I do tend to follow along behind Malin and Mrs. Julien when it comes to reading Romance. They have good taste and I can take their suggestions and not read the books that induce feelings of rage. The Wild Season series is my first experience with the bff writing team known as Christina Lauren. I read all three books this weekend and enjoyed them. Often with series the first book is the strongest and they go down from there. In this case, I found that […]
Revolutionaries and murder and mayhem in Steampunk London
This is book 3 in an ongoing series. While it can be read as a stand alone, the world building and the overarching story line will make a lot more sense if you start at the beginning, with Kiss of Steel. Sir Jasper Lynch is the head of the Nighthawks, basically the mostly nocturnal police force of the Steampunk London that Bec McMaster has invented here. All of the nearly four hundred Nighthawks are rogue bluebloods, people who have caught the craving virus by accident […]
He’d tried to court girls by bringing them meat and shiny things. It turns out he’d scared them.
4.5 stars This is book 8 in a series, not the place to start. There is far too much stuff in this book furthering the ongoing story arc for this to be an especially satisfying book to start the series with. Start at the beginning with Angels’ Blood. There are dark rumours that Lijuan, the Archangel of Death, is about to murder one of the sleeping Ancients (powerful archangels who have gone to ground to sleep for millennia so as to stave off insanity). As […]
“Entitlement in itself isn’t so bad. Entitlement is simply the belief that you deserve something.”
Back in 2012, before the husband and I had spent a few weeks of the summer catching up on what was then available of the American version of The Office, I read Mindy Kaling’s first book Is Everybody Hanging Out Without Me? and liked it, and her, a lot. Once Mindy Kaling got her own show, The Mindy Project, I even watched all of the first season and about half of the second season before I got distracted by other shows, reading and computer games. Any […]