I really like Cecilia Grant’s Regency romances, so I snapped up this novella over Christmas. She is a very strong writer and I buy or borrow everything she writes. In particular, she has a facility for changing tone and style according to the story she is telling. In this case, that means a light and droll spirit for a Yuletide sliding awry. A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong is a prequel novella for Grant’s Blackshear Family series. I read the books out of order and would […]
Still My Least Favourite Couple in the Series
Shadowed Heart is a follow up to Laura Florand’s The Chocolate Heart which is in itself the fifth book in the L’Amour et Chocolate contemporary romance series set in France. You could read this as a standalone novella, but I don’t really see the point as the purpose of this book is to check in on characters and have visits with the protagonists of the other books in the series. Without everyone’s backgrounds, not a lot is going to make sense. Luc Leroi and Summer […]
I like my coffee like I like my women
Page count: 344, I read the UK paperback edition Time taken: probably four hours This book is really hard to summarise. It’s a close third-person narrative about a honeybee, Flora 717. It’s a classic hero(ine)’s journey. It’s an investigation into the idea of free-will and determinism. It’s a novel about upheaval in a rigid caste-based state, drawing from classic dystopian literature. It’s a love story. It’s a survival story. It’s about the consequences of climate change in the insect world. It’s a nuanced and […]
Kids, Always Have Safe Sex After a Heart Transplant
My best friend bought us tickets to something called an author occasion. We get to stand in lines and get autographs from a bunch of romance authors I’ve never heard of. This actually sounds like a lot of fun, but now I have to read about 20 different authors in two weeks and decide which lines I want to stand in. Like I would let just anyone sign my kindle cover (apparently that’s a thing now). I chose R.S. Grey first, because, hey, kindle unlimited! […]