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Before I begin, I just want to warn that this will NOT be a spoiler-free review! I'm afraid I won't be able to review the book properly without giving away the ending. The spoilers will be under a cut, so if you want to avoid spoilers, be cautious while clicking and scrolling. ;)
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal is a fantasy regency romance set in a world where it's possible to use magic to form illusions called glamour. The main character, Jane, is a skilled glamourist, but on the verge of becoming a spinster.
I haven't listened to as many audiobooks lately, but this one I did download from Audible.com (it's available for purchase here). It's read by the author, who does a great job. Mary Robinette Kowal is a puppeteer as well as an author, and so she's definitely got the skills and experience to voice her own book.
Romance is not a genre I generally read, but I gave it a chance because I wanted to support the author after listening to her on Writing Excuses for quite a while. But I really enjoyed it! The characters were engaging and I particularly liked Jane.
The thing that I most enjoyed was how realistically the author incorporated the use of glamour into the world. She really thought it through, and I loved all the tiny ways glamour affected how the characters lived.
I really just had one issue with the book, and that's ( under the cut )
It really didn't diminish my enjoyment of the book, and considering that I'm generally not a romance reader, I hope that this argues for it being quite a good example of the genre, especially as a debut novel.
I'm very much looking forward to reading the next book of the series, Glamour in Glass and in reading any of the author's future works!
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal is a fantasy regency romance set in a world where it's possible to use magic to form illusions called glamour. The main character, Jane, is a skilled glamourist, but on the verge of becoming a spinster.
I haven't listened to as many audiobooks lately, but this one I did download from Audible.com (it's available for purchase here). It's read by the author, who does a great job. Mary Robinette Kowal is a puppeteer as well as an author, and so she's definitely got the skills and experience to voice her own book.
Romance is not a genre I generally read, but I gave it a chance because I wanted to support the author after listening to her on Writing Excuses for quite a while. But I really enjoyed it! The characters were engaging and I particularly liked Jane.
The thing that I most enjoyed was how realistically the author incorporated the use of glamour into the world. She really thought it through, and I loved all the tiny ways glamour affected how the characters lived.
I really just had one issue with the book, and that's ( under the cut )
It really didn't diminish my enjoyment of the book, and considering that I'm generally not a romance reader, I hope that this argues for it being quite a good example of the genre, especially as a debut novel.
I'm very much looking forward to reading the next book of the series, Glamour in Glass and in reading any of the author's future works!
