I started this year with a plan to review every book I read, but that fell by the wayside pretty quickly, because there are just some books about which I have nothing to say. It may be that they are neither good, nor bad, or they are fine, but not interesting, or they are bad, but not offensive. I recently read two installments in Sarina Bowen’s True North series, and initially thought they would remain among the unreviewed. Alwaysanswerb’s review of The Chocolate Rose made […]
Bittersweet symphony (minus most of the angst)
Bittersweet is the first book in Sarina Bowen’s new Vermont foodie series True North. I loved most of her Ivy Years series so when I had a credit from Amazon I decided to give this one a go. It was free, what did I have to lose? Griff Shipley is an ex-attempted pro football player, organic apple farmer in Vermont. I know, that’s a hell of a bio. Audrey Kidder was a 2 night stand in college, and now a trained chef trying to work […]
This book would make V.C. Andrews blush…
I’m woefully behind in my reviews, and so I’ve had some time and space apart from this novel, and I have to tell you, I still don’t know what to think. I can’t tell if I loved it for all of its gothic-ness, or I hated it for all of its horrible characters. So I’m giving it three stars, because that feels like a solidly middle-of-the-pack recommendation, but if you pick this up, know going in to it that you might get to the end […]