The Secret History of the Pink Carnation – Reviewed on KatsCannon “The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.” I know you’ll be shocked when you discover I’m reading yet another book that is part of a series (well, maybe you are – if you are only reading CBR7, you don’t know my reading proclivities as yet). However, this […]
Angelica! Eliza! ..and Peggy. The Schuyler Sisters!
The Secret Life of Violet Grant – Reviewed on KatsCannon “I thought, how magical, the first glimpse of snow. By March I would be sick of it, but here in this November instant those tiny flakes swirled with the unspeakable purity of a divine gift.” About the title of this review – I read this book before I jumped on the Hamilton bandwagon, but when I went to write this and saw Schuyler Sisters as a label on it on Goodreads, I couldn’t resist the […]
Flames…on the side of my face…
Her – Reviewed on KatsCannon “I found the final plot twist unsatisfying, as plot twists often are: nothing like life, which – it seems to me – turns less on shocks or theatrics than on the small quiet moments, misunderstandings, or disappointments, the things that it’s easy to overlook.” That quote was strategically chosen because I found the final plot twist of this DEEPLY unsatisfying. Remember how the last book I reviewed was all about apathy and no vitriol? I’ve saved that for this entry. […]
Book Meh of the Meh-lands Series
Hidden – Review on KatsCannon First written review, and it’s not going to overwhelm you folks, since this book left me feeling so incredibly meh that I can’t even work up vitriol about it. Hidden is Book 1 of the Dragonlands series, which hardly matters since I cannot come up with a single compelling reason to continue the franchise. Since it’s the first book, like first installments before it, this book is required to do a lot of the heavy lifting of world building and […]