Sara Fielding and Derek Craven have a hell of a “meet-cute”. While researching her future novel in one of the seedier corners of the East End, Sara comes across Craven being held down and attacked by two thugs. They’ve slashed his face open, and she intends only to fire a warning shot from her pistol (which sh obviously keeps in her reticule for defencive purposes), when she instead ends up killing one of the assailants. She discovers that the man whose life she saved is […]
Non-fiction, and I’m caught up (thanks Cait!)
First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower 4 stars Hardcore history nerds will like this one. It contains so much information — about the presidents, about how a White House is run, and of course, about our first ladies. I definitely feel like the author had some favorites here (Michelle doesn’t come off great here, but man, I have some new love for Pat Nixon), but I learned a lot about EVERYONE and came away with some newfound respect for […]
British WWII Drama is My Jam
I love British things and have a fascination with anything World War II so naturally I was drawn to Chris Cleave’s novel Everyone Brave is Forgiven. Everyone is the tale of a handful of young friends through the first few years of World War II in London and beyond. It has love rectangles, death, racism, smoking, morphine and bombs all in one tidy package. The novel opens with our heroine, Mary North, going to the war office to volunteer to help almost as soon as […]
Left Behind in a Shack to eat Chicken Soup with Kirk Cameron. Jesus.
There is a pretty good story, here, but it’s lost in the sonorous ramblings of a man too fixated on scenery. Do I need to provide a synopsis? Surely we’ve all seen the movie (not the new one, which I assume is atrocious). In short: it’s a revenge tale, of a first century Jewish man who has his life ruined by a childhood friend, a Roman. Judah Ben Hur spends years as a galley slave, before lucking his way back into wealth and the good […]
The Lost Prince
Regency England, January 1813: The mutilated body of a young French doctor found in an alley beside a mysterious, badly injured woman entangles Sebastian in the deadly riddle of the “Lost Dauphin,” the boy prince who disappeared during the darkest days of the French Revolution. In one of the poorest areas in London, two bodies are discovered – a woman, near death and a man, dead with his heart viciously removed. Paul Gibson, a surgeon/anatomist, has stumbled across this gruesome scene as he was heading home. […]
The plot of this book pretty much has everything…and then some
Miss Wilhelmina “Lily” Lawson, also known in much of London as “Lawless Lily” is estranged from her family, but has been able to live independently due to a large inheritance from an eccentric aunt. When she’s not shocking society with her wild antics, she’s known to keep company with notorious gambling hell owner Derek Craven, and the most popular rumour is that she is his mistress. When Lily is visited by an old family friend, Zachary, Lord Stamford, she discovers that her gentle younger sister […]
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