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Well, that’s what I get for trying this just because the cover looked goofy.

I love chickens. My parents keep them as pets, and it’s always a joy to help care for them whenever I housesit. Naturally, I went into this book expecting chickens and ended up getting breadcrumbs. Chickens only show up in the first chapter, and thereafter are demoted to passing off-page mentions and one late-book pun that made me wince.

Man, I don’t know. This book just feels like nothing. Harrison and Finn have the most basic chemistry, the most basic arguments and concerns, it’s just like - very paint-by-numbers with actual farming getting shoved to the sidelines. There’s no substance, just fluff.

The hurt/comfort is just peak, all sugary and warm. The intimacy was written so darn well with so much lovely yearning.

My only complaint is that the banter between the two leads felt a bit much at times with bad referential jokes. You could make a drinking game out of how many times these guys roll their eyes or ‘bark a laugh’

But the story itself is so earnest, and with such an unexpectedly thrilling first chapter!

A roguish man is caught by the earl he robbed some months prior, which is bad enough without considering what the two of them did that night.

Novellas like this are always welcome little treats, just very no-nonsense and no-frills runaway romances. My only very mild complaint is that it could have stood to have maybe one more sex scene to send it off.

This was okay! I mean, I had fun. I think my biggest disappointment was that the romance felt oddly lacking? Gwen and Bridget seem only barely connected by mutual attraction, and Gabe treats Arthur like a bug most of the time. It’s all very cynical and a bit too tongue-in-cheek for my liking.

Some of the humor is fun, and other times it feels painfully forced. It’s very YA in how it reads, which is fine! Just not my preference.

“It is a hard thing to be a good man”

I’m just such a sucker for duel timelines and western backdrops. Sprinkle in a cursed family name and a Mephistopheles-type and I am hooked, line, and sinker.

The prose is delicious. Everything about it is just a delight on my eyes. Once I got this in the mail yesterday, I could hardly keep it down, and isn’t that endorsement enough?

I’m not sure how accurate this book is in portraying medieval village life. That’s not really a usual area of interest for me, but I do love how this one of those rare books where ‘nothing’ happens, and yet there isn’t a part of it that bores you.

“Medieval Woman” is a snapshot of several months centered around Marion, wife to a modest carpenter and mother to two living children. The book is divided into month-by-month chapters, with each chapter representing around a single day or so.

For as much hardship as Marion endures, it’s mostly rooted in the mundane. She survives, and it’s oddly relaxing to read about someone doing endless toil and hard labor under a provincial backdrop.

I’m so glad I caught a glance of this while I was wandering around the library the other day. The Foxfire series is something that’s always existed in my periphery with the original paperbacks passed down from my grandfather. I had no idea that the program was still running and publishing new stuff like this.

This is a really lovely book, chock-full of different examples of southern Appalachia oral folklore from a diverse set of voices all lovingly transcribed and notated where needed.

Oh my god??? I don’t know what I was expecting going in, but I’m so glad I went for it. This is just lovely, so much yearning and emotional catharsis.

3.5 - this is absolutely a work of love, a tribute to the author’s love of regency-era decorum and goofs. I think it could have stood to loose a few characters, since many of them are more walking gags and potential culprits than anyone of substance. Makes it difficult to keep track of everyone.

The humor sometimes falls flat, but when it hits it’s a home run.