Abby Jimenez’s Just for the Summer was released earlier this month. Jimenez is known for her contemporary romance novels, and this book was Good Morning America’s Book Club pick for April. Just for the Summer is a feel-good summer romance. No tortured reasons for people to be kept apart, just two people who like each …
Chapter 1 Doña Valentina, a woman of mediocre beauty, and Don Marius Ordoño, a man with a dwindling fortune, are a married couple living in Casa Ordoño on Calle de Dos Santos. It’s a loveless and passionless marriage, which makes Valentina ill-tempered. She spends her days ordering the servants of the house around. She comes …
Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar is a historical fiction fantasy set in Madrid during the Spanish Golden Age, released a few days ago much to the excitement of her devoted cadre of fans. Inventive and dark, Bardugo’s standalone historical fantasy novel centers around a scullery maid with Jewish ancestry, Luzia, who is discovered to have a …
Part I Part II Part I Chapter 1 Recovering from the fight with the venin and the discovery that her brother Brennan is alive, Violet Sorrengail has a bite to eat with her brother, who officially goes by Lieutenant Colonel Aisereigh now. Afterwards, Violet walks through Riorson House, the stone fortress they’re currently in, to …
So I just finished Iron Flame by Rebecca Yaros today. With the release date and title for the next book in the Empyrean series set, I thought I should go ahead and cross it off my reading list, plus my sister was reading it this week too. Iron Flame is a hefty tome of a …
