Full disclosure: C.P. Lesley is an author and a member of one of my GR groups. She is someone that I consider a friend. I can't claim that this review is completely unbiased, but it is honest. This is a very unique book. It is sci-fi, romance, a bit of a space opera, involving a lot of ballet. It ...
I swear I read the description of the book, but for some reason my brain only focused on tsar and Russia. Automatically, I thought of a typical Russian novel set in a palace. My expectations took a quick swerve though as I read the prologue. Instead, the story starts with the mythical beginnings of ...
Exciting and intriguing, "The Not Exactly Scarlet Pimpernel" is a brilliant reworking of the classic novel by Baroness Orczy. I have to admit that although I was casually familiar with the premise of the original, I'd never read it. That wasn't a problem here, though, as C.P. Lesley cleverly reveals...