A Box of Ashes Leads to a Dark Journey into Bulgaria’s Past
A polite gesture turns into a journey of the heart.
by Sophia Rose • Sophia Rose Reviews • Tags: adventure, Communism, grief, Historical Fiction, travel, violence, Women's Fiction
A polite gesture turns into a journey of the heart.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, contemporary romance • Tags: committment, Finding one's self, Marriage, Parenting, risk, Women's Issues
Ain’t no mountain high enough to conquer the spirits of Knox’s adventurous characters.
by Sophia Rose • A Sophia Rose Review • Tags: European History, Historical Fiction, Royals
Story of the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Contemporary Steamy Romance • Tags: Cancer, chemotherapy, Contemporary Romance, hockey, Loveswept, rotic, Sawyer Bennett, steamy, stereotype, Tantor
Bennett’s characters learn there are no guarantees in life in this hockey lovers’ love story.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction • Tags: age, con artist, Contemporary Romance, control, Ghost, inheritance, loss, love, magic, peach, superstition
Secrets, magic and loves of the past and present collide in a small town in the American South.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction • Tags: American Experience, Anne Tyler, Baltimore, family, home, house, Literary Fiction
Follow the Whitshanks lives through several generations and one house.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Romance • Tags: Ballantine, British India, Georgian Period, gossip, Historic Romance, honesty, illegitimacy, Memsahib, Penguin Random House, Random House, scandal, the Raj, Ton
A young Lady with a secret she has maintained through strict discipline finds that past threatened when she falls in love with the second son of a well-connected duke.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction • Tags: American Revolution, Claire, Diana Gabaldon, Jamie, Lallybroch, Saratoga, Scotland, Ticonderoga
Claire, Jamie and Ian work their ways up and down the coast and across the sea. John Grey and his “son” William are on the other side in the revolution. Briana and Roger face threats from modern day Scots as well as the past. It’s a thrill ride and a tear jerker.
by fangswandsfairy • 2015 Reading Challenges, historic elements, Historical Romance, Time Travel • Tags: American Revolution, clans, Colonial America, Continental Congress, family, fear, Fiction, Fidelity, Freedom, Historical Fiction, Jamie Fraser, Outlander, Time Travel
Continuing into the start of the American Revolution Jamie and Claire have to determine whether and when to declare themselves on the side of the revolution.
by fangswandsfairy • 2015 Reading Challenges, Contemporary Suspense with Humor • Tags: Art, Con Man, Drug King Pin, FBI, Gold, London, Museums, Ship wreck, Thieves, Turkey
Kate O’Hare and her number one capture, super suave con man Nick Fox, are working together again, in Europe and on the high seas.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction • Tags: Brianna, Claire, conspiracy, Diana Gabaldon, Jamie, law, Native Americans, Outlander, Regulations, slavery
Revisit Claire and Jamie, and their family, in 19th-century North Carolina. Births, deaths, war, injustice and ghost bears provide a wide ranging story.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Paranormal Romance • Tags: Curse, evil, Pack, Tahoe, Vampire, were wolves, witches
Evil elders threaten Celia and Aric, everything really! How can they get past the evil?
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Romance, Paranormal Romance, Time Travel • Tags: Brianna, Claire, Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander), Jamie, John Grey, North Carolina, Outlander, Roger, Time Travel, Voyager
Claire and Jamie settle in North Carolina as Brianna and Roger struggle with their relationship in two times. Book four in this time bending, genre crossing series!
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, historic elements, Mystery & Detective • Tags: Christmas, house party, jane austen, Jane Austen Mystery, murder, Random House, Soho Crime
Jane Austin, her sister and mother visit their brother’s parsonage but they wind up at a dangerous house party for the twelve days of Christmas. Will Jane fall: in love or over dead, before she is able to solve the mystery with her detective skills?
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction • Tags: British Navy, Caribbean, Claire, Dinan Gabaldon, Jamie, Outlander, Pressing, Scotland. Colonies, Time Travel, Time Travel. Standing Stones
Learning he did not die at Culloden, Claire travels back in time to the eighteenth century to find her husband Jamie. Sweeping and epic time-travel Fiction!