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Fairies, Feelings, and Fixing up the Old House

Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan

July 12, 2026 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Thistlemarsh is supposed to be romantasy. It sort of is, but maybe I just wasn’t into this one. I didn’t really see much of any romance, just a sort of “forced to work together and suddenly we might have feelings (kinda)”? The premise is fine: Mouse, a WWI nurse, has come home to care for her brother who served a as a soldier and now has severe PTSD and/or other mental/emotional issues. She learns that basically her only surviving family, an uncle who thought his […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, fairies, Moorea Corrigan, romantasy, Thistlemarsh, WWI historical fiction

CoffeeShopReader's CBR18 Review No:32 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, fairies, Moorea Corrigan, romantasy, Thistlemarsh, WWI historical fiction ·
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