So many readers suggested North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell in the comments during the Birthday Soiree that I decided to read it over Christmas. I can see why many fans love the book and suggested it but I was also stunned by how different it was from Jane Austen’s own work. Somehow, I thought it would be written in the same spirit as Pride & Prejudice. Clearly this was naive; Gaskell is a different Read more…
Austenprose has named The Unexpected Miss Bennet one of the Top 10 Jane Austen sequels, prequels, and retellings. And Austenesque Reviewer Jeffrey Ward named The Unexpected Miss Bennet one of his top Pride & Prejudice sequels of the year as well. I am very honored to be in such company. And thanks to everyone who read and loved Miss Bennet and shared their opinion with the Internet and their friends. As someone who is a Read more…
I read the fourth book in Julie Kagawa’s The Iron Fey series, The Iron Knight, over the holidays and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you aren’t reading this YA series, and you love YA, treat yourself by picking up this series, which starts with The Iron King. In every one of the books in the series, Kagawa brings a sideways look at the familiar tales of Faerie. From conjuring up the iron fey, which is an Read more…