By Mike Pudd'nhead ( Read more... )

This was going to be a review of the first series romance I've ever read, a Harlequin historical about a pianist and her forced-by-society marriage to a man mourning his dead wife. Summary: mostly competently written for people at a high school reading level (with a couple swerves into inexcusable sentence structure), but insipid ( Read more... )

The worst thing I can think of to say about this book is "It isn't as good as War for the Oaks." It's a lot LIKE War for the Oaks, except less 80s. It reminded me of Lex, because fairies tend to do that, and also because one of the characters talks to a wall. Other books it bears comparison to include Jack of Kinrowan--I liked this one more, but ( Read more... )

A lot of people like this author, whose gender I haven't looked up. There are four books in the series; this is the first. They are currently four of the publisher's five top items.

( Rollercoasters run on tracks )

So you need Female Lead to get the Amulet (capitalized) from the invisible planet because she's the only singer in the universe who has the right voice print to unlock the room it's in. But if she screws up the song, then the bad guys kill your dad, and throw at least one planet into political turmoil. Has to be exactly perfect. And you've had the ( Read more... )

OMG you guys you guys I can finally recommend a book that some of you might actually LIKE. There is sex in it but it is a silly bit of fluff about time travel and loyalty, and also it is FREE.

"The Twisted Tale of Stormy Gale" is free from Carina Press today, if you use the coupon code TWISTEDFREE. Clicky clicky!Zim, Robbie, I'm looking at you ( Read more... )

If you have been reading my reviews (or Ursula Vernon's part-novel with the regency ninjas) and sort of wonder what all the fuss is about, but don't want to spend money or a lot of time or anything, Carina Press is giving away a novella today (only). You enter the coupon code "DEBUTANTEFREE" at checkout. (They have never sent me any spam or ( Read more... )

I bought this book when I was depressed, looking for a light, straightforward contemp romance novel to cheer me up. I'd just read Shelli Stevens' Negligee Behavior and liked it, and similar people recommended this one. Spoilers follow; I can't make the points I need to without discussing the ending ( Read more... )

The order goes, "The bright sun comes up," then "the dew falls away," THEN the little birds get to say good morning good morning. The robin outside my window started singing at ten to three. Obvs had terrible parents who didn't teach him that song ( Read more... )

This is British volunteer Charles Henningsen's account of the victories and death of Tomas Zumalacarregui, the first and greatest Carlist general. I read it as reference because I'm writing a story set in Spain in that era, and hey, English-language primary source ( Read more... )