I received a fabulous package today: Shelley Freydont’s A Gilded Grave, which I have been dying to read, as well as the sequel A Golden Cage! (And a lovely bookmark too – yay!) I have been on a big mystery reading kick lately, and historical mysteries are my particular weakness. Thank you Scootsa1000!
I really wanted a better book for my first Cannonball
I read the first and third books in Erin Satie’s No Better Angels series well over a year ago, maybe even two years ago. I adored them. Why did I not read this, the second book in the series at that time? Long answer: I’m a hoarder. The first step is admitting you have a problem. And my problem is ebooks. I snatch up anything that grabs my fancy if the price is right. And, then I am a weirdo control freak and force myself […]
A great series addition and a filler novel
The Rivers of London/Peter Grant series continued on a strong note with books 4 and 5 in the series. I read these back to back, and decided to combine my reviews. Recap from Books 1-3: Peter Grant is a magician’s apprentice as well as a policeman in modern London. His special unit investigates and solves crimes involving paranormal phenomena. Most of the magician population was wiped out during WWII, but a newly trained dark magician is plotting something big while lots of other paranormal happenings […]
A new to me author I will warily keep my eye on
This is a Victorian marriage of convenience story. With a description like that I was willing to try a new author. Victoria is an American heiress who has been raised to try and marry in to the British aristocracy. She has no expectations of a love match and all she really wants is the freedom from her parents that a marriage will bring. Andrew is the second son of an impoverished duke whose older brother has recently died. Victoria’s father basically wins Andrew in a […]
Four reviews for the price of one!
This review (more like book synopsis) is for a collection of four books all rolled in to one. I didn’t read them all at once (or even in proper order), but overall the things I liked and disliked about them apply to the whole series, so I’m rolling them in to one. FYI: I started picking these books up at Mrs. Julien‘s suggestion when one was free. Then I collected the others over time and ending up spending only $1 to own the whole series. […]
“The Good Lord went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that one of the finest minds in existence was housed in a body least likely to be suspected of it.”
This book. Man, this book is exactly what I needed this past insanely crappy week. It’s a 4.5 star book, but I needed it so much I can’t give it anything less than a 5 right now. This is the first in a trilogy about Charlotte Holmes, a self-styled private investigator in Victorian London. It is fabulous. I adore the original Sherlock Holmes stories. They helped get me through a summer of studying for the Bar Exam. I was so obsessed that during my lunch […]
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