It’s Throwback Thursday! We are reviving some of our favorite reviews from over the years. This review was posted 9 years ago, on April 8, 2014, and created some lively discussions about narration/narrators. Enjoy this blast from the past! Narrated by Kate Russell I read Motorcycle Man last year. It’s the book that sent me down…
Queen Bee is a YA Regency revenge romance about Lyra, a young girl who was betrayed by her best friend when she was fifteen and is now back for revenge. I enjoyed the story’s suspense–the author slowly lets the reader see how Lyra was ruined in the past, how she takes revenge and how her…
Well, this is a pretty charmer. I already knew Lucy Gilmore was talented, but The Lonely Hearts Book Club proves that she’s talented in the women’s fiction arena as well. Lonely, meek librarian Sloane Parker has bonded with crusty octogenarian Arthur McLachlann, an imperious bibliophile, over their daily mutual rejoinders and a title game she’s…
Diana Biller’s Hotel of Secrets is one part romance, once part historical fiction, one part mystery. Biller definitely manages to keep the suspense and the romance rollicking along, making for a delightful read. Maria Wallner has dedicated herself to restoring the Hotel Wallner, her legacy and the family’s pride and joy, to its former luster….
What a feast for the mind! Stephanie Marie Thornton has previously brought real-life heroines as different as Alice Roosevelt and Jacqueline Kennedy to life in her novels. In Her Lost Words, she does perfect credit to the worlds of seminal feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, science fiction novelist Mary Godwin-Shelley. We learn immediately about…
The heroine of Jackie Lau’s Not Your Valentine, Helen Tsang, goes viral as the victim of a nasty public breakup on Valentine’s Day. As the anniversary of that humiliation approaches, the pity from her family and friends feels intolerable, so she concocts a plan: she’ll ask her friend Taylor Li to be her fake boyfriend….
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise is a character-driven, fun dramedy about an elderly woman who’s not ready to throw in the towel and a twenty-year-old who has no idea where her life is going. Eighty-four-year-old Louise Wilt is elderly, but definitely not dead. She’s living happily independently when a slip and fall…
I just re-read Molly O’Keefe’s Between the Sheets and was surprised to find out we actually don’t have a review of it in the database. It’s a strong story that manages, in a couple of areas, to be truly exceptional, and is well worth a read. Shelby Monroe, an art teacher in Bishop, Arkansas, doesn’t…
In Two Wars and a Wedding, Lauren Willig explores two wars which don’t get a ton of attention in fiction – the Greco-Turkish war of 1896 and the Spanish American War. Both are seen from the PoV of a single woman who finds herself nursing troops while also fostering her dreams of being an archeologist….
Narrated by Simon Goldhill Individually, Joanna Chambers and Sally Malcolm are two of my favourite authors, so I was delighted when, back in 2021, they announced that they were collaborating on a series of contemporary m/m romances set in and around the world of TV production. Total Creative Control is the first book in the…
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