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Layla’s Best of 2021
Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light This was probably my favorite book of the year. I don’t read m/m romance much, but this book had me hooked. Full of angst and tension, containing a swoon worthy romance...
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REVIEW: Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
I’ve read two previous books by Dana Schwartz, Choose Your Own Disaster and The White Man’s Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon. Both were non-fiction(ish?) – the first a memoir with a...
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REVIEW: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera
Paris, 1889 The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe…including Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Caña Brava rum empire. Luz Alana set sail from...
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REVIEW: The Fossil Door by Celia Lake
Enjoy this kind and gentle historical fantasy romance set in the magical community of Great Britain after the Great War. Rathna has a gift for doorways. When a portal in the Scottish Highlands stops...
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REVIEW: The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz
Dear Ms. Frantz, Last year when I read “A Heart Adrift,” I wrote this in my review and I’m going to repeat it here as it applies to this book, too. “As I’ve tagged this with “inspirational,” I’ll go...
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REVIEW: The Baker’s Daughter by D.E. Stevenson
Review This is – as one ought to say when one is in an art gallery – interesting. But despite the fact that there is a happy ending to the romance, it’s not all that romantic. No, it’s more a...
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REVIEW: Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam
In 1920s Edinburgh, Scotland, Evelyn Hazard is a young, middle-class housewife living the life she’s always expected—until her husband, Robert, upends everything with a startling announcement: he can...
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REVIEW: Cassandra by Chance by Betty Neels
He needed her as a nurse, not a woman Benedict van Manfeld was one of the surliest, most unfriendly men Cassandra had ever met. But when she learned he was a brilliant Dutch surgeon who had severely...
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REVIEW: The Island Cottage by Jane Lovering
When Brid Harcus is sent to the Orkney Islands, in the far reaches of Scotland, she has high hopes for her trip being short, straightforward and lucrative. Her mother has inherited a cottage from her...
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REVIEW: Dear Hugo by Molly Clavering
“When the time comes for you to retire, Hugo, if you want a quiet life, don’t settle down in the country. Bury yourself in London or any really large city, and you can live like a hermit, but avoid...
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