Content warning: Discussion of a trans character who isn’t treated very well by the narrative. A Lady’s Formula for Love is a story about love, politics, science and the frustrations and difficulties of being a woman in 1840s England. It’s also a story about second chances, and reclaiming yourself after years of needing to be – or believing yourself to be – someone else. Perhaps most of all, it’s a story about claiming the right … Continue reading A Lady’s Formula for Love by Elizabeth Everett →
Content warning: Heroine has history of torture, attempted rape, traumatic death of parents. None of this is described in detail, but it is there, and I do discuss it in the review I picked up the ARC of A Lady’s Past purely based on the cover, which really is a thing of beauty, somewhere between impressionist and pre-Raphaelite. It is the fourth book in the Everton Domestic Society series, but it stands alone reasonably well. … Continue reading A Lady’s Past by A.S. Fenichel →
I’ve been in a bit of a reading rut, so I decided that I should try something completely different to break my cycle of ennui. It worked. First off, Contagion isn’t a romance (as you can probably tell from the cover). It’s a YA SciFi/Horror novel about a ragtag team sent to investigate a distress call from a drill site on a remote planet. If you’re like, “Oh hey, I’ve seen this movie. I know how … Continue reading Contagion by Erin Bowman →
This series was recommended by so many people on Twitter and in my inbox, I grabbed it immediately and skipped it to the top of my TBR spreadsheet. This was a good decision on my part. Cathal MacAlasdair is running his family’s castle in remote Scotland, though he’s much better suited to running around doing soldiery things. He’s also a dragon shifter, something the people who live in his castle know about, but not a … Continue reading Highland Dragon Warrior by Isabel Cooper →
Normally I don’t buy into a lot of YA romance because I’m pretty cynical at the realism of finding HEA in high school. I mean, I know that a lot of people do marry their high school sweethearts; I just remember what I was like at that age. Growing out my bangs was enough to send me into existential crisis – no way did I have the emotional bandwidth to manage a serious relationship. But … Continue reading The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon →
Look to the Stars was exactly the book I needed to read at exactly the right moment I needed to read it. Lately my brain has been in over-drive, catastrophizing and just generally keeping me from sleeping soundly. Look to the Stars was the perfect Regency novella to reset my mind – it’s light on conflict, although the conflict is still there, and I loved the main characters. It’s more a short chronicling of a … Continue reading Look to the Stars by Olivia Kelly →
That shrill, high pitched noise you all heard on April 14 was me shrieking with joy as I read the back cover of I Thee Wed and realized that it involves not one but two scientists who fall in love in 1818 over arguments about Lamarckism while a six-year-old Charles Darwin periodically shows up and wreaks havoc. I could not have been more thrilled if someone had given me a pony (though I don’t have … Continue reading I Thee Wed by Celeste Bradley →
This is a biased review in the sense that this book appears to have been written specifically for me. Seriously. Look at the title page under a microscope, and you’ll find, “Written specifically for CarrieS” in tiny aquamarine-colored cursive metallic type. A Week to be Wicked is one of Tessa Dare’s “Spindle Cove” books. In this Regency romance, Minerva needs a favor – she needs Colin Sandhurst, AKA Lord Payne, to fake an elopement with … Continue reading A Week To Be Wicked by Tessa Dare →
