Review: The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

Title: The Winter Rose (The Tea Rose #2) Author: Jennifer Donnelly Release Date: November 2006 Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance, Adult Rating: ★★★★★ Synopsis:  It has been twelve years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and courts of Whitechapel. And yet, in the summer of 1900, East London is still poor, still brutal, still a shadow city …

Review: The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

Title: The Tea Rose (The Tea Rose #1) Author: Jennifer Donnelly Release Date: May 2006 Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance, Adult Rating: ★★★★★ Synopsis: East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at …

Review: Aphrodite’s Tears by Hannah Fielding

Title: Aphrodite's Tears  Author: Hannah Fielding  Release Date: January 2018 Rating: ★★★★★ I received an ebook copy of this book personally from the author in exchange for a honest review Synopsis: In Hannah Fielding’s latest novel a young archaeologist who travels to the remote island of Helios to investigate an ancient shipwreck, becomes caught in a …

First Line Fridays #2

It's that time of the week again! Let's see if you guys can guess what the next book is just based from the little excerpt I'm going to give. First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or …

Review: Flame in the Mist by Renee Adhieh

Title: Flame in the Mist Author: Renee Adhieh Rating: ★★★.5 Synopsis: The only daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has always known she’d been raised for one purpose and one purpose only: to marry. Never mind her cunning, which rivals that of her twin brother, Kenshin, or her skills as an accomplished alchemist. Since Mariko was not born …

Review: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

Title: My Lady Jane (My Lady Janies #1) Author: Cynthia Release Date and Publisher: June 2016, HarperTeen Date Finished: July 8, 2017 Star Rating: ★★★★★ Synopsis: The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy in the tradition …