Weekend reads, or what I'm not reading...
Serious book rut.
Not helped by the 100 degree weather here which makes focusing on anything but ice impossible.
How's your summer going? Reading anything good?
Alyssa Cole's An Extraordinary Union
...the man was unduly annoyed at her for having the gall to aid her country without virtue of a certain appendage hanging between her thighs.
First, I will confess that a biracial romance set during the Civil War instantly made me nervous, especially since our heroine is under cover as a slave. So much could have gone wrong, and the reason I trusted it wouldn't was because of Cole.
Second, all my anxieties were for naught: this book was freakin' awesome.
An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
Kensington, 2017
Copy from library
Historical Fiction and Read Harder challenges
Ellen, a former slave, has returned to the South and a life of servitude in service of Pres. Abraham and freedom. A spy with Pinkerton's group, she's been placed in the household of a high level Confederate, using her wits and eidetic memory to aid the Union.
Malcolm McCall is a Pinkerton too, pretending to be a good Confederate officer. Somehow, impossibly, Cole managed to make this set up not squi…
First, I will confess that a biracial romance set during the Civil War instantly made me nervous, especially since our heroine is under cover as a slave. So much could have gone wrong, and the reason I trusted it wouldn't was because of Cole.
Second, all my anxieties were for naught: this book was freakin' awesome.
An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
Kensington, 2017
Copy from library
Historical Fiction and Read Harder challenges
Ellen, a former slave, has returned to the South and a life of servitude in service of Pres. Abraham and freedom. A spy with Pinkerton's group, she's been placed in the household of a high level Confederate, using her wits and eidetic memory to aid the Union.
Malcolm McCall is a Pinkerton too, pretending to be a good Confederate officer. Somehow, impossibly, Cole managed to make this set up not squi…
Don't stress about it - you'll get your reading mojo back soon.
ReplyDeleteAwww, it happens to all of us. If I were voicing a personal preference, I'd vote for you to read The Kiss Quotient because I've heard it's delightful. HANG IN THERE, books will be fun again soon!
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