Posts from the ‘Women’s or Chick Lit Fiction’ category
Susan Rose is a wet nurse in Victorian England. She resides in the homes of wealthy families whose wives have recently had a baby. Back then, it was not fashionable for the lady of the house to nurse her own child and as such this…
Set in 1739, Jennifer Reinoehl’s The Inconvenient Widow is a blend of Christian inspirational, historical fiction and Jane Austen romance. There are some elements of suspense and mystery but the intensity and amount of on screen violence, or the quickness of pace critical for romantic…
Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman is not a book that evokes good feelings, at least not for much of the time. That being said, the narrative is well-written, tight without any parts that could have been excised. Neither is Illumination Night a long book…
Butterfly Palace by Colleen Coble had such promise. The beginning was an excellent emotional action scene that showcased the two main characters, a couple, Lily and Drew who are engaged when the story opens. There are several plot lines—a serial attacker of servant girls, a…
My Brilliant Friend did not grab me immediately. A time or two I came close to not continuing listening to it. The esoteric nature of the writing kept me at a distance. As a result I never formed an emotional attachment to the characters while…
Younger is a novel that seemed to be part chick lit/women’s fiction and part thriller. The story begins like a thriller and throughout Younger, there are spies, Russians posing as Brits and vice versa, embassy officials, and targets as well as a host of dead bodies.…
Categories: Classics, Literary Fiction, Women’s Villette by Charlotte Bronte is a Jane Austenesque type story. The narrator-protagonist is Lucy Snow. It is her life story…well, half of it. She’s around twelve when the story begins at her god-mother’s home in England where she is staying with…
While not the best that I have read, Of Noble Birth was an enjoyable historical romance and kept me reading. A few questions, I had were: a) how did Nathaniel get from the Britsh prison ships, the Hulks back to Graystone so fast (at least…
These are not your mother’s Harlequins (or any Harlequins for that matter). A suggested add — Philip Roth’s The Professor of Desire — there’s some romance in there somewhere.
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