Into the Fire by Jeaniene Frost Book Review

Into the Fire by Jeaniene Frost. Photo: Amazon UK

Fiery action-filled plot, but not enough love making

This is the forth book in the Night Prince series and surprisingly I didn't know that Vlad and Leila's story didn't end on the third book - I thought it was a trilogy. I was really excited to pick up the final book in the series and see how their story ends - Vlad has always been a favorite of mine (I love a fiery man). 

However, I found that this good didn't grab me as much as Frost's other titles. This time around I found that Vlad's overprotectiveness was a tad too much. Instead of it coming off as protective and the usual Vlad sexiness - he came off as overbearing and insanely aggressive. I didn't find it an attractive quality this time around. 

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Book Review

 

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. Photo: Amazon UK

A heart-breaking, yet beautiful tale of love, family and unimaginable loss

From the moment I heard about this book I knew it had a top spot on my TBR list and this was all from just the pre-buzz within the publishing industry before the book's official publication date. Once the book was released and the media started to sing it's praises and when Maggie O'Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 award with this novel - I knew I had to pick up a copy right away. I went into this book with high expectations as a big Shakespeare fan and it was intriguing to me as I'd never thought about his life prior to his career in London.

I found it very interesting to speculate what Shakespeare's childhood and home life was like back in Stratford. O'Farrell has a very unique writing style in this book - sweeping descriptions and a very jumpy timeline/viewpoint. It's also slightly maddening that she never refers to Shakespeare's first or last name in the entirety of the novel. She names every other character, but never William.