![]() "She's ambitious, creative and independent, and she has plans for her life that don't include marriage. "Lady Pandora Ravenel is absolutely the most unique heroine I've ever created," Lisa Kleypas tells Bustle. Upon hearing the story of Monopoly's forgotten, overlooked female inventor, Kleypas decided to make her next heroine a board game designer in 1875. While writing the forthcoming novel, Kleypas found herself inspired by Lizzie Magie, the progressive feminist who created "The Landlord's Game" - a board game that would eventually be sold to Parker Brothers by a man named Charles Darrow and rebranded as "Monopoly." Please, take a moment to unrepentantly groan in frustration. ![]() Luckily, the New York Times bestselling novelist already has big plans for 2017: In February, she will release the third installment in The Ravenels series, Devil In Spring. and Lisa Kleypas is definitely a good thing. Sure, the second book in The Ravenels series, Marrying Winterborne, just came out this summer, but in my opinion, you can never get enough of a good thing. ![]() If you're a fan of romance novelist Lisa Kleypas, you're probably already marking down the days until her next novel hits bookstores. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It's not that the books are funny it's Meg who is funny. It's a connection that is made that the reader gets and laughs in recognition. In typical, trademark Ellen Emerson White style most of the humor is sarcastic or an observation. The President's Daughter series is made up of four books:īefore I go book by book, let me say: Meg Powers (the President's daughter) is funny. It wasn't easy picking what books to include this week there wasn't enough time to do them all, and in all honesty I prefer EEW's books for older readers (the teen and adult stuff.) So I focused on three "sets", as it were the President's Daughter series, since the most recent volume is being published this year the Road Home and related books, because it is one of my three favorite EEW books and Friends for Life / Life Without Friends, because LWF is another one of my three favorite EEW books and because, well, you'll see when you read the post. Recommendations From Under the Radar: Ellen Emerson White's The President's Daughter series ![]() ![]() The story was far more entertaining, the arc more exciting, the characters more enticing and overall it was more delightful.The tale takes place in Denmark, when kings and queens ruled. I recently read another one of these retellings about Cinderella’s wicked stepmother, but I enjoyed “Sea Witch” so much more. ![]() It’s like looking through history with a different lens, you recognize the events but there is a new perspective. We get a chance to see the history of this character and discover what might have made them evil. ![]() How wonderful, when an author can create an original backstory for a character that has always been one dimensional. And is there anything older than sea? This is the prequel to “The Little Mermaid” and tells the story of how the sea witch (dubbed Ursula in the Disney version) came to be. There is nothing that I look forward to more than a good retelling of an old tale. My opinions are my own and independent of receiving an advanced copy.I fell in love with this story. ![]() ![]() My thanks to Edelweiss, Katherine Teigen Books, Harper Collins Canada and Sarah Henning for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. ![]() "A meticiulous history that reads like a thriller." - Ben MacintyreĪ never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine. 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