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Mini Reviews: Night of Cake & Puppets, An Offer From a Gentleman

March 9, 2023March 8, 2023by MariLeave a Comment on Mini Reviews: Night of Cake & Puppets, An Offer From a Gentleman
Mini Reviews: Night of Cake & Puppets, An Offer From a Gentleman

I think I need to take airplane flights more often. I got quite a bit of reading done in February because of this, and now I feel like I'm slacking in March. (I'm not...it just feels that way.) Night of Cake and Puppets was a companion novella to Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone [...]

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Enter the Viscount || The Viscount Who Loved Me

May 26, 2022May 26, 2022by MariLeave a Comment on Enter the Viscount || The Viscount Who Loved Me
Enter the Viscount || The Viscount Who Loved Me

Initial Thoughts I am indisputably a Kanthony shipper after that chef's kiss ending in Bridgerton season 2, and it has not changed after reading this book. I loved that there was much more steam in the book, and some of the stuff Anthony said on the pages were sorely missed in the show. HOWEVER, if [...]

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Food and Fandom: The Duke’s Lamb Moussaka

January 24, 2021January 19, 2021by Mari1 Comment on Food and Fandom: The Duke’s Lamb Moussaka
Food and Fandom: The Duke’s Lamb Moussaka

So I realized that by attempting to make this dish, I've also inadvertently started my goal in trying to learn the five French sauces! Starting with bechamel, of course. tl;dr (click for the Lamb Moussaka recipe)* *Note: I've made drastic alterations with the filling as I've detailed below. "I cannot believe," Violet said, one hand [...]

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Enter the Duke || The Duke & I Review

January 14, 2021January 18, 2021by Mari2 Comments on Enter the Duke || The Duke & I Review
Enter the Duke || The Duke & I Review

Initial Thoughts:  Seemed a bit tame compared to some of the historical romances I've dabbled with, but honestly, I mostly adored Daphne's three older brothers in the book. I don't think I particularly took to Daphne and Simon's relationship as much as I did in the TV adaptation, but I did enjoy them as characters [...]

Mari

Mari-with-an-I prefers her fantasies drenched in oil and fried up in faerie, but when that’s not the case, she’ll read it anyway. She likes writing what she reads, and likes baking while she writes. She’s written a few things for anthologies, including an anthology that got translated into Czech (I know, right?! Eeeeee!), and if you haven’t read them yet, she urges you to do so! Who knows, there might be a few cookies waiting for you at the end of the read.

…Or not. (Blast her pet steampoctopus for eating them all!)

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Reading Ratings (in Cookies)

5 cookies = Book was so deliciously awesome that I couldn't put it down or get it out of my mind for a while.

4 cookies = Book was great and certainly worth the read.

3 cookies = Book was good but I expected better.

2 cookies = Meh.

1 cookie = Why did I even bother?!

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