A Single Thread is a different sort of love story – the story of a woman’s love for the peace of a cathedral and the order of religion in a world filled with bloodshed and violence. Thirty-seven year old Violet Speedwell is a so-called ‘surplus woman’. Left behind by the wracking cost of World War…
If you have any kind of fondness for Nick and Nora Charles, then you’re probably going to get a kick out of Maggie Robinson’s Lady Adelaide series of cozy mysteries. If you try not to picture Adelaide as Carole Lombard, you won’t be able to avoid it! Lady Adelaide Compton is in a bit of…
When I first heard about Spellbound, I couldn’t wait to read it. Love. Magic. Queer. Paranormal. Suspense. Prohibition-era Manhattan. First in a series. Friends, the author had me at “Love”. I couldn’t ask our publisher for this book fast enough! Ms. Therin, in her published début, almost delivers on all this promise, and Spellbound…
Dizzying time loops, fascinating human stories, and a really lovely romance captivate in Lisa Grunwald’s Time After Time. To tell the reader too much about its plot is to reveal too much about its central mystery; this is the kind of book that requires the retention of a little of the element of surprise going…
Originally published in 2015, C.H. Armstrong’s The Edge of Nowhere is a historical novel loosely based on the life of the author’s grandmother. The novel offers the reader a peek into a time and place in American history not usually captured in today’s fiction, and I’m glad I chose to pick it up. The novel…
In City of Flickering Light, readers are introduced to twenty-one-year-old Irene van Beck, a woman who has grown disenchanted with her life as a dancer in a bottom-tier Burlesque show. She knows there’s more to life than removing her clothing in front of a different group of men each night, and she’s determined to find…
Fans of books set in the 1920’s will definitely want to pick up The Paragon Hotel, the latest offering from author Lyndsay Faye. It’s a big book with a lot going on, but I loved every moment I spent immersed in the story, and I’m eager for the rest of the book world to embrace…
I’ve been a huge fan of the Mary Russell series since The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, which came out almost twenty-five years ago. After fourteen books, and five novellas, Mary Russell’s world is well developed, and definitely something I can highly recommend to historical mystery fans. While I enjoyed this most recent addition, it’s not my favorite…
Love’s Serenade is the third book in the Decades series, telling stories of African American men and women throughout the past century. As a second-chance romance, it’s an interesting take on the trope, but overall I was disappointed with the end result. Taking place in late 1920s Harlem, we follow Leigh Jones, fabulous jazz singer,…
What an amuse bouche of a story! In the just ninety pages that comprise The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo, Zen Cho builds a larger than life portrayal of Jade Yeo, her motivations and her shortcomings. The powerful message of this story is that love is accepting and love is kind. Even if you make…