Alice is abandoned by her husband on their Honeymoon. Abandoned as in she wakes up one morning and he’s gone with just a note stating that he’s bouncing on the whole marriage, no further explanation. When she gets home she calls his mom and his office and quickly realizes no one in his life has any more idea what’s going on that she does. With no idea really what to do, Alice goes back to work at the gallery she manages and tries to act […]
I Didn’t Want This Book to End
I loved this book so very much. It was the warm, cozy blanket I needed in my life right now. I picked this up thanks to Jenny S’s review from a few weeks ago and I’m so glad I did. “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not […]
“Hauntingly Intelligent” is a Bit Lofty Here
So, according to Amazon the full title is Valentina: A Hauntingly Intelligent Psychological Thriller. I really hope everything after the colon was added by the publisher as advertising and to help with search engine confusion and not actually what the author titled the book. If the author did add it… wow, someone’s got some pretty confident opinions of themselves. It’s not a bad book, I enjoyed it and read it in about three days. The plot clips along and there isn’t a lot of fat […]
Not So Much About the Daughter, but Still Good
It has taken me a while to figure out how I wanted to review this book. I actually read a whole other book while trying to figure out how I really felt about it. The main thing that my deliberations came down to was that it is a very good book… It just wasn’t really the book I was looking for when I started it. Based on the title and they synopsis blurb I was under the impression this was a story where the titular […]
If Celebitchy and the Daily Mail had existed in the Middle Ages
Oh man, I am SO far behind on writing up my books. I’ve read good ones, I’ve just been lazy about talking about them. I picked up Get Well Soon after reading Caitlin_D’s review. I have been reading a lot of fluffy, historical murder mysteries so far and I felt the need to try something different. I really enjoy what I call “accessible non-fiction” which is basically non-fiction books written in a more casual, conversational style. Mary Roach is probably the best known example […]
Girl Detective and Cranky Cat for Hire
Since this is books 1 & 2 of a series I may as well review them together. Posie Parker has just set out her shingle as a Private Investigator after coming home from the Ambulance Brigade in WWI. She grew up as the daughter of a country vicar and after losing both her brother and her fiance to the war has decided she has no desire to go back to the small town life. Setting up shop on Grape Street in London with […]