This was another disappointing read for me. I am sliding into double cannonball range with a string of books that are just not doing it for me! This was a random grab at the library, and unfortunately it’s book #15 (!!) in the Sarah Booth Delaney series – not a good idea to jump into something so far along into its run. As per the Amazon blurb: Sarah Booth Delaney is heartbroken: her fiancé Graf Milieu has decided to move to Hollywood permanently, leaving their […]
The spinster, the rake and the chicken marsala
This is the story of Min and Cal, a contemporary romance that has a lot of parallels to historical romance, in my mind. It’s the spinster bluestoking and the rake with a heart of gold, updated to current models. First we have Minerva Dobbs – she’s single and doesn’t have much luck with relationships. I don’t know if she’s a virgin, that point isn’t mentioned, but overall she doesn’t have much experience. She’s been dumped by her latest boyfriend and is reluctant to try again, […]
Precocious 11 year old to the rescue
I am late to the Flavia de Luce train, but a random comment about the series that I came across somewhere intrigued me enough to request this book from the library. While I didn’t up loving this book, it wasn’t bad. It’s set in 1950s Britain, and Flavia is a precocious 11 year old girl who lives with her father and two older sisters; her mother passed away some time ago, but she she is far from forgotten. Her family is rather eccentric and Flavia […]
Magical timepieces
This book is a mashup of mystery, magic, romance and historical fiction and I wanted to like it just based on that. Despite that, it was rather lacking in romance and the magic was rather minimal. The heroine, India Steele, is reaching a point of desperation as the book begins. Her father is recently deceased, and the man she was engaged to has snatched her inheritance out from under her. Well, the shop had been left to the fiance, because of course a woman couldn’t […]