Book review Brenna, a Celtic maiden, is taken captive by a viking chieftain and taken to Norway as a slave to be given to his younger son. She is a trained warrior, untamed, wild and fierce. Garrick, the youngest son of the chieftain, is a merchant. After his first love abandoned him for another, he …
Book review This book…it made me cry. It made me grin like a fool. And it made me grip the covers with the suspense. It rocked my world in ways I didn’t think a highlander romance could. The writing is well done, the time is well researched and explained, and the plot is focused and …
Book review Well A Zorn warrior is on earth just to check out the planet when he is in the woods and sees a woman being attacked by two men, he saves her and then helps her escape, later she thinks he is helping her escape further and they end up in a space ship. …
Book review What a great anathology. All the stories were wonderfully told. Mom and I can understand unlike other anathologies why this one managed to stay in print. It is just so good.Okay first of we thought the stories would be good but mom thought Stephanie Laurens might just be a light bit of fun …
Book review At some point I’ll have to rework this review into the more organized, less discursive version that this both famous and famously difficult Modern classic deserves. I can’t resist, however, devoting at least a few scattered thoughts to such a strange and uniquely-composed novel: a novel at once brimming with such profound and …
Book review What to say? Where to start? In the last 2500 years, so much has been said about this epic poem. Well, I’ll start with that. The last 2500 years… (roughly). 2500.! If we gathered every person who has ever read (or heard ) this tale on the last days of the Trojan war, …
Book review This is the best book I have read this year and destined, I believe, to be a classic read for future generations. Doerr carefully weaves together the World War II stories of Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, an orphaned German boy. Both are propelled into unexpected situations because of the war …
Book review With this book Jane Austin made her entry into British literature, an entry that, as we know, made a very strong impression at that time. Of course this was no accident at all, as it tells one of the most beautiful stories ever written, a story full of sense and sensitivity. This story …
Book review On reading David Sinclair’s brilliant introduction to this classic Everyman edition which I had the fortune of being gifted by a very good friend, I find myself realising even more convincingly what an accomplishment this meant for Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who created arguably the most iconoclast detective in all fiction. By …
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Book review Actual Rating: 4.5 Stars I don’t think I have laughed so much or had so much fun while reading a book, than I have while I’ve been devouring The Chocolate Lovers Series by Tara Sivec. These books put the H in hysterical, and the top in over the top, and I can’t get …