false 20 631 579 true 5627059 read 1 true 5225883 currently-reading 51 true 5225882 to-read 163 false 5351871 mysteries-gothics 95 false 5351881 romances 67 false 5351866 historicals 62 false 7133416 ya 58 false 5351872 non-fiction 51 false 5351874 childhood-favs 44 false 5352044 spookies 26 false 7112227 classics 23 false 5259419 favorites 22 false 5352001 horror 18 false 5259353 comfort-books 17 false 5351857 regencys 15 false 6777338 houses-as-characters 15 false 5351889 awful-reads- 13 false 7218823 inspirational 11 false 6927401 true-crime 9 false 7146864 did-not-finish-it 7 false 7244826 self-help 6 false 6993833 interior-decorating 4 false 7028940 sci-fi 2 false 6994119 poetry 1 false 7306932 design http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/226436-what-heyer-are-you-currently-reading Hannahr made a comment in the Georgette Heyer Fans group:

Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "Hello. I just joined after reading my first Heyer, These Old Shades. She is such a good writer."

Welcome Danielle! I haven't read These Old Shades yet. I've only got three Heyer's under my belt so far. She's a prolific writer.


]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77437014 Wintercombe (Wintercombe, #1) by Pamela Belle
bookshelves: currently-reading, historicals
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75352575 to: In a Glass Darkly (Hardcover) by Janet Caird
bookshelves: mysteries-gothics
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78967511 The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Hardcover) by Alison Weir
bookshelves: historicals, to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73118839 to: Season of Storms (Paperback) by Susanna Kearsley
bookshelves: mysteries-gothics
I didn't think I'd ever meet a Kearsley book that I didn't much like, but sadly, "Season of Storms" was it. Don't get me wrong, it was well written like all Kearsley books, and highly evocative of Mary Stewart with lovely place descriptions. The characters were ok, and the ending had a twist that I wasn't expecting, which was nice.

But I wasn't very interested in the plot involving a young stage actress reprising the main lead in a play written for another young stage actress (with the exact same name) over 70 years earlier, and who had mysteriously disappeared. Acting, plays and theater productions aren't very interesting to me, so it fell flat. In addition, Kearsley's wonderful use of supernatural elements to advance the story was sadly lacking in Season of Storms. I kept waiting for them to play a wider role then they ended up doing, as the attempt was sporatic and dull and never developed into anything significant. Kearsley should have just left them out completely.

Not Kearsley's best to date (read "Mariana" for that), but certainly not awful - just weak.
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