I admit I’ve veered somewhat off course for this year’s December theme of “It’s a Party!” with this one; I usually read something festive/Christmassy for the final TBR Challenge of the year, and that’s what I had in my mind when I chose to read Avery Cockburn’s A Christmas Harbor. I suppose I could make…
This review originally appeared in 2014 The Countess’s Groom is a companion novella to Ms Larkin’s novel, The Spinster’s Secret, in which the heroine, Matilda Chapple is living miserably at her cousin’s colourless and dour residence, Creed Hall, and longs to escape. She has no money of her own, and in order to earn some, is writing…
Narrated by Kelsey Navarro Foster In this new audio novella, two rival video game designers are forced to work together on a new game. She’s had a crush on him for a long time but thinks he doesn’t like her. Then, the two get snowed in at a retreat and everything changes. It’s super fun…
Narrated by Will Watt This new recording of Waiting for the Flood is over twice as long as the original mainly due to the addition of a second novella. Taken together the two novellas tell one completely satisfying story. While Waiting for the Flood was originally written to stand alone, Chasing the Light will mean…
I have never read a novella quite like Delilah S. Dawson’s Bloom before. One review describes it as “sapphic cottagecore horror”, which is an accurate three-word summary. It’s an odd chimera of a story where cozy descriptions of gardens and cupcakes mingle with a disquieting mood and tension that eventually grows to a fever pitch….
C.S. Poe’s Curio is a superbly-crafted little gem. The author packs a lot of story and characterisation into a mere sixty pages – it made me smile and sigh and swoon during the less-than-an-hour it took me to read it. Llewellyn – Lew – Cooper helps his wonderfully eccentric aunt Julia (“Remember the summer you…
Alexis Hall’s 30,000 word novella, Waiting for the Flood, was originally published in 2015 (AAR’s earlier DIK review is here), and, like Glitterland, has now been reissued as part of his ongoing publishing deal with Sourcebooks Casablanca. This new edition, however, has been substantially expanded to include a second, brand new, 50,000 word novella –…
Lucy Morris and Sarah Rodi team up to bring two us marriage of convenience stories in Convenient Vows with a Viking. Morris’ Her Bought Viking Husband features Hakon, a jarl kidnapped into slavery before being purchased to marry Orla and help her protect her land from her scheming uncle. Rodi’s Chosen as the Warrior’s Wife features…
I had to laugh when I read the author’s note at the beginning of The Christmas I Know; Nicky James, known for usually having a fairly high angst-quotient in her books says: “Yes, I, Nicky James, wrote this book. It is full of tooth-decaying fluff and oozes sweetness everywhere, so much so that it might…
Summerfield’s Angel is the second book in the multi-author Christmas Angel series from 2018. The seven titles (all novellas which can be read in any order) are set in different historical periods – from the Regency to the present day – and locations, and are linked by the eponymous angel, a Christmas ornament that brings the miracle of…
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