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Dancing with the dead

Posted by Molly W on Jul 14, 2022 - 11:31am
A review of The Dead Romantics by
Ashley
Poston

Florence Day is a ghost writer for one of the most famous romance authors in the industry and finds herself stuck after a bad breakup. She believes love is dead and the inspiration to write has vanished. Yet, she cannot shake the dead, because she also sees and communicates with ghosts, no matter how hard she tries to ignore them. So, you have a ghost writer who sees ghosts and believes love is dead even though the dead are present all around her. Are you following all this?

Watch out for the gooseberry pie

Posted by Molly W on Jul 8, 2022 - 9:56am

This graphic novel companion to the Bridgerton series is an absolute delight - candy for the mind and soul. I don't mean that in the empty calories and high fructose corn syrup way. I mean that in the irresistible way that fresh saltwater taffy, or homemade fudge, or hand dipped chocolate candy overwhelms the senses, and for me, is perfection. Sweet as honey combined with buttery brickle. I could go on and on, but you get the idea.

So swoonworthy

Posted by Molly W on Jun 7, 2022 - 3:46pm
A review of Heartstopper by
Alice
Oseman

Get swept up in the sweetest, cutest, kindest, most romantic young love! Charlie and Nick sit next to each other in class and become friends.

32 Candles

Cover of 32 Candles
Ernessa T.
Carter
2010

The deftly wry, deeply romantic story of Davie Jones -- an "ugly duckling" from small-town Mississippi with a voice like Tina Turner, who escapes to Los Angeles to try to make it big, and risks losing her soul along the way to finding her fairy tale ending.

Pushing boundaries and finding love

Posted by Katie H on May 2, 2022 - 4:50pm
A review of The Siren of Sussex by
Mimi
Matthews

Evelyn Maltravers had hoped she wouldn’t have to brave the ruthless London season and catch a wealthy husband, but that’s exactly where she finds herself in the spring of 1862. Her prospects aren’t ideal: with no dowry to speak of, the reputation of an elder flighty sister to overcome and a depressed London society in mourning for the recent death of the Prince Consort, Evelyn has her work cut out for her.

A deeper understanding

Posted by Jane J on Mar 29, 2022 - 11:00am
A review of Unequal Affections by
Lara
Ormiston

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has a difficult hurdle to overcome if it is to distinguish itself from all the other retellings, homages, inspireds by, etc. And if I tell you dear reader that Ormiston succeeded in that feat? I would only be relaying the truth.

Mystery, adventure, and romance

Posted by Katie H on Mar 23, 2022 - 4:12pm
A review of The Hidden Moon by
Jeannie
Lin

Mention historical romance, and the images that usually leap to mind are of European ladies in dresses with hoops or corsets, swooning under the gaze of some strapping hero.