Poetry of Reading

“You can't ask questions like that. Everything has to be done in the right order, or the whole narrative falls to pieces. One thing has to follow another. You can't skip over anything or move things along faster. One step at a time.”This book is a beautiful, poignant retelling of one of the...

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Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.Splendor brings Anna Godbersen’s Luxe series to a close, and what a tremendous ending it is! All the loose threads are tied up, but not always so...

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 Roses Have Thorns is the third of the Ladies in Waiting Tudor-era novels by Sandra Byrd. It introduces the reader to a Swedish historical woman, Elin von Snakenberg, or, as she came to be known in England, Helena, Marchioness of Northampton. Through the story of Elin, we come into the court of Elizabeth...

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 Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown (✴✴)For the most part, I thought this book was uninteresting. There was a minor twist near the end that improved it slightly, but overall disappointment.Wizard's First Rule  by Terry Goodkind (✴✴)This is the first book of a long series, and I felt it tried to...

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