Hello and happy May!
Five years ago, Pat and Fen almost stole the spotlight from Curtis and DaSilva in Charles’s Think of England. Their mismatched charm, and utter competence save the day and left readers begging for their story. Proper English, a delightfully dark house party mystery, is that story, set two years before Think of England. While the focus in Proper English is firmly on the central quartet of Jimmy, Billie, Pat and Fen, Charles continues to excels at creating with fascinating secondary characters who love to steal scenes. From the loyal and serious Victoria Singh, to the tart and savvy Travers, Charles fills this novel with women who are not to be underestimated, not even brittle and bitter Lady Anna.
It's gonna be May! Here's your obligatory GIF of Justin Timberlake. I'm not even a little bit sorry.
Getting Hot with the Scot is a whirlwind roadtrip romance with a just-a-fling beginning and a swoonworthy hero. Reader, I loved it.
This is a very Suzanne set of mini-reviews, with her thoughts on I Flipping Love You, Can't Escape Love, and Hunted.
Do you ever read a book that makes you want to just devour an author's entire backlist? And then you discover that they have 1,000 books in said backlist? Welcome to my experience reading An Affair in Winter, by Jess Michaels.
Spring is here, baseball season is underway, I’m finally over the head cold from Hell - things are definitely looking up around the Bat Cave. What better way to celebrate than with new historical romance? Here are some catching my eye this month:
I need to open with something that influenced my opinion on this book quite considerably: I’m really bad with names. I have read books, absolutely loved them and then had to look up the names of the main characters a day later. Sometimes I read something, take a break, come back and go “Wait? Who’s that guy?” - especially when the book has a lot of characters and/or they have names that are very foreign to me. And Sunkissed Feathers & Severed Ties has a lot of fantasy names.
