Lesa's Book Critiques
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The Nanny’s Handbook for Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes by Amy Rose Bennett
Amy Rose Bennett kicks off the first book in her Parasol Academy series with The Nanny's Handbook for Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes. It's a sensual historical romance with a touch of romance. Other reviewers called it a combination of Mary Poppins and...
The Secret Christmas Library by Jenny Colgan
Jenny Colgan's latest novel, The Secret Christmas Library, might encourage you to escape to the Scottish Highlands while hoping to be snowed in at a castle for the holidays. Well, not me. I hate snow and winter, but the story was still a delightful love story to...
Sugar and Spite by Carol J. Perry
Rhys Bowen, author of Her Royal Spyness series, recently said one of the biggest mistakes an author can make is to add a baby to an amateur sleuth's life. I wonder if Carol J. Perry decided to end her Witch City mystery series by giving Lee and Pete Mondello a...
An Election by John Scalzi
After reading John Scalzi's Constituent Service, set in the Third District of an unnamed planet, I went back to read the short novella, An Election. In fact, it's actually a short story more than a novella, but it's amusing, as well as topical, although it came out...
What ARe You Reading?
I'm so glad I called my sister yesterday morning. I had failed to put last night's play on my calendar. As she said, when she called to tell me she was leaving to pick me up, I would have been in my jammies. We went to see "Some Like It Hot." I'd never seen the...
Slight Mourning by Catherine Aird
The sixth book in Catherine Aird's Calleshire Chronicles, Slight Mourning, was not one of my favorites. Despite one funny report about a regimental reunion at a hotel, this mystery was slow-paced, in fact, plodding. After a dinner party at his home, Bill Fent died...
