This review is for the audiobook version of The President’s Shadow by Brad Meltzer, read by Scott Brick. This is the third book in his Culper Ring series (I originally wrote fifth, it seems like it’s been going on forever!), and I don’t know why he hasn’t moved on to some new characters. The series is about a secret society tasked with the protection of the Presidency of the United States, and specifically about an archivist at the National Archive that is brought into […]
Another Easy Summer Read
This review is for the audio book version of The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan. This book is the first in a series about disgraced news reporter turned newspaper journalist Jane Ryland and her friend, Detective Jake Brogan. It is a fast paced thriller, full of political intrigue, family drama, jealousy, and unrequited lust. It isn’t groundbreaking, but it was entertaining enough to pick up the second in the series. The book begins with Jane, freshly unemployed after getting her employer sued, interviewing for […]
Escapist Highlanders
This review is for the audiobook versions of the Dark Sword series by Donna Grant. I listened to the six novels (I would assume more audiobooks are on the way) consecutively over a couple of weeks. I needed something light and escapist, and historical-paranormal-romance seemed like a good fit. I wouldn’t recommend listening to several books by the same author this quickly, as pet phrases will begin to grate, and you might notice small, annoyingly repetitive details more than you would otherwise. As you […]
Another Series To Be Obsessed With
Once again, the Overdrive algorithm picked me a winner. Emily is a young Victorian woman fed up with her mother’s demands and criticism. To get out from under her thumb she marries the next man to propose, despite barely knowing him. A few months into their marriage, Lord Ashton goes on Safari with friends, and never returns. Mourning a man she hardly knew rubs Emily the wrong way, so she sets out to learn more about him, uncovering a ring of art thieves and forgers […]