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.
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
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."
bennett - Dec 13, 2017 3:51:48 pm PST #24861 of 28212
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]
Mogget - Dec 13, 2017 5:49:34 pm PST #24864 of 28212
The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman is a Regency story about a young lady who finds out that she has the power to fight demons (sound familiar?). There's a sequel, The Dark Days Pact, with the promise of more to come.
Murder, Magic and What we Wore by Kelly Jones. A young lady finds herself penniless after her father's mysterious death. She finds she has the ability to sew glamours, and decides to become a spy. A very satisfying ending.
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal is the first book in the Glamourist Histories. It's Jane Austen-y with magic; two sisters with glamour skills try to find suitable husbands. One sister is on the verge of making a disastrous match and the other tries to prevent it.
Atropa - Dec 14, 2017 8:57:28 am PST #24865 of 28212
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
She also wrote decent mysteries--though more typical of the genre of "woman in peril solves mystery and finds love"--under the name Barbara Michaels. But I've always like her versions better than others.
A friend recently gave me a stack of the supernatural-tinged ones, and I've been happily reading through them. They're not quite gothic romance, but they're close enough, and well-written.
Connie Neil - Dec 14, 2017 9:13:08 am PST #24866 of 28212
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My favorite of Barbara Michaels' is "Witch."
Atropa - Dec 14, 2017 9:27:32 am PST #24867 of 28212
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I just read that last night! It was a lot of fun.
-t - Dec 14, 2017 9:34:09 am PST #24868 of 28212
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, I don't think I've read that one. My favorite is Shattered Silk.
Atropa - Dec 14, 2017 10:42:07 am PST #24869 of 28212
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I started Ammie Come Home at bedtime last night, and I know that Shattered Silk is the sequel to it. I've already read Stitch in Time , which is apparently the third book in that ... not quite trilogy, but narrative stream.
-t - Dec 14, 2017 10:44:30 am PST #24870 of 28212
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hm, I know I read Ammie Come Home, but did I read Stitch in Time? I think so, but I'll have to look at a description...