Thanks—lady doctor sounds totally up my alley. And I definitely enjoyed Study in Scarlet Women and the sequel.
Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?
Glory ,'Potential'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
meara - Dec 13, 2017 1:31:13 pm PST #24854 of 28212
bennett - Dec 13, 2017 1:44:12 pm PST #24855 of 28212
Connie - Yes, alas. She died in 2013. The last book, "The Painted Queen", was completed by Joan Hess and I found it pretty much unreadable. The characters were off and the villains of the week were just annoying.
Amy - Dec 13, 2017 1:51:27 pm PST #24856 of 28212
Because books.
Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, set in Victorian London, is also a lot of fun, especially in the beginning. And her William Monk series is also good, and features an aristocratically born woman named Hester who becomes a nurse during the Crimean War.
I loved the Benjamin January books.
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2017 1:59:39 pm PST #24857 of 28212
brillig
The characters were off and the villains of the week were just annoying.
I stopped reading when Sethos became the focus, though I was very gratified with how Ramses and Nefret worked out.
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2017 2:16:42 pm PST #24858 of 28212
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The last book, "The Painted Queen", was completed by Joan Hess and I found it pretty much unreadable.
Was it bad? I haven't read it. Dang.
bennett - Dec 13, 2017 2:56:43 pm PST #24859 of 28212
I'm afraid so, Steph. Everyone was pretty much a caricature of themselves. No subtlety.
Dana - Dec 13, 2017 3:22:35 pm PST #24860 of 28212
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Meara, I'm on the phone so limited typing, but Death by Silver and its sequel are Victorian urban fantasy and m/m.
bennett - Dec 13, 2017 3:51:48 pm PST #24861 of 28212
Toddson, I really like the Benjamin January books, but I can't binge read them. The world he lives in is so hard and Hambly doesn't sugarcoat it. Not just the horrors of slavery and how he has to be so careful all the time around white people, but the constant presence of diseases like typhoid and cholera and all the other aspects of life in the 1830s.
Beverly - Dec 13, 2017 4:03:37 pm PST #24862 of 28212
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
The Vicky Bliss series and the Jaqueline Kirby series by Elizabeth Peters. Both are fun.
Jesse - Dec 13, 2017 4:14:07 pm PST #24863 of 28212
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I like Anne Perry's books, and/but in real life she was one of the girls in the movie Heavenly Creatures. [link]