Nick

I wanted to read something shorter and hop off the series train, so I read Nick. Nick is a prelude to The Great Gatsby, exploring the time Nick Carraway spent toward the end of his tour in France during WWI to when he went to New Orleans to escape the monotony of home, leading up […]

The Wild Rose

One more book to go for this trilogy. The Wild Rose focuses on Seamie, Fiona’s little brother, who isn’t little anymore. Time has passed since [Spoiler] Seamie and Willa have climbed Kilimanjaro, leaving their love shattered… like Willa’s leg. Back in London, time becomes a precious thing. World War I is approaching fast, leaving politics […]

The Winter Rose

Onto book two. Ah, the bad boy and the good girl trope. Love it, all for it. India Selwyn-Jones just graduated from medical school and wants to open a women’s clinic in the East London neighborhood. Sid Malone leads the underground of East London with a Robin Hood sort of technique. A run in with […]

The Tea Rose

I started another series. This time it was only a trilogy. Fiona Finnegan is a stubborn dreamer of a dock worker’s daughter living in London right before turn into 20th century. Fiona may not be living in even middle class terms, but it’s a good life with a loving family and adoring… the author doesn’t […]

Hyde

The countdown to Christmas is coming! The end is nigh! Following the trend I have been on for a classic with a modern sequel or spin-off, I read Hyde. I like Daniel Levine’s approach and style to this. Hyde is told from Mr. Hyde’s point of view, starting from well before his first appearance in […]

Misfortune

Here is a book that is great for the summer. Super entertaining, engaging, and incredibly written, Misfortune will be a book that will give you a new perspective on gender identity. Set in Victorian-era England, effeminate Lord Geoffrey Loveall is returning from a trip in the city and comes across an abandoned baby brought to […]

A Question of Guilt

Intrigue. Mary Queen of Scots. Murder. Scandal. Oh my. I read A Question of Guilt earlier this year thinking that this was going to be another royalty book that was more lackluster than excitement. Not to say that books with old royalty storylines do not hold my attention, but eventually they lose their steam with […]

Rasputin’s Daughter

Oh, jeez, I did it again. A whole month and a half and you do not hear anything new. I wanted to try again to read something that I have had on my bookcases the longest. There is still at least a third of them that I have had since I moved out on my […]

Gilgamesh

What a bright sunny day it is today. Set predominately in Australia starting from the end of WWI to the end of WWII, this is a book that is probably one of the best in a long time for me. Gilgamesh is about Edith, a girl of British/Russian heritage who grows up on a farm […]

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Another book fresh out of the bookcase; I give you Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It took me longer than expected, but then I had the usual experience where the I start out slow then once I hit the halfway point I was cruisin’ for a bruisin’. The book has three sections; the setting being […]