I just finished reading A SILVER MIRROR by Roberta Gellis, which TBH is the worst Gellis book I've read. Ordinarily her books are really exciting... this one was kind of a slog @willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks
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@suburbanbeatnik Aw, too bad. Even the best authors have their mis-steps.
I love her Greek myths series, but her earlier work in the 1980s is very on and off for me. POV issues abound, and TBH I am so bored by standard issue medieval history. It reminds me of Alice's tedious history lesson at the beginning of Disney's Alice in Wonderland @willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks
I wrote a review here https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5817305500
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@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks I’m listening to Alison Cochran’s “The Charm Offensive” for a book club; tonight I found myself searching “Leland Barlow” to figure out if this background character was a real pop star I was unaware of, or a fictional one (fictional: the top result is a GR thread of people discovering this exactly the same way I did.)
@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks and I’m late to the party on this one, but I’m reading Sangu Mandanna’s “The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches”, because I read her two mid-grade “Kiki Kallira” books to my daughter this summer and was surprised to find this on her website when I looked for more. All three are delightful, even though “witches” isn’t really a trope I’ve been embracing otherwise. (I guess both of these romances are out of my usual zone.)
@romancebooks @romancelandia @willaful I’m finally reading A Restless Truth (Marske). I do love it when a book I’m looking forward to turns out amazing.
@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks I’ve just started The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman, after finishing a fairly lacklustre period cozy mystery which shall remain unnamed.
@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks I just finished The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, a Hugo nominee. A compelling read. #WhatchaReading
@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks I'm just starting Saffron Alley, by AJ Demas. The first book in the series was good, so I hope this one lives up to that.