Content warning for violent sexual assault. It’s at the very end of the recap. The title card is people sitting in an 18th century theater. Roger is in North Carolina, it is confirmed that it’s 1769, and he’s using the drawing of Brianna from the gathering to show to people and ask if they’ve seen her. He stops outside the printing office, and kind of glowers at the Wilmington Gazette. The proprietor sees him, and … Continue reading Outlander 4.08: Wilmington
Sabrina Jeffries is a flower-crown-wearing romance QUEEN! I shiteth you not, fangirls; when I say this book has all of the things, I do mean all of the things! Friends to lovers, bickering lifelong acquaintances, lessons in love, alpha heroine/beta hero, wagered love bets, opposites attract, an unrequited smitten hero, a marriage of convenience, and a dastardly stalker! That’s right. I said dastardly! The trope gods have bestowed blessings on blessings with this OTP. Our … Continue reading The Study of Seduction by Sabrina Jeffries
The Study of Seduction is set in the spring of 1830 and begins with the hero, Edwin Barlow, the Earl of Blakeborough, being asked to watch over Lady Clarissa Lindsey, who is related to his best (and very nearly only) friend, as the Season unfolds. The book is the second in a series but stands well on its own. Clarissa is being pursued by a French nobleman and diplomat who is accosting her in increasingly … Continue reading The Study of Seduction by Sabrina Jeffries
TW for rape, animal harm, and the general shitbaggery of Nazi occupation of Poland during WWII. I’m gonna be straight up with you here: this is a difficult watch. It’s a movie about the Holocaust, so that’s one layer, but it’s also about a zoo in wartime. And it’s about an occupied city in wartime. There’s also a young girl who gets raped, so if you want to tap out right here, I don’t blame … Continue reading Movie Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife
Ransom Canyon is the first in the new series set in Crossroads, Texas. Even though it’s not my usual thing, I liked this book. It focuses on five people individually, two couples and one ex-convict. The conversations and inner thoughts came across as authentic, and if I ever have a cattle-rustling problem, I know what to do. This book is sweet, and non-explicit. The characters have some major back story, but the romances themselves were … Continue reading Ransom Canyon by Jodi Thomas
The Bollywood Bride is Sonali Dev’s second novel. We were crazy about her first novel, A Bollywood Affair . The Bollywood Bride is more ambitious in emotional scope and much darker. It has the same joyful celebration of Indian and Indian-American culture that made Bollywood Affair so much fun – there’s a lot of food, extended family, and shopping for saris and sherwanis. Overall, though, the book works less well as a romance than it does as an … Continue reading The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev
When I picked up The Marriage Contract by Katee Robert and read the back copy, I was little confused as to how an arranged marriage happens in a contemporary and how the consequences of it can be deadly. Since it mentioned a wealthy family, I assumed we were talking about another billionaire book. The cover was awesome though, so I snagged it. Then I read the first chapter, wherein the heroine, Callie Sheridan goes to spy … Continue reading The Marriage Contract by Katee Robert
The Hurricane by RJ Prescott is aptly named: it’s a book that’s going to blow you strongly in one direction or another. I personally enjoyed the first three quarters of the book and the THE THING happened and it disappointed me immensely. I’m fairly iffy on New Adult, largely because I think there’s so much of it in the market right now that you have to filter through a lot of sub par writing to … Continue reading The Hurricane by RJ Prescott
Marian sent me an email that began: One thing I love about the new site design is that I discovered all the rants. That reminded me I’d written something similar, so I’ve attached my rant. The book was one of those you’d like to throw to the floor and jump up and down on, except for it being library property. So all you can do is write about it, and maybe share with someone who’ll … Continue reading Book Rant: Breathless by Anne Stuart Made Marian Angry
