Showing posts with label Janga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Janga. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2018

In Memory of Janga






It breaks my heart to have to tell you that this morning, my dear friend and blogging partner, Janga Rholetter lost her battle with cancer. Some of you only knew her through her insightful and flawlessly written reviews here at the Dish. Others may have met her years ago at Squawk Radio or on the Eloisa James bulletin board or, perhaps, more recently on Facebook or Twitter.

Janga was an admired and respected voice in the Romance community and a valued friend to many. I had hoped we would have more time to giggle together on the phone like schoolgirls; swooning over romance heroes like Parth in Born to Be Wilde, tomorrow's release from Eloisa James, or admiring the beautiful prose and laughing over the hilarious humor in Julie Anne Long's Hellcat Canyon books or lamenting the fact that more readers don't know about the brilliance of Anne Gracie and her wonderful historical romances. But God had another plan and our loss is Heaven's gain. Janga's faith was deep and she was at peace with the knowledge that her next adventure was on the horizon.

Janga loved the English language and was a staunch advocate of the written word. For those of you who only knew her through the blog, you may not be aware that she also loved introducing young minds to written works that touch our hearts, challenge us to think, and turn stereotypes on end. For 37 years, she shared her love of literature of all kinds - but especially Southern literature - as a teacher at a local high school and then at Auburn University. Last week, I was on the phone ordering birthday flowers for Janga from one of the florists in her hometown. The woman taking my order suddenly asked, "Is this for the same Ms. Rholetter who taught at Troup High?" I replied that it was. She said, "She was my teacher! My brother's too. I loved her class! I learned so much from her. She was my favorite teacher." I can think of no better tribute to a woman who held education and the written word in such high regard. I loved her class. She was my favorite. I learned so much

I treasure the years of friendship with which Janga and I were blessed. I also learned much from her, I admired her, I loved her, and I will miss her deeply. 

Rest in Peace, dear Janga. You may be gone from this life but your footprints will never fade. 

Tomorrow is a big romance release day and those days were among Janga's favorites. The best way I know to honor my friend is to support a hardworking author by buying one of the books releasing tomorrow, getting comfy, and losing myself in a world of hope, a world of love, a world of happy endings. I hope you'll do the same.

Janga's obituary

And because Janga so enjoyed sharing her love of romance novels with everyone here at the Dish, I'm gifting three of you with your choice of one of the following three books, by authors whose stories she treasured: 




Born to be Wilde by Eloisa James







 


First Time at Firelight Falls by Julie Anne Long











or Marry in Scandal by Anne Gracie. 
(Open Internationally)

Monday, July 9, 2018

Review - - Bluestone & Vine



Bluestone & Vine
By Donna Kauffman
Publisher: Kensington / Zebra
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Reviewed by Janga


 

Seth Brogan loves his youngest sister Moira, but he is not pleased when she calls him to let him know about a house swap she has arranged. Moira will be living in house in an Irish village that belongs to the sister of Katie MacMillan, a college roommate, and the sister, who needs a quiet, peaceful place to retreat, will be living in Seth’s home. Seth has enough to do caring for Dexter, his music-loving llama, and his vineyard and winery, Bluestone & Vine. He is already making plans to find Katie’s sister another place to live when she lands on his land and in his life, courtesy of a borrowed snowmobile.

Pippa MacMillan is a renowned fiddle-playing folk singer, a super star in the United Kingdom, although lesser known in the United States. Her vocal cords ruptured during a performance, and recovery from the surgery to repair them is taking longer than anyone expected. The media buzzards are circling, speculating that Pippa’s career is over. Pippa longs to escape from their scrutiny. The fact that she has not sung since her surgery is a closely guarded secret. Even more disturbing to Pippa is that the inner music she has heard all her life has also gone silent. Tiny Blue Hollow Falls, Virginia, seems an ideal place to get away from her troubles.

Despite Seth’s reservations about his uninvited guest, he and Pippa connect almost immediately. They are kindred spirits who share an explosive chemistry as well. The only problem is that Pippa will be returning to Ireland in two months and Seth’s life is his land in Blue Hollow Falls. The community opens its heart to Pippa whom they recognize as one of their own. From octogenarian farmer Mabry Jenkins to thirteen-year-old Jake McCall, his ten-year-old best friend Bailey Sutton, and Dexter the llama, the citizens of Blue Hollow Falls adopt Pippa. Only Seth, the man who helps her recover her music and who wins her heart completely, focuses on an obstacle rather than searching for a compromise and stubbornly refuses to admit his feelings.

This is a series that just keeps getting better. Blue Hollow Falls is an interesting, artsy community that has the feel of home to many who relocate there. This third story in the series (following Blue Hollow Falls and The Inn at Blue Hollow Falls, a novella) is a quiet story that captures the reader with its sweetness and its likable, sympathetic characters. Pippa is a delight with her gifts and her openness, and Seth is a great-hearted beta hero who cares for his family, his friends, and every animal or person who needs his attention. The supporting characters are just as appealing. Readers who loved the first novel will be pleased to see more of the lovable Addison Pearl Whitaker and her youngest adoptee, the old-soul Bailey. Sawyer, Seth’s best friend, and his love, Sunny are also a part of the tale, and readers fascinated by the reclusive Wilson McCall in the first book will learn more of his story and that of his son Jacob. Mabry, the old farmer with his wisdom and his romantic streak, is a heart-stealer and a scene-stealer.

Kauffman makes this place and these people so warm and real that I was ready to return to Blue Hollow Falls as soon as I turned the final page. I can’t wait for Lavender Blue, Wilson’s story, which will be released January 29, 2019. If you are a fan of small-town romance with characters who will win your heart and a setting you wish were real, I suggest you rush to add Bluestone & Vine to your TBR list.



Monday, July 2, 2018

Tour Review - - Rainy Day Friends


Rainy Day Friends
By Jill Shalvis
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Reviewed by Janga





Lanie Jacobs lives with anxiety as a steady companion. Given her history, it is hardly surprising. Brought up by emotionally distant parents who were unable to love her, she thought she had found her HEA with her husband Kyle. But a couple of years into her marriage, she knew things were not right. Still, her intuitive recognition of a problem did not prepare her to become a widow or for the humiliating discovery that she was only the first of Kyle’s several wives. Eager for change, she leaves her life in Santa Barbara and accepts a temporary position as graphic artist for the Capriotti Winery in Wildstone, California. The large, lively, loving Capriotti family who grants everyone who works for them the status of family member is a new experience for Lainey. From Cora Capriotti, the company CEO and beneficent maternal force, to six-year-old twins Samantha and Sierra, the Capriottis threaten Lainey’s carefully constructed wall to isolate herself and protect her heart from further damage. The greatest danger comes from the father of the twins, Mark Capriotti.

When his wife abandoned their twin daughters, Mark Capriotti, gave up his military career, resigned his commission in the Air Force, and returned to Wildstone to take on the job of deputy sheriff and to be a single dad to the loquacious Samantha and the silent Sierra. His girls are everything to him, and he has decided that there is no room in his life for a long-term romantic relationship until they are grown up. His postponement of love does not mean that he is immune to the appeal of a beautiful woman, however, and from their first meeting, he is conscious of the attraction that simmers between him and Lainey.

Lainey does her best to remain indifferent to Mark, but how can a girl resist a sexy man in uniform who makes her laugh, melts her heart with his tenderness toward his daughters, and proves with his every action that he is one of the good guys? Lainey tries, but when Mark makes clear that all he can offer is passion with a time limit, Lainey embraces the offer and the man. Of course, protecting their hearts is a more difficult task than they thought. Lainey soon has Mark rethinking his timeline, but Lainey’s wariness lingers.

Lainey has also denied herself the bond of friendship since all her supposed friends became scarce when her husband’s polygamy was revealed, but she senses a kindred spirit in another newcomer to the winery, River Green, a pregnant young woman down on her luck who is rescued and given a job by Cora Capriotti. But River is holding close secrets that could devastate Lainey anew and erode all the progress she has made in opening her heart to Mark, to his young daughters, and to all the Capriottis and the world into which they have welcomed her.

This hybrid of women’s fiction and romance is Jill Shalvis at her best. She offers the intersecting journeys of two women, sensuous love scenes, rich, contemporary humor, and a large cast of vivid, interesting characters in whom readers will delight. Underlying a captivating story is the reminder that in some measure all the characters—and by extension, all the readers—are among the walking wounded.

It is typical of Shalvis that the poignancy is balanced by humor, sometimes subtle and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. I loved the scenes between Lainey and the twins. I could relate to the expensive perfume that falls victim to the curiosity of little ones. I also loved the anxiety quotes that prefaced the chapters, making me smile but also reminding me of Lainey’s vulnerability. This one was my favorite: “The human body is 90 percent water, so basically we’re all just cucumbers with anxiety.” But most of all I loved this world and those who inhabited it. Lainey is a sympathetic, deserving heroine who is stronger than she realizes, Mark is the best kind of hero—strong and sexy but also genuine, honorable, funny, and nurturing. River’s youth, vulnerability, and stubborn independence win the readers’ hearts. And all the Capriottis are endearing. I especially loved the twins, who are both adorable and real, and the large-hearted Cora.

This is the second book in the Wildstone series, but setting is the primary connection between the two books. Rainy Day Friends can easily be read as a standalone. I know Shalvis’s next books are Heartbreaker Bay tales, but I hope she returns to Wildstone. I love these characters, and I want to know more of what the future holds for them, especially for River and for Mark’s sister Mia. If you like women’s fiction with a heaping serving (the kind the Capriottis provide at their daily lunches) of romance and a pleasing balance of heat and heart, I think you will fall in love with this story too. I highly recommend it.


One randomly chosen person leaving a comment will receive a print copy of Rainy Day Friends. U.S./Canada only



Friday, June 29, 2018

Review - - Between You and Me


Between You & Me
By Susan Wiggs
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Reviewed by Janga


Caleb Stolz always had a thirst for knowledge and a longing for a larger world than his Amish community in Middle Grove, Pennsylvania. When he was old enough, he left, but when his older brother John, his protector from their abusive father when they were children, and John’s wife are robbed and murdered, Caleb returns to Middle Grove to care for his young niece, Hannah, and her younger brother, Jonah. Caleb stays because the devout John wanted his children brought up in the Plain style, but Caleb himself has never accepted baptism and remains inside the community but separate from it. When eleven-year-old Jonah is mangled by a piece of farm equipment, Caleb defies community rules and has the boy life-flighted to a Philadelphia hospital.

Reese Powell, a fourth-year medical student, is working in the emergency room when the helicopter carrying Jonah and Caleb arrives. Reese is the only child of two renowned physicians, an infertility specialist and a neonatologist, who expect their daughter to specialize in pediatric surgery and join their practice. Reese is beginning to wonder if she really wants what her parents want for her, or if the medical career she really desires is one quite different from her parents’ plan. Jonah and his out-of-place uncle stir her compassion, and she befriends them. She is drawn to the bright courageous Jonah and his laconic, handsome uncle. As Reese spends time with them and the friendship deepens, her conflict between the kind of medicine to which she is most drawn and her need to please her parents intensifies.

To her parents’ dismay, Reese chooses a residency in rural medicine near Middle Grove, and her friendship with Caleb, already touched with romantic overtones, grows into love. But when Hannah’s secret is exposed and Caleb’s burden of responsibility becomes greater, the cultural differences between the two seem insurmountable. Can Caleb turn his back on love and settle again into a community where the shunned Hannah and Jonah, adjusting to life with the prosthesis his grandfather and others declare the devil’s work, are becoming increasingly unhappy?

Susan Wiggs has created another compelling, emotionally rich story centered on themes of family and community. The clash between two cultures is at the heart of this one, and Wiggs does a superb job of treating both cultures fairly. She shows “all that was good about Amish ways—family and community, working the land and living close to God.” But she also shows the narrowness and rigid judgment of a community that would deny a young boy the means to save his life and to improve the quality of it after amputation, a community that would turn a teenage girl into a living ghost because she transgressed their laws. She shows contemporary urban culture with its knowledge and sophistication and its medical marvels, but she also shows its dangers and the restrictions and judgments that can be imposed by family and society.

Wiggs’s characters are engaging and multidimensional. The differences between Reese and Caleb are great, but so are their similarities. At heart, they are the same kind of person, and they both understand the pressure of family expectations. Jonah will steal reader’s hearts with his confusion, his bravery, his loyalty, and his vulnerability. Hannah, frightened and hurting yet with a certain strength, is also endearing. All these characters are so real, the reader will want to give them a hug.

If you like women’s fiction that takes a less traveled path and offers memorable characters and a powerful story that touches upon large issues such as guilt and shame, abuse and forgiveness, responsibility and choice, I think you will enjoy Between You and Me as much as I did.






Friday, June 22, 2018

TLC Tour Review - - The Summer List


The Summer List
By Amy Mason Doan
Publisher: Harlequin / Graydon House
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Reviewed by Janga


Thirty-five-year-old Laura Christie is living in San Francisco, working as a graphic artist, and spending time with her only friends—her dog Jett (named for Joan Jett) and her eccentric boss Sam when she receives a mermaid-festooned invitation to spend a long week-end in late June in her hometown, Coeur-de-Lune, California. Laura left the small, lakeside town seventeen years ago and has never returned, but she has not forgotten Casey Shepherd, her best friend from high school and the ways Casey and her mother Alexandra changed Laura’s life. Still, some things are not easily forgiven. Laura plans to ignore the invitation that purports to come from Casey, but nineteen days later, she finds herself in Coeur-de-Lune.

Laura and Casey soon discover that Alex, an artist with a penchant for well-meaning interference, has sent each of them a note forged in the other’s handwriting, proposing a scavenger hunt like those that filled many an evening of their high school years. Clearly Alex’s purpose is to heal the breach between the former best friends, but it is less certain whether Laura and Casey will cooperate.

The two girls met the summer before their freshman year when Casey and her mom settled into The Shipwreck, a house that once served as a bunkhouse for the legendary Collier boys. Despite their many differences, the two girls become almost instant best friends. Laura, adopted as an infant by Ingrid and Bill Christie, an older couple who married late, is close to her father, who is a more understanding, more indulgent parent than her strict, ultra-religious mother with whom Laura has a relationship fraught with tensions. The friendship of the confident, red-haired Casey gives Laura a secure place in the high school social scene and frees her from the mean-girl bullying that made her dread school. Casey and Alex make Laura part of their family, and Laura envies Casey her easy, open relationship with her young mother, whom Casey describes as a “best friend.” The summer after graduation, life seems perfect. The girls have plans to share an apartment while Casey attends UCLA (where Laura’s boyfriend J.B. will be a grad student) and Laura attends California Institute of the Arts. Then Laura’s father dies, and when she seeks comfort in her grief, she overhears a scene that seems to her the ultimate betrayal. She leaves Coeur-de-Lune and everyone she loves, barely taking time to tell Casey that their plans will never be realized.

The scavenger hunt that Alex has organized, with some help from J. B., is designed to reawaken the memories that made Laura and Casey’s friendship special. It takes them to the lake where they spent hours swimming and kayaking, the skating rink where Laura first met J. B., and the restaurant where Casey first revealed her sexual orientation to Laura. The memories slowly erase the awkwardness between the two women, but before friendship can be fully restored, a tangle of secrets rooted in the past, a past stretching beyond the lifetimes of Casey and Laura, must be revealed.

The Summer List is Doan’s debut novel, and it is a winner. She reveals the past in segments, moving seamlessly between the visits the women pay to memory-laden sites and the scenes from their shared past (June 1995-August 1998) that created those memories. Also interwoven are bits of narrative from an unidentified girl telling her story. Because the primary point of view is Laura’s, all her unanswered questions and pieces of information that elude a meaningful pattern are also the reader’s questions and puzzles. The mystery unravels slowly, but eventually all the pieces fit. In fact, some readers may find the tying together of all the loose threads a bit too convenient.

The novel is essentially the story of mothers and daughters and of female friendships. It is in these relationships that the reader is most heavily invested, these characters who claim the larger part of the reader’s sympathies. However, Laura’s relationship with J. B. is also a significant thread and adds enough romance to the story to keep readers who demand romantic elements happy.

If you enjoy women’s fiction with believable characters, layered conflicts, poignant moments, and a touch of romance, I highly recommend this book. It is a stellar debut for Doan, and I am eager to see what is next from this talented writer.







Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Tour Review - - Herons Landing



Herons Landing
By JoAnn Ross
Publisher: Harlequin HQN
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Reviewed by Janga


It has been two years since Seth Harper received the devastating news that his wife Zoe, a surgical nurse serving in Afghanistan, had been killed when her hospital was bombed. Seth is still mired in his grief. He and Zoe had been sweethearts since middle school, and they were planning to start their family when Zoe returned. Seth had already prepared the nursery, eager to begin the next stage of their lives. Since Zoe’s death, he has continued to work at his profession as a restorer of historic houses, but emotionally his life ended when he learned of Zoe’s death.

Brianna Mannion has been in love with Seth Harper as long as she can remember, but he saw her as her brothers’ little sister. Her hope that he would see her as something more ended early when Zoe Robinson moved to Honeymoon Harbor, Washington, and Seth fell for her immediately. Brianna wanted to hate Zoe, but the newcomer was too nice to hate. The two ended up best friends, and Brianna was maid-of-honor when Zoe married Seth. The friendship endured even as Brianna left town to pursue her career as a rising star in the hospitality industry and Zoe left the country. But after Zoe was killed, Brianna and Seth drifted apart.

When Brianna resigns from her position at a high-end Las Vegas hotel just as the haunted Victorian that had been her dream house growing up in Honeymoon Harbor is offered for sale, going home and turning Herons Landing, her old dream house, into a bed-and-breakfast seems like the perfect plan. Of course, Seth’s expertise in restoring historic homes and the fact that he had worked on renovating Herons Landing for the previous owners makes Harper Construction the logical company for Brianna to hire. As the two work together, their friendship is renewed, and gradually stronger feelings awaken. Seth begins to think about the future, but can he resolve his guilt at moving on and claim his second chance at love with Brianna?

Ross introduced her new Honeymoon Harbor series in April with a prequel novella, Home to Honeymoon Harbor, but Herons Landing is the first novel and true beginning of the series. Seth is an immediately sympathetic character, a man who lost a big part of his past and his future with Zoe’s death. Brianna is equally likable, and her intuitive understanding of Seth persuades readers early on that she is just what he needs. A secondary plot involving Seth’s estranged parents adds interest to the story, and Ross’s descriptions of her fictional seaport town in the Pacific Northwest will have readers longing to visit. Some readers may find that the book suffers from first-book-in-a-series-itis with a heavy load of information about the town’s history and the introduction of too many characters to count, but readers addicted to small-town series may see this as necessary world-building.

This book promises that the new series will offer the same kind of heartwarming appeal that made Ross’s Shelter Bay series beloved by fans of small-town romance. If you are one of those fans or if second-chance or friends-to-lovers are among your favorite tropes in contemporary romance, you should add Herons Landing to your TBR list. Book two in the series, Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane, releases on October 30. I’m signing up for a return visit. And that title and the release date suggest a Christmas book, which makes it even better.


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One randomly chosen person who leaves a comment on this post will receive a copy of Herons Landing. (US / Canada only)





Review Tour Stops:

Monday, May 21st: Books a la Mode – excerpt
Tuesday, May 22nd: A Holland Reads
Wednesday, May 23rd: Becky on Books – excerpt
Thursday, May 24th: Into the Hall of Books
Monday, May 28th: I Wish I Lived in a Library
Tuesday, May 29th: Bookmark Lit
Wednesday, May 30th: Stranded in Chaos
Thursday, May 31st: @read.write.coffee
Monday, June 4thMoonlight Rendezvous
Tuesday, June 5thRunning Through the Storms
Wednesday, June 6thDiary of a Stay at  Home Mom
Thursday, June 7thWhy Girls are Weird
Monday, June 11thFrom the TBR Pile
Tuesday, June 12thBook Date
Wednesday, June 13thWhat is That Book About – excerpt
Monday, June 18thPalmer’s Page Turners
Tuesday, June 19thThe Romance Dish
Wednesday, June 20thJathan & Heather
Monday, June 25thBooks & Bindings
Wednesday, June 27thRomancing the Book
Thursday, June 28thWritten Love Reviews
Monday, July 2ndDeborah Blanchard


Monday, June 18, 2018

Review - - Resurrection


Resurrection:a ROCK SOLID romance
By Karina Bliss
Publisher: Karina Bliss
Release Date: June 17, 2018
Reviewed by Janga








Once there was Stormy Hagen, a, breast-implanted, collagen-injected platinum blonde beauty, one-time girlfriend of rock legend Zander Freedman and paparazzi-fare after her breakup with Zander and her resulting self-destructive spiral. Stormy has disappeared, and in her stead is Lily Stuart, a pretty woman with understated looks whose hair is now a golden brown and whose breasts are all her. Lily is happy working as nanny for the children of a British family while completing an online degree in early childhood education. Her happy life is threatened when a sex tape made by Travis Calvert, the original Rage guitarist and certified creep with whom Stormy hooked up in her self-destruction, is stolen and posted online. To protect her new identity and to shield her employers from intruding paparazzi, Lily turns to her best friend Dimity Graham for help. Dimity offers Lily sanctuary at the secluded home currently being rented by Dimity’s boyfriend Seth Curran and his bandmate Moss McFadden.

Moss is a reserved loner who uses a surly exterior to protect himself from allowing anyone too close. He is still reeling from the repercussions after the Zander Freedman scandal and Zander’s ultimate decision not to return to his career, meaning the end of the new Rage. Wary of investing again as much as he invested in Rage, Moss maintains a distance even from the affable Seth and from the third member of their band, Jared Walker. Moss is also feeling the pressure of his position as lead singer for T-Minus 6, the new band. Still, he remembers the essential sweetness of Stormy and his feelings for her, and when it becomes clear that she will not remain unless she is paying her way, he offers her a job as his driver.

The job is not manufactured. Moss has lost his driver’s license, and having to depend on Dimity, who has enormous responsibilities as the manager of T-Minus 6 plus her continued work for Zander and his wife, writer Elizabeth Winston, leaves both Dimity and Moss short-tempered. Lily is relieved to find that the job is no sinecure. Unlike Seth and Jared who are happily domestic when not working on their music, Moss is living the bad-boy rock star life to the hilt, hitting the bars, hooking up with groupies, and staying out into the wee hours while sleeping in the next day. The schedule is a challenge for Lily, a morning person and one who knows from experience the shallowness of the bar scene.

Moss finds himself just as attracted to Lily as he was to Stormy, and on her part, Lily fights acknowledging her attraction to him, even when he invades her X-rated dreams. The two discover the common experience of a childhood physically and emotionally poverty-stricken, and Lily finds out there is much more to Moss’s night life than a rock star run wild. But the more they are drawn together, the more they are convinced that they can never work as a couple. When Moss is confronted with the greatest challenge of his life just as T-Minus 6 begins to achieve the success they have dreamed of, Lily is there to help him, and their lives become more entangled. However, Moss can’t believe he will ever be good enough to be the man Lily needs, and Lily fears that the repercussions of the sex tape, which have not disappeared as new scandals emerge, will taint Moss’s career and his life. Can these two wounded souls move past all the obstacles and prove to themselves and to those who care about them both that they can save one another?

The fourth story in Karina Bliss’s Rock Solid series is another winner. The title alludes to both the emergence of a new rock band from Rage and to the transformed lives of the protagonists. Bliss takes on standard stereotypes, the grasping, promiscuous groupie and the self-indulgent rock star, and turns them into multidimensional characters who win readers’ interest and affection. Lily and Moss are imperfect people who have made mistakes, but they earn the reader’s sympathy because the author shows their motivations and has them hold themselves accountable for their errors. I found Lily appealing from her appearances in early books, and I was invested in her story immediately in this one. It took longer for Moss to win me over because he is a darker character, but I trusted Bliss who had already proved with Rise that she could make me care about a character I initially disliked. I soon fell for Moss heart and head.

As a fan of the series, I was delighted to see more of Dimity and Seth (Fall) and Kayla and Jared—along with five-year-old Maddie and Rocco, almost two (Play). Even Zander and Elizabeth (Rise) are part of the story via modern technology. Series fans will also enjoy the triumph of T-Minus 6. Resurrection can be read as a standalone, but it will certainly be a more nuanced read for those who have read the earlier books.

I have found few of the rock-star books that have emerged in recent years that earned the status of keeper for me. Karina Bliss’s skills at creating characters who linger in my mind and her gift for lucid prose that sometimes becomes lyrical make this series a rare exception. I loved this book! I loved the series! In fact, I plan to make a reread, beginning with What the Librarian Did, part of my summer reading. I give Resurrection my highest recommendation.



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