Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation floral espionage series continues with book four of eleven, The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, and features droll characters bantering their way through espionage and falling in love. It’s a turn of the 19th century The Thin Man with all of the wit and irreverence one would expect of a Georgian Nick and Nora. As with the first novel, The Secret History Pink Carnation, the adventure is framed by a PhD candidate, Eloise, conducting research on aristocratic spies of the period and […]
A heart-wrenching classic
Janie is married to a man when she is 16, because her grandmother, a former slave, wants to ensure a good life for her. Janie is miserable. To her there must be love in a marriage and she sets into the marriage waiting for love to happen. When she meets Joe one day she decides to run away with him, being struck by his big dreams and certainty of good things in life. They settle down in Eatonwille, an all black town, and Joe quickly […]
A Satanic Conspiracy of Skinny
This novel would be downright silly, if it weren’t so darned sweet. The premise of The Program is that Satan has launched a miraculous weight-loss program designed to ensnare the souls of millions of sad women who have been brainwashed into believing that curves mean fat, and fat means unsexy and unloveable. And so Lovett takes on the obsession with weight that dominates the world’s media, entertainment industry, fashion industry, and bedrooms around the globe, and presents us with a different reality, one in which […]
Unexpected, in some ways that you want and in some that you don’t
In a comment collection on a CBR post not too long ago, I snarked about the tendency of romance authors to make their rakes all superior lovers. On its face, it doesn’t seem that unlikely: practice makes perfect, right? It’s one thing for a man to hone a set of skills over time that most women might appreciate, but these rakes are uniformly self-described scoundrels who care very little for the women they are bedding and admit to considering sex something like a standard bodily […]
A historical romance with so much dumb. This is not a good book, guys.
1.5 stars WARNING! This review WILL contain fairly specific plot spoilers, but it’s an awful book, so you don’t want to read it anyway, and should thank me for explaining in detail why you should avoid it. Jessica Wentworth is probably the most successful actress in London, but she’s hiding a deep dark secret. Her real name is Julia Hargate and she’s been married to the Marquess of Savage since they were both children. Julia ran away from home and has been disowned, she only […]
A heroine no one but Jane Austen herself could love
So does anyone actually need me to recap the plot ofEmma, a nearly two hundred year old classic which has been adapted any number of times, currently as a successful YouTube webseries in Emma Approved? To be fair, I’m not sure even half of my actual real life friends have read this book, so I’ll be nice to you. Emma Woodhouse is twenty-one, the youngest daughter of a prosperous country gentleman and her governess, Miss Taylor, who more or less raised her from she was very little, has […]
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