Comedy of Manners

Review: Happy Hour at Casa Dracula (Casa Dracula Book 1) by Marta Acosta

by Keira 09.09.2011

In the first installment of Casa Dracula, Milagro De Los Santos, Miracle of the Saints, reluctantly goes to her college boyfriend’s party celebrating his huge success as a newly published author. She thinks his novel is garbage, but the critics love it. She also thinks he’s a superficial stuck-up snob and isn’t proven wrong. At [...]

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Review: Midnight Brunch (Casa Dracula Book 2) by Marta Acosta

by Keira 09.07.2011

In the second installment of the Casa Dracula series, Milagro meets many more vampires as they come to celebrate the naming ceremony of Sam and Winnie’s baby, an event she just so happens to be excluded from which irks her to no end. Why must Oswald and the Grants always keep her out of the [...]

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Review: Compromised by Kate Noble

by Keira 08.28.2011

One word: charming. Two words: engaging hilarity. Three words: sparkling/sparking chemistry. Most decidedly, Compromised, is a great way to kick off your summer reading. Kate Noble engages readers with narrative that is tongue-in-cheek. Part of the narrative reads third person omniscient and part is third person lead-centric as we are use to in romance. It [...]

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Review: The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer

by Keira 08.22.2011

The Corinthian ranks in my top 5 favorite Georgette Heyers to date. My favorite things about this novel: The hero and heroine spend a majority of the book in each other’s presence. The heroine cross-dresses to look like a young lad for most of the novel with the hero helping her in her disguise. The [...]

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Review: These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan

by Keira 08.17.2011

These Three Remain is the last installment of the Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman Trilogy by Pamela Aidan. This is the one you’ve all been waiting for, or at least is the one I’ve been waiting for. It starts just before Darcy’s trip to Rosings and goes through to the final proposal. It’s very long and [...]

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Movie Review: Sense and Sensibility Miniseries (BBC TV 2008)

by Keira 08.14.2011

I’ve always been a fan of the Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman version of Sense & Sensibility, but I must say this new miniseries has quite blown my mind. It’s wonderful, sumptuous, superbly acted adaptation. Andrew Davies did a fabulous job with the screenplay. We all know the story behind Sense [...]

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Duty and Desire by Pamela Aidan- Guest Review

by Sasha Muradali 08.11.2011

By: Sasha Muradali, guest blogger Duty & Desire is an interesting addition to the trilogy of Fitzwilliam Darcy: Gentleman by Pamela Aidan. This second installment takes readers through Mr. Darcy’s missing moments in Pride and Prejudice in between his departure for London after the Netherfield Ball and his reemergence at his aunt’s house, Rosings Park. [...]

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Review: Nancy’s Theory of Style by Grace Coopersmith

by Keira 07.25.2011

To borrow a phrase from Nancy, you will be absolutely thrillified with Grace Coopersmith’s new novel! I was. It was the perfect flirty, happy, sweet, and thoroughly enjoyable read. Grace Coopersmith is a pen name for Marta Acosta and Nancy’s Theory of Style is a spinoff of the Casa Dracula novels. I probably wouldn’t have [...]