This is the third book in the Hellions of Havisham series, telling the tale of Killian St. John, Viscount Locksley. He is the son of the mad Marquess of Marsden that we’ve met earlier in the series. The marquess is said to have lost his mind with grief after his wife died and Locke has done his best to survive on his own and not upset his father overly much. The manor is falling into disrepair, and the marquess needs to be locked in his […]
A Victorian Rom Com
This was a light and airy Victorian romance, just what I needed after slogging through the vampire politics in the last couple of books I read. I have somehow missed reading anything by Connie Brockway before, but I read a glowing review of this one and decided to try it. It was available on my library Overdrive, so it was an easy decision and I really enjoyed it. Lady Evelyn has always known she’s not beautiful in comparison to her mother and sister, and has […]
The Ghosts of Tragedies Past
I am not particularly partial to psychic-based mysteries, and I don’t know if I would have read this one had I known beforehand that it fell into that category, but I’m glad I went in blind, because I really got swept up in reading this one. Finley is a budding psychic and college student, who rather than listen, is trying to escape the voices and ghosts of people she sees and hears all around her. When Finley starts hearing a strange noise over and over again […]
A witch, a vampire and a pixie walk into a bar
Rachel Morgan is an earth witch (which means she uses wooden charms activated with drops of her own blood to do magic, as opposed to layline witches who draw their power from laylines) and works for the IS (Inderland Security), a police force consisting of supernaturals like witches, living vampires, werewolves, fairies and pixies. They police the supernatural crimes, while the FIB (Federal Inderland Bureau) is its mundane, human counterpart. For the last year, Rachel has had a run of truly awful assignments and what […]