Here are the books I'm reading right now:
The Library of Light and Shadow
by M. J. Rose
A Season in London (Timeless Regency collection)
Elizabeth Johns, Heather B Moore, Rebecca Connolly
Strange the Dreamer
by Laini Taylor
My Lady Jane
by Cynthia Hand
I've read a lot of books this past month. Here's a rundown on what I enjoyed:
by Daniel H Wilson
Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past...
Russia, 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin, the tsar's loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time, possessed with uncanny power, and destined to serve great empires. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society, they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries.
The Clockwork Dynasty seamlessly interweaves past and present, exploring a race of beings designed to live by ironclad principles, yet constantly searching for meaning.
Opening line:
"The age of the thing is in the feel of it."
I wasn't sure how much I would like this book but I then I couldn't put it down so I guess it's safe to say I did like.
Full review here.
by Karey White
After being dragged to the 2005 movie Pride and Prejudice by her mother, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth’s life changes when Matthew Macfadyen’s Mr. Darcy appears on the screen. Lizzie falls hard and makes a promise to herself that she will settle for nothing less than her own Mr. Darcy. This ill-advised pledge threatens to ruin any chance of finding true love. During the six intervening years, she has refused to give any interested suitors a chance. They weren’t Mr. Darcy enough.
Coerced by her roommate, Elizabeth agrees to give the next interested guy ten dates before she dumps him. That guy is Chad, a kind and thoughtful science teacher and swim coach. While she’s dating Chad, her dream comes true in the form of a wealthy bookstore owner named Matt Dawson, who looks and acts like her Mr. Darcy. Of course she has to follow her dream. But as Elizabeth simultaneously dates a regular guy and the dazzling Mr. Dawson, she’s forced to re-evaluate what it was she loved about Mr. Darcy in the first place.
Opening line:
"The theater was nearly empty."
I LOVE the cover!
Full review here.
by Charles Finch
On any given day in London, all Charles Lenox, Victorian
gentleman and armchair explorer, wants to do is relax in his private
study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his
lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist another
chance to unravel a mystery, even if it means trudging through the snow
to her townhouse next door.
One of Jane's former servants, Prudence Smith, is dead -- an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison. The house where the girl worked is full of suspects, and though Prudence dabbled with the hearts of more than a few men, Lenox is baffled by an elusive lack of motive in the girl's death.
When another body turns up during the London season's most
fashionable ball, Lenox must untangle a web of loyalties and
animosities. Was it jealousy that killed Prudence? Or was it something
else entirely, something that Lenox alone can uncover before the killer
strikes again -- disturbingly close to home?
Opening line:
"Charles Lenox sat in the study of his town house in Hampden Lane--that small, shop-lined street just off Grosvenor Place where he had passed most of his adult life--and sifted through the papers that had accumulated upon his desk, as they would, inevitably, when one became a member of Parliament. "
I really quite enjoyed my first foray into the Charles Lenox Mysteries.
Full review here.
