This review is for the audiobook version of The Beautiful Ashes, by Jeaniene Frost. It’s the first in a series by the same author as The Night Huntress series, which was a fun read. The new one, not so much. The heroine is kind of blah. She’s really young, really inexperienced, and kind of wishy washy sometimes, which I guess I was too when I was 20. Following the disappearance of her younger sister and the sudden death of her parents, Ivy Jenkins goes searching […]
What Friction?
This review is for the audiobook version of Friction, by Sandra Brown. I’ve read and enjoyed other books by Sandra Brown, but this one didn’t really grip me. Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back but her grandparents are fighting him for custody. While Crawford is on the stand for a custody hearing, a masked shooter enters the courtroom and opens fire. Crawford, who happens to be a Texas Ranger, protects the judge and chases the man from the room. Later, afraid his actions will jeopardize […]
Simpering at a Lost Lord
This review is for the audiobook version of Loving a Lost Lord by Mary Jo Putney. This is a book that was maybe ruined by the reader. She used a kind of breathy voice and made the heroine sound stupid, but not in words, in tone. The story is interesting enough, with a man washed ashore and a woman tending him through his amnesia, but the simpering voice of the reader made the heroine really unlikable. It has some interesting ideas in it, a man […]
Blind Woman Does Surgery in a Forest
This review is for the audiobook verson of The Spymaster’s Lady, by Joanna Bourne, the first in her Spymasters series. Full disclosure: I listened to this while I was sick and not really with it (thank you cold medicine and naps), so that probably had an effect on my feelings about this book. After learning that My Lord and Spymaster was second in a series, I decided to listen to the first. It too was read by a woman with an American accent, but it […]