I will have to come back and think of a pithy title for this review some other time. For now, I am just going to go with the title of the book. I honestly don’t have much to say about this book besides finding it boring as sin and also very rage inducing at times. I do love my romance reads, but from the beginning I found the whole premise of this book a bit hard to take. It made me think of a grown […]
A Dude Born Anew
Short Version: Learning to Feel is a fairly traditional contemporary romance that passed the time, but N.R. Walker’s plotting choices struck me as a bit much. Long Version: In a moment of common sense and self-preservation, sad-sack Nathan leaves his job as an ER doctor in Boston, to take a role in rural Maine. It’s a contract position that he hopes will get his life on track, help him work less, and includes free rent on a farmhouse. When Nathan arrives, he finds a painter […]
“It must have been like consciously uncoupling from Eyore and eloping with Baloo”
4.5 stars In her follow-up to one of my favourite books of last year (Act Like It), Lucy Parker returns to the London theatre world, this time introducing us to acclaimed director Luc Savage, who has spent a considerable amount of his time and huge amounts of money restoring a theatre his family has a generations long connection to. He’s planning to celebrate the reopening of the theatre with a prestigious play called 1553, featuring character studies of Mary I, Elizabeth I and poor doomed […]
Another strong showing
Lucy Parker has earned herself a spot on my preorder list with this one. It’s not as magnetic as Act Like It, but it still was a pleasure to read. I dropped the new Lisa Kleypas halfway through to pick this up instead, finished it, and then went back to the Kleypas. This says SO much about both books. Lily Lamprey is a soap opera star who wants to break in to the theater world. Through a family friend she gets the opportunity to audition […]