Maxym M. Martineau’s Beast Charmer series is a favourite of mine so I was excited to see that she was coming out with a new one. House of Blight, the first in The Threadmender Chronicles, has a darker tone and is a gothic fantasy, and I found it just as enjoyable as her earlier books….
New-to-me author Amy Rae Durreson’s A Frost of Cares is a superbly-crafted little gem of a book that combines a genuinely creepy ghost story with a lovely, gentle romance, and addresses some serious themes in a sensitive manner – all in just over one hundred and fifty pages. It turned out to be the perfect…
I’m a lifelong fan of paranormal, sci-fi and thrillers in television and movies, and I’m your go-to-girl for romantic suspense in literature, but I’m not very well versed in the fantasy genre. Yet, over the last year or so, I find my interests are inadvertently broadening to include it. I followed Lore Olympus from its…
Julian and the Ghosts of Moorcliffe Hall contains all the right ingredients for an entertaining and atmospheric gothic romance. A remote, dilapidated mansion? Check. Things going ‘bump’ in the night? Check. A gruff, taciturn (and handsome) earl? Check. A wide-eyed, innocent protagonist? Er… not quite, but the subversion of that particular trope gives our narrator…
Mimi Matthews’ excellent The Belle of Belgrave Square is a romantic, well-researched and intriguing novel that adds a feather to the writer’s cap. Book-loving horsewoman Julia Wychwood prefers her solitude and horse riding to gossip and tea dates. Suffering from social anxiety which leaves her feeling frozen with fear, she doesn’t like the whirl of…
This story is a historical gothic romance and Frankenstein fanfiction. It’s quirky, creative, original, bizarre, morbid, and unlike anything I’ve read before. The story begins in 1812 in a morgue where twenty four year old Angelika Frankenstein and her older brother Victor are choosing body parts to assemble a man and bring him back to…
Will the Sally Thorne I loved so long ago please return to the five and dime? Of the three novels she’s released since The Hating Game took romancelandia by storm, I was partial to Second First Impressions but disliked 99 Percent Mine. Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match falls right between those two extremes, with a…
Romance, mystery, and monsters combine to give us a compelling look at the human heart in The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. Those familiar with the classic H.G. Wells novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, will find many of these characters familiar, although hearing the tale from Carlota’s viewpoint – along with the new setting –…
Kelley Armstrong is primarily known as a writer of thrillers and suspense novels, so a timeslip paranormal with a distinctly gothic-y feel about it is something of a departure for her. A Stitch in Time set in and around an old manor house on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, is an entertaining mash-up of time-travel and…
Here’s a six-word summary of this book: Gender swapped Jane Eyre with vampires. But before I begin my review of Mimi Matthews’ John Eyre, I have a confession to make. I never finished Jane Eyre, because Helen’s death was so sad I couldn’t read any more. So readers with more knowledge of the source material…
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