The Lion’s Daughter by Loretta Chase is 99c! This is the first book in the Scoundrels series and was originally published in 1992. Some readers found the main characters rather difficult to like. However, others say this is a trademark Chase with a little bit of crazysauce thrown in for good measure. Have you read this one?
RECOMMENDED: The Glassblower by Petra Durst-Benning is $1.99! This was recommended to Redheadedgirl at our RT Reader Recommendation Party in Atlanta and she gave it a B:
There are a lot of details of how glassblowing works, and how the village of Lauscha is set up. It’s right on the cusp of a new age for Germany (so, if you’re a nerd like me, you know that the ghosts of World War One are over the horizon), and the role women are playing in society. I think the best stories come from eras of change because of the tension created by that societal change, and this is a good one.
This might just been the oddest trio of books we’ve grouped together in Lightning Reviews. We have a grief-stricken historical romance, a book recommended to us at our Recommendation Party at RT17, and a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Shakespearean retelling. Maybe one, or all three, will made it to your TBR pile!
I have NO IDEA who recommended this at our Reader Rec party at RT, but they said “19th century German glassblowers” and I said, “What’s that author’s last name again? Yeah, that’ll be waiting for me when I get home.” And all three books were. In the fall of 1890, a glassblower living in the village of Lauscha, Germany, with his three daughters dies, leaving them in dire straits. The eldest, Johanna, feels responsible for … Continue reading The Glassblower by Petra Durst-Benning
