Daniel meets his Cinderella in a dark storage closet, has a life-altering experience with her, and then spends his days thinking about the woman whose face and name are a mystery to him. But then Six comes into his life - for the second time.

I really shouldn't be so annoyed that a book I got for free had a massive preview of another book (40% of the entire ebook file) tacked on at the end, but I am. The novella itself was, for the most part, sweet and sensual. I liked Daniel and Six together, even though I wasn't wild about their actual story (the less said about the sudden and rushed bombshell, the better).

​As an author of romance novels, January lives and breathes happy endings. As an author of literary fiction, August is staunchly against happy endings. They've been fierce rivals since college, but now both of them are struck by writer's block. A bet to switch genres may help them out of their respective funks - and may give them an ending of their own, happy or otherwise.

I am a sucker for books about writers writing. I am a sucker for books involving leads who are both a bit broken. I am a sucker for books that feel like comfort food on a cold winter's night (as it is tonight!). So it was enviable that I fell in love with this one. It was so easy to blitz my way through it, but now I wish I'd savoured it a little bit more. Well, that's what re-reads are for, aren't they? :)

​Iris has set herself up as typical wife material - sweet, docile, completely unlike herself - and it has successfully attracted the Lord of Huntington. But then she does the unthinkable: she jilts him. <i>Twice.</i> Previously unaffected by her, Finn now finds he absolutely must have her for his marchioness.

I wasn't expecting to like this so much, given my last flirtation with Anna Bradley's work. But Iris is one of my favourite romantic heroines of the year - she's clever, discerning, and knows what she wants (once she figures it out!). I enjoyed (perhaps too much) her jilting of Finn and it was satisfying to read/witness him changing into a man more suited to Iris - and a man more worthy of her.

Aqib bgm Sadiqi has a choice to make - uphold his family honour and marry a woman of higher standing, or run away with the soldier who has captured his heart.

Maybe I shouldn't have tried to read this directly after The Sorcerer of the Wildeep, which was wonderful. A Taste of Honey pales in comparison. That said, I don't think more time between the two would have changed my mind. This novella has a good twist ending, but the story takes too long to get there and as such most of it feels unnecessary. The world-building is mere padding.

A Taste of Honey would have had a lot more punch as a short story.

Demane's godly inheritance marks him out as other, the Sorcerer, but he hasn't realised his full potential or discovered himself. The decision to follow a caravan into the Wildeeps will transform and ruin him.

Confession time - I was really put off by the writing style to start with. But then, somehow, I was sucked into the story and realised just how well the style worked with action sequences. A hero's journey has never intrigued me this much before. This has the feel of something epic - and so much is said with so few scenes. So few words. An excellent novella, but the style does make it hard to get into.