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Some Lessons Are Best Not Repeated

The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

July 31, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

Ugh, oh man. OK. So, it turns out I reviewed another of Ashford’s books last year, Whisper of the Moon Moth, and I really wish I had realized these books were by the same author before I had started it. It also explains why this stupid book refused to stop popping up in my “Recommended For You” List on my Kindle. A quick recap of why I wasn’t thrilled with Moon Moth: basically I really don’t like novels that try to make suppositions about real […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr11bingo, historical fiction, Lindsay Jayne Ashford, travel

lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbr11bingo, historical fiction, Lindsay Jayne Ashford, travel ·
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Sometimes a Book Teaches Us About Ourselves

April 11, 2018 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

This is kind of a tough review for me to write. In the course of reading this book I came to realize something about myself. I really am not a fan of fictional stories that revolve around real people and their histories, at least not as long as those people are recent enough that people who knew them could still be alive. This book is about the rise of 1950s movie actress Merle Oberon, and she only died in 1977. Along with that, as she’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: historical fiction, Lindsay Jayne Ashford, Whisper of the Moon Moth

lumenatrix's CBR10 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: historical fiction, Lindsay Jayne Ashford, Whisper of the Moon Moth ·
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