At seventeen, Miss Sophie Baker is looking forward to her debut in society. She’s only a few months away from graduating from a prestigious ladies’ academy and her future looks bright. Then her father dies suddenly, destitute after having been swindled by a con man. Sophie’s whole world changes and instead of a season and balls and pretty dresses, she’s left to fend for herself, making a living as a governess. She blames the Earl of Ashby for her change in circumstance, as it was […]
Supernatural high school drama isn’t all that different from regular teen drama
Sophie Mercer is a witch and because of the various bad incidents her magic has gotten her mixed up in, she and her mum have moved a lot during her lifetime. After Sophie seriously misjudges the oomph of a love spell at her current high school’s prom, and there is a huge scene, Sophie’s normally absentee father, a European warlock of some kind, gets involved. Sophie is sent off to a boarding school. On a remote island, where she will stay until she graduates at […]
Could you step into the shoes of your doppelganger?
After a murder investigation that completely destroyed her relationship with her detective partner and best friend, Dublin murder detective Cassie Maddox moved to the Domestic Violence unit and took up target shooting to deal with her feelings of anxiety. She’s therefore surprised when her boyfriend, Sam O’Neill calls her from a murder site, and asks her to come meet him, but to make sure she wears sunglasses and a hat or some such, to disguise her appearance a bit. Once Cassie sees the victim, she […]
A Regency romance where the hero has violet eyes
1.5 stars Warning! There will be spoilers for the plot in this review – because I have to pick apart the mediocre plot to fully get my scathe on. Lord Tristan Knight has come into the Earl of Ellington after his estranged father died unexpectedly in a carriage accident. As the late Earl blamed his son for the death of Lady Ellington, stabbed to death by an East End bandit, Tristan has been absent for a long time. His younger sister Emily was left alone […]