This week, The Lady Jewel Diviner is:
• A fast-paced cosy crime mystery
• A cute nod to Regency romance
• Obsessed with cream teas
Category Archives: Fantasy fiction
Fantastic Regency Fantasy – Manners and Monsters
This week, Manners and Monsters is:
• A weird mix of American and Regency
• A great mix of magic and cosy crime
• Full of pickled cabbage
How to tell genre-snobs to f- off in 3 glorious phases
This week:
• I am not happy that I was genre-shamed
• It takes me less than a minute to think of three examples of fantasy in ‘great classic literature’
• It’s weird boiling Hamlet down to ‘man is haunted by the ghost of his murdered father until he goes on a homicidal rampage’
How a One-Star Review Convinced Me to Read ‘Kings of the Wyld’
This week, I marvel at:
• The irony of the situation
• The brilliance of Nicholas Eames
• How funny the word ‘titillation’ sounds
Review of ‘The Clockwork Boys’
This week, find out:
• What The Clockwork Boys is about
• Why horses are mostly for paladins
• That suicide missions can be fun… as long as you’re only watching
‘Woman warrior’ does not mean ‘strong female character’
This week, discover:
• Why ‘strong female characters’ compete with men
• Why women warriors can’t display emotion
• Some of the best women warriors in fiction
