It’s by the storied Meredith Duran–we’re SO blue she’s currently not writing–and Blythe gave it a fairly happy B+.
We’ll discuss it on Monday, August 23rd.
Happy reading!
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It was a clear DIK for me when I read it 🙂
I just finished this AGAIN yesterday, and it is so good. I’m hopeful about future work, but glad we have thirteen titles to enjoy more than once.
Is it official that MD is no longer writing?!!? Like, I know she hasn’t written in a while but… I still hold out hope! Her books are just so dang good.
Note the new date for this!
I have to go re-read this, I read it quite some time ago but unlike many of her other books the details have not stuck with me.
I am rereading it now. Her writing is so deft.