Linda the Librarian

I really didn't feel well Sunday.  I stayed home from church and stayed on the couch for the whole day.  I don't like feeling punky, but on the positive side I did finish this book that I had started a few days before.  An Inconvenient Beauty by Kristi Ann Hunter is the fourth and last in her series about the Hawthorne family.  Griffith Duke of Riverton is the last of the Hawthorne siblings to remain unmarried and is finally looking for a wife.  He is a thoughtful man and logically decides which of the available marriageable women should be his wife.  It's too bad another lady captures his heart!  It might spoil all of  his well thought out plans!  This was a pleasant way to spend my recovery day.  I now recommend it to you. Because I finished my other book early in the day, I started and finished My Name is Victoria by Lucy Worsley.  This is a Young Adult novel set during the girlhood of Queen Victoria.  It's a stor...

This is the sequel to Ms. Higgins' book The Great Hunt.  We're back in the fictional kingdom of Lochlanach.  The magical beast controlled by Rozaria was killed and Princess Aerity is to be given in marriage to Lord Alvi of the Coldlands.  All should be well and they should be rebuilding, but more is yet to come.  Rozaria herself was not defeated, she has issued her demands - the lists of magical families should be burned and those possessing magic should be able to practice magic freely - and war has begun. I liked the pace of this book.  I needed to know what was going to happen next and ultimately how it would end.  There was nice character development - there were no caricatures.  It did end neatly (as in the couples you wanted to end up together did).  My only caution is that there is a sex scene in the book.  The full sex act was not described, but you didn't have to wonder where they were going to end up.  If you are a pa...