by Mary Robinette Kowal
This is the best in the bunch so far, I think. As with the second book, it takes it cues from a real-world event--this time, the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia. The atmosphere was so clouded with volcanic ash that 1816 was dubbed "The Year Without a Summer," thus the title of the book.J...
This third entry in The Glamourist Histories series enchants just as much as the first two with a magic tinged blend of real and alternate Regency history. Newly married Jane and Vincent are back home after a honeymoon on the Continent that coincided with Napoleon’s escape from Elba. They have a L...
Each book in this series adds layers to the story of Vincent and Jane. Their love, their glamour, and their family entanglements take center stage here.
*Minor, very minor spoilers ahead*I'm glad I stuck with the series, I didn't care for the first book, I despised Melody, and Jane was irritating. The second book was better, and this third one is definitely the best in the series so far. Melody has completely redeemed herself, I would probably read ...
I don't know exactly what it is about these Regency fantasy books I find so charming but this series is delightful.
The villain in this book was unexpected, and I wasn't particularly pleased by the resolution (sorry to be oblique, but to avoid spoilers, I'll just say the end had hints of deus ex machina rather than the hero and heroine's own efforts winning the day). Nice to see my favorite glamorists back at wo...
I enjoyed this quiet book. Like the previous novels of the series, it’s imbued with Jane Austen’s influence. Add to that love and hatred, family drama and laborers’ uprising, the magic of glamour and bad weather, and, of course, the Irish, and you get a perfect recipe for a rather piquant tale of al...
I'm still enjoying this series of cozies. I'm less enamoured of the cover.
I've been enjoying Robinette Kowal's "Glamour" books set in an alternate Regency Universe. As much as I love Naomi Novik's dragon books set during the Napoleonic Wars, I think R. Kowal's worldbuilding holds up better under scrutiny.Sir David Vincent and Jane, Lady Vincent, are back in England after ...
I won an ARC through a Goodreads giveaway.Loved this. These books just get better and better. The depth of detail in the world-building of glamour is just fascinating, and the time period (and attention to detail to lifesyle and clothing and etc...) is also phenomenal.I stayed up late in the night t...
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