by Tamara Allen
pianist
4.5 stars - I’m going to start by explaining why this book has been on my TBR pile since June 2012. The thing is, I’ve read other works by Tamara Allen…and I’ve LOVED THEM. To pieces. With immense and overflowing joy that makes me want to go outside and sing (badly) to my poor neighbors and to the c...
Too anodyne for me. I want a spark, something. At least it transports you to the 1910s in no time.Too slow, too average, too bland. I liked the shop, the music, the environment, the lifestyle, the after-war theme. But details and surroundings are nothing if there are not worthy and memorable charact...
Good story and the characters were great, though it perhaps went on a little too long in the end. I have to say the cover is truly awful though, and doesn't suit the story at all!
What a gorgeous, heartwarming story. Sutton and Jack are so easy to love, and their story so poignant and heart-wrenching and beautiful.I just. I can't even properly articulate the amount of love I have for everything this author has written, and all of her characters. If you haven't already read ev...
I would rate this somewhere between 3.5 and 4 stars. I liked the characters and the story proved interesting enough but it did not capture my full attention or made me feel Sutton or Jack's emotions strongly.Perhaps I was not so infatuated with the story because I was expecting something different. ...
Quite a world, isn’t it? No bother at all for them to push a gun in our hands and tell us to kill any number of fellows we can—but God forbid we should kiss one. (Theo to Jack and Sutton) Beautiful story, romance at its best. Maybe I would have preferred a bit harsher world to Jack and Sutton as it ...
A sweet m/m romance, steeped in the attitudes and issues of the time (post WWI) I thoroughly enojyed this one. Oh, yes, there are some slow spots, especially at the beginning, but the characters are marvelous and the writing transportive.Before the sexual revolutionm,before 'gay rights' was even a t...