Reviews
Reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books
Unsuitable Bride for a Viscount (The Yelverton Marriages)
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When Alaric Defford, Lord Stafford, hammers at the door of Milton Cottage, desperate to find his runaway niece, he never expects it to ...Read Review
The Daughters of Erietown
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Schultz’s debut novel is completely absorbing from the opening pages through the finale. It follows a working-class family from ...Read Review
The Potential for Love: A Regency Novel
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Just returned from service on the continent, Major Thomas Ferraunt finds himself attracted to Arabella Malvin. But she is the daughter of a ...Read Review
Battle Stations
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Navy Captain Andrew Troost is a consummate professional bound for high command, but is married to his career more than to his alcoholic, ...Read Review
Alma Mater
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Author Heckert has volunteered in the archives of what is now Doane Academy, which inspired her to write this novel about a group ...Read Review
Alice By Heart
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The Blitz has reduced Alice Spencer’s London to rubble, forcing her and her ever-constant friend Alfred into the Underground for safety. Here ...Read Review
A Mosaic of Wings
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“You are who you are for a reason.” 1885. Nora Shipley is infuriated by what her stepfather has done to her father’s journal. ...Read Review
Daughter of Cana (Jerusalem Road)
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This novel opens at a rather famous wedding in Cana in 27 CE: far more people arrive than originally invited, and halfway through the ...Read Review
Stitching a Life: An Immigration Story
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Stitching a Life begins in Lithuania, in 1900, where Max, the oldest son of a Jewish family is about to turn 12. When the Russian ...Read Review
The Big Man’s Daughter
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In its opening scene, Rita Gaspereaux makes funeral arrangements for her con artist father, whose illicit enterprise has come to a sudden and ...Read Review