This was billed as a Jane Austen with fantasy, and that's exactly what it is! Or I might say it's a blend between Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte with magic thrown in, as one of the major plot lines reminded me quite a bit of "Villette." Jane (her name is even Jane) is a classic Recency period ...
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Still loving this series! Like all Wheeler's series, it's very episodic, but that serves to make it feel more like I'm actually in his world. As always, my review will have to contain spoilers--when stories as as episodic as this, I don't know how else to describe them but by stating what ...
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I tried to read this one for the second time, and finally managed to make it all the way through, but I definitely see why I struggled the first time though. Since I was listening to the audio version (and I'm usually multitasking at the time) I actually had to stop about an hour or so in, and read ...
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I absolutely loved this! I'm in some ways a big Sherlock Holmes fan (I loved the Cumberbatch version, and in general I love the characters of Holmes and Watson as portrayed in film, though I find the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories painfully dry). Rather than yet another retelling, though, this ...
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Really fascinating! I rarely review nonfiction here, but I'll make an exception for this one. I already had a framework for the concepts, so that made it much easier to listen to as an audiobook. What I knew already was that dopamine was associated with pleasure and reward, and the lack of it ...
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