New Reviews of Lady

Happy New Year. It is freaking cold in the Northeast right now. I am sitting in a patch of sunshine like a dog trying to soak in all the heat I can. Nine years into this new year I’m busy booking and planning events to brighten up the winter, (That post will be coming very soon) and I came across a Library Things listing of LADY and the reviews that went with it.

I’m a weirdo who likes reading reviews of my books. Even the bad ones. When you’ve workshopped as long as I have you learn that not every book is for every person and someone can dislike a story for very valid reasons without that story being “bad.” I like to see how my books are perceived by different people. I love to see when they land in the right hands. When I know that someone out there has found joy or kinship in something I wrote, it’s like finding friends in the wide world.

But I also like to hear why it didn’t work for some people. I appreciate reviewers so much. It is not an easy task to sit down and put words to how a book affected you. It is often a thankless task that benefits readers and writers more than the reviewers themselves.

Anyway, Here are parts of some of my favorites.

“…this was a real treat of a historical page-turner. Set amongst the political turmoil of the wars of the roses, Lady focuses in on one particular family in the north of England, in a celebration of unusual individuals, and found family. I devoured this in just a couple of days, and really enjoyed every minute.”

“… an embracing, queer, feminist tale, that I think many will appreciate as a much needed palate-cleanser.”

“My One Sentence Review: Original, Vivid, and well Researched, this is a story that will appeal to lovers of historical fiction who enjoy historical accuracy and presence with their fiction.”

“This is not exactly new territory for writers of historical fiction, but the masquerade is usually a brief segment, intended mostly to get the character into the adventure or romance tale that’s at the heart of the work. Not so here, because Allingham has built a plausible backstory for her heroine that makes the substitution work, and has placed her in a situation that is literally life or death for hundreds of people unless FitzRoland’s enemies can be held off by the fiction long enough to place the barony on a war footing.”

Here is the link to Library Things for all the reviews. If you have a review of LADY posted online anywhere, please send me a link, or share it to goodreads and Amazon where it can help boost LADY’s sales. And If you want to by on my list of ARC readers for future books (hint hint) sign up on my page.