Wings of the Falcon by Barbara Michaels

This was a recommendation from bloodykerri, if I recall correctly. The sheltered, motherless Francesca gets the shock of her life when her father dies suddenly, leaving her penniless and vulnerable. She's saved from ruin (and I mean that in the Victorian sense) by a cousin she's never met - scion of her mother's estranged family. It was a terrific beginning. Unfortunately, though, the book actually gets less exciting from that point. I didn't find it terribly memorable - the best sign of that is that I didn't remember to write this review until a week after I finished it. Three stars. I don't regret reading it but it doesn't make me want to run out and read more by the author. It's by the same author as The Buried Pyramid and those other books, but I can't remember which one is the pen name and which one is the real name. Ah well.

My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon edited by PN Elrod

This is a sequel to the playful anthology My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding. (What comes after this? My Big Fat Supernatural Affair? My Big Fat Supernatural Pregnancy? My Big Fat Supernatural Divorce? Any of those would be pretty funny.) I didn't like it quite as much as the previous collection. My favorite stories were "Where the Heart Lives" by Marjorie Liu (I'm going to have to give her Dirke and Steel collection a try) and "Half of Being Married" by Lillith Saintcrow. Contributions by Elrod and Butcher were also entertaining. Three stars.