Tag Archives: Romance

Pansies – Alexis Hall

Posted on 27/10/2024 by Roseanna

Jenny Hamilton, who it turns out is a distressingly good recommender of books, suggested that if I wanted to dip into Alexis Hall’s back catalogue after enjoying Mortal Follies and Confounding Oaths, I should try Pansies. I am not, in … Continue reading →

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Evocation – S. T. Gibson

Posted on 02/08/2024 by Roseanna

I missed the boat on A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson. By every account I’ve seen, it’s an excellent, gripping, well-written book, and I was offered an arc of it, but I refused because I was busy. More … Continue reading →

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Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries – Heather Fawcett

Posted on 16/01/2023 by Roseanna

I may or may not be susceptible to advertising, and doubly so to the sort selling me on receiving monthly mystery parcels. As such, I’m now signed up to both illumicrate and Fairyloot. Yes, yes, I’m a sucker. This self-analysis … Continue reading →

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What I Read Last Week – 10th – 18th September

Posted on 20/09/2022 by Roseanna

Yeah I know that’s eight days, but it’s basically a week. Close enough. Anyway. Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell. I reviewed this more fully and coherently over at Nerds of a Feather, but because this is my blog, I can … Continue reading →

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The Midnight Bargain – C. L. Polk

Posted on 07/05/2021 by Roseanna

And we end the Nebula nominee reading with an exasperated sigh. I didn’t like Witchmark – I thought it was poorly written, twee and a bad pastiche of post WWI Britain – so I wasn’t expecting a great deal out … Continue reading →

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