Reviews
Reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books
Call Your Daughter Home
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Spera’s debut novel brims with grim authenticity as she recounts the unexpected bond between three women in the small town of Branchville, ...Read Review
The Bird King
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The year is 1491, and Granada, the last foothold of Islamic rule in Iberia, is under siege. Food is running short, but the inhabitants ...Read Review
The World That We Knew
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Magical realism combines with fairy tale in this story of young adults facing death and torture at the hands of the Nazis during ...Read Review
Ever Faithful: A Vintage National Parks Novel
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It’s 1933 in Yellowstone National Park, and we follow Elsie Brookes, who is saving up for college to become a teacher, and Nate ...Read Review
The Snow Gypsy
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We meet Lola in 1938 toward the end of the Spanish Civil War in the Alpujarra region of Andalusia, Spain. Lola is a part ...Read Review
A Close Run Thing
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This, the fifteenth of the John Pearce novels, is set in 1796 with Lieutenant Pearce and his companion Samuel Oliphant trying to get back ...Read Review
This Tender Land
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Love is what makes a tender land — people and nature, not perfect, but full of what binds us all together. This is the ...Read Review
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
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Tom Hope has few connections in his life; he’s known in his rural Australian town for his skills in fixing machines and ...Read Review
The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel
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This is the latest entry in Alan Bradley’s popular mystery series set in rural England in the 1950s, featuring twelve-year-old chemistry expert ...Read Review
Milady
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Spy. Seductress. Poisoner. Villainess. The untold story of the Countess de Winter, better known as Milady, the scheming femme fatale in Dumas’ The ...Read Review