead a fairly mediocre hockey / time-travel / Austenian book….
I’m a romantic at heart, so my love of the romance genre comes as a surprise to no one. Romantic suspense and contemporary are my go-tos, but I read everything I choose to read, romance-based or not, because what I really enjoy is just a great story. Based on the unique plot description, I thought…
True confession – despite the fact that I’ve heard nothing but praise for Adrienne Young’s last book, Spells for Forgetting, it’s been on my TBR pile for months for no other reason than I have a small library’s worth of books to get through and there are only so many hours in the day. But…
Here is not the place for new readers to jump into the A Stitch in Time series. Old readers won’t find much to recommend it either, since this is a pretty weak book. A Turn of the Tide has some pirate derring-do going on, but there’s not much danger in the air. There is a…
Anne Stuart’s Return to Christmas is startlingly sentimental for the author while still–for better and worst–having the hallmarks of her work. I enjoyed it but didn’t love it. It’s December in 2020 (this is a Covid free tale) and Madison Simcoe is furious. Yet another asshat at work has groped her which means she’ll probably…
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