historical. Victorian – Cannonball Read 17

“…the domestic angel of Victorian fantasy momentarily gave way to a bloodthirsty ghoul”

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale

July 23, 2024 by esme Leave a Comment

Bingo: Rage Someone recommended The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher to me and, as someone who likes a good mystery and who started watching the tv show but then dropped it because of all the muttonchops, it seemed right up my alley. In theory I should love Kate Summerscale’s portrait of a middle class Victorian era family tragedy. In practice I think it could have used some editing and perhaps not every stone needed to be unturned (or turned?); however, I can be in the mood […]

Great expectations: why did this have to be my first cannonball

January 20, 2017 by Krieger_clone 10 Comments

So my first ever Cannonball review and boy I wish it didn’t have to be this book. One of the things I want to achieve with my cannonball is to reawaken my love of reading. As a teenager through to my early years at college I loved reading but somewhere along the way, like an old friend, I lost touch with my passion for books. Don’t get me wrong I still read a couple of books a year usually on holiday but that side of […]

KleypasKleypas Cannoncannonballball!

October 28, 2015 by Mrs. Julien 24 Comments

3.5 stars I will try to calm my excitement induced vibrating to write this review. I discovered Lisa Kleypas when I dove into the romance genre in 2012 and read everything of hers I could get my hands on – The Wallflowers, The Hathaways, The Travises, Derek, Gideon, and Zachary. She is the author whose work I have read the most of and I was SO EXCITED to learn she was returning to historicals. How excited? I’m writing this review and the book hasn’t even […]

If you go into the woods today, beware the bunnies (and all the other animals)

October 26, 2014 by Malin Leave a Comment

Nurse Letitia “Tish” Everett has only really started recovering from her very controlling, emotionally and physically abusive fiancee Jeff, when she’s drawn to a tarnished antique locket at an estate sale and actually ends up shocking herself by stealing it. After managing to force it open, she is splashed by luminous crimson liquid. Inside the locket, there is a portrait of a darkly handsome man she think of as a “naughty Mr. Darcy” and a foreign inscription of some kind. Falling asleep with the locket […]

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