Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb
Not a bad installment to the “In Death” series. This honestly gets four stars since there was less what I call aggravations in this one. Plus, this one had a call back to a previous book, Innocent in Death. There are some loose ends in this long running series, so it was nice to get something nice and tidied away. Though I still call BS that no one out there is ever going to call Roarke out on the things he got up to when […]
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
CBR18Bingo: Craft, because one character learns how to do witchcraft. A Discovery of Witches is about Diana Bishop, a historian who stumbles upon a powerful ancient manuscript. Because Diana is also a witch, she recognizes the manuscript’s magical qualities, and returns it, trying to keep magic out of her academic work as much as possible. But it turns out this manuscript has been lost for 250 years, and the fact that she was able to find and open it is enough to draw the attention […]
Fossil Feud by Maggie North
I don’t know if it was mood, book hangover from a bunch of fantastic books, or craft problems, but it took a lot of effort for me to finish Fossil Feud. Fossil Feud was my first book from Maggie North, and my unfamiliarity with the author’s style might have been part of the problem. There were parts that I enjoyed a lot, but I ended up wanting more and less. My biggest frustration was with the love interest, Dr. James Smithson. He never felt real […]
The Whisper Man by Alex North
TRIGGER WARNING FOR BOOK. Review is safe. and my FREE BINGO becuase I thought it would be funny to have all the circles filled and I really couldn’t make up my mind which one I wanted to use for Or (‘cause really you can’t trust anyone OR can you?) Like the last few years, my New Year’s Resolutions this year were to read more books and different books than usual. However, the second one proved tricky. I’d start something out of my wheelhouse and […]
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
bcr18bingo Justice Having just read a novel set in 18th century Haiti, it was curious to see the differences between Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende, and this one. Set in Jamaica instead, the settlers and plantation owners are British rather than French, a far more homogeneous upper class, and this tale is also on a much smaller scale. Not to mention that it is in some ways a more light-hearted tale, albeit not without the occasional brutal scenes that are part of any portrayal […]
I Think They Love You by Julian Winters
Bingo Square: Success (Denz has to figure out what success is for him) This was a cute second chance romance with fake dating that I mostly enjoyed. It’s third person limited, told entirely from Denz’s perspective, and as much as I liked Denz, I think being entirely in his head for the length of the entire novel made it feel a little longer than it was. I don’t necessarily have a preference between dual POV or single POV when it comes to romance but I […]
