New Worlds, Year Four: More Essays on the Art of Worldbuilding by Marie Brennan Escape into another world . . . Bathing and banking, animals and adultery: human culture contains a truly daunting array of elements. The fourth volume of … Continue reading
The Earl in the Shadows The Thrilling Victorian Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Brenda Clough Marian Halcombe Camlet comes to awareness in the Dower House of a grand English country house, but she can’t remember how … Continue reading
Fractured Fairy Tales by Alma Alexander Fairy tales – new-told, re-told, re-invented, rebuilt, new-visioned. Fairy tales are the building blocks not just of fantasy but of all fiction, the original Story, the thing we all grew up on. This is … Continue reading
Black-Eyed Peas on New Year’s Day by Shannon Page It’s time to send some GOOD energy out there into the world. … Continue reading
The Librarian’s Spell School of Magic 4 by Patricia Rice Can a timid librarian and a bold engineer save a castle’s toppling tower of books? … Continue reading
The Jaguar Queen of Copal The Thrilling Victorian Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe Book 3 by Brenda Clough Walter Hartright returns to Central America to search for the leader of his expedition, and Marian’s husband Theo goes … Continue reading
Jennifer Stevenson’s Fools Paradise gives us Daisy and Bobbyjay, the youngest sprigs from modern Capulet and Montague trees, in “a blue-collar romantic comedy of feuds, follies, and getting your fingernails dirty.”
Continue readingThe Wolves of Mirr by Paul Piper While roaming his beloved mountains, wolf biologist Levi Brunner comes across three women disporting in a pool. They invite him for a swim . . . and he wakes up alone on a … Continue reading
Regency romances have been a “thing” since the Silver Fork novels of the 1830s, which I suspect Georgette Heyer grew up reading. I started reading Heyer as a teen, which taste combined with my love of the Hornblower series by C.S. Forester and … Continue reading
The King of the Book The Thrilling Victorian Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe Book 2 by Brenda Clough Marian Halcombe Camlet’s son has run away from his boarding school, and Queen Victoria’s jewels are stolen. Marian Halcombe … Continue reading
