Judith Starkston
Son of Nobody
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Son of Nobody purports to be a PhD dissertation offering a translation and commentary on fragments of a Trojan War epic. Hence, pages ...Read Review
Aphrodite in Pieces
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With Aphrodite in Pieces, Lauren Bear offers another powerful feminist Greek myth retelling. Her Author’s Note says: “Misunderstood women are my muses.” ...Read Review
The Glass Slide World (The Naturalist Society)
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The Glass Slide World, a standalone sequel to Vaughn’s The Naturalist Society set in 1902, follows a young woman, Ava Stanley, as she ...Read Review
The Haunting of Modesto O’Brien
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Set in northern Ontario in 1907 in the rough and violent silver mining town of Cobalt, as well as the forested wilderness surrounding it, ...Read Review
Psychopomp & Circumstance
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In a fantastical Reconstruction-era New Charleston, Royce portrays a young woman’s journey of self-discovery and striving for independence. When news of her ...Read Review
A House Between Sea and Sky
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Cato sets her historical fantasy in 1920s Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Fayette, a writer for the silent movies whose creativity is stymied by grief, escapes ...Read Review
The Bewitching
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In spellbinding gothic horror, The Bewitching tells three women’s stories: Minerva at a New England college in 1998, Virginia at the same college ...Read Review
Smoke and Embers (Inspector Troy, 9)
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Smoke and Embers is the ninth in Lawton’s Chief Inspector Troy series. The novel opens in London in 1950 but jumps back into ...Read Review
Written on the Dark
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Written on the Dark, set in an alternate medieval France, fits into Kay’s broad, century-spanning world of historical fantasy, stretching from Sarantium (...Read Review
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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Schwab’s historical fantasy intertwines three women whose collective story and individual lives span centuries. Maria’s story opens in Santo Domingo de ...Read Review
