This is book two in the Rokesby series, set before the infamous Bridgerton bunch series, of which I’ve read all. However, I’m not as taken with this series as I’d hoped to be. The first book was okay, and this one had a lot of problematic plot devices. To begin with, Cecilia Harcourt makes an impetuous journey from England to America to care for her brother Thomas, a soldier in the army. He’s gone missing, however, but she feels like it would be an easy […]
Pearls of wisdom
This is a fictionalized telling of the life of Coco Chanel, and it strives to give a complete picture of the legendary designer. I admit to knowing next to nothing about her before I read the book, and it was quite fascinating to read how she managed to rise from poverty to become an icon in fashion. Born Gabrielle Chanel, she and her siblings were split apart after the death of her mother and abandonment of her father. During her schooling by nuns, she […]
Agent Dazzle and Lace
It hit me then that perhaps I had been looking at my assignment all wrong. I was serving the president, and the country, with an important task. I was responsible for protecting the things that were most important to him, personally- his wife and his children. Special Agent Clint Hill had been in the Secret Service a little over a year before he was transferred from exiting President Eisenhower’s detail to entering First Lady Jackie Kennedy’s detail in November of 1960. He was upset at first, viewing […]
This head witch needed more training
Set in high society Edwardian England, The Midnight Witch is the story of a young witch who faces the choice between love and loyalty to her coven… This blurb makes the book sound a lot more fascinating than it really was, in my opinion. Lady Lilith Radnor, daughter of the Duke of Radnor, is as young and beautiful as one expects the heroine to be; she’s also a witch. She is engaged to a fabulously handsome young man, who is also a witch. Her father […]
Who Killed the Artist’s Mistress?
This is the second book in the Veronica Speedwell mysteries, set in Victorian England. Veronica, our heroine, is a spunky adventurist and lepidopterist who met up with Revelstoke Templeton (aka Stoker) in the first book. Stoker comes from a noble family, but has been estranged from them for several years due to reasons he has kept to himself. He’s also an adventurer who spent time in the Royal Navy, and now does taxidermy in his free time. He and Veronica formed a strong bond solving […]
Have you read the one about the lepidopterist and the taxidermist?
This is the first book in the new series by Ms Raybourn, introducing intrepid adventuress and lepidopterist Veronica Speedwell. As per the book blurb: London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as with fending off admirers, Veronica intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. Veronica Speedwell is one of those heroines who seems to be ahead of her time […]
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