Today’s query: How is The Midnight Queen a really terrific fantasy novel? Well. Let me count the ways… World-building? Check. The author, Sylvia Izzo Hunter, reworks history just […]
The Family Fang
The Fang Family furiously flies its freak flag. Now say that three times fast. Really, you can’t say it often enough to describe the level […]
This Book Will Reel You In
Let’s get one important fact out of the way first: the protagonist’s name in the novel Missing Reels is Ceinwen, and it’s pronounced KINE-wen. The author […]
3 Regency Mysteries
What could be better than a Regency romance? Why, a Regency mystery novel, of course! And especially a Regency mystery series sparkling with a little […]
Dancing the Night Away
Twelve beautiful sisters. Every morning, twelve pairs of dancing slippers with the soles worn through. And nobody knows why. Sound familiar? Genevieve Valentine’s novel, The Girls […]
Steampunk + Mystery
A steampunk mystery novel! Two genres in one! It’s just like having a double-scoop ice cream cone. The flavor for steampunk would be black raspberry, […]
Mansfield Park: Hero and Villain
Get a crowd of Jane Austen fans together, and bring up her 1814 novel Mansfield Park. Watch the reaction! Glory in the conflicting opinions! Mansfield Park […]
What on Earth is a Teaglass?
What’s a lexicographer? Well, the American Heritage Dictionary says it’s “one who writes, compiles, or edits a dictionary.” So I’m going to the dictionary to […]
The Mystery of the Blue Train
There’s always a certain aura of glamour about Golden Age detective novels. Agatha Christie’s The Mystery of the Blue Train features the elements of her greatest plots: […]
