A great idea, though the execution of it was so-so. In this blend of Jane Austen and Agatha Christie, many of Austen's main characters assemble in a house party thrown by the Knightleys. Unfortunately, George Wickham crashes the party, and then turns up dead. It's many years since several of the ...
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As the end of a series (a duology in this case, where Evaraine and Danric are the main characters, in the larger series of Abreia), this one kind of fell flat to me. The world is the same as it was for the first two books, so that wasn't the issue -- I still get immersed in Davidson's alternate ...
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Ugh, what a let-down! And even so, I raced through it, so I feel like I have to give it at least three stars. My general impression of Garber's books is that they're colorful and whimsical in the extreme, filled with lavish balls and gowns, and magic without rules or logic. The plots always ...
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Leisa's and Kyrion's stories get wrapped up by the second book in this series; this one picks up with peripheral characters from the first two, Princess Evaraine of Farhall and Prince Danric of Garimore. Neither seemed like compelling characters in the first two books, so that was an interesting ...
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After reading "A Study in Scarlet" and then "The Hound of the Baskervilles," I looked up which were the best Sherlock stories and chose this one, since apparently it's the only one that actually features Moriarty (really?? Given how prominent he is in all the adaptations, that's amazing!) A good ...
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