My Dear I wanted To Tell You: A Novel by Louisa Young is set in England during the World War One era. It opens with a young working class boy, Riley Purefoy, main character, befriending an upper class artist family, the Waveneys. Out of generosity, the Waveney family provide Riley with upper class schooling as […]
Book Review: Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake by Sarah MacLean
May 24, 2011
I never actively DNFed Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake by Sarah MacLean, I just couldn’t get into it, so I set it aside for several months. Around Christmastime I was in the mood for a romance novel, and thus made my second foray into the world of romance (the first was One […]
Retro Friday: The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
May 20, 2011
Over the course of my lifetime, I think I will end up saying ‘I can’t believe I didn’t read this sooner’ quite a bit. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen is one of those reads. I remember picking it up and reading a few pages, because it was there, but I never continued it. […]
Book Review: Graveminder by Melissa Marr
May 19, 2011
Graveminder by Melissa Marr’s main character Rebekkah Barrow doesn’t like to be tied down. She moves from place to place and never gets involved in romantic entanglements. It would seem she is fated to live the life of a nomad. However, Rebekkah is called back to the one town, Claysville, that feels like home for her […]
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
May 18, 2011
I wish I lived in the worlds contained in Sarah Addison Allen’s pages, where the ordinary is peppered by magic, where setting is almost as prominent as the characters. The Peach Keeper is set in Walls of Water, North Carolina, a town which once made it’s money off timber, but now has a thriving forest […]
Book Review: The White Devil by Justin Evans
May 11, 2011
Methinks my brain has been sanitized by YA, because whenever a penis pops up in an adult books, I’m all WHAT IS THIS?! Boys have more than just kissy-lips? Oh hell naw. Clearly, my brain is awesome. ANYWAYS, I recently read The White Devil by Justin Evans and am a bit unsure of what I […]