At Tracy’s recommendation, I requested the audiobook from the library and switched back and forth between listening and reading. I really liked the narrator. I feel like I lost some of the connection to the story by switching platforms, however. For awhile I was fully invested in the story and characters, but that fizzled a […]
Hugo Wilde isn’t interested in getting married again. His twin sister, Louisa, makes him think seriously about that choice as he has eight children, and they have no mother. Hugo was in love with his first wife and they had three sons together. Unfortunately, she died. His second wife he married just so his sons […]
This review was originally posted on October 26, 2010. I was really impressed with His Darkest Hunger. Really. The way it ended, with Jagger just disappearing into the jungle left me with high expectations for His Darkest Embrace. That turned out to be unfortunate because everything about Jagger was disappointing. He was an overbearing, egotistical […]
Warning: This review contains small spoilers. During a rainstorm both Leela and Elliot Townsend get stranded at a roadside inn. To save Leela from the unruly pub population, he offers to share his private parlor with her. One thing leads to another and they end up spending a passionate night in the private parlor. When […]
Althea Stanwick is a Duke’s daughter working at a tavern in Whitechapel. Strange? Yes. Unfortunately her father was tried and hung for plotting to assassinate the queen and then the title, lands and money were stripped from the family. Althea and her two brothers were ostracized and ended up moving to Whitechapel, which is the […]