I couldn’t wait very long before my curiosity got the better of me and I went hunting for Dragonfly in Amber (1993) by Diana Gabaldon–the second in the Outlander series. This is the continuing story of Claire, the WWII nurse, dragged through time to the 1740’s and her adventures with Jamie Fraser, her sexy Highlander husband. This book follows the events leading up to the Jacobite rebellion in 1745, ending with the battle at Culloden. Jamie and Claire travel first to Paris before heading home […]
If you can ignore the plot, it’s pretty good
I usually only double up my romances when the first one has disappointed me. Between the Devil and Ian Eversea left me surprisingly dismayed, considering how much I usually enjoy Julie Anne Long’s books. So I decided to give her another try with Since the Surrender (2009). If I could take how I felt about the beginning of this one with how I felt about the end of Between the Devil and Ian Eversea, I’d have a fully satisfying romance novel. Unfortunately, this one had […]
Mean Girl meets Bad Boy
I was going to read Between the Devil and Ian Eversea (2014) by Julie Anne Long as soon as it came out, but my library purchased an ebook and not the Kindle version. After much waiting, I got the message to check it out, and I realized I couldn’t read it. I was disappointed, but there are a lot of other books out there, and I was soon distracted. It was only recently that I finally decided to suck it up and borrow the paper […]
If you lived 300 years…
There are journeys that we never know where take us. I was not impressed. I was angry, and this anger stayed with me. I found it hard to forgive Anyanwu for loving Doro. When we first meet Anyanwu she has been living for 300 years in different villages, serving as their medicine woman. She is a healer and can change her body shape at will, changing from old to young, from human to animal, from woman to man. Doro can sense her and he diverts his […]
Abominable …It doesn’t mean what you think it means
This book is like climbing a mountain, a bit slow to build in spots, very technical, full of detail, but worth the effort at the end. Dan Simmons has created a another “historical fiction” novel that is so close to the truth and history that you question if it isn’t in fact a true piece of history. He did this with The Terror a few years back which was a tale of the Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage – based on historical fact […]
A Serial Killer Haunts Post-WWII Italy
Bojhalian takes us on a visit to Italy’s beautiful Tuscany during one of the most horrifying periods in that country’s history, when the German occupation had splintered the nation between the resistance, the collaborators, and the majority caught in between who mostly struggled to survive without selling their souls to the devil. But beyond a thought-provoking examination of choices and consequences under wartime conditions, Bojhalian also throws us into the middle of a hunt for a serial killer 10 years after the war’s end, a […]
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