Spoiler alert: The Hazard and Somerset: A Union of Swords series picks up after the events detailed in Criminal Past (Hazard and Somerset, #6), and there will be spoilers for that series in this review. Picking up three months after the nightmarish events of Criminal Past, The Rational Faculty is a novel in three overlapping…
It’s hard to be objective when your heart’s involved, and Penny Reid definitely got my heart involved with her Winston Brothers series (not to mention my feet, which occasionally danced me across my bedroom floor when she wrote something so wonderful that I just had to get up and wriggle with all the feels). But…
The Cruel Prince and The Wicked King are the first two books in a fantasy series by Holly Black. I advise you to quit reading this review and, instead, find a way to get your hands on both books. Still here? OK. That’s on you. Prior to reading these cracktastic books, I’d read one other Black…
Clever, fresh, funny and fun, The Flatshare is one of the best romance novels of 2019. I’m not quite sure how I missed it when it came out in May, but if you did, too… well, make time for this absolute gem of a book now. After a traumatic break-up with her on again, off…
Fans of deeply moving, intense stories of love and redemption won’t want to miss The Reckless Oath We Made, the latest novel by author Bryn Greenwood. It’s a dark and gritty love story centred around the unlikeliest of couples, and it packs an emotional punch that will linger with you long after you turn the…
Gregory Ashe has become one of my favourite authors over the last year or so, and I’ve been longing to dive into Triangulation, the second book in his Borealis Investigations series ever since I turned the last page on the first book, Orientation, earlier this year. I’m addicted to the blend of well-constructed mystery, complex,…
Circa 1810, Sydney society is in transition. The new governor Lachlan Macquarie is raising the status of freed convicts (‘emancipists’), much to the wrath of exclusives who arrived from the United Kingdom freely and, often, temporarily. Sarah Langley, wealthy gentlewoman newly arrived in the city is clearly an exclusive. So how could she possibly be…
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics opens with the wedding of Lucy Muchelney’s ex-lover, Priscilla Carmichael. Still struggling to come to terms with the death, six months earlier, of her beloved father – to whom Lucy had been an unacknowledged apprentice – this latest abandonment is too much for her to bear. And as if…
There is a special sort of magic that happens in a Christina Lauren book when the pair are firing on all cylinders. The dialogue sparkles, the characters settle into themselves quickly, and hundreds of pages fly by while you are contentedly spending time in their world. I am deeply pleased to report that The Unhoneymooners…
Friends, let’s keep it real. We’ve all fallen in love with a fictional character in a romance novel, and most of us can quickly call to mind our favorites. You’re doing it right now aren’t you? Lately, my book boyfriends share a common denominator: they’re all written by the fabulous Kennedy Ryan. Grip, the titular…
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