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James

JAMES rating: five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. My favorite book of 2024 so far is JAMES by Percival Everett (Doubleday/Penguin Random House, March 19, 2024), a retelling of Mark Twain‘s classic THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN from the point of view of Jim, Huckleberry Finn’s companion on that legendary raft trip down the Mississippi River. I can’t […]

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Wolf Den Trilogy

THE TEMPLE OF FORTUNA rating: 4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Titles in the Wolf Den trilogy by Elodie Harper: THE WOLF DEN (Union Square & Co., March 29, 2022).THE HOUSE WITH THE GOLDEN DOOR (Union Square & Co., September 26, 2022).THE TEMPLE OF FORTUNA (Union Square & Co., November 14, 2023): four stars Throughout this immersive trilogy,

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Hawt Pirates

HUNT ON DARK WATERS rating: 3 stars ⭐⭐⭐. I love pirates, especially sexy ones. I’m not big on sex scenes. If a novel is well written, I am eager to get on with the plot and a blow-by-blow account (begging your pardon) in excruciating detail tends to make me skip ahead. In HUNT ON DARK

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Fair Rosaline

FAIR ROSALINE rating: 4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐. In FAIR ROSALINE by Natasha Solomons (Sourcebooks Landmark, September 12, 2023), a retelling of Shakespeare’s play THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET, this ain’t Franco Zeffrelli’s Romeo, not that I liked him that much either. At least the 1968 movie Romeo looked the same age as Juliet. In fact,

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