This review required a little research from me on the genre distinction between paranormal and fantasy, so I could resolve that Widdershins is the former. The first in a series, which takes its name from the main characters, this paranormal romance features a couple interacting with occult forces and things that go bump in the night. I would recommend Widdershins, even though it was not my cup of tea. It was fun, but I like significantly less violence and prefer a dearth of imaginary creatures […]
Kleypas is getting demoted
I had super high hopes for this book, and it just didn’t live up to them. While reading it I thought that it was the best in the series so far, but on reflection, it’s now tied with Marrying Winterborne (though it ends up with a lower grade because I am trying to be stricter with myself on grading and be slightly less generous). Gabriel, Lord St. Vincent, is the heir to a dukedom and a young man-about-town who is enjoying the finer things in […]
He Smelled Like a Very Expensive Forest
“He smelled like an expensive forest.” The goddess of romance writers, Lisa Kleypas, has not lost her clever touch. What starts as potential ruination and scandal quickly changes into a fierce love match when Gabriel, Lord St. Vincent, and Lady Pandora Ravenel are caught in a compromising position when her dress is caught in the scroll work of a settee at exactly the wrong moment. Encouraged, but not badgered, by her family, Pandora agrees to spend time with her erstwhile seducer despite her very strong […]
Cross-Dressing Lesbians aren’t as much fun when there isn’t any magic
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters is a lesbian romance novel set in late Victorian England, and it’s fine. I guess? I have absolutely no idea why I don’t like this book more than I do, but in instead of loving it I’m pretty meh on the whole thing and I want to work out why. The plot really is a romance plot; Nancy is a young fishmonger’s daughter who falls hard for the male impersonating stage performer Kitty Butler. She manages to work her […]