While this novel actually covers a shorter time period than its predecessor, Here Be Dragons, this novel feels even more sprawling. I think this is partially due to the number of characters and leaders in Wales. While the English part of this narrative is centered around Simon de Montfort, his wife Nell and King Henry III, in that time, the Welsh have three separate rulers: the final years of Llewellyn the Great’s reign, his son Davydd’s short rule, and finally, Llewellyn, Dafydd’s nephew and Llewellyn […]
Permanently Marked by the Past
This is another one of those novels I have been meaning to read in order to branch out, and Book Riot’s Read Harder challenge provided that final push to turn it from a vague intention to a reality. While Hester’s father was descended from a free family tracing their freedom back to the Revolution, Hester was born into slavery. Her father sold himself into slavery to be with her mother, a slave in South Carolina. Unfortunately, the master he arranged his deal with died only […]
To be someone’s choice
It’s been quite a while since the previous novel in The Worth Saga was released, and while I remembered the main story about the family’s downfall due to the father’s treason and two protagonists reconnecting after years of estrangement, I had actually forgotten my reaction to some of the characters until I saw an old comment I had made on Malin’s Goodreads review. Apparently, Theresa, the youngest sister, had seriously grated my nerves in the first one. Milan obviously toned her down quite a bit […]
The Heroine Is Not As Charming As She Thinks She Is
I’ve noticed Deanna Raybourn popping up on a few reviews lately, and it seemed like the second novel in this series was well received so I decided to start with this one. I will say that to me this was definitely a case of the novel and the cover not matching. Fortunately, I had read some reviews so I wasn’t expecting steam punk, but with the font on that cover, my first guess absolutely would have been that this was a steam punk novel. Veronica […]
A Roaring Start
The Dukes of Ripley, Ashmont and Blackwood are known throughout London as the Disgraces and have gone past the point of being rakes to being considered unmarriageable. This is rather uncommon since men are usually forgiven their wild side in these stories but the three friends have made it a habit of going too far. While they may be seen as untouchable by their peers, the workers actually are rather found of them because despite all their fighting and carousing (or perhaps because of it), […]
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston is a relatively short classic that I read because it was on my Fifty Books Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40 List. The introduction stated that the book is a classic because of its unique contribution to black literature: “it affirms black cultural traditions while revising them to empower black women.” I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect, and was afraid it was one of those classics that feels dated or is difficult to read and […]
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