Available today: Duke of Sin ****4/5 stars With everything you love about historical romance, Duke of Sin is a great come-back story. Recommended readers: If you like a historical romance If you’re a fan of a come-back story in your romance If you like Elizabeth Hoyt, Lisa Kleypas, and Mary Balogh Here’s my Rankings: 4/5 for characters 3/5 for plot 4/5 overall 3/5 steaminess REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: A … Continue reading Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt
Available now: The Cavendon Luck ****4/5 stars With Downton-Abbey appeal and a meandering pre-World War II story, The Cavendon Luck is classic Barbara Taylor Bradford. Recommended readers: If you like Downton Abbey and other Edwardian English dramas If you’re a fan of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s family sagas If you enjoy a turn of the century, changing of times family drama Here’s my Rankings: 4/5 for characters 4/5 for … Continue reading The Cavendon Luck by Barbara Taylor Bradford
If you expect the perfection of Outlander Season 1, you’ll be disappointed. But if you can enjoy the slower, set-up episodes from the early part of Season 2, you’ll have much more of what most people love in the second half of the season. In that way though, it isn’t much different than Outlander Book 2: Dragonfly in Amber. The early part of Season 2 … Continue reading Season 2 Review: Outlander Series on Starz
Available now: Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck ****3/5 stars- liked it The author of The House of Hawthorne and Hemingway’s Girl tackles Zelda Fitzgerald. Recommended readers: For book clubs For Hemingway/Fitzgerald Jazz age buffs For fans historical fiction featuring real people Here’s my Rankings: 3/5 characters 3/5 plot 3/5 overall REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: Call me Zelda enters around Zelda Fitzgerald’s struggle with mental illness and with her famous husband, fictionalizing a … Continue reading Review: Call Me Zelda
Available June 21st: Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler ****3.5/5 stars-really liked it Anne Tyler takes on The Taming of the Shrew. Recommended readers: If you’re a fan of comedy, Shakespeare, and contemporary takes on classic stories, this one is for you. Here’s my Rankings: 3.5/5 characters 3.5/5 plot 3.5/5 overall REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: In the very popular vein of revisiting the classics with a modern twist, … Continue reading Available June 21st: Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl
Available now: The Girl from the Paradise Ballroom ***3/5 stars- liked it Forbidden love and family ties collide among an Italian family in World War II London. Recommended readers: If you’re a fan of World War II romantic fiction, and if you’re interested in the Italian perspective outside of Italy, this one is for you. Here’s my Rankings: 3/5 characters 3/5 plot 3/5 overall REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: For … Continue reading Available Now: The Girl from the Paradise Ballroom
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz **** 4/5 stars- loved it A young prep schooler is invited out West by a classmate, to a house of unparalleled riches where all is not as it seems. Recommended readers: Fitzgerald Fans anyone who wants a quick read in the Classics Here’s my Rankings: 4/5 for characters 4/5 for plot 4/5 overall REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: I flatter … Continue reading Get beyond the Great Gatsby: The Diamond as Big as The Ritz
In honor of Memorial Day: You Know When the Men are Gone *****5/5 stars When you read all in one sitting and get hit in the gut, right where you live, you give it five stars. Recommended readers: If you are a reader of short stories, if you are in any way connected with the military, and if you haven’t given your military and its wars much … Continue reading Short Fiction Review: You Know When the Men Are Gone
Available June 7th: What We Become by Arturo Perez-Reverte ****4/5 stars-loved it A classic tale of a beautiful woman and a gentleman thief spanning decades Recommended readers: Fans of slow-building romantic suspense fans of the Tango Fans of the theft-meets-love convention Here’s my Rankings: 4/5 characters 4/5 plot 4/5 overall 4/5 steaminess including violence REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: Brand new in the U.S. from the internationally-bestselling author of Captain … Continue reading Available June 7th: What We Become
Available May 31: Into the Whirlwind (BOSS, Inc) ****3.5/5 stars Into the Whirlwind is a quick paced read with action and passion. Recommended readers: Looking for a page-turner romance Want a book that both you and your guy will like? Fans of Kat Martin Here’s my Rankings: 3.5/5 for characters 3/5 for plot 3.5/5 overall 3/5 steaminess REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: Into the Whirlwind gets going … Continue reading Review: Into the Whirlwind by Kat Martin
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