Do you like your Darcy in a military uniform? A doctor’s coat? A former spy? Maybe a writer? From nostalgic past to present, Cat Gardiner weaves four short stories to tickle a romance lover’s fancy. Ten Cents a Dance is a Pride and Prejudice/WWII love story that starts at a Queens, New York dance hall […]
Since the first book, the series has turned the focus from classic Scarlet Pimpernel territory of France for other locales, but after the brief and light distraction of the Mischief of the Mistletoe, The Orchid Affair plunges into a caper set right under the nose of Napoleon himself with the suspense taking up even more […]
Enchanting and mysterious India is the setting for this latest in The Pink Carnation series and we have a bad girl paired with a squeaky clean heroic guy to track down the latest of Napoleon’s spies, The Marigold. Full of light banter, frivolity, and a good dose of romantic espionage, The Betrayal of the Blood […]
ICYMI is a post from my early days of blogging at Yummy Men & KickAss Chicks. You can see the original joint review here. Yummy Man – Michael Garland Kick Ass Chick – Charlotte (Charlie) Stone Her Last Whisper is the third book in the Dr. Charlotte Stone series by Karen Robards. I loved the first two books of […]
Establishing himself as a gentleman detective, starting a family, and now delivering speeches from the front seats in Parliament, Charles Lenox has come a long way. Yet, sometimes he misses the old detection game and is happy to help out a sick friend with a new intriguing case that twists its way to a rather […]
While this review will be spoiler-free for Night Broken, the 8th book in the Mercy Thompson series there will be some minor series spoilers. Patricia Briggs does an amazing job writing Urban Fantasy with a heroine who’s strong and loyal to a fault and the Mercy Thompson series is a great example of that […]
The inferno started in The Collapsing Empire continues to build in The Consuming Fire. An emperox and her trusted few must find a way to save as many as possible in this second of tightly connected stories in the Interdependency trilogy. The background, characters, and world-building were introduced in the first book so The Consuming […]
This graphic novel is a prequel to The Dresden File series. It is set just before the events of Storm Front, book one. Here, Harry is called in to help CPD Sergeant Murphy investigate a strange murder at the zoo. It appears that gorilla killed a man, but the gorilla is in its enclosure. What […]
I’m incredibly happy with most of the developments in this book. Not only was the mystery a good head scratcher but there were some pretty big shifts on the relationship fronts. I want to be clear that while I like the mysteries in this series, I’m really here for the overall relationship arcs. We’ve been […]