Review:Liked the story but did get confused with the characters. Finish is abrupt and didn't realise I had finished. Once I got I to it did enjoy Tillys journey and liked they got what they deserved. Would like to know what happened to Tilley afterward Read more

Review:I love Christi writing. This was a lovely historical romance, about finding love and helping someone find himself after a loss of someone he loved. I loved the richness of the characters and they love & understanding of family and what they can bring to each of us in our relationships both the bad and the good. Read more

Review:Adam Penrose, Duke of Stratton has returned to England in search of revenge for those that drove his father to suicide by besmirching his name. He is approached by the son of his family's sworn enemy with a plea for peace and an offer of his younger sister’s hand in marriage. Adam is ready to decline until he spots the older sister Clara. She’s beautiful, smart, and independent, and wants to continue publishing her women’s journal with no intention of ever marrying. It seems she’s also just ... Read more

Review:Margaret Atwood's most recent work, The Blind Assassin, is a masterful piece of prose.
The book attempts a feat of immense proportions. Iris Griffin-Chase, the narrator, is a woman in her mid-eighties. She is in the process of writing her memoirs, and in the process sharing them with us. Not only does she tell of her life, however, but she intersperses sections of a novel written by her sister, Laura Chase, who died tragically at a young age under mysterious circumstances. The ending is a... Read more

Review:"Ireland" is a collection of short stories loosely tied together within a longer narrative involving a boy named Ronan. Ronan's story begins in 1951 in Ireland where we met "the last storyteller". We follow Ronan's growing up from age 9 through his early 20's, and his quest to find the storyteller. Throughout Ronan's story, you also encounter various stories from Ireland's history dating back before recorded history up to the Easter Rising of 1914.

The struggle I had with the book was ... Read more

Review:I have just finished my second reading of this great book and glad that I did. Explains so much about the various peoples,cultures and history of this complicated country. A must read for anyone traveling to South Africa. Read more

Review:Its an Bernard Cornwell tale of Uthred and as such it is of course well written and very entertaining. That being said I find it the one if the lesser instalments in the series. The story line this time around is interely fictious and Cornwell uses it to (rather of handedly) tie several loose knots and bring Uthred in a position to start the final battle for Bebbanburg.
Uthred is by far my favourite Cornwell hero but I fear his author seems to have grown a bit bored with him. My gues is the ... Read more

Review:Intertwined families struggle in the post Civil War era, during a time when many emancipated slaves continue to experience torturous and hateful ordeals. It’s a good read which neatly represents that all whites were not mean and that with faith and family, difficult challenges can be overcome. Read more

Review:Kay does a wonderful job transporting readers to far flung destinations - from my first experience reading "You're the One That I Want," which made me feel the intense heat of Florida, to the experience in The Aftermath of the PNW's lush mountains and secluded small towns. I felt completely immersed in the setting in a way a lot of stories skimp on. This book also does a wonderful job of pulling the reader into the literature referenced throughout without needing the advantage of having read all... Read more

Review:Reluctant to review Susan Barker’s The Incarnations: A Novel without knowing another of her three publications. This work is so laden with negativity regarding China in all its covered historical periods that I wondered whether it flows from her generic mode of story telling or just what the subject had promoted in her artistic rendering? On completion of the story comes a biographical note: “Susan Barker grew up in East London. While writing The Incarnations she spent several years living in Be... Read more