This was a quick, engaging listen about an Indian American woman who has a difficult relationship with her much more culturally conservative mother. At first we think her mother is just obsessed with arranging a marriage for her daughter with a nice Indian boy of whom she approves. Then as ...
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What a satisfying conclusion to another great trilogy! As rich in detail and complex in characterization and plot as all of Wheeler's other stories, this one follows now-Queen Maia through the tumults of protecting her people from a coming invasion, even while expressing incredible mercy and pity ...
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I liked this way more than I expected to! I usually guess from an illustrated cover like this that I'm going to get a piece of fluffy, politically correct chick lit. While that's exactly what it was, it had one (for me) major redeeming quality: it was a retelling of Jane Austen's "Emma." I knew this ...
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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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