I read this because the author is coming to our library in August. The three books in this series are based on Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost as well as Verdi's opera Don Carlo. I did not know this before I read this book but it helps explain the sense of coincidence and humorous situations...
This book had a slow start, but once I got a few chapters in, I positively devoured it in an afternoon. I loved the hero and heroine. He's a complete engineering geek, working on an early "horseless carriage." She's a titled widow. Somehow, it all works out, and in a partially ruined Italian cast...
I absolutely LOVED Ashland, even though I didn't feel it was necessary for the author to maim the hero as much as she did. I read one other book like that and, at times, found it to be a little disgusting. I also read a book where the heroine dressed as a man and gave the book one star because th...
The story came off as a fun romantic comedy in the beginning, started to veer towards mysterious and serious when the unlikely couple Abigail and Wallingford acknowledges their love for one another and went all meta and spiritual towards the end. Whaaaat? It's like drinking a shot of espresso and...