A series of escalating hurricanes and non-stop rain have left the south east US devastated and abandoned. A line has been drawn, and anything south of that is now lawless no-man's land. This is a soggy, chilled read where one man's solitude and hopelessness is reflected in the land around him. … [Read more]
A Series of Unfortunate Brothers
Last week I had a headache, and I turned off the TV, and turned on my Kindle, onto which I had previously downloaded The Governess Affair, at some point when Amazon was giving it away. And then I spent the rest of the day, and much of the night, reading the entire rest of the series. Which I know is … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:11 ·
Genres: Fiction, Romance ·
Tags: A Kiss for Midwinter, Courtney Milan, multiple review, rakes, romance, Series, series review, The Countess Conspiracy, The Duchess War, The Governess Affair, the heiress effect ·
Who Decides What Broken Really Is?
(Note: I got a pre-release e-version of this book via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.) One of the things I didn't know when I was reading is that this book is classified as New Adult Romance, making it, technically the first book I've read in that genre (that's been labeled that … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:6 ·
Genres: Fiction, Romance ·
Tags: Best Kind of Broken, Characters with Weird Names, Chelsea Fine, NetGalley, New Adult Romance, New to Me Author ·
Trilogy Tour #2: The Powder Mage Trilogy #1
My first stop on the Trilogy Tour turned out to be somewhat of a dud, and even though all of the books in The Long Price Quartet were already published, I decided to abandon that series and start fresh. Promise of Blood wastes no time in getting right to the action - the king is overthrown in … [Read more]
The Golden Notebook: A Novel by Doris Lessing
There is a part of me that feels brazen and shameless for daring to write reviews of literary classics. Who am I to judge Tolstoy's War and Peace, for example (which I did for Cannonball Read 5)? The Golden Notebook is another such a book, but it is also one of those novels that I have wanted to … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:6 ·
Genres: Fiction, History ·
Tags: 1956, alienation, Communism, communist party, Doris Lessing, ElCicco, feminism, McCarthyism, Stalin, The Golden Notebook, Women's LIberation, WWII ·
A germ of a story, surrounded by filler
This story was originally two pages in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, expanded into a “what if these two characters actually crossed paths” tale. Mary Stewart has obviously proved her mettle with her line of Arthurian classics, but this one feels like a short story expanded into a movie. Get … [Read more]