Here’s your 2017 beach read. It’s a murder mystery set within a murder mystery, a meta-mystery, if you will, that peers with a gimlet eye at both the process of writing and the publishing industry. This book is great fun to read and stocked full of characters who draw you in and/or repulse you. Both mysteries will keep the reader firmly planted in his/her seat until all whodunnits have been revealed in a most satisfactory way. The novel opens with Susan Ryeland just home from […]
The Duke & The Con Artist
I’d been looking forward to reading this book ever since finishing “The Wicked Quills of London” series – sadly, the anticipation didn’t live up to the reality. Oh, it was well written and steamy, but I just didn’t feel the love for this one somehow. The main premise is based on a one night encounter two years previous for our couple, with the heroine disappearing at dawn before the hero awoke. Since that time, Alexander Lewis, Duke of Greyland, hasn’t been able to get her […]
“Come ride with me through the veins of history.”
Spoilers for Queen of the Tearling ahead! Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, I dove right into this book since I enjoyed the first one so much and I already owned it. (Yep, still kicking myself for not picking up the third!) Invasion of the Tearling deals with the consequences of Kelsea’s breaking of the treaty with the country of Mortmesne and the Red Queen. As the vastly superior Mort troops begin to invade the Tear Kelsea struggles with how to […]
Fangirl Down, Eleanor & Park to Go (Eventually)
Fangirl (2013) is another of Rowell’s character-driven YA novels that has been well-received by readers and well-reviewed by critics. As of this post, it has a slightly higher rating on Goodreads (4.12) than her very much revered Eleanor & Park (4.11), also published in 2013. Rainbow Rowell is an engaging writer, so for all I didn’t like about the book, Rowell is gifted in being able to create memorable characters and worlds that seem relatable and authentic. Still, I could not get beyond thinking that this […]