Mikki Blu – Page 3 – Cannonball Read 17

The devil you know

Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah Maclean

February 5, 2019 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

This is book one in the Bareknuckle Bastards series, which has a rather complicated premise that takes the reader a little too long to figure out at the start. There is a prologue regarding three boys born to three women on the same day that are illegitimate and one girl born the same day who may or may not be a duke’s daughter. From there the first chapter jumps into action with a mysterious stranger planning to sneak into a ball held in honor of […]

1907 vs 2007 – when would you rather have lived?

Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann

January 30, 2019 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

This book is told from the viewpoints of two women, Amanda and Olive, who live 100 years apart. Olive is in 1907 New York while Amanda is the modern 2007 character. The premise sounded intriguing – Amanda is a vintage clothing shop owner who discovers a journal in an old muff. Olive is the author of said journal, who has to struggle to survive on her own after the death of her father leaves her nearly destitute. I’ve read several books by Lauren Willig that […]

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Sugarhouse Blues by Mariah Stewart

January 24, 2019 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

This is book two in the Hudson Sisters Series – the first book “The Last Chance Matinee” introduced the trio of women who are bound by the terms of their father’s will to restore an old theatre in the small town of Hidden Falls, PA where he grew up. Two of them, Allie and Des, were shocked to discover that they had a half-sister that they never knew about until the reading of the will. Cara was his daughter by another woman, and he never […]

A sweet tea of a story

Jane of Austin by Hillary Manton Lodge

January 21, 2019 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

Full disclosure – I’m not a big Jane Austen fan (cue gasps of astonishment), so I went into reading this modern spin on Sense and Sensibility without much expectation. I had noticed it was reviewed here earlier this month, so when I spotted the copy at the library I was intrigued enough to pick it up. This book tells the tale of the Woodward sisters, who are left to fend for themselves after their father (convicted of embezzlement) skips the country to avoid jail time. […]

Beneath the facade of glitz and glamour

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

January 17, 2019 by Mikki Blu 1 Comment

“The scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley.” This is a fictional telling of the socialite “Swans” of the 1950s and early 1960s that focuses mainly on Barbara “Babe” Paley, and her friendship with Truman Capote; however it includes many other famous women such as Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Pamela Churchill. These are the fabulously wealthy ladies who lunch, dress to impress, marry often and love to gossip. The era was […]

Outlander meets Criminal Minds

A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain

January 14, 2019 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life—200 years before she was even born. This was certainly not a book to take seriously – think of a wallpaper historical novel with a modern day heroine who just doesn’t fit in, nor does she seem to care to. Kendra Donovan is supposedly a child prodigy; she went […]

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