This was positively delightful and corresponded well with my recent craving for historical fiction. I don't think I've ever read a book like this, though I know there are more out there like it. What I found most fascinating was how Leanna Renee Hieber had taken direct inspiration from books like...
A pageturner with a well conceived, interesting and exciting world and story. The main romance did bother me a little bit though - mostly the degree of obsession on the part of the heroine towards the hero from first sight. I mean, yes, they were supposed to be the carriers of divine beings who l...
For a first book...not bad. I believe this author's skills will continue to grow with future work. I found this book "ok" not because of poor writing, plot, or character development but because as a mature (yes, older) reader I have moved on. As a younger person I devoured books of this genre; my...
The story was frustrating at times. I guess that's what happens when the reader clearly knows very early what all the characters in the book do not know. It's been a few months since I read this book and it was a fairly average book, but what stood out for me was just the subtle romance that full...
This tale was in a sense, Darkly Luminous, I guess. For me, it just didn't have the magic that made its predecessor a strangely beautiful tale. The stuff I found endearing in the first was tedious in this one. Alexi and Percy, though lovable in the first installment, were rather annoying in this...
With the snows, they’d turned into a hazardous wasteland of frozen white that Mace was sure would have broken any normal horse’s leg several times over. He, however, barely noticed the holes that threatened to twist or break an ankle, or the hidden gullies that an animal could fall into, other th...
The only fact that can comfort us both is that by the time you read this, I’ll be on a ship back to see you. I wasted no time in confronting my enemies. I was up at first light, pacing the flat. I nearly seized the hot water out of the maid’s hands. Bolstered by my favorit...
Lord Black escorted her and Bishop to a nondescript brick industrial building in Millbank, with an expansive view of the busy, noisy Thames, and held the door for them. As they stepped in, they heard a strange sound above them and a little pop, like that of a photographer’s flare, and as the door...
Sensing that Lavinia needed the company, as her infamous fiancé was in New Jersey giving a performance of his flamboyantly Gothic show, Clara invited her friend over for dinner. Though she was not much in a mood to entertain anyone, her heart heavy and conflicted, the distraction of a female frie...