This review is for the audio book version of The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan. This book is the first in a series about disgraced news reporter turned newspaper journalist Jane Ryland and her friend, Detective Jake Brogan. It is a fast paced thriller, full of political intrigue, family drama, jealousy, and unrequited lust. It isn’t groundbreaking, but it was entertaining enough to pick up the second in the series. The book begins with Jane, freshly unemployed after getting her employer sued, interviewing for […]
Not to be confused with that other, other Girl
The second book in the “Love Takes Root” series is The Other Harlow Girl. It’s about Lavinia (Vinnie, natch), the Harlow Hoyden‘s sister. You remember her from the first book, the one that was engaged to the [spoiler], and then [spoiler spoilered] him because he was about to [spoiler] her sister, who is now the Duchess of Trent (she married the guy that she tried to get to seduce Vinnie in the first book). Whew! Anyway, the Hoyden and the Duke are married, and Vinnie […]
I’m breakin’ through, I’m bendin’ spoons, I’m keepin’ flowers in full bloom.
This book was book club read and it really wasn’t something I would have picked up on my own. Ultimately I’m glad I did. I’m not particularly sentimental about my remains so I’ve always said I’d either be cremated or donate my remains to science. Being less than halfway through my life (if the women in my family are any indication, I may live to be over a century) I didn’t think much about it beyond that. Reading Mary Roach’s book is a detailed […]
The easiest way is always to work through a suitable man
Man, I needed this book, and I don’t mean that in any particularly deep way. It’s just that the last couple of months, I’ve been deep into the Stephen King, and the Naomi Novik, and then unexpectedly took the deep dive into Red Rising. All of which has been absolutely outstanding, but it’s been kind of super rich reading. A very dear friend recommended The Summer Before the War, and so I put it on my library hold list… and that very same night it […]
Didn’t really see what the fuss is about
Carol Danvers, who is apparently a hot-shot pilot and one of the Avengers, lives in the crown of the Statue of Liberty (you can do that?) with her sister and niece. When the Avengers find an escape pod from a spaceship with an alien refugee inside it, they decide that Carol be the one to return the girl to her homeworld, as well as take up a more permanent presence in space as a representative for the Avengers Initiative. As she returns the girl to […]
A castle full of odd ducks and misfits
The opening story of Castle Waiting, which explains how the castle came to be abandoned, so to speak, is a variation on Sleeping Beauty. Only once the princess is awakened from her century of sleep and the hedge surrounding the castle lets people in and out, she goes off with her prince and pretty much forgets about the place where she slumbered and the people in it. As the years pass, the castle becomes a refuge for various outcasts and odd characters, with the princess’ […]
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