4.5 stars — These books just know how to hook me and keep me both laughing and crying…a surprising amount of crying in this one…at least for me. Honestly, the only thing keeping me from rounding up is my frustration with Sunshine. As with another series I’ve read by this author, she likes to make […]
4.5 stars — Welp, can confirm: I truly love Ms. Jones’s wacky brand of humour. I don’t always get all the jokes, but I love the way the characters tease each other mercilessly in her books. I wasn’t expecting this book to be told in relatively equal parts between Sunshine and her daughter Auri, but […]
4 stars — While there were parts of the book that frustrated me, the delightful parts were just so wonderful that at the end that’s what I’m left feeling. I appreciated Phoebe’s determination to seek out a better situation for herself. She’s definitely impulsive and reckless, but it’s tempered by her kind heart and sassy […]
4 stars — Yay! This is getting even closer to the Ms. Reid I fell in love with in her Sinful Wallflowers series! I will admit that while I loved certain parts of Evie, there were other times that she left me confused. I thought she was a good representation of someone who carried so […]
3.5 stars — While still not the hit that the entire Sinful Wallflower series was for me, this was a definite improvement over the first Calydon book! I think the writing had improved leaps and bounds, and in the end the disconnect was more in the types of characters in this one, particularly the hero. […]
2.5 stars — Well, that was disappointing. I recently gobbled up the Sinful Wallflowers series, and so of course I needed to go through Ms. Reid’s books available at my library. Unfortunately I didn’t realize this book would be a novella, and would leave me feeling like I got hit by a speeding train. To […]
3.5 stars — I absolutely loved the ace representation in this book, even if it isn’t the same flavour as what I experience. There were many moments where I understood what Alice was feeling, and I both hurt for her and was annoyed with her. On the surface, I feel like I totally should have […]
4.5 stars — Well, I am entirely addicted to these books. This one had some parallels to another historical I read that I ended up being disappointed in…and this book basically did all the things I was hoping for with the other one. We have a wonderful prologue that I was not expecting, and it […]
4.5 stars — Oh wow, that was a ride from start to finish. It’s funny, b/c I am not a fan of domineering males…or villainous ones. And I’m not saying that Nicolas was necessarily either of those things, but he was definitely a shades of gray kind of hero. And all I can say is […]
4.5 stars — You know what I love?? Truly good main characters, who, despite their flaws and missteps, I still can’t help but love. And yeah, I DEFINITELY loved Alexander and Kitty. I marked this one as a fairy tale retelling, but it is VERY loose. They even mention the story in the story, which […]