Peregrine and Olivia have known each other since they were children when his uncle and her mother fell in love in Lord Perfect. Peregrine has spent most of that time in Egypt with Rupert (my favorite, be still my heart :p ) with only a few short trips home over the years. As a result, Peregrine is rather surprised to discover that his dramatic, slightly awkward but lively friend has become the most beautiful woman in the room. Olivia has always felt great affection towards […]
I always love a good school/training sequence
I picked this one up a while back based on DomeLoki’s review though I only recently got around to reading it, and am now doing the smart thing by making myself write the review before diving into the next book in the series and getting confused about what happened when. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect since I didn’t go back to reread the review though I remembered some comments about zip lining. In this world, humans/humanoids live in societies and are surrounded by […]
So Much More Shade Than I Remembered (and I thought I remembered a decent amount)
This was a reread for me though it’s been more than a decade since my last read. Instead of going through the plot since I think most people are familiar with the bare bones of the plot, I’m just going to share a few random thoughts I had while listening to this novel. So doing Austen as an audio book is interesting. It was obvious when reading Persuasion that Anne Elliot was the only one with any common sense and that everyone around her was […]
A Well-Written Romance Novel But Not Quite for Me
I immensely enjoyed For Real, and for some reason thought it made sense to me to follow it up with the next novel in the series even though publishing order really has no bearing on reading order for romance novels, in general. Usually, I don’t even look at romance novel covers because they have nothing to do with the book, but the Pansies cover has two men in a flower shop so it’s actually completely relevant to what is happening in the novel. I think […]