Baccano!: The Rolling Bootlegs is as the title suggests (‘baccano’ supposedly means ‘commotion’) a crazy story with a lot of characters and a lot of action. I have to admit, I’d seen the anime of this story already (I’m pretty sure there’s a manga too but I haven’t seen that), so I kind of knew who was who, but the novel version actually includes a lot of things that made more sense to me in this format, including the identity of the demon who provides […]
Apparently My Whole Life Has Been a Lie & I Don’t Know What to do
Mortal Heart Rating: 5/5 Summary: Annith is an initiate at the Convent of Saint Mortain, where she has lived her whole life. She has believed she was an orphan and was never wanted by her mother. Annith is by far the best initiate yet, but she still has not been chosen to go out on a mission for their God. When she hears that she is being groomed by the Abbess to become the next seeress, Annith is fearful of being shut in for the […]
The last Bridgerton sibling finds his match…eventually
Gregory Bridgerton is the second youngest of eight siblings and the last of the Bridgerton offspring to remain single. Having seen all of his siblings settle into loving marriages, he is certainly a believer in true love. He just hasn’t met the right woman yet. He’s quite convinced he’ll know once he finally meets the one. Only, when Gregory finally falls in love with a woman, the charming and stunning Miss Hermione Watson, she’s already in love with another man. Her father’s secretary, to be […]
“Is it too much to wish for such a life? Is it too little?”
“Just to sit for a moment, herself, no one claiming her time or her thoughts or the product of her mind and hands. What other word to call that if not freedom?” Josephine Bell lives on the Bell Creek Plantation in 1852; she cares for her ailing Missus, Lu Anne Bell, in relative comfort (for a slave) but her cruel Master drives her need to escape before the Missus dies. In New York City in 2004 Lina Sparrow has been assigned to a slavery reparations case […]
Talking Dogs, Strange Animals, War and Creepy Zombie things trying to eat us
Rating: 4.5/5 Summary: After bravely rescuing Miss Peregrine from the clutches of evil wights and hollowgasts, Jacob and crew are setting out for London. They must find another ymbryne in order to help Miss Peregrine turn back to her normal self. Landing on the main land, they must escape the wights on their tail. On their journey they find even more peculiars and strange allies as well as more evil zombies. Will they save Miss Peregrine in time? The plot in this one was just […]
We interrupt this Star Wars binge to bring you some Regency romance
Hoyden: (n) a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy. Emma Harlow has built quite a reputation in London. She broke Sir Leopold’s record for racing a curricle from London to Newmarket (and she thinks she could have been even faster had propriety not required the presence of her brother in the carriage). She’s smart, she’s unconventional, and she’s funny, and no one wants that in a wife. She also really doesn’t like her twin sister’s fiance, Sir Waldo Windbourne (Emma calls him Windbag, for […]
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