The first thing that struck me about this book was the title: HOLD ME LIKE A BREATH. There are a lot of different ways you can hold someone, and I’ve heard innumerable similes in that regard, but never that one . . . “like a breath.” You hold your breath like it’s yours, like it […]
Where to begin . . . A Court of Thorns and Roses was and wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. I knew it was going to be a sort of Beauty and the Beast meets Tamlin mashup . . . but I didn’t really think about what that might mean. When I think of retellings, […]
Everything I could tell you about Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier can be summed up in a single paragraph from the story itself: If I were telling this tale, and it were not my own, I would give it a neat, satisfying ending . . . In such stories, there are no loose […]
I don’t care how cliché it is, I love Jane Austen. I’ve read Pride and Prejudice half a dozen times. I’ve read Emma at least twice that, and I’ve read Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park a time or two as well. We won’t even get into how many times I’ve watched their movie counterparts, […]