My rating: 4.5 StarsIf you read the first book in the series, you might remember Portia Hobbs to be a bit of a mess. Between her excessive drinking and one-night stands, Portia, a New York City socialite, made a name for herself. Well, things have changed. She has now been sober for months, and she ...
Portia Hobbs from the previous story (and this works alone, there are some references to the previous book but it's not necessary to have read it to get this) gets an apprenticeship with a swordmaker in Edinburgh, Scotland. There she starts to try to help him turn things around and it's all complica...
... expect to be called on it. Naledi Smith has been recently getting emails from someone who claims to be from an African country, who has a prince that she's supposed to marry. Yeah, right. She's too busy trying to work two jobs, fend off her co-worker that wants to give her all the work and t...
I started reading Alyssa Cole sometime last year. I think I saw her name on a list of women of color writing contemporary romance, and given how tragically white much romance is, I thought I should give her a shot. I read her Off the Grid series, which, in addition to being both science fictional an...
She was Ellen Burns, and she was going to help destroy the Confederacy. I'm wait late to the party on this one but, oh yes, do I agree with the majority of you all, this is my highest rated book of the year. Our heroine Elle definitely is the stand-out character, the hero Malcolm was very overshad...
3.5I liked this but didn't love it (though it might be me--I have never had a harder year with books than this year. Politics are sucking the life out of everything)I will say I loved the conflict in the feelings between the two main characters & the discussion of how an interracial relationship du...
Naledi (Ledi) Smith has been on her own for most of her life, bounced around in foster care after her parents were killed in a car crash. Now she's a grad student with multiple jobs and a supposedly upcoming epidemiology internship that she still hasn't been contacted about. The spam emails she keep...
3.5 rounded up, though I’m still not totally on board with that rating....More to come, maybe. Short review? Plot line and story were a 4+ the characters, also a 4+...although a bit tooo perfect. Writing was excellent a felt true and timeless. Fell flat for me in the romance, although their banter w...
This was a quick read at about 38 pages. Agnes Moor is a black woman in King James IV's court, beloved by James and his queen despite her introduction to the court as one of James' "exotics". Agnes works as a diplomat, helping James in his quest to unite Scotland under his rule and to be looked at a...
The Siege of Yorktown 1781. Colonel Hamilton has his army in place and is just obliterating the small town while awaiting for reinforcements. Two of the stories arise from the battlefield; the third is tied to the descendant of someone at Yorktown. They share their stories in letters and interviews ...
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