In her Orange Prize for Fiction (2012) winning The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller presents Homer’s Illiad from a slightly different perspective, that of Patroclus, whose name would be forgotten in history except for his connection with the great hero and demi-god Achilles, and the Trojan war. There are reviews, amongst the loud clamour of praise, which suggest this story…
I’m a bit late to the Garrett Leigh fan club. I had read another novel by the author in 2016, and though I liked it, I wasn’t blown away. Scrolling through my TBR pile a few months ago I realized I owned another Leigh book, Misfits, and decided to try her again. I’m so glad…
Anna Martin’s first entry into the States of Love series gets off to a creamy start with the ultra-cute novella Rainbow Sprinkles. Low-key but slightly salty ice cream man Cooper Reid is happy with his simple lot in life, even if his counter job at Dreamy Creamery doesn’t require a lot of executive brain power. …
Guardians of the Haunted Moor is the fifth in Harper Fox’s series of Tyack and Frayne Mysteries. As always the author gives us a beautifully atmospheric work, with elements that took my breath away. In the prologue, Gideon Frayne describes his husband, Lee Tyack – His beautiful west-coast lad was all the silver part of his…
They say you can’t go home again. I don’t know how true that is really, but as you get older, I think how you see home, and how you see other’s actions, changes pretty drastically. In Lickety Split we get to see that return to home, and a view of the people you knew through…
Josh Lanyon makes a successful return to the world of the Sculptor murders and established partners, Elliot Mills and Tucker Lance in this third book in the All’s Fair series, Fair Chance. I love romantic suspense/mystery stories and in this novel, Josh Lanyon once again shows herself to be a master of this sub-genre. To…
Single Malt is Ms. Reyne’s début novel and the first in her new Agents Irish and Whiskey series of romantic suspense novels. Lucky us! Both author and series show great promise and I enjoyed the book a lot, so much so that as soon as I’d finished reading it, I checked to see when the…
Ground N’At is the kind of coffee shop I dream of. Great drinks, comfortable surroundings, independently owned. Unfortunately, it doesn’t exist where I live, but Mx. Zabo does an excellent job casting it as the third major character in the entertaining, if a bit too predictable, Daily Grind. The story of two men trying to…
The Gentleman’s Madness has an incredibly gripping hook. One of the heroes is in a mental asylum because he’s gay, and the other is an attendant there. I don’t usually read ebooks, but I bought this one (and downloaded the software to access it) because after reading the synopsis, I had to find out what…
I am loathe to call Eli Lang’s Half an urban fantasy as for me, this always conjures up scenes of gritty violence and dystopian futures, and Half could not be more different. In fact, I might have enjoyed a little gritty violence. So I’m going to say that it’s a standalone novel set in the…
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