Damsel in Distress by Shannon Drake
All that heiress Katherine de Montrain wants is to stay in control of her estates and assist her cousin, who masquerades as the notorious Robin Hood. Though she is forced for wed Lord Damian Montjoy for her own protection, she vows she will never submit to him. This is a pretty entertaining … [Read more]
The Trumps of Doom by Roger Zelazny
It's interesting that this is one of the Amber books that's stayed in my mind the most, but that I don't actually remember very well. I'm mostly confident of this because I remember... none of it. In my recollection of reading these stories as a teenager, I can at least remember that there's a … [Read more]
Carrion Crow by Heather Parry
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Trigger warning: Some body horror throughout. Wow. So Carrion Crow was a gut punch. Parry is partly inspired by the true story of Blanche Monnier and writes a fictional story following the Périgord … [Read more]
Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan
Thistlemarsh is supposed to be romantasy. It sort of is, but maybe I just wasn’t into this one. I didn’t really see much of any romance, just a sort of “forced to work together and suddenly we might have feelings (kinda)”? The premise is fine: Mouse, a WWI nurse, has come home to care for her … [Read more]
Common Goal (Gamechangers #4) by Rachel Reid
Eric Bennett is a hockey goalie for the New York Admirals. He’s pushing forty and knows that the end of his career is coming, but he finds it hard to take the plunge. Recently divorced, he’s eager to explore the other side of the bisexual equation, so when he meets Kyle at a gay bar he’s game. But … [Read more]
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
That’s the most positive thing I can come up with about this book. What a slog this was. The plot: Ella Rubinstein is a forty year old stay at home mother to two children and a possibly perpetually unfaithful husband. She takes up a job with a publishing house to revise a novel called Sweet … [Read more]
