3.5 stars First of all, I want to thank the ever lovely Mrs. Julien, who kindly sent me an Amazon gift card during my continued convalescence. Part of that gift card financed this story. This novella follows four full novels and a novella, which while they’re not strictly necessary to get the full impact of the story, are well worth reading. Start with A Week to Be Wicked, it’s amazing! Miss Elinora “Nora” Browning grew up next to and was taught lessons along with George […]
The now less secret history of a made up spy
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation – Reviewed on KatsCannon “The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.” I know you’ll be shocked when you discover I’m reading yet another book that is part of a series (well, maybe you are – if you are only reading CBR7, you don’t know my reading proclivities as yet). However, this […]
From recluse to badass in one novel
4.5 stars. This book had me enthralled from start to finish. In Girl Waits With Gun, Amy Stewart tells the fictionalized story of a real life woman who was one of the first female deputies. The story is basically Constance Kopp’s origin story. Events start before she’d ever dreamed of entering law enforcement in 1914 when a rich silk man, Henry Kaufman, rams into the Kopp sister’s carriage. Much of the town witnessed this accident and it’s well established that Kaufman was at fault, so […]
The Century Trilogy is over
I don’t know how Ken Follett does it. All of his books are so very long and dense and filled with story and history and information and characters and other stuff I can’t think of. He’s exhausting. And exhaustive. I wonder what his family is like. I mean, really. What would dinner conversation be like with this guy? He knows everything about medieval Europe and cathedral building, and now he’s got most of Western Civ covered with the Century Trilogy. Plus he writes all those […]
Angelica! Eliza! ..and Peggy. The Schuyler Sisters!
The Secret Life of Violet Grant – Reviewed on KatsCannon “I thought, how magical, the first glimpse of snow. By March I would be sick of it, but here in this November instant those tiny flakes swirled with the unspeakable purity of a divine gift.” About the title of this review – I read this book before I jumped on the Hamilton bandwagon, but when I went to write this and saw Schuyler Sisters as a label on it on Goodreads, I couldn’t resist the […]
“Double, double, toil and trouble…”
Just to be clear, I am not going to include any spoiler warnings for this play, since it’s somewhere between 406-416 years old (sources seem to disagree exactly when it was written). If, for some reason, you’re worried about having major plot points or deaths (there’s a whole bunch, guys) ruined for you, then it’s probably best that you skip this review entirely. So Macbeth or the Scottish play. Despite having English lit as my minor at university, and Scottish history as part of my […]
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