The night before Tess is to board the Titanic with the family that employs her, she finds herself chased down the darkening streets by a wolf before being rescued by a handsome stranger. With the frightening scene that played out still fresh in her mind, Tess is startled to find that the stranger who had [...]
Reviews: 2 Paris “minis”
As I did previously with 3 YA mini-reads, this is the Paris Month installment of my “mini” reviews – quick blurbs on some quick e-reads (often companion/novella/etc. stories to an existing book or series) Bois de Boulogne | Die for Her (Revenants, #2.5) Bois de Boulogne by Cathy Marie Buchanan Bois de Boulogne tells the [...]
Review: J’Adore Paris by Isabelle Laflèche
Catherine, a Parisian lawyer who had previously relocated to New York for work, has moved back to France to work at Christian Dior. As the intellectual property director, she is excited to be working at such a prestigious company but her dreams of a new glamorous job are thwarted when she finds herself caught up in a [...]
Review: Until I Die (Revenants, #2) by Amy Plum
Last year, I reviewed Die For Me and interviewed author Amy Plum as part of Paris Month and so, of course, I have to review the sequel for this year’s! It was because of Paris Month, and through Shannon @ Harper Collins, that I discovered this series. Until I Die, the sequel to Amy Plum’s Parisian-set [...]
Review: The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
On her way home from graduation, Bess Heath happens upon a chance encounter with Tom Cole on the trolley platform, who helps her with her luggage. Thus begins an attraction between the two that’s as powerful as Niagara Falls, much to the Heath family’s dismay. While they were once a high ranking family in society, [...]
Review: Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2) by Tahereh Mafi
When we last left off with Juliette in the first book, she has escaped from Warner and has taken sanctuary at Omega Point, a place where others with special powers are taught to train and hone their skills. When Castle, the leader of Omega Point assigns Kenji to help train Juliette, she begins to crawl [...]
Blog Tour Review: The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Marie and Antoinette van Goethem are 2 of 3 sisters who live with their recently-widowed mother in the late 1800s in Paris. Antoinette, the eldest of the sisters, works as an extra in the controversial play L’Assommoir and is adamant to not become a laundress like their absinthe-drunk mother. Marie and Charlotte both begin ballet [...]
Blog Tour: My Top 5 Fave Historical Fictions
As part one of a two-parter stop on The Painted Girls Blog Tour hosted by Harper Collins Canada, I am excited to share with you my top 5 favourite historical fiction novels. I actually wasn’t too familiar with this genre of historical fiction until the movie The Other Boleyn Girl was coming out. I always [...]
Review: Eve by Anna Carey
America, in the distant future. The world that once was has been decimated by the plague. Orphans were enrolled into schools and on the eve (hah.) of Eve’s graduation from an all-girl’s school, she discovers the actual horrifying fate of the new graduates. She escapes and her life is forever altered, now a disillusioned girl [...]
