Reviews

Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

Murder by Degrees

By Ritu Mukerji - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1875 Philadelphia, at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, Dr. Lydia Weston is busy as a doctor, professor, and anatomist. She learns ...Read Review

The Chaperone

By Sophia Holloway - Published 2023

Genres:

Romance

The elegantly tall Lady Sophronia Hadlow (Sophy to her friends) is 23 years old and viewed by her mother as too tall to attract ...Read Review

Christmas Forevermore

By Ashtyn Newbold - By Karen Thornell - By Sally Britton - By Sarah M. Eden - Published 2023

Genres:

Inspirational RomanceShort Stories

This collection of Regency romances follows four young couples as they find love in the Christmas season. In “A Family Christmas,” Cyril Grant ...Read Review

Call of the Titanic

By Gordy Wright (illus.) - By Lindsay Galvin - Published 2023

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical

It’s 1912, and Clara Scott is twelve years old.  She lives in New York and is fascinated by her cousin, Harold Cottam’s ...Read Review

Jane and the Final Mystery (Being a Jane Austen Mystery)

By Stephanie Barron - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

As the title reveals, this is the fifteenth and final book in the Jane Austen Mysteries series. Readers who have been with the ...Read Review

Society & Civility

By Katherine Cerulean - Published 2022

Genres:

Romance

Ann Marshal, eighteen, was raised in the country and has a love for natural history in this Regency romance.  Lady Harrington, a family ...Read Review

The Law’s Delay

By Jane Stubbs - Published 2023

Genres:

A story of liaisons, love, and the law set in early 20th-century Lancashire, The Law’s Delay’s complicated characters and plot revolve ...Read Review

Charlot

By Ian Masters - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In 1936, Charlie Chaplin, fresh from the success of Modern Times, ponders his next project: ‘The details of the daily chaos of the working ...Read Review

Full Naval Honors (The Honor)

By Robert Macomber - Published 2023

Genres:

AdventureNautical

Retirement doesn’t come easy for Admiral Peter Wake. After decades of naval service and intelligence gathering on a global scale, he has ...Read Review

Beyond the Door of No Return

By David Diop - By Sam Taylor (trans.) - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

There are many doors of no return. Death is one, even for Orpheus, the tragic Greek hero who failed to bring his lover ...Read Review